Art brut / “outsider art” / alternative & underground comics

 
 
Francis David - Un Monde Parfait
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
forthcoming
A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory over a period of fifteen years.
Hélène N. - Elles Viennent Sous Ma Main
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Myriorama
French photographer Estelle Hanania sets the tone for her publishing house Myriorama's program, inaugurated with the singular work discovered in the shopping cart of Mrs. N., an artist on the margins who, at 78, sells her drawings on the sidewalks of Paris's southern suburbs on market days.
Le Cyclop - The Monumental Folly by Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, and their Friends (1969–2024)
2025
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean Tinguely.
Le Cyclop - La Monumentale Folie de Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle et leurs amis (1969-2024)
2025
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean Tinguely (also available in English).
Aleksandra Waliszewska - Problem Issue 5
2025
no text
Timeless
A huge opus collecting for the first time the latest issues of Aleksandra Waliszewska's Problem (vertical format artworks).
Luca Schenardi - Plant-Based Monster Trucks
2025
no text
Nieves
A series of collaborative drawings by the two Swiss illustrators and artists during a stay in Los Angeles, confronting the city's demons and wonders with unbridled felt-tip pens and colored pencils.
Izabeau Legendre - Fanzines - Une histoire québécoise
2025
French edition
Strandflat
The first in-depth research on fanzines in Quebec.
Tancredi Liliana Salone - Memorie premonitrici
2025
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
The enigmatic oil paintings of Sicilian-born artist Tancredi Liliana Salone, “premonitory memories” of a disturbing future, a dystopia steeped in ancient images.
Marc Décimo - De quelques vies ou ce qu\'il en reste - Art populaire & Art Brut – Jardins pittoresques, rocailles, curiosités de créateurs en tout genre
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.
Maïc Baxane - Pisseurses
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
United Dead Artists
Pisseurses brings together a series of oil pastel drawings and portraits of the artist and her comrades urinating outdoors in a variety of contexts. A brief science-fiction short story carries the whole into a utopian dimension that re-signifies the trivial act of miction.
Jean-Vincent Simonet - Kitengela
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet introduces a new photobook that captures the transforming world of Kitengela Glass, an artistic community in the south of Nairobi, Kenya.
Nils Bertho - Passion Chevals - Calendrier 2025
2024
French edition
Lendroit éditions
The indispensable equine calendar by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses.
Bruno Richard - Choquer le monde à mort - Elles sont de sortie – Pascal Doury – Bruno Richard
2024
French edition
L'Amazone
The outcome of in-depth research into the work of Bruno Richard and Pascal Doury, this anthology of the legendary magazine Elles sont de sortie (ESDS) retraces five decades of a corpus of nearly three hundred publications.
Soldes
2024
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
 Les gens du 110 - GEM (vinyl LP)
2024
La Belle Brute
A sonic adventure, where the Coax musicians' collective merges with the vibrant spirit of the Groupe d'Entraide Mutuelle de Montreuil, a mental health peer-help structure nicknamed "Les gens du 110". The ebullient, motley crew explores uncharted sonic territory, inspired by a series of workshops at the GEM, amid sculptures, frescoes, odds and ends, cries and laughter...
Jean-Marie Massou - Sodorome - Volume III – Les Romans de Massou (vinyl LP)
2024
La Belle Brute
currently out of stock
La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.
Joseph E. Yoakum - Mount Horeb Palestine
2024
no text
Nieves
Poetic drawings of Mount Horeb by self-taught Native American artist Joseph E. Yoakum (1891-1972).
Quentin Rollet - Nosferatu (livre / CD)
2024
Bisou Records
The soundtrack to Murnau's Nosferatu composed / improvised / played by the trioof Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet and Jérôme Lorichon. The book accompanying the CD contains four versions of the Nosferatu story by four French artists: Marie-Pierre Brunel, Foolz, Caroline Sury and Alexios Tjoyas.
Unica Zürn - Katrin - The Tale of a Young Writer
2024
English edition
Crackers
A partly autobiographical novel that the German surrealist artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) wrote for her ten-year-old daughter in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English.
Yoshifumi Hayashi - L\'alchimie du cerveau à la mine de plomb
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Arsenicgalerie
currently out of stock
The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.
Inter - Arts altercapacités
2024
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
Inter 143 invites you to explore Mad art, Crip art, disabled art, deaf art, raw art, edible art, situated art and inclusive art: all ways of perceiving, thinking and creating by people with different abilities (physical, intellectual, cognitive, mental, sensory, learning, language and communication skills) or functional diversity.
Dorothy Iannone - Love Is Forever, Isn\'t It?
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New approaches to Iannone's unique work.
 DASDAS - Un zèbre bleu aux yeux de mouche (vinyl LP)
2024
PiedNu
A record of outsider music (sound objects and voices) made by patients at Le Havre psychiatric hospital, accompanied by Aude Romary on cello and Nosfell.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo - Cosa mentale – Disalienating institutions
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 37 of Palais de Tokyo magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutions—initially psychiatric ones.
Bruno Richard - Elles sont de sortie #100
2024
French edition
United Dead Artists
1000 drawings ranked from lightest to darkest, a major work by a rare and powerful artist, a major influence on the current graphzine scene.
Elzo Durt - Complete Works #2 (2017-2023)
2024
no text
Timeless
A retrospective of Elzo Durt's work since 2017.
Gaston Chaissac - Fétiches dernier cri
2023
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.
Aurel Schmidt - Trash Dolls 2
2023
no text
Nieves
(last copies available!)
Aurel Schmidt's drawings.
Michel Gouéry - Les fossiles du futur
2023
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
An overview of Michel Gouéry's surrealist and exuberant artistic output, through a collection of previously unpublished works and documents, as well as detailed notes by some twenty specialists.
Aradhana Seth - Sadak - Hand painted street signs in India
2023
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Artist, photographer and filmmaker Aradhana Seth's photographic archive of painted signs in India: a visual itinerary through the historical-economic changes of Indian society over the years.
François Giboulet - Toto-Dico #1 - Glossaire encyclo-totopédique
2023
French edition
Strandflat
Artist's book.
Keiichi Tanaami - Pleasure of Picasso
2023
no text
Nieves
A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.
Curtis Cuffie -
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
The first book on the art-world legend who installed his ephemeral sculptures on the streets of New York's East Village.
Dorothy Iannone - First recording 1969 (CD)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
currently out of stock
First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist.
Nils Bertho - Passion Chevals - Tome 3
2023
French edition
Lendroit éditions
The indispensable equine bible by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses, is back for a third (and final?) edition.
Erlend Peder Kvam - Tools of Encouragement
2023
no text
Nieves
The inner life of objects according to Erlend Peder Kvam.
Petrus De Man - Ajar
2022
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
MER. Books
The first monographic volume on the graphic work of Belgian artist Petrus De Man.
 The Wild Classical Music Ensemble - Hell Gate (vinyl LP)
2022
La Belle Brute
A wild improvisation session by the Belgian experimental rock band born from the meeting of five artists with mental disabilities, with the guitarist and co-founder of Sonic Youth.
 The Wild Classical Music Ensemble - Hell Gate (CD)
2022
La Belle Brute
A wild improvisation session by the Belgian experimental rock band born from the meeting of five artists with mental disabilities, with the guitarist and co-founder of Sonic Youth.
 Y5/P5 - Sous-bocks
2022
no text
United Dead Artists
Legend of the graphzine and the graphzone, Y5/P5 draws zombies, skeletons, ghost trains, nightmare memories, rubber spiders in the subways at night. This book gathers his famous drawings on coasters, which he often made for a beer or a few cigarettes.
Alan Courtis - Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves
2022
French edition / texts in English and Spanish
ARTDERIEN
Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a support or a source of inspiration... This collection echoes an intimate, marginal and overlooked experience, which can be replaced in the history of iconography and pop music.
Arts Factory - 25 ans au cœur de la scène graphique
2022
French edition
Abbaye d'Auberive
A panorama of the contemporary underground graphic scene, at the crossroads of drawing, comics and illustration, through the exhibitions, the numerous collective projects and the works of more than fifty international artists associated with the history of the mythical Parisian gallery Arts Factory (from Nine Antico to Willem through Charles Burns, Stéphane Blanquet, Hervé Di Rosa, Kiki & Loulou Picasso, Killoffer and Pierre La Police).
 Astéréotypie - Aucun mec ne ressemble à Brad Pitt dans la Drôme (vinyl LP)
2022
La Belle Brute
currently out of stock
The third album of the band formed by four autistic singer-singers, an educator-guitarist more passionate about art brut than educational techniques, and three musicians from the band Moriarty.
ZINES - An International Journal on Amateur and DIY Media
2022
texts in English and French
ZINES
Strandflat
4th issue of the international journal on amateur and DIY media, bringing together contributions on fanzine readers, Tolkien-zines, the place of a female author in the scene of cinema fanzines in Greece, the artistic project Copie Machine, the fanzine as a societal springboard.
Jean Dubuffet - Musique phénoménale (2 CD)
2022
Tochnit Aleph
The first ever reissue of the piece recorded by Asger Jorn & Jean Dubuffet in 1960-61 in Paris.
Ursula Bogner - Sonne = Blackbox (vinyl LP)
2022
Faitiche
The reissue of the compositions for tape and voice of Ursula Bogner (1946-1994), scientist, phamarcian, artist, "outsider" experimental musician fascinated by Wilhelm Reich's work, whose archives were mysteriously discovered Jan Jelinek, compiled by Andrew Pekler.
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