Category: Art Books

Reviews: Art Books, Print, Skateboarding Books

ConcreteWave Editions 162 pages perfect bound 9 1/8” x 10 7/8” ISBN: 0-9735286-4-8 Copyright Date:05 Review Date: 9/02/05 Wes Humpston has a semi-rabid and loyal following, so it’s only natural that he publish a book of his art. Bulldog’s Art by Wes Humpston (or “One Thousand and One Dogtown Crosses” as it is apt to […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 2nd, 2005

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Reviews: Art Books, Print, Skateboarding Books

Mark Munson and Steve Cardwell Laurence King in association with Harper Design ISBN: 1856693791 Copyright Date: 2004 Review Date: 2005 Since the eighties, stickers have become indelibly linked with skateboarding. With the rash of books focusing on skateboard graphics, it was inevitable that stickers would soon get the same treatment. Unfortunately, like most of the […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on June 27th, 2005

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Reviews: Art Books, Print, Skateboarding Books

Sean Cliver Concrete Wave Editions Copyright Date: 2004 Review Date: 2004 Updated: 4/6/2005 2004 has been a banner year for good skateboard-related books. Independent’s Built to Grind certainly raised the bar, and Disposable has stepped up to the plate. If you don’t have time read through a bunch of superfluous words I wrote in order […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on August 27th, 2004

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Reviews: Art Books, Print, Skateboarding Books

Jim Phillips Schiffer Pubishing Copyright Date: 2004 Review Date: 2004 During its’ heyday in the 80’s, Santa Cruz always had a certain style of art that gave the company a distinct and unified presence. Even if you didn’t ride the boards you could still appreciate the completeness of their image. Most of this, it appears […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 27th, 2004

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Reviews: Art Books, Music Books, Print

Bryan Ray Turcotte and Christopher T. Miller. Gingko Press Copyright Date: Review Date: 2003 If “Please Kill Me” is the ultimate written word on punk rock (and it is), then “Fucked Up and Photocopied” is the Mount Olympus of all punk art books. The title alone is reason enough to have this tasty tome on […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on August 27th, 2003

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Reviews: Art Books, Music Books, Print

Edited by Chris Charlesworth Bobcat Books Copyright Date: 1993 Review Date: 1998 Originally published as two volumes in ’85 and ’88, this is the new combined edition with extra Madonna shots (pre Sex book). What you get is a bunch of pictures of loaded rock stars hanging out with wasted naked groupies. Not only do […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on August 27th, 1998

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Reviews: Art Books, Music Books, Print, Skateboarding Books

Fuck You Heroes. Photographs 1976-1991 Fuck You Too: The Extras + More Scrapbook. By Glen E. Friedman Burning Flag Press Copyright Date:1993, 1996 Review Date: 1998 If you’re gonna shell out for these books you should spend the extra dough for the hardcover. Not that these are coffee table fodder, it’s just that they’ll probably […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 16th, 1998

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Reviews: Art Books, Print

The scenario so far… An intelligent young man leaves home to pursue higher education. He returns a changed man, gradually becoming disillusioned with the trappings of a high-tech society that seems to be in the early stages of cataloging and dehumanizing it’s members in order to fufill the laws of supply and demand. He moves […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on July 11th, 1998

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