another book to add to my growing list of books i'd like to have(my birthday's less than a month away in case anyone's feeling especially generous):

With its origins in 1960's hot rod culture, underground comix, and rock music posters, Pop Surrealism/Lowbrow Art has evolved and expanded into the most vilified, vital, and exciting movement in contemporary art. Pop Surrealism is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of this movement featuring 23 of today’s most important and interesting artists. Includes work by Anthony Ausgang, Glenn Barr, Tim Biskup, Kalynn Campbel, The Clayton Brothers, Joe Coleman, Camille Rose Garcia, Alex Gross, Don Ed Hardy, Charles Krafft, Liz McGrath, Scott Musgrove, Niagara, Marion Peck, The Pizz, Lisa Petrucci, Mark Ryden, Isabel Samaras, Todd Schorr, Shag, Robert Williams, Eric White, and XNO.

there's an interview with the author here. looks like her gallery opened after i left seattle. i don't recall the art scene in seattle being that bad when i was still there though. via stone cold pimpin'.

another book available at last gasp that looks enticing:

A record jacket book with a new sensibility that conveys the mood of Showa-period Japanese aesthetics. Features over 400 records jackets from a mix of genres, from the mid-'40s to the mid-'70s. Color, softbound. Text in Japanese.