Thursday, November 22, 2012

Having a Book Moment with Jon Longhi - Fresh Titles from Last Gasp

We have access to Last Gasp's full catalog, so if you spot anything on their site you'd like for Christmas, wander on in and we'll order a copy for ya.



From Wikipedia: 


Founded in 1970 by Ron Turner[3][4][5] to publish the ecologically-themed comics magazine Slow Death Funnies, followed by the all-female anthology It Ain't Me Babe, Last Gasp soon became a major part of the underground comics/comix movement. Notable artists published by Last Gasp include Tim BiskupRobert CrumbRichard Corben,Ron EnglishCamille Rose GarciaJustin GreenBill GriffithSpain RodriguezMark RydenDori SedaLarry Welz,Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson. In the early 1980s Last Gasp published some of the first books about the West Coast punk rock scene.

Current publishing

Today Last Gasp publishes few comic books, though they have published English-language versions of some mangatitles, including Barefoot GenPure Trance and Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms. The company publishes art and photography books, graphic novels, fiction, and poetry. Last Gasp operates as a publisher, distributor, and wholesaler for books of all types, often with a lowbrow art and counterculture focus.[6]

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