PictureBox

PictureBox is a Grammy Award-winning art, music, photography, and comics publisher based in Brooklyn, New York, directed by Dan Nadel. PictureBox publishes its own books as well as packages books and concepts for museums and galleries around the world.

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Company History

"'PictureBox Inc. has its origins in 1999, when college-friends Dan Nadel, Patrick Smith, a painter (smithpix.net) and animator (vectorpark.com) and Tim Hodler (now a Details editor) founded The Ganzfeld together. The first issue of The Ganzfeld was published in September 2000. Each founder contributed material, in addition to Lauren Weinstein (later of Girl Stories and Goddess of War) and David Shrigley. The Ganzfeld web site also housed content, including work by Ben Jones / Paper Rad, Renee French, Lauren Weinstein, and others. The initial trio parted ways after the first issue. Hodler contributed to the second issue, but it was mostly completed by Nadel and a new partner: Peter Buchanan-Smith. In 2002 Nadel and Buchanan-Smith started a packaging and publishing company called Monday Morning. Now modeled on a visual culture journal, The Ganzfeld became more design and illustration heavy. Nadel edited and art directed issues two and three, with Buchanan-Smith providing design work. Issue three was released in Spring 2003, and, around this time the duo changed the name of the company to PictureBox Inc. The first two books produced by PictureBox Inc. were the novelty history book Cheap Laffs, co-authored with Mark Newgarden and published by Abrams in 2004. The second was The Wilco Book, which PictureBox conceived, produced, and published in 2004. Originated and edited by Nadel, the book was art directed and designed by both partners. During this period, PictureBox also designed the package for Wilco's 2004 record A ghost is born. The package received a Grammy Award in 2005. Buchanan-Smith left PictureBox in late 2004. Dan Nadel is now the sole owner and director of PictureBox, which in 2005 began a concerted effort to expand into a full scale art book publishing house and began working with Paper Rad, Black Dice and Trenton Doyle Hancock, among others. It continues to produce The Ganzfeld, and in 2006, launched Comics Comics, a periodical about comics co-edited with old collaborator Tim Hodler. PictureBox maintains a healthy back catalog of books and produces about a dozen new titles a year on art, graphics, comics, and music. Nadel maintains an active lecturing and writing career while commissioning, editing and producing new books. Currently the PictureBox office is accompanied by a departmental store that promotes books, editions and prints by both PictureBox and non-PictureBox artists. The storefront specializes in unique artists’ editions, prints, books, zines, comics, prints, and international oddities.

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Publications

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"1-800 MICE Issue 1" by Matthew Thurber "1-800 MICE Issue 2" by Matthew Thurber

"Art Out Of Time: Unknown Visionary Cartoonists, 1900-1969" by Dan Nadel

"Bicycle Fluids" by Matthew Thurber

"Blockhead Blues" by Eddie Martinez

"Cartoon Workshop / Pig Tales" by Paper Rad

"Cheap Laffs" by Mark Newgarden

"Chimera" by Frank Santoro

"Cold Heat" by BJ and Frank Santoro

"Cold Heat 1-4" by BJ and Frank Santoro

"Cold Heat Special" by Jon Vermilyea and Frank Santoro

"Cold Heat Special 3" by Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro

"Cold Heat Special 4" by Jim Rugg and Frank Santoro

"Cold Heat: Castle Castle" by Frank Santoro

"Comics Comics 1-3" by Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel, editors

"Core of Caligula" by C.F.

"Crazy Town" by Paul Gondry

"Eddie Martinez/Chuck Webster" by Eddie Martinez & Chuck Webster

"Elle-Humour" by Julie Doucet

"Faded Igloo" by Jim Drain

"For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis" by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell

"Free Radicals" by Leif Goldberg

"Gary Panter" by Gary Panter

"Goddess of War Vol. 1" by Lauren Weinstein

"Good Life" by Taylor McKimens

"Gore" by Black Dice and Jason Frank Rothenberg

"Incanto" by Frank Santoro

"Maggots" by Brian Chippendale

"Mail Order Monsters" by Kathy Grayson

"Me a Mound" by Trenton Doyle Hancock

"Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby" by Takashi Nemoto

"New Engineering" by Yuichi Yokoyama

"Ninja" by Brian Chippendale

"Nog a Dod" by Marc Bell

"Overspray: Riding High With the Kings of California Airbrush Art" by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel

"Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs" by Paper Rad

"Powr Mastrs" by C.F.

"Powr Mastrs vol. 2" by C.F.

"Real Fun" by Ashod Simonian

"SnooPee" by Ken Kagami

"Some Kinda Vocation" by Cheryl Dunn

"Storeyville" by Frank Santoro

"The Drips" by Taylor McKimens

"The Ganzfeld 1-5" by Dan Nadel, ed.

"The Garden" by Michael Williams

"The Magnificent Excess of Snoop Dogg Katherine Bernhardt" by Katherine Bernhardt

"The Trenton Doyle Handbook" by Trenton Doyle Hancock

"The Wilco Book" by Wilco and PictureBox

"Travel" by Yuichi Yokoyama

"Tuff Stuff" by Joe Bradley

"Utility Sketchbook" by Anonymous

"We Lost the War but Not the Battle" by Michel Gondry

"Wipe That Clock Off Your Face" by Brian Belott Wu Tang Comics by Paper Rad

Store

Picturebox's office and store are both currently located in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

External links

http://www.pictureboxinc.com

http://comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com

http://www.youtube.com/pictureboxinc

http://garypanterbook.com

http://www.paperrad.org