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REMO signing at ComiCon!
July 10, 2012
Hey San Diego ComiCon peeps! REMO is signing his two MBP books, Drainspotting and Graffiti Japan, at the Giant Robot booth (1729) this Friday at 12pm… with free print giveaways. Don’t miss this!
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Mike Perry’s Wondering Around Wandering
July 6, 2012
Mike Perry, world-renowned designer, friend of MBP, and the look behind Notations 21, has a Kickstarter up and running, and it’s one we fully support—and think you should, too! Wondering Around Wandering would be a three month community exhibition and event space, an environment where you can sit with Mike & friends to make zines, draw, [...]
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Write the Department of Justice!
May 10, 2012
Publishers Weekly’s recent article is a reminder to speak up about the DoJ’s suit against publishers—a topic that has been all over the news of late. The open letter, along with further information on the initiative, can be found here. Let your voice count among the many.
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True Hip-Hop in Chicago!
May 2, 2012
True Hip-Hop author Mike Schrieber is having an über special Cinco de Mayo signing event and opening reception at The Silver Room in Chicago. That’s this Saturday from 6-10PM. This is gonna be huge, ya’ll! Check out Mike’s website for more info on the man and his work.
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People with Autism Possess Greater Ability to Process Information
March 29, 2012
According to ScienceDaily.com people with Autism have an above average capacity to process information even from rapid presentations and are better able to detect information defined as ‘critical’, according to a study published March 22 in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. The research may help to explain the apparently higher than average prevalence of people with [...]
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Carved Books by Guy Laramee
March 26, 2012
Guy Laramee who, in the course of his 30 years of practice, found his way through such varied and numerous disciplines as : stage writing, stage directing, contemporary music writing, musical instrument design and building, singing, video, scenography, sculpture, installation, painting and literature. Laramee uses books that are slowly falling apart, such as old encyclopedias [...]
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No-Kill Shelters
March 9, 2012
Usatoday.com published an article on March 8th 2012, discussing “costly no kill shelters” and the dilemma political officials are having financially supporting this movement. According to usatoday.com; “municipalities are looking to see how the movement toward limiting euthanasia can co-exist with their need to control stray and aggressive animals.” Nathan Winograd the director of No [...]
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Pray For Japan- Silent Auction
March 5, 2012
In commemoration of the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011, Con Artist Gallery is hosting a 4 day fund raising event. Original pieces donated by emerging and established artists from around the globe are sold in our silent auction. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Japan Society’s earthquake relief fund. Amongst the [...]
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Tart Cards
February 24, 2012
Mark Batty Publisher is the proud publisher of unique books on a variety of subjects; pop culture, art, cookbooks, photography, graffiti art and everything in between. Some of MBP’s titles may be viewed as controversial, iconoclastic and irreverent, making it more of the wild card in the publishing world. By no means are MBP’s books [...]
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Sheknows.com in collaboration with Autism Speaks
February 16, 2012
Sheknows.com launched their “Sheknows where’s the other sock went” campaign, proceeds going towards Autism Speaks on Friday, February 9th, 2012. Partnered with music sensation Toni Braxton, who has a autistic son, Project Runway designer Michael Castello and fashion photographer and Americas Next Top Model judge, Nigel Barker to raise money for autism awareness. Castello designed [...]
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BiblioBurro
February 15, 2012
BiblioBurro We sometimes forget the true objective of publishing books. Yes it is to publish great books and do it well, but it is also to create a stronger connection with our community, to pass on the knowledge of our species to those who may be less informed for the purpose of providing information and [...]
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Julian Hibbard this Thursday at the MBP Minigallery
November 1, 2011
This Thursday from 6 to 9 pm, Mark Batty Publisher presents prints from The Noir A to Z. In The Noir A to Z, photographer Julian Hibbard offers an abecedary unlike any other. Drawing on his professional work shooting black & white and color photographs for everything from CD and book covers to high-end fashion, [...]
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
October 6, 2011
Last night, coming home to Brooklyn on the contact high that was a 2011 Portishead concert, I found out that Steve Jobs passed away. It was expected to happen soon, according to most online media/gossip outlets, yet I still found it difficult to hear and let sink in. I never met the man, but I [...]
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MBP Deals at NY Art Book Fair
September 29, 2011
It’s our favorite time of year…the NY Art Book Fair! The MBP crew will be giving out books at 25% off at PS1 all weekend. Come say hi on the third floor at booth O6! We’ve got INSANE prices for LE GUN 1,2,3 and OFFF, Year Zero, our newest gems like The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook, [...]
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MBP at the Brooklyn Book Festival 2011
September 26, 2011
It’s been a week since MBP rocked it at the Brooklyn Book Festival, but better late than never, right? And we’re still glowing from all the love–we mingled with fans and authors, sold books, and thanks to our Publicity Coordinator, Kate Abbey-Lambertz, we ate a lot of chocolate truffles. The festival was a great chance [...]
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Hot Knives Is Here!
September 20, 2011
Alright, The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook: Salad Daze drops today, and it’s the perfect weather to stay home in the kitchen and get sloshed while making some hearty + delicious vegetarian grub. Authors and kitchen masters Alex Brown and Evan George showed up on KCRW’s Good Food to show you how and why to make [...]
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MBP at BK Book Fest This Weekend and ALL OVER NYC
September 14, 2011
Starting Friday, the MBP folks are escaping the office and selling books the old-fashioned way. No, we’re not building a peddler cart and planning to wheel a bookmobile through Central Park (though would this work?!). In the next couple weeks, we’ll be chatting people up at not one, but two, NYC book fairs, and celebrating [...]
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An Unlikely Suspect
August 10, 2011
This is a new one: police recruitment via graffiti? Clearly, things are a lot different down under. A New Zealand ad campaign features stenciled police officers and their good-doings on the streets of Auckland, with a suggestive “this could be you!” type message. Don’t be fooled, graffiti is not legal in New Zealand. Perhaps this [...]
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Happy Belated
August 5, 2011
This bomb collection of artwork not only caters to our tastes (all things street art, pop culture, breakfast cereal, pareidolia), we’re a fan of the subject matter too. Especially the recurring unicorn theme. Check out this list and fall in love. We enjoy drawing connections between current events and our backlist, so here are a [...]
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If You Live in CA, Get to the CUBA TV Launch This Saturday!
August 4, 2011
Cuba TV arrived this week, and it’s the perfect photo book for sweltering August. We aren’t the only people all excited about this book: the good folks at Huffington Post, Boing Boing, and Miami New Times are all saying nice things, too. You can also check out an interview with Simone Lueck in Lenscratch. Here’s what [...]
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Fire with Fire
And graffiti with…graffiti? Graffiti is always at the forefront of controversy, and as with many other controversial subjects, extreme passion comes from both sides of the argument. A documentary explores the relationship between street artists and those who buff their work, entitled Vigilante Vigilante. What seems to start out as an anti-graffiti movement soon becomes [...]
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Stop the Press!
August 3, 2011
There’s a new contender in town: waterproof books. Not sure if it’s just me, but I’ve been coming across the topic of waterproof books for some time now, and have admittedly always been perplexed by this concept. Where is the demand for such a thing? With all of the commotion surrounding ebooks, the demise of [...]
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Cuba TV Launch August 6 in LA
July 27, 2011
Simone Lueck has been getting some great attention for her photo show Cuba TV at Kopeikin Gallery, so if you live in LA and haven’t checked it out yet get yourself over there. Saturday, August 6 is the launch party for the new book Cuba TV, and Simone will be there signing. She’s also promised rum [...]
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MBP Hits iTunes “Shelves” with CBGB Ebook
July 22, 2011
If you click THIS LINK RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW you can get you grubby mugs on a hot little ebook of CBGB: Decades of Graffiti, by Richard Hell, Christopher Salyers, and J. K. Putnam. That’s right: it’s available in the iTunes store. Or, on your iPad and iPhone, right there in the iBookstore. We’ve been waiting for [...]
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La Fête Nationale
July 14, 2011
What better way to pay tribute to our French-interest books than on la quatorze de juillet! Here are a few titles from our catalog we are sure to celebrate the Francophile in you. L’image obscene – Gilles Tondini documents “behind-the-scenes” artwork found in Parisian hospital break rooms. If you’ve ever wondered how French medical interns [...]
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MBP Books Snuck into the TEDGlobal Conference, Didn’t Purchase Passes
The one-and-only Maria Popova has been at the TEDGlobal conference this week, sharing insights and highlights on her site Brain Pickings. She managed to snap a photo of Urban Iran and Cultural Connectives hiding out on the shelves of the TED bookstore. How they got there remains a mystery… Pretty great to see MBP books in [...]
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Tonight: Heat Rising in NYC but DJ Spooky is Here to Cool You Off
July 13, 2011
For all of you looking to party in the middle of the week (and who isn’t?) come to Eyebeam tonight for the launch party for The Book of Ice with DJ Spooky. We’re expecting ice-themed drinks and hopefully some icey AC. The penguins are unconfirmed. Listen in to the most recent episode of podcast Science…Sort of to [...]
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Book Party Insanity This Week! THE BOOK OF ICE (7/13) and COCKROACHES (7/14) in NYC
July 11, 2011
Join us on Wednesday, July 13 from 6-9pm, for the release of The Book of Ice by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. This FREE event will be held at Eyebeam on 540 West 21 Street, between 10th and 11th Ave. We’re going to be celebrating with Paul and The Telos Ensemble, who will [...]
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Thursday, July 7, J.K. Putnam Prints at the minigallery
June 30, 2011
Next Thursday, July 7, from 6:00 to 9:00pm, the MBP minigallery presents the photographs of J.K. Putnam. J.K. Putnam’s photographs have appeared in twelve different MBP books, including CBGB: Decades of Graffiti, Decay, and Past Objects. The photos in these three books bring decay and neglected spaces into focus, showing how objects fair when they [...]
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The Continued Search for a Sponsor
June 29, 2011
Graffiti evokes passionate responses and thoughtful debate. It is defacement of property; it is art…it is both. An exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in the Streets, features fifty prominent street artists’ work, and is a testament to how the form has evolved throughout the years. As expected, the exhibit has [...]
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MBP Author and Editor Events at Word Up Bookshop
June 27, 2011
Our good friends at Seven Stories Institute and Fractious Press are pretty incredible–ten days ago they opened Word Up, a pop bookshop in Washington Heights, where there hasn’t been a general-interest, multi-language bookstore in more than a generation. There are excellent books on sale and a great line-up of events, including two from MBP, tonight [...]
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June Awareness
June 16, 2011
We confess, the timing could have been a bit better. Two of our upcoming books, Animal Shelter Portraits and the paperback edition of Drawing Autism, would have been great releases during the month of April, which is both Animal Cruelty Awareness month and Autism Awareness month. Shoot. In an attempt to never again make this [...]
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Street Art Interns
June 14, 2011
In Tuesday’s gossip, it looks like the street art industry operates much the same as the other culture industries: take some bright-eyed, eager young folks (we call them “interns“) and have them do a bunch of crap work–you know, making coffee, taking out the garbage, doing data entry, reading the slush pile, wheat pasting posters–and [...]
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Garth Risk Hallberg at Housing Works June 6
June 1, 2011
Norway meets New York in the double launch event for the release of Garth Risk Hallberg’s A Field Guide to the North American Family and Johan Harstad’s Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? (Seven Stories Press). Harstad and Hallberg will come together at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe for an evening of conversation [...]
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Why Can’t We Be Friends?
May 31, 2011
Since NYC is made up of over eight million people in five boroughs, squeezed into just 305 square miles, it’s no wonder we experience a little sibling rivalry here and there. We put up with strangers nodding off to sleep and onto our shoulder on the crowded 6 train, spewed spit droplets on our face [...]
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Song Pairings
May 19, 2011
Flavorpill just put up a pageview-tastic list of music and food pairings. This is something that we at MBP have rather strong feelings about, since we just finished furiously, punk-rockedly, and veggie-friendlily compiling the first volume of The Hot Knives cookbook, Salad Daze. The Hot Knives have been pairing food, music, and booze for years–they’ve [...]
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The Wisdom of Crowds
May 18, 2011
Everyone loves a good infographic. Right? Over at xkcd, there’s a long timeline about things that are going to happen in the future. Randall Munroe, xkcd’s author, apparently queried things to come by searching the vast collective wisdom archived, algorithmically indexed, and multiply palped by the great digital octopus, Google. The results are pretty hilarious, [...]
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In DUMBO: New York Photo Festival, May 11-15
May 12, 2011
New York City’s 4th annual Photo Festival commenced yesterday, right here in DUMBO. It runs through the weekend, so there’s still plenty of time to see the sights and catch some of the action. With over 2,000 industry professionals exhibiting their work in the festival’s first year, you can expect that it has blossomed into [...]
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Awesome Cereal Book Trailer
May 9, 2011
Well this made my Monday: Ed Daly made a trailer for his book Cereal: Snap, Crackle, Pop Culture that I think I’ve watched seven times now. He’s got a ton of props–like Mel Gibson, puppets, fishnets, a mohawk, bubble bath, and a darn cute baby–but the true star is Ed’s ability to eat bowl after [...]
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Beware Bed Bugs!
May 3, 2011
Coming in to work on books this morning, I noticed a monstrous red vermin sitting on sidewalk, at the corner where I usually consider getting savory eggy crêpes. A bit bleary eyed and somewhat disturbed by potential sleep-lack illusions–we keep long hours in publishing, oh my, oh my–I squinted at it and decided, “Ah, street [...]
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50 Watts Likes Drawing Autism
May 2, 2011
What better way to start the first Monday of May than by perusing one of the books on the MBP backlist? Over at 50 Watts, there’s a post on Drawing Autism. They like it so much they’re suggesting you buy it. (We think you should take their word for it. Honest!) There’re a few spreads [...]
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Art in the Streets Roundup
April 28, 2011
We’ve posted about the MOCA show Art in the Streets before, but now that it’s been up for a week or two I can finally do some virtual sight-seeing. 12ozProphet, awesome source for all things graffiti, has been helping out. Martha Cooper has been posting lots of photos on her 120zProphet blog from the MOCA [...]
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MBP Seeks Publicity Intern Summer 2011
April 26, 2011
If you’re looking for the chance to learn the finer points of book publicity, this prestigious summer program might be for you! Perks include use of the company jet during off hours, graffiti tutorials in the office, guaranteed book deal, and much, much more! Responsibilities are numerous but writing less hokey blog posts than I do is [...]
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Mike Schreiber at MBP minigallery
April 25, 2011
Mark your calendars: at the next DUMBO First Thursday art walk, the MBP minigallery will show images from Mike Schreiber’s True Hip-Hop. Drawn from Schreiber’s celebrated portraits—which have appeared in Rolling Stone, VIBE, XXL, and Spin, among other places—the photos in True Hip-Hop display some of hip-hop’s biggest names in an undeniably raw and honest [...]
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The Current State of the Book Review
April 20, 2011
In the bulging digital mass of material referred to as the internet, there are heaps and heaps of content. Blogs that reblog and repost, link to, share, “like,” tweet—whatever—other content that supports, refutes, challenges (you know the deal) their own content. As a blogger that feels somewhat inferior but strangely satisfied about it, this overhaul [...]
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This Monday, German Book Launch For Becoming by Yishay Garbasz
April 14, 2011
Here’s a book from last year that’s flying under the radar but you should really pay attention to: Becoming: A Gender Flipbook. In her book, artist Yishay Garbasz dares to explore one of society’s most taboo subjects—the exercise of individual agency in the unmaking and remaking of a body’s gender. We put this remarkable book [...]
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Putting a Price on Your Attention
April 13, 2011
Yesterday, Amazon announced the pre-order of the very exciting, brand (teehee) spankin’ new, world’s first advertisement supported Kindle Wi-Fi. Are you on the edge of your seat? I didn’t think so. eBooknewser tells us all about it: for 18% off the price of the already existing Kindle Wi-Fi (that’s 25 bucks!) you get the same exact [...]
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Dino Buzzati
April 11, 2011
I read the blog 50 Watts, the most recent reincarnation of Journey Round My Skull. Ever since the relaunch of the site, the author has been reposting all of the content that originally appeared on JRMS. While I could find this annoying, I think it’s nice (Think Positive©!): now my morning sift through the RSS feeds [...]
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The Grounded Cloud
April 8, 2011
It’s Friday, so I’m procrastinating and reading the news. A lot of stories are same ol’, same ol’, environmental disaster and political fiasco. But this little story caught my eye: while she was digging around in the dirt look for copper to sell off, some lady in Georgia (the country) cut a fiber-optic line that [...]
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Garth Risk Hallberg Will Never Read This Blog Post
April 7, 2011
It’s part of my job to keep track of what MBP authors and artists are up to, primarily so I can rave about them to readers and media, but a fun little side-effect of looking at their incredible output is feeling overwhelmed (read: inadequate). Garth Risk Hallberg, author of A Field Guide to the North [...]
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History of American Graffiti
April 5, 2011
Our own Buzz Poole shows up on The Millions today to tell you why you need to read The History of American Graffiti by Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon. The book is out this month from Harper Design, coinciding with the opening of the graffiti survey exhibition Art in the Streets at MOCA. It’s not that [...]
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Social Networking for Type Geeks
April 4, 2011
Attention typography nerds: there’s a whole new way to stand proud in your weirdness. I know some of us are still a little shaken up over Google’s “funny” April Fools’ joke last Friday, mostly because we were hoping never to lay eyes on Comic Sans again. Today, though, there is something a little cooler in [...]
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LE GUN opening
April 1, 2011
LE GUN’s exhibition Close Eyes to Exit opens tonight at the Red Gallery in London. It’s the launch of LE GUN 5. Their BAREBONES issue six comes out as well. There’s a party with Rough Trade on April 8. Another show at Bourouina Gallery in Berlin at the end of April. Pretty sure these guys never [...]
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Dick Defacements Get Online Attentions
March 28, 2011
Last week, New York Dick author Galen Smith was interviewed by The Grumbler about how he goes about discovering wee penises and gargantuan wangs on subway advertisements. The interview was quickly picked up by Gothamist, and thence it went onto screens, we assume, of New Yorkers everywhere. Exciting. But the writer at Gothamist asked a good [...]
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Cultural Connectives Release Party
March 25, 2011
Rana Abou Rjeily will be signing her book at the release party this Saturday in Beirut! You can try asking her to sign in the typeface she designed, Mirsaal, but no promises. If you can’t attend, make sure to look at her website and pick up Cultural Connectives.
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Relief for Japan
March 21, 2011
Over the years MBP has published a range of books documenting Japanese cultural phenomena, from the bizarre to the delicious. This week, if you purchase any of the following books from our website for yourself or the Japanophile in your life, all profits will be donated to the American Red Cross and Save the Children. [...]
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It’s FRIDAY!
March 18, 2011
Alright boys and girls, let’s head down to the bus stop: it’s almost the weekend; the high is seventy (!!!) degrees; it’s Friday.
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Marc McKee: on yr board, in yr gallery, and now on ESPN
Yesterday ESPN featured an interview with Marc McKee–the more I read, the more I wish I had been cool enough to be skateboarding in the 90s. Too bad I was stuck with a purple mountain bike. The experts over there think he’s as great as we do: “It’s safe to say that Marc Mckee is the [...]
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This Friday, Black Comix at C2E2
March 14, 2011
This Friday, comic books fans and artists are flocking to C2E2 — Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo — to revel in all the joys that a comics event has to offer (I, having never been, expect the highlights are the same as Comi-Con: DIY costumes and buckets of bad food). MBP authors Damian Duffy and [...]
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Art in the Streets, Graffiti in the Museums
Next month, a landmark exhibit surveying street art and graffiti opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Our man Roger Gastman curated the show along with Aaron Rose and Jeffrey Deitch, coedited the companion Art in the Streets issue of Juxtapoz , and is the subject of a recent article in T [...]
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HELP JAPAN: DONATE TO THE RED CROSS
March 11, 2011
Yesterday, Japan was hit by an 8.9 earthquake–the fifth largest quake in history, and the worst one ever in Japan. The scale of things isn’t yet clear, but the situation is looking grim, and people in Japan will need any sort of help you can give. While there’s not much we in the rest of [...]
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Mark Batty Publisher is pleased to announce…
March 10, 2011
…me. Kate Abbey-Lambertz here, new publicity coordinator ready and able to tell you about all the great books we’re putting out and to distract you from work with links on Twitter. Do you follow us? And golly I sure hope you like us (on Facebook). Connect to find out about new books, author events, and get [...]
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Site Outage
Apologies for any inconvenience, but yesterday we had a site outage caused by a nuclear (pronounced “new kew lar”) explosion at our webhosting company. The men in T-shirts and cargo pants have fixed the damage (multiple hard-drive failures, if that interests you) and the culprits have been exiled and their names stripped from the history [...]
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RIP Mike DeStefano
March 8, 2011
Erich Beasley, author of spring 2011 MBP book Comics’ Comics, remembers Mike DeStefano: “Comedian Mike DeStefano passed away Sunday after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 44. Mike gained notoriety appearing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, but had been a staple in the NYC comedy comunity for years before that. Mike also appeared on [...]
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Hueless: A Monochromatic Exhibit
March 7, 2011
FAUST, one of the best calligraphers on the New York street (and an MBP contributor: check out Name Tagging and Going Postal), invited Mark and me to the opening for his new group show, Hueless, a Monochromatic Exhibit. The reception invite suggested “grayscale attire”–we should have been clued in. The exhibit features many well-know street and graffiti [...]
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Horvitz’s Wikipedia Gallery
February 25, 2011
Multimedia artist (and MBP author) David Horvitz is stirring things up on the internet again, this time by ensconcing self-portraits in Wikipedia articles for Public Access. Public Access is more oblique than Everything that Can Happen in a Day, which straightforwardly invited netizens to upload their own artistic contributions to the disembodied gallery that is a Google image [...]
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Friends of MBP: The Unusual Suspects
February 22, 2011
Opening this week, The Unusual Suspects features friends of MBP like Royce Bannon, Abe Lincoln Jr., Celso, and Chris RWK. Their work has been featured in titles like PEEL and Going Postal. When they asked if we would be willing to donate some goodies for gift bags and giveaways we said yes. So go check out [...]
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Look If You Dare: An Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches
February 16, 2011
It’s just a matter of weeks before the arrival of An Illustrated Guide to Cockroaches, Ekaterina Smirnova’s humorous, informative, and ultimately loving tribute to the world’s most misunderstood insect. Take a sneak peek here on the book’s website, follow Tweets, and fan the Facebook page. The same way you can’t ignore gravity, you can’t ignore [...]
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Choose Your Own Adventure with the Streets
February 8, 2011
As I kid, I used to read the Choose Your Own Adventure books voraciously. It must have had something to do with my frustration with being at the whims of authors: why not take matters into my own hands, and write my own story? Well, not really write it, of course, but choose from the [...]
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The Real Paris Underground
February 7, 2011
The cover story of this month’s National Geographic, “Under Paris,” explores the catacombs and quarries that sit in darkness underneath the City of Lights. If the article’s photographs pique your curiosity, be sure to check out Paris Underground, an amazing study of the official and illicit activities that have been taking place in the bowels [...]
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Black Comix in Library Journal, and Georgia
February 4, 2011
Hard to believe it is February, but it is, which means it’s Black History Month. Library Journal says: “The past year was a good one for African American-themed comics. Traditional publishers as well as the comics industry have come out with plentiful and quality reads across age brackets.” Included on this list is MBP’s Black [...]
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One Week from Today: Noma Bar in Paris
February 1, 2011
Noma Bar, the celebrated illustrator and author of MBP books Guess Who? and Negative Space, has an exhibition launching in Paris. The show, titled Bittersweet, is sponsored by Blonde Music, and, if Noma’s show at the New York Times building this winter was any indication, is sure to attract the biggest names in illustration. So, [...]
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Video from 3D Typography NYPL Talk
January 31, 2011
Last fall, the authors of 3D Typography, Jeanette Abbink and Emily CM Anderson, gave a talk for the New York Public Libraries series on art books. In case you missed it (October 20 was such a big night), a video of the entire talk is now up on the NYPL site. Check it out.
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True Hip-Hop at Clic Gallery Tomorrow Night
January 18, 2011
For those of you in NYC, tomorrow night Mike Schreiber, the author of True Hip-Hop, will be signing books at Clic Gallery in SoHo from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. If you haven’t gotten a copy of the book yet, tomorrow you can swing by, pick one up, and get it signed. The details for Clic: [...]
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Galen Smith Talks Dick
New York Dick author Galen Smith appeared on Benjamen Walker’s Too Much Information show on WFMU yesterday to discuss the cocks’n’balls that New Yorkers scrawl on subway advertisements. If you missed the show, you can listen to it here.
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Web Fonts
January 14, 2011
Last year was a good year for typography on the Internet: several new standards were adopted that, in the long run, will give designers far greater control over how text appears on websites. Over at the FontFeed, there’re a couple of interviews up that discuss this, one with Yves Peters and the other with Stephen [...]
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Textura Dos Featured in London Metro
January 13, 2011
Look what popped up in London’s edition of Metro! A very lovely write-up of Textura Dos was featured in their print edition today. Click the image above to view it in full size.
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Cushzilla!
Sometimes the echoes and reverberations that make up the Japan-America fad exchange reach a cranium-shaking pitch. Sometimes it’s good, like charaben-esque hamburgers. Sometimes it’s bad, but, y’know, to each their own. It looks like kigurumi, those (adorable? creepy? kimo kawaii?) fur-suit mascots that’re treated in the new MBP book Fuzz and Fur, have swum the [...]
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Fairey-AP Case Dropped
January 12, 2011
It looks like the court case between the Associated Press and one-man-brand Shepard Fairey is going to be dropped without clarifying copyright law, which, let’s face it people, is the only thing keeping me from supplementing my income by selling T-shirts on the weekend. The AP had sued Fairey, claiming he infringed on their copyright [...]
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“Textura Dos” Author Matt Fox-Tucker interviewed on Canal 13′s “Telenoche” in Argentina!
January 11, 2011
Canal 13′s “Telenoche” is the most-watched news program in Argentina – and they recently interviewed MBP author Matt Fox-Tucker about his book, Textura Dos. Take a peek at the clip above to see the interview, including many photos from the book. Although, we must note, it’s all in Spanish!
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Scott Jordan talks “Past Objects” with Urban Space
January 10, 2011
Take a minute to check out this video of digger Scott Jordan, talking to Urban Space about his fantastic book, Past Objects!
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The NYT Examines Books as Interior Design
January 7, 2011
Here at MBP, we’re used to the idea of art brought together in book form, and, as we are lucky enough to be blessed with a good design team, the idea of the book as art form. But books as interior design? According to The New York Times, that’s the upcoming trend, boasting that books [...]
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20×200
January 6, 2011
If you’re not acquainted with the excellent affordable art collecting site 20×200, now is the time to get familiar! You may say, “affordable art” is an oxymoron, in which case, I would, firstly, point you towards our excellent books. However, hoping you are somewhat familiar with those (but if you’re not, go here), I would [...]
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Upcoming MBP Events
January 5, 2011
Tomorrow, Thursday, January 6th, 2011 The Open Daybook Exhibition & Opening Reception Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Starting tomorrow, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) will be displaying over 180 original artworks from The Open Daybook, including pieces by Ann Faison, Bari Ziperstein, Bettina Hubby, Brad Eberhard, Chris Natrop, Deborah Aschheim, Elana Mann, Emily Joyce, Fallen Fruit, [...]
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DJ Spooky on Daytrotter
January 4, 2011
Daytrotter is a pretty excellent site that features exclusive music sessions every day. Today they’ve got a session up with Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid. Musician, producer and author Miller is also behind our upcoming Book of Ice, so we are extra pumped to hear this. Check out the session, [...]
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“New York Dick” Wishes You Delightfully Dickish Holidays
December 22, 2010
It’s Christmas week, so we are bringing you this fun video via Galen Smith, mastermind behind New York Dick. He’s got lots of fun things up on the book’s website, which you should check into after you watch the video!
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Paris D!@K
December 16, 2010
Though our delightful book from Galen Smith, New York Dick, examines New Yorkers’ phallus-drawing tendencies, this propulsion is hardly just a New York trait, as seen in this picture captured from the Eiffel Tower recently. (via reddit)
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Holiday List Round-Up
December 15, 2010
We’re quite excited to be making the rounds on some big holiday lists this year. Here’s a look at a few of the highlights: The Open Daybook was featured on NPR’s Indie Booksellers list – see it here. Retrofonts was featured in the New York Times‘ Visual Books list – see it here. Past Objects [...]
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The Obscene Image in French Elle!
December 13, 2010
If you happen to subscribe to or read Elle en francais, you may have noticed a lovely write-up of The Obscene Image in the December issue. Click the image above to enlarge and see the full detail.
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“The Open Daybook” Launch at Printed Matter in NYC
December 9, 2010
If you’re looking for a way to kick off your Saturday evening, may we suggest The Open Daybook launch party at Printed Matter? This Saturday, December 11th, Printed Matter will be hosting a soiree in honor of the release of The Open Daybook. Not only can you purchase the book there, not only will there [...]
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“Retrofonts” Featured in the New York Times
December 7, 2010
If you were reading the New York Times’ Visual Book gift list this past weekend, you may have seen a familiar name – Mark Batty Publisher! Turns out the old gray lady not only dug our book Past Objects, but they were rather fond of Retrofonts, as well, calling Gregor Stawinski’s compilation of eye-catching and [...]
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R.I.P. SURE
December 6, 2010
Martha Cooper has just passed along the tragic news that SURE – one of New York’s most prolific and talented contemporary graffiti writers has been killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan. I’d met him but can’t say I knew him. He and his running partner FAUST were at the launch party for Name [...]
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Scott Jordan of “Past Objects” at Columbus Circle Market
December 2, 2010
Scott Jordan is all set up at the Columbus Circle Gift Fair, where he’ll be every day through the 24th, from 10am to 8pm. You can check out some of his wares on his site, and he’ll also have copies of Past Objects available for purchase!
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The New York Times Likes Past Objects
November 29, 2010
The New York Times put Scott Jordan’s Past Objects in the antique books section of this year’s holiday gift guide! We at MBP, of course, already knew that the book—which catalogs the remarkable bottles, toys, shoes, buttons, and other things Jordan has amassed during a lifetime digging around New York City—was a perfect buy for [...]
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Smith + Butler Presents Decay
November 10, 2010
Starting tomorrow night and running through February, Brooklyn’s Smith + Butler will be showing some limited prints by J. K. Putnam, from our book Decay. The opening night party runs from 6-8pm, so stop on by! Decay November 11th, 6-8pm Smith + Butler 225 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY
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Miami Launch Party for “True Hip-Hop” Featuring Talib Kweli Tomorrow!
November 9, 2010
If you’re going to be in the Miami area tomorrow, we highly recommend checking out the launch party for True Hip-Hop, Mike Schreiber’s collection of iconic hip-hop photos. It’s being hosted by Talib Kweli, who appears in the book! AE District is hosting the jump off, which runs from 7 – 10pm. For more information [...]
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“Textura Dos: Buenos Aires Street Art” Blog
November 8, 2010
Textura Dos author Matt Fox-Tucker has been keeping a companion blog to the book, updated with new images of Buenos Aires Street art, usually around a particular theme in each post. Recently he posted Halloween & El Dia de los Muertos related images. Check it out over at http://buenosairesstreetart.blogspot.com!
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Biz Markie Spotted at the Grocery Store by MBP Reader!
November 5, 2010
This came in via our Facebook Fan Page – Mark Batty Publisher reader Christy Aspinwall ran into Biz Markie on a trip to the grocery store and shared this great photo with us. Biz Markie is featured in True Hip-Hop, our collection of iconic images from the career of hip-hop photographer Mike Schreiber. Thanks for [...]
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NYC Dick Drawings on SNL’s “Weekend Update”
November 4, 2010
On this past weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers’ “Weekend Update” segment had this to say about New Yorkers’ proclivity towards drawing engorged members – “The official portrait of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was unveiled publicly in the city Tuesday, and I’m proud of New Yorkers because by Wednesday it [...]
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MBP at the New York Art Book Fair this Weekend!
November 1, 2010
This coming weekend, Printed Matter, Inc. is presenting the NY Art Book Fair. Held at MoMA PS1, the fair runs from Thursday, November 5th through Sunday the 7th. The Mark Batty Publisher team will be there, displaying & selling books! Come visit us. The fair hours are below. For more information on the NY Book [...]
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W Happenings Presents: “True Hip-Hop, Photography by Mike Schreiber”
October 20, 2010
Next Tuesday, October 26th, the W New York in Times Square will be hosting a book launch party for True Hip-Hop, our upcoming book of photography from one of the industry’s greats, Mike Schreiber. Check out the invite above for details, and RSVP over on Facebook. If you can’t make it to the party, but are [...]
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3D Typography featured in the New York Public Library, “An Art Book” series.
October 14, 2010
Next Wednesday, October 20th, the New York Public Library will be hosting an event in their “An Art Book” series about Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson’s 3D Typography. The event will take place at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, at 42nd & 5th Ave., on the second floor. Abbink & Anderson will be on [...]
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“Drainspotting” on TV Asahi’s “Wide Scramble”!
October 13, 2010
TV Asahi (aka Japan Channel 10) recently had Drainspotting author Remo Camerota on their show, “Wide Scramble.” Parts of it are hard to decipher for English speakers, but they seem quite excited about it! They visit Camerota in the studio & walk the streets with him as he points out some of his favorite Manhole [...]
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Luz Martin’s “Landscapes” On Display in Valencia.
October 12, 2010
If you’re lucky enough to be in Spain, you might consider dropping by El Punto Del Carmen in Valencia. From now through the 14th, Luz Martin, the photographer behind Textura, has a show, “Landscapes,” on display there. You’ll find more information on El Punto Del Carmen’s website, and make sure to check out Luz Martin’s [...]
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Photos from the Frankfurt Book Fair
October 8, 2010
Here are some pictures from our booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair! Yishay Garbasz of Becoming: A Gender Flipbook stopped by, as did Rick Lightstone of Traveler’s Advisory.
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A Look At Becoming: A Gender Flipbook
October 7, 2010
Yishay Garbasz, whose Becoming is currently on display at the Busan Biennale, has teamed up with MBP to release Becoming: A Gender Flipbook, a brave and bold photographic study of a gendered human body. In this video, we flip through the images, communicating the power of Becoming as strongly as is intended – visually. Check out [...]
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MBP at the Frankfurt Book Fair
October 6, 2010
MBP is at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, running today through the 10th! If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by our booth, where you’ll get to flip through some of our titles, and meet Mark Batty & Buzz Poole from the MBP team. Take a peek at some pictures of our booth, [...]
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Baby Reading Noir A-Z
October 5, 2010
Though we may have insisted, at the time, that Noir A-Z is “not your child’s board book,” turns out somebody used it as just that. Take a look at this “aww”-worthy video of a little one using Julian Hibbard’s sensational alphabet study as a reference for letter practice.
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Travel & Leisure List the World’s Strangest Vending Machines
October 4, 2010
Here at MBP, we are no strangers to unusual vending machines, thanks to our title Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism. We can’t say it was us who inspired the folks over at Travel + Leisure, but they’ve created their own gallery of odd product dispensers, including pizza, gold bars, hand cuffs and books. Yours truly will [...]
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Milton Glaser’s “Ten Things I Have Learned”
October 1, 2010
Milton Glaser, known (among many things) for designing the “I Heart NY” logo, the DC Comics logo, the Brooklyn Brewery logo, and founding New York Magazine, has a charming essay on his website titled, “Ten Things I Have Learned.” Considering everything Glaser has achieved – and continues to – it’s safe to say he knows quite [...]
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Ask An Art Critic
September 30, 2010
Being an art critic is no easy job – especially not for Jerry Saltz, the New York Magazine art critic who came under fire for being a judge on the Bravo-creative-competition-factory program, Work of Art. In an article detailing his experiences on the show, he wrote, “The show also changed the way I think about [...]
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Noma Bar Exhibition at New York Times’ Seven Gallery
September 29, 2010
Starting October 7th, the New York Times‘ Seven Gallery will have an exhibit of the work of MPB artist Noma Bar, who worked with us on Negative Space & Guess Who? The work will be on display until January 2011.
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BOOOOOOOM! lists their favorite art blogs
It can be hard to sort through the worthwhile sites and the time wasters in this vast internet landscape. Recently, the excellent Jeff Hamada curated art/photo blog BOOOOOOOM! listed his 13 favorite art & photo blogs, and it’s quite the stellar assortment. #7 on his list, fffflickr is a site that feeds you flickr submissions based [...]
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What Would Elmo Do?
September 28, 2010
This gem comes to us via CNN/Gawker – above you can watch a reenactment of the tale of Jeramie Trespalacios, who sat down to play the drums at a local music retailer while dressed in an Elmo costume and suffered the brunt of some man’s rage. After the man started punching and slapping him, Trespalacios [...]
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Watch the installation of the “Becoming” Zoetrope & Artist Yishay Garbasz lectures in Germany
September 27, 2010
Yishay Garbasz, whose Becoming: A Gender Flipbook is due next month from MBP, sent us this video of the construction of her Zoetrope at the Busan Biennale. Garbasz will also be speaking about “Becoming” and her work “In My Mother’s Footsteps” at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt, Germany on October 6th. You can [...]
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New York Dick Featured at Tom & Jerry’s 288 Bar in NYC
New York Dick, MBP’s upcoming book featuring scandalous scrawlings of extended members (and other assorted parts, defacements and messages) on subway advertisements, is currently featured at Tom & Jerry’s 288 Bar in New York City. The bar is showing several images from author Galen Smith’s amusing collection of penises, pricks, wangs & beyond until September 30th, [...]
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Mike Schreiber Featured on the cover of Bookforum
September 17, 2010
Should you pass by a news or magazine stand, check out the latest issue of Bookforum, which features images from photographer Mike Schreiber on the cover, and in the feature article, “Rapper’s Delight.” Schreiber’s book, True Hip-Hop will be available through MBP in October. You can pre-order over at Amazon, and in the meantime, make [...]
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Illustrated Three-Line Novels launch party recap!
September 15, 2010
Last night, MBP & Joanna Neborsky hosted a launch party for Neborsky’s Illustrated Three-Line Novels: Felix Fénéon. The event was a raging success, between the great turn out, lovely snacks & complimentary absinthe cocktails, and selling out of the evening’s book supply! Take a peek at some images from the party below (click to enlarge them), [...]
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Yishay Garbasz at the Busan Biennale!
September 13, 2010
Yishay Garbasz, author of Becoming: A Gender Flipbook, is currently exhibiting the images in the form of a zoetrope at the Busan Biennale. The Busan Biennale’s theme for 2010 is “Living in Evolution,” and will be on display through November 20th at various locations around Busan, South Korea. Check out the images below to see [...]
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Tomorrow Night: ILLUSTRATED THREE-LINE NOVELS at Belcourt
Tomorrow night at Belcourt, MBP celebrates the release of Illustrated Three-Line Novels. Besides books, which you can, y’know, buy at a discount, there’ll be a three-item buffet, gratis, and Vieux Carré absinthe specials. So come out and fête the book, eat tasty French food, and sip the green fairy. The details: ILLUSTRATED THREE-LINE NOVELS BOOK [...]
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BANKSY unveiled – again?
August 31, 2010
In a recent post on his website, super artstar-at-large BANKSY placed a video that is, quite possibly, of himself in a hippy disguise heckling Prince Charles over the legalization of marijuana. Is it really him, or another ruse? Tell us what you think. In the meantime, explore more anti-establishment fun with Poster Boy: The War of Art. [...]
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West Puts on David Horvitz’s First Solo Show in Europe.
August 30, 2010
Dutch art gallery West is putting on Carry-on, the first European solo show of photographer David Horvitz. Carry-on documents an art project organized by Horvitz in which he literally carried on pieces of fellow artists’ work in his luggage, and then transported them to The Hague. Collaboration with many people–including strangers–is central to Horvitz’s art, [...]
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The Bastard, Animated
August 26, 2010
From their corner of the interwebs, Electric Literature has put out another animated short, using the first sentence of Patrick deWitt’s story “The Bastard.” The animation this time around was done by MBP author Joanna Neborsky, whose book Illustrated Three-Line Novels lands on bookstores’ shelves in the next couple of weeks. Check out the short: [...]
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This Saturday in NYC, Miami, L.A. + London: International POSTER BOY: THE WAR OF ART Book Celebration/Release Parties!
August 24, 2010
Join Mark Batty Publisher and the *Poster Boy Collective* on August 28 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm at four different parties on the same night to launch K.A.R.A.T.E. (Kids Are Rallying Against The Empire), a legal defense fund for artists, and celebrate the release of POSTER BOY: THE WAR OF ART. – Poster Boy will be signing [...]
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LE GUN at Barbican Art Gallery
August 19, 2010
The much-praised illustration collective behind upcoming MBP books LE GUN 1-3 and LE GUN 4, LE GUN, is putting together a massive illustration project at the Convulsive Architecture exhibition at the Barbican gallery in London tonight from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. The drawing–which is sure to be gigantic in more ways than one–is inspired by [...]
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In Neeeewwwww Yooorrrrrkkkk! BLACK COMIX Weekend Recap in NYC
July 20, 2010
Where Brooklyn At? House of Art Meet & Greet Recap! Many thanks to Richard Beavers at the House of Art in Bed-Stuy for hosting the Black Comix Meet & Greet on July 14! * * * Black Comix @ Madame X Shout out to everyone that joined us on July 15 at Madame X!! Special [...]
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Cleveland Rocks a Little Softer: Comic Book Legend, Harvey Pekar, Dies at 70
July 14, 2010
Cleveland comic book author, Harvey Pekar, passed away at his home Monday, July 12, around 1 a.m. Harvey came to fame as the author of the autobiographical series American Splendor. His portrayal of the mundane movements of day to day existence won him critical acclaim and his habitually sour out-look on life was often more [...]
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How to Become Your Own IDLE IDOL: It’s All in the Eyes
July 13, 2010
Want to become your own IDLE IDOL (see: Idle Idol: The Japanese Mascot)? It’s simpler than you think. All you need are the official IDLE IDOL eye badges, place them carefully on your face so as not to blind yourself, and stand vacantly in front of a shop of your choice. You can scoop up [...]
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A BLACK COMIX Weekend (7/14 – 7/17): C-SPAN at the Harlem Book Fair; Gallery Show; and Pre-Release Party!
July 8, 2010
We’re kicking off our upcoming release, BLACK COMIX: AFRICAN AMERICAN INDEPENDENT COMICS, ART & CULTURE with a full weekend of NYC events! We start with a gallery exhibition, then our pre-release party, then the Harlem Book Fair, where the authors will sit on a C-Span Panel on Bridging the Literacy Gap (along with invited panelist, [...]
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GQ.com Interview with BLACK COMIX authors Damian Duffy & John Jennings
July 1, 2010
Since we’re already ON the topic of Black Comix (see yesterday’s blog on Condoman), go check out this great interview on GQ.com with the authors, Damian Duffy & John Jennings, posted today! Here’s a tiny excerpt: The book’s focus is on creators who’ve emerged during the last few years. You don’t go back to black [...]
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A BlackComixBook.com Post: WHY DOES CONDOMAN TALK FUNNY?
June 30, 2010
By Damian Duffy (Author with John Jennings of BLACK COMIX: AFRICAN AMERICAN INDEPENDENT COMICS, ART & CULTURE, originally posted on http://www.blackcomixbook.com) F-booker Johnny Splendor was kind enough to point us to this article on the Huffington Post about The Funniest Sex Education Posters of All Time. The Huff Post caption for this one is “Does [...]
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DIY ALBUM ART selected as one of AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers winners!
June 28, 2010
For the second year in a row, MBP has topped the ranks: J. Namdev Hardisty’s and MBP’s DIY Album Art: Paper Bags & Office Supplies has been selected as one of the coveted 50 winners for the AIGA (Professional Association for Design) 50 Books/50 Covers for best designed books of 2009! The Paper Trail blog [...]
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MBP’s Managing Editor BUZZ POOLE joins ABC Urban Arts Fest “Illustrated Book Panel” in Amsterdam, June 26!
June 23, 2010
Here’s the info from the official PRESS RELEASE from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, American Book Center! THE AMERICAN BOOK CENTER and THE ABC TREEHOUSE present: THE ABC URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL ILLUSTRATED BOOK PANEL Saturday June 26, 2010, 2PM in the ABC Treehouse (Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam) For reservations click here! The process of getting a book from an author’s [...]
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IDLE IDOL Photo Contest! Win a copy of the book & other goodies!
June 22, 2010
From the official IDLE IDOL website + authors Edward and John Harrison: Idle Idol: The Japanese Mascot is officially out and to celebrate we’re offering the chance to win a copy of the book. All you have to do is take a photo of yourself or a friend with your favorite mascot. The entries will [...]
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‘Publishers Weekly’ Article on BLACK COMIX + Interviews w/ authors Duffy and Jennings!
June 15, 2010
Even before announcing Black Comix: African American Independent Art & Culture next week, we’re already getting a bit of buzz surrounding this monumental book! Black Comix made its way into the limelight with a panel at Chicago’s comic convention, C2E2, and grabbed the attention of Publishers Weekly, which just today posted its article after interviewing [...]
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Sweet HYPEBEAST video from Martha Cooper’s “Name Tagging” Launch at Obey Pop-Up, NYC!
June 10, 2010
We were thrilled to announce the launch of our second Martha Cooper book, Name Tagging (first one was Going Postal) – and even more excited at the chance to hold the celebration at the OBEY pop-up shop right here in New York City. Packed with Cooper fans, artists, graffiti-enthusiasts and lots and lots of Stella [...]
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The Nerdy Type: Console Font
June 8, 2010
Because MBP loves all things font-y (if you haven’t checked out our newest release, 3D Typography, you’re missing out!), this Console Font pulls on my geeky heartstrings. Inspired by gaming hardware and consoles, Console Font was created by Netherlands-based Varun Vachhar for a class assignment, and will be downloadable soon – but for now, enjoy [...]
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Finally Premiered! La Carmina is a “Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo” Guide on Andrew Zimmern’s BIZARRE FOODS (Travel Channel)
June 2, 2010
The day has finally arrived: La Carmina (blogstress and author of Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo) was featured as a Tokyo tour guide (based on the book) on Andrew Zimmern’s “Bizarre Foods,” which premiered on the Travel Channel just two nights ago! Luckily for the people who may have missed it, La Carmina compiled some [...]
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VENDING MACHINES: COINED CONSUMERISM in last week’s NY TIMES: “The New Touch-Face of Vending Machines”!
June 1, 2010
In the whirlwind that was Book Expo America 2010 AND Memorial Day Weekend, we ALMOST forgot to mention Christopher D Salyers’ and his book, Vending Machines‘ appearance in the May 26 New York Times business section! Salyers was interviewed for his expertise on vending machines throughout the world, and quoted several times in the article. [...]
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Great CREATIVE LOAFING interview with “Truckers” author Mary Richardson
May 25, 2010
As a preview of Mary Richardson‘s appearance at the Decatur Library tomorrow, the popular Atlanta-based alt weekly Creative Loafing featured an interview with the author to chat about Truckers and how it all came together. Check out the full interview here on the Creative Loafing website!
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MBP BEA Shindig (free beer!) – Wednesday, May 26 at Booth 4451!
May 24, 2010
If you’re hitting up BookExpo America (BEA) this year in NYC, make sure to stop by our booth to enter our book giveaway raffle drawing, which will kick off our party at 4PM on Wednesday, May 26th at our booth, #4451. You’ll get a chance to meet-and-greet with 3D Typography authors Emily CM Anderson and [...]
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Hey, Georgia! Next Wednesday, “Truckers” presentation at the Decatur Library with author Mary Richardson!
May 20, 2010
If you’re in Decatur, GA, you’re in luck – Mary Richardson, author of our gritty and photo-rich book Truckers, will be giving a presentation at the Decatur Library on Wednesday, May 26th as part of the Decatur Arts Festival. Decatur Library 215 Sycamore St. Decatur, GA Library Basement Auditorium Wednesday, May 26th, 7:00PM The presentation [...]
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MBP Exclusive: ‘POSTER BOY’ FREE – almost!
May 17, 2010
FREE ‘POSTER BOY’ movement a SUCCESS – at least for now! I just hung up the phone with Poster Boy‘s lawyer, Kerry Gotlib, a few minutes ago, who said that PB was granted bail from an appeals judge this past Friday and is just waiting for paperwork to go through – and that he’ll be [...]
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BATHROOM GRAFFITI author Mark Ferem on CBC Radio – Listen Here!
May 12, 2010
A few days ago, MBP author Mark Ferem of Bathroom Graffiti (2006) was a featured guest on CBC Radio’s “Definitely Not The Opera” with Sook-Yin Lee to chat about one of the topics he knows best – our lovely lavatories’ latrinalia. You can check out the podcast and listen to Mark’s interview here on iTunes, [...]
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Cool project by Rhizome + David Horvitz: Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern, London
May 11, 2010
Author of Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project: The Book and the upcoming Everything That Can Happen in a Day, David Horvitz has been working with Rhizome for No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents at the Tate Modern in London, taking place from May 14-16. From the website: Rhizome has teamed up with artist [...]
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This Saturday 5/15 in NYC! NAME TAGGING Book Launch + Preview Party with Martha Cooper
May 10, 2010
Martha Cooper’s NAME TAGGING Book Launch @ Obey Pop-Up NYC Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm Location: Obey Pop Up Store NYC, 151 Orchard Street, New York, NY RSVP on Facebook here! Join MBP, Martha Cooper and OBEY for a legendary party celebrating a legend herself – and her new book: NAME [...]
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Introducing iPad Wallpaper from your favorite MBP books!
May 4, 2010
We know you can’t get enough MBP. Which is why we’ve created new IPAD WALLPAPERS grabbed right from our visually-powerful books. And because we’re excited about this new wave of the publishing future, you’ll find MBP wallpapers from a sampling of our titles, all formatted for your iPad at 1024 x 1024 pixels. Make sure [...]
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iVending Machines: Kraft + Coca-Cola roll out with VM touch screens!
May 3, 2010
[photo from the Chicago Tribune] Since our new book Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism is all the rage (as reported by Fast Company, MTV Iggy, Japan Today, Lost at E Minor and more this week!), we’ve been keeping abreast of other VM-relevant stuff in the news. This past week at The National Automatic Merchandising Association show [...]
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Tomorrow Night: “Vending Machines” Super Japanese Fun-Time Book Launch Party!
April 28, 2010
“Vending Machines” Super Japanese Fun-Time Launch Party Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010 Time: 8:00pm – 10:00pm Location: Satsko Street: 245 Eldridge Street City/Town: New York, NY Join Mark Batty Publisher as we celebrate the release of Christopher D Salyers’ newest pop culture endeavor, VENDING MACHINES: COINED CONSUMERISM! Fabulous sake bar and Japanese restaurant, Satsko, is [...]
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The Verdict is In: Christopher D Salyers Picks the Winners for the Japan Society’s j-CATION Virtual Bento Box Battle!
April 20, 2010
Due to his expertise as the author of Face Food and Face Food Recipes, Christopher D Salyers was invited to be the featured guest judge at the New York Japan Society‘s j-CATION Virtual Bento Box Battle on April 10th. Looking at the slideshow of entries, it looks like Christopher had his work cut out for [...]
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La Carmina Sneak-Peeks Her “Crazy, Wacky” Travel Channel appearance on Andrew Zimmern’s BIZARRE FOODS
April 19, 2010
[ Via La Carmina] La Carmina is constantly on the go go go – and this time, she headed back to Tokyo to show the Travel Channel’s Andrew Zimmern the “Crazy, Wacky” ropes of bizarre themed eateries! Check out the details (exact date to be announced soon!) here on CNNGo, and some behind the scenes [...]
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Manholes in NYC and “Drainspotting” just around the corner!
April 15, 2010
Remo Camerota‘s upcoming book Drainspotting has already begun its circuit around the blogs and press (Creative Review, My Ninja Please, Japan Times blog, Day in the Lyfe Magazine, and more), and we’re thrilled for the book’s release in the coming month(s)! Pre-order the book on Amazon.com here In that same vein, Ephemeral New York actually [...]
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MBP’s Christopher D Salyers on Fox News’ “Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld” – this Saturday, April 10 @ 3AM!
April 8, 2010
Because you KNOW you’re going to be watching Fox News at 3 A.M. this Saturday (and if that’s not on your schedule, get on it!) – MBP author and design/production director Christopher D Salyers is going to be paying the Fox News set a little visit to talk about Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism. He’ll be [...]
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Crafty Truckers!
The author of last year’s incredible Truckers, Mary Richardson, sent me this delightful article about a new unexpected trend in trucking: knitting and quilting. Check out the full article here! [from Craftzine.com] And hey, while we’re at it, why not share some of the photos from the Truckers as a little refresher? The book is [...]
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Noma Bar Exhibit at KK Outlet in London: Photo Recap!
April 6, 2010
“Bitter Sweet,” a new exhibition of illustrator Noma Bar‘s work, opened last week at KK Outlet in London’s Hoxton Square! A bunch of the imagery exhibited is from his MBP book, Negative Space, which we published last year. To switch it up, Bar took these illustrations to the next level, with 3D wood cuts, screenprints, [...]
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MBP at MoCCA Art Fest 2010, April 10 + 11!
April 5, 2010
It’s time for the ever-awesome MoCCA (Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art) Festival, and MBP is excited to take part – we’ll be at table E28! MoCCA Art Fest 2010! This weekend, April 10 and 11, is the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) Festival, where thousands of indie comix fans and creators converge [...]
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Official announcement: Random House Publisher Services Takes on Indie Publisher Mark Batty Publisher
March 31, 2010
We gave you a bit of a whisper about this a few months ago – but now here’s the official announcement, with the details! * * * Mark Batty Publisher (MBP) is pleased to announce that Random House Publisher Services (RHPS) is selling and distributing the MBP list in the United States and Canada. This [...]
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BLACK COMIX Panel at C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo) – April 16-18
March 30, 2010
Going to the first ever C2e2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo) this year? Then make sure to check out this amazing panel, one of the first of its kind, based on our upcoming book of the same name – Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art & Culture, taking place on April 17 from 5:15PM-6:15PM. [...]
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Huzzah! New Photoshop Content-Aware is Magic/Can Make Sandwiches
March 29, 2010
So we’re all pretty excited about the upcoming Photoshop CS4, with a new content aware feature that has been demonstrated in a jaw-dropping (for nerds) sneak-peek video, snaking it’s way through the web all last week. Here’s the original video, which caused all the commotion, on YouTube. And today we’re loving this (thanks to Gizmodo!) [...]
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April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day!
March 26, 2010
On December 18, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 62/139, tabled by the State of Qatar, which declares April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day! The World Autism Awareness Day resolution encourages everyone to take measures to raise awareness about autism throughout society and to encourage early diagnosis and early intervention. By bringing [...]
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Christopher D Salyers to join judge’s panel for VIRTUAL BENTO BOX BATTLE at Japan Society’s j-CATION Event!
March 24, 2010
The Japan Society in NYC is having a huge new cultural event called j-CATION, and our very own Christopher D Salyers gets to be a part of it as a resident bento expert and judge for the VIRTUAL BENTO BOX BATTLE! Here are the details for j-CATION from the website, and click here for the [...]
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FastCompany.com Slideshow of “Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism”
March 22, 2010
Last Friday, Fast Company picked up on our newest release – Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism – and wanted to share these mechanical oddities with the world. Check out the “Weirdest Vending Machines in the World” slideshow here! Want to preorder the book? Pick it up on Amazon here!
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Dogs as Typefaces: As hilarious/cute as it sounds
March 18, 2010
Created by design firm Günter Eder, Roman Breier, and Marcel Neundörfer in Vienna, these pups are matched up with a characteristically-similar typeface. Adorable! [via Neatorama]
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London! Noma Bar Exhibit “Bitter Sweet” at KK OUTLET – April 1-30
Also: Noma interview with Grain Edit! Check it out here.
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POSTER BOY Interview with Reuters!
March 17, 2010
A representative from Poster Boy – the anti-consumerist “vandals” who slice n’ dice NYC subway ad campaigns to deliver other types of messages – spoke with Nick Zieminski from Reuters this week in anticipation of the upcoming MBP book of the same name. Says POSTER BOY: “Street art — anything not inside a controlled space [...]
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Cool Video Alert: The Making of a Book Cover
March 16, 2010
Our friends over at fellow indie publisher Orbit Books (specifically, their lovely creative director Lauren Panepinto) have put together this video on the process used to create their book covers. It’s amazing to watch all the tiny aspects of the images that need to be tweaked, and how they do it – especially since it’s [...]
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Some thoughts about Chronicle’s LOOK! IT’s JESUS from MADONNA OF THE TOAST’s Buzz Poole
March 15, 2010
Last week we reported on the release of Look! It’s Jesus, a book that seemed eerily similar to our very own Madonna of the Toast, published in 2007. Now, a word/review of the new book from Madonna‘s author, Buzz Poole, on his Madonna of the Toast blog. Read it here!
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Set Your TiVo’s Everyone – DRAWING AUTISM author Jill Mullin + artist Esther Brokaw on Fox News, March 15th!
March 11, 2010
On March 15th at 2PM, Jill Mullin, author of MBP book Drawing Autism, and artist/contributor, Esther Brokaw, will be on Fox News Strategy Room health hour “Headline Health” with Dr. Manny Alvarez and Dr. Cynara Coomer. Drawing Autism author Jill Mullin is also a behavior analyst and educator, with a BA from the University of [...]
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A Different Kind of Street Art: Jan Vormann’s LEGO Urban Renewal
March 10, 2010
For the past two weeks, German artist Jan Vormann has been beautifying NYC one brick at a time, filling in cracks and missing tiles from buildings with bright LEGO blocks. The effort was part of the VOLTA art show, and in cooperation with the Gallery Jarmuschek+Partner with the support of Henk Holsheimer (LEGO Graffity Styles [...]
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TONIGHT! A Night with Mark Batty Publisher at BookCourt, Brooklyn! Talks, books, wine!
March 9, 2010
Join Mark Batty Publisher at BookCourt in Brooklyn TONIGHT for an evening dedicated to all things MBP – the people, the process – the full package. Along with vibrant visuals and an open discussion, hear about the creative process behind a selection of our books – from photography, to urban culture, to pop culture and [...]
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Hey London & Cali! Upcoming HUNT & GATHER: DISCOVERING NEW ART events
March 8, 2010
Join MBP and Tina Ziegler, author of HUNT & GATHER to celebrate the release of the new art book! Here are some details on the book launch events: – LONDON, UK – The Creative & Old School, a Hunt and Gather Book launch event Saturday, March 20 , 2010 Location: 47 Mowlem Street. East London. [...]
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This Tuesday, March 9! BookCourt Presents: A Night with MBP
March 5, 2010
Join Mark Batty Publisher at BookCourt in Brooklyn on March 9 for an evening dedicated to all things MBP – the people, the process – the full package. Along with vibrant visuals and an open discussion, hear about the creative process behind a selection of our books – from photography, to urban culture, to pop [...]
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LOOK! It’s Jesus! And…very similar to Madonna of the Toast!
March 3, 2010
Life ahead of the curve is tough for Buzz Poole, author of 2007′s Madonna of the Toast, as we’ve just picked up on a new, very similar book out from Chronicle Books titled Look! It’s Jesus! Amazing Holy Visions in Everyday Life. In 2007, Buzz explored the phenomenon of pareidolia, which involves the perception of [...]
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MBP at the 2010 Indie & Small Press Book Fair – this weekend in NYC!
March 1, 2010
Come say hello this weekend at the 2010 Indie & Small Press Book Fair (from the Center for Independent Publishing) here in NYC! We’ll be joining a slew of other fantastic indie publishers, and we’re excited to mix and mingle with some of the best. Make sure to bring your wallets, too; there will be [...]
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TOY INSTRUMENTS is Big in Japan!
February 24, 2010
We were thrilled when an MBP fan sent us pictures of this HUGE Toy Instruments display at a Tower Records in Tokyo. Complete with streaming music and big cardboard cutouts, Toy Instruments has certainly made it big in Japan! And, hey, MBP fans – if you ever see a display worth snapping, or an MBP [...]
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Step right up, get your Noma Bar prints here (at The Print Dispensary)!
February 23, 2010
You know how much we love Noma Bar here at MBP, so we’re amped that we can now get our hands on some screen prints of his work, including some from NEGATIVE SPACE (including the cover!)! Buy them at The Print Dispensary here.
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HUNT & GATHER featured artist: J.Shea9
February 17, 2010
This week’s featured HUNT & GATHER: Discovering New Art artist is Boston-bred J.Shea9 (http://jshea9.com), best known for his whimsical, imaginative installations. A bit o’ bio from his website: .shea was born and raised in boston, ma…. influenced at an early age by the art found in comic books… animation… and classic sci-fi film…. luckily the [...]
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MBP’s Weekly Link Love – 2/12/10
February 12, 2010
Surrounding the recent HBO movie based on autism advocate Temple Grandin, Canada.com reports on Drawing Autism, for which Grandin wrote the intro. The Strange & Beautiful blog also gives some love! MBP joins Mental Floss for a caption contest book giveaway of Everyman’s Joyce and Everyman’s McLuhan. The Subway Art Blog, Gawker and Gothamist blow up [...]
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HUNT & GATHER featured artist: Jon Beinart
February 10, 2010
Now that our incredible new art book, Hunt & Gather: Discovering New Art has been announced, we want to focus on some of the mind-blowing artists included in the collection. First up, Jon Beinart – best known for his super creepy Toddlerpedes and detailed graphite and ink hide-and-seek drawings. You can also check out his [...]
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“Face Food Recipes” + Christopher D Salyers on NHK TV, Tokyo!
February 9, 2010
Christopher D Salyers (Face Food Recipes) was a guest of honor on the Japanese TV show, “New York Wave” on NHK! Ok, so a lot of it is in Japanese, but the interviews are in English – check it out here, with footage from the Giant Robot NYC + Face Food Recipes release party! Face [...]
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“Drawing Autism” Party & Art Exhibition RECAP!
February 8, 2010
The Drawing Autism party and art exhibition this past Thursday was a huge success – a big thank you to the New York Center for Child Development for hosting and sponsoring the event! Great food and wine, a wonderful crowd, a truly impressive collection of art, and touching presentations from contributing artist Esther Brokaw and [...]
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Cool Noma Bar illo in FIELD & STREAM!
February 4, 2010
Noma’s at it again! The author of Guess Who? The Many Faces of Noma Bar and Negative Space has created another astonishingly clever illustration, this time for “The Last Tiger” article in the latest issue of Field & Stream.
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Upcoming HBO Movie About “Drawing Autism” intro author Temple Grandin!
February 3, 2010
Some exciting updates surrounding our fabulous art book Drawing Autism! Tomorrow is the big book release party at the New York Center for Child Development in NYC from 6-8PM, complete with a discussion on art and autism, a signing by the book’s author, NYCCD employee Jill Mullin, and an extraordinary art exhibition (full details on [...]
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Upcoming 3-D TYPOGRAPHY author Emily CM Anderson at University of Florida’s Design Symposium, Feb. 6!
February 2, 2010
If you’re anywhere near Gainesville, Florida this weekend (February 5 and 6), don’t miss the University of Florida’s annual design symposium, Ligature 19, where upcoming MBP author Emily CM Anderson (3-D Typography) will be speaking on the 6th! The symposium is taking place at the Focus Gallery in the main gallery of Fine Arts Building [...]
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The New York Post makes TOY INSTRUMENTS “Required Reading!”
February 1, 2010
If you New Yorkers picked up a copy of the Post this weekend, you’ll have noticed Toy Instruments: Design, Nostalgia, Music in the latest issue’s “Required Reading” from Billy Heller! This guy has great taste. Check out the short article here, and pre-order Toy Instruments here!
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“Drawing Autism” Book Release Party & Art Exhibit Next Week – February 4!
January 29, 2010
Join MBP as we celebrate the release of DRAWING AUTISM! The event will feature a discussion on art and autism, a signing by the book’s author, NYCCD employee Jill Mullin, and an extraordinary art exhibition by individuals on the autistic spectrum, taking place at the New York Center for Child Development (328 East 62nd Street [...]
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Artist and MBP author Noma Bar lectures in the U.K.!
January 27, 2010
If you’re lucky enough to be in the U.K. for this, don’t miss these two lectures from Noma Bar, genius artist and author of MBP’s Guess Who? The Many Faces of Noma Bar and Negative Space. On Friday, Febrary 5, Noma will be sharing personal stories and the process behind his MBP books at Glug [...]
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MBP’s Buzz Poole announces first collection of short stories: I LIKE TO KEEP MY TROUBLES ON THE WINDY SIDE OF THINGS, from Fractious Press!
January 26, 2010
Mark Batty Publisher’s very own managing editor, mastermind and author of MBP’s Madonna of the Toast, Buzz Poole, has announced his first collection of short stories, titled I LIKE TO KEEP MY TROUBLES ON THE WINDY SIDE OF THINGS. Starting next month, the book will appear in select independent book stores, launching with a reading [...]
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Upcoming MBP book “Drainspotting” feature & author interview in latest issue of CREATIVE REVIEW!
January 25, 2010
Inside the issue, Mark Sinclair takes a look at a new book on Japanese manhole covers – which reveals a hidden, vibrant world of street-level creativity. – CR The UK’s CREATIVE REVIEW features upcoming MBP book Drainspotting with an interview from author Remo Camerota. Make sure to pick up the latest issue – CR is [...]
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Hey, Amsterdam! It’s The American Book Center’s ABC URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL, JUNE 26, 2010!
January 22, 2010
MBP’s good friends, The American Book Center (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, www.abc.nl) proudly announces the launch of THE ABC URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL – “WHERE DESIGN MEETS CRAFTS.” This is a unique festival where design and crafts go hand in hand. From the release: On the afternoon of Saturday June 26, 2010 we will set up the [...]
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Haiti Matters to Brooklyn Event – Success!
January 21, 2010
Thanks to all who made it out to Haiti Matters to Brooklyn at Castle Braid this past weekend – we’re pleased to announce that we all helped to raise over $2,000 for the displaced and injured victims of the earthquake in Haiti! Great music, fantastic raffles, and fun people made this event a true success. [...]
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Hey, Toronto! EDGYCUTE Artist Gary Taxali is having a solo show on January 28th!
January 18, 2010
Gary Taxali, one of the artists featured in our recently-released art book, Edgycute, is having a solo show in Toronto later this month called The Taxali 300, and it’s a must-see! From the release: “The Taxali 300 exhibition showcases hundreds of small illustrations and collages originally created for such esteemed publica- tions as Rolling Stone, [...]
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MORE Help for Haiti – Fundraiser this Sunday at Castle Braid in Brooklyn!
January 15, 2010
Since we’d like to take any opportunity we can to help the cause after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, we’ve joined forces with Castle Braid once again (since the MBP Urban Arts Fest in October) for HAITI MATTERS TO BROOKLYN, an impromptu fundraiser for the emergency relief efforts of the Red Cross. We’ll be donating a book [...]
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Help for Haiti
January 14, 2010
The team at MBP is devastated by what’s happening in Haiti – and we want to help. Thanks to this post on Gothamist, we caught wind of a fundraiser that Skippy from The Bell House in Brooklyn is setting for January 27. We’ll be donating a big book package for the raffle at the event, [...]
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Professional + Personal = Awesome: MBP author Ji Lee “Talks Back” at Design at Work in Belgium
January 13, 2010
MBP author and creative brain behind Google Creative Lab, Ji Lee (Talk Back: The Bubble Project), has been busy with projects ranging from design to branding, and held his first lecture in Belgium at Design at Work in Kortrijk last month. Dubbed “Professional + Personal = Awesome,” Korean-born New Yorker Lee shared with his audience [...]
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Gatorade Gets Guerilla’d
January 12, 2010
Because we’re so excited about our upcoming book with guerilla street artist Poster Boy, we’ve kept our eyes on art of the like – and were tickled by this recent satirical commentary about Tiger Wood’s indiscretions on some Gatorade bottles on Denver store shelves. Can’t say we hate it. Check out all the details here [...]
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“ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently” Announced, Accompanied by Awesome Website
January 11, 2010
Upon the release of our newest book, ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently, comes the ABCing website that brings the book to life, brimming with graphics, sounds, and narrative. Go ahead, see it for yourself at ABSEEING.com
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MBP’s Weekly Link Love – 1/8/10
January 8, 2010
Remo Camerota (Graffiti Japan) receives some well-deserved link love this week in anticipation of his upcoming book with MBP, Drainspotting, with an interview in world-class street art mag Day in the Lyfe – he also just launched a sweet new Drainspotting blog you need to check out. Edgycute joins Nylon Magazine‘s ”Book Club” with a great review [...]
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Exciting Update: New Year, New Distributor!
January 5, 2010
As MBP rings in the new year, we welcome some exciting developments: publishing industry giant Random House is now the official North American distributor and sales force for all Mark Batty Publisher books! This means both backlist and new titles, including the fantastic upcoming books in our newest catalog and also those MBP staples. More [...]
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Check out the new website for upcoming MBP book, “Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art + Culture”!
January 4, 2010
For those of you anxiously awaiting the release of our upcoming title, Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art + Culture (MBP’s very first comic book-themed publication!), the authors Damian Duffy and John Jennings have started a new website, chock full of info about the book and other African American independent comics and art. Here’s [...]
