United Dead Artists

Noviadi Angkasapura frenetically covers paper and bits of cardboard packaging with felt-tip pens, ballpoint pens and pencils, haunting them with the magic of spirits.

The third book by Master of the Underworld Daisuke Ichiba published by United Dead Artists focuses on color, blending red demons with the sulfur of strangling gardens.

A series of works by the duo of painters Les Sœurs Siamoises, who work the images together "like a decomplexed table tennis game, with Indian cactus in the pin-up colors of the forests of the kingdom of Siam".

First monograph of the Finnish painter: a series of troubling family scenes whose deviance shines through under a veneer of normality, obscure and disturbing images that appear like reminiscences of a childhood marked by drama and war, never far from the living room.

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to July 2021: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for almost a year...

This graphic anthology is dedicated to Elvifrance, the scandalous French publisher of erotic comic books whose catalogue was under the fierce scrutiny of French censorship authorities from the 1970s to the 1990s. The publication takes a look back at this infamous history through many unpublished archives and a wide selection of covers. It also features an ensemble of covers revisited by some forty contemporary graphic artists.

A new drug on the market: an illustrated kaleidoscopic trip by Arnaud Loumeau.

With Grotesque female creatures, atomic lightbeams, skulls, Pop monsters and ukiyo-e decoration... These polychromic hallucinations of a Master of Psychedelic art were inspired by a near-death experience.

Somewhere between Hieronymus Bosch and Roald Dahl, Amandine Urruty's frescoes picture a particularly rich wonderland inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. A graphite virtuoso, Urruty uses sfumato technique with abundant details to form her baroque & bubblegum universe.

A series of surgical experiments on creatures with genetic disorders resulting from a hypothetical interbreeding between aliens and humans: a crude transhumanist nightmare by Wataru Kasahara.

Artist Stéphane Blanquet re-draws a collection of (mostly) vintage pornographic pictures. These disturbing diptychs constitute an essential catalog of sexual fantasies and oddities.

This extra large square format publication gathers 180 portraits of disreputable creatures by 180 artists... (United Dead Artists' exhibition catalogue).

A series of speechless strips made in Indian ink describing absurd warfare conflicts set in bucolic landscapes.

The series of drawings from “Le lac sombre” (“The Dark Lake”) were inspired by an episode from La Peste Brune (The Brown Plague), a written account of Germany in the Thirties by french writer, theorist and activist Daniel Guérin. There he described his encounter with the Wild Boys, a group from the “Wandervögel” movement, a libertarian youth community which crossed Germany and its history from 1896 to 1936.

Symmetrical portraits of female characters and unidentified creatures cut in black paper.

Olivia Clavel's long-awaited return to comics, with the new adventures of Télé, the screen-face character and Clavel's alter-ego created in 1976.

Variations on the theme of masculine desire: three short comic stories from Ebisu's off-the-wall universe.

Third issue of United Dead Artists' illustrated newspaper.

Special issue: 12 pages / 12 authors. An erotic & nightmarish cover illustration by Stephane Blanquet, a masochistic fantasy by Namio Harukawa, a Metal Monster by Francesco Defourny and many more.

Dark romanticism revisited: Aleksandra Waliszewska' Gothic paintings are a nightmarish blend of European folklore and Mythological influences, macabre characters plunged on the brink of insanity, funeral landscapes, powerful irrational and morbid scenes... “Of bloody dreams, black threats, traps in the forest, tight throat, wasted faces...”.

150 drawings of callipygian women dominating men: Namio Haruka's second book at United Dead Artists still focuses on his obsession for BDSM scenes.

A portrait gallery of metal monsters.

A series of drawings illustrating Haldernablou, an homoerotic text by 19-year-old Alfred Jarry and first published in 1894.

The many ways to get pleasure from a tree, a log, a wooden stick...

An erotic series of staged photographs exploring the margins of sexuality, including bondage and fetishism. The use of chiaroscuro shapes the woman's body in a refined and vintage manner, light beams and shadow play contribute to create an atmosphere close to goth & queer aesthetics also close to Pierre Molinier's works.

The third issue of Le Tendon Revolver's erotic & macabre graphic eccentricities. With front and back covers by Jonathon Rosen and Ludovic Levasseur.

Le Tendon Revolver's second issue: a visual trigger loaded with the most bizarre yet talented artists from the graphic scene. Front and back covers by Gilles Berquet and Frederic Fleury.