You Call This Art?

You Call This Art? A Greg Irons Retrospective

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Publisher's Synopsis

Irons was a psychedelic poster artist, an underground cartoonist, a book illustrator and an emerging tattoo art virtuoso who brought a new sensibility to an age-old art form. He was only 37 when a speeding bus on a busy Bangkok street killed him in 1984. This retrospective spans his whole artistic career, from his earliest dance posters, to his groundbreaking science fiction and horror comix, to his innovative and colourful tattoo art. This panoramic collection is framed by Rosenkranz's extensive and revealing portrait of the artist.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781560977544
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.6092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 912g
Height: 253mm
Width: 203mm
Spine width: 18mm