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

A study on the relationship between literature and madness from the 18th century until now.

A tale loosely inspired by both the contemporary astrophysicist Aurelien Barrau's work on multiverses and the turn-of-the-century author H.P. Lovecraft's mystical stories. The book entwines astrophysics and fantasy literature through fiction, deconstructing the frameworks of narration, logic, identity, space, and time. Illustrated by Andréa Marchal, after Barrau's works.

First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.

Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.

First published in 1964, this wordless and colorful picture book is a tale of friendship between a pink bird and an orange fish. The illustrations by Swiss artist Peter Wezel are rendered with a deliberate childlike naiveté which will delight children and adults alike.

Set in a grotesque and colorful decorum, the new kaleidoscopic visions of Keiichi Tanaami intertwine the obsessional patterns of the great Japanese master—eyes, military aircraft, eroticized flesh, and pop culture icons.

Bad dreams and ancestral fears play the leading roles in this first monograph rooted in darkness.

French illustrator Julien Brunet adopts the chiaroscuro style and the pointillist technique to create lascivious nudes of monstrous figures, evolving in a background of floral and organic patterns. His first monograph gathers a series of 36 ink drawings produced between 2010 and 2016.

Collage-book from vintage strip-tease magazines.

Outside museums, on the roadsides, a journey through the gardens and backyards of Europe and America to discover the "madmen's art": an illustrated essay on the birth and the future of Art Brut (new expanded edition).

A selection of trucks—coaches, tow trucks, merchandise trucks—drawn with ballpoint pen and pencil by underground legend Wesley Willis. Compiled from different notebooks, this series highlights an essential and almost obsessive motif in the visual work of the Chicagoan artist.

Special issue published to celebrate the 22nd edition of L'Étrange festival—dedicated to the strangest and most provocative cinema.

Caroline Sury's latest work: a series of phantasmagoric shadows cut out of black paper in a very refined mirror game.

The graphic tabloïd's brand new issue—for the first time in full color.

Dorothy Iannone tells her Fluxus Story in a Berlin recording from 1979.

French artist Jean Dubuffet and French art historian Hubert Damisch shared a long friendship between 1961—the year Damisch published his first essay on Dubuffet—and 1985—when the latter died. Entrée en matière gathers together all the texts written by Damisch on Dubuffet as well as a selection of their correspondence.

The big book of the LAC (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), the first private cultural center of the Reunion Island and an essential artistic place in the Indian Ocean.

The comic strip adapted from the eponymous novel by Costes.

Long awaited new opus by Le Dernier Cri mastermind. Evil and degenerated interpretation of Jap B movie posters in this oversized book.

Christelle Enault's last series: Voodoo priestesses cover their face with cartoon masks and lead ritual ceremonies where female creatures and priapic shapes perform erotic gestures in a poisonous and seminal environment. Yet, the delicate pencil line of the Parisian artist delivers a puzzling feeling of softness.

This series of debauchery scenes between degenerative monsters and humans set in a nightmarish decorum of bloodied corpses, exposed organs, feces, secretions, and cabalistic signs constitute the new hellish visions of Kasahara.

This monumental first retrospective monograph dedicated to Louis Michel Eilshemius brings together works from over 70 institutions and private collections, providing the reader with a profound insight into the oeuvre of this unusual artist. In an expansive essay, Stefan Banz examines for the first time the questions of whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced Duchamp's artistic thinking.

Disembodied girls and sadistic imagery: the nightmarish and disturbing universe of The Pit. Perfect, graphically speaking.

An oversized artists' book celebrating Pink and Evil: 16 pages for Ciou and her witches + 16 pages for Malojo and his monsters.

Marc Brunier-Mestas' engravings portray a dark universe where death lurks on each scenes. Skeletons lead a macabre dance in a gloomy yet erotic and sometimes jocular atmosphere.

Nine possibilities for a cat tree (artist's book).

Artist's book.

A collection of recent colored pencil drawings by artist Keegan McHargue.

A collection of blue & red ballpoint pen artworks divided in op art-like geometric abstractions and cartoon figures.

Revisiting the diorama tradition, Souffle d'écho stages a a cartoon-style peep-show of erotic scenes set in a chimeric three-dimensional vaginal cavity. An exhibition booklet and an audio link complete this edition.

Anne Van der Linden's drawings and paintings from 2008 to 2014.

The novel by Jean-Louis Costes in a deluxe edition, illustrated by Anne Van der Linden—the crazy epic of Costes' grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century: a Cossack in Russia, a legionnaire in Morocco, a convict in Guyana and a collaborator in 1940...

Exhaustive compendium of monsters drawings in colours and black and white by Frederic Fleury (Frederic Magazine/Vice).

All musics done for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar show.

La Tranchée Racine's new special issue (12 pages / 12 authors).

A collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84 by Dominik Steiger. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ.

First monograph dedicated to the dense, abundant and exuberant work of French painter and sculptor Raymond Reynaud (1920-2007), a figure of art brut.

A fragmented & paranoïac narrative starring psychic murders and Disney's character Pete.

Herminie Hanin (a figure of art brut, “fou littéraire” with a tendency to paranoia, inventor of the plane trap) inaugurates the series “Les Hétéroclites” (“Heterogeneous”), created by Marc Décimo to explore the relations between literature, art, insanity and creation.

A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.

"Une indécence française" (A French Indecency) retraces the first twelve years of "Nova Sodomia". The complete universe of His Excellency Otto: dictature of fun and indecence.

The main characters in Frenchy Steel are anthropomorphic glamrock frogs plunged into a teenage fantasy drawn with mastery and uninhibition. An urban & psychedelic Heroic fantasy penned with great details by Jurictus.

The King Size graphic newspaper's seventh's issue. With a back cover illustration by Pyon. Four out of four September issues.

La Tranchée Racine's sixth issue. With a back cover illustration by Amandine Urruty. Third out of four September issues.

2CD-Box collecting 11 pieces from Jean Dubuffet's “'Expériences musicales” (recorded in 1961) for the first time on CD.

The fifth delivery of the graphic tabloïd restricted to a mature audience. Second out of four September issues.

A series of ink drawings depicting a sordid cast of characters, men, women, “she-male” and demons indulging in debauchery.

Naked, hooded men on a boat, a topless woman, a little boy with a cigarette and other visual disturbances in Tranchée Racine's fourth issue. First out of four September issues.