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Spring 2018 Love Sucks LOVE SUCKS The truth about romance from the world’s greatest cynics By Daria Summers Illustrations by Emma Munger EVELYN WAUGH DECLINE AND FALL ISBN 978-1-9254-1869-9 24 On Sale 8th January 2018 £9.99 | 185 x 160mm | 104 pages Full-colour | Hardcover | Humour “Quotes from music, film, literature and history’s great and jaded minds – that prove that love should be avoided at all costs.” Tired of hearing about how ‘love is all you need’ and that ‘love will conquer all’? Does the idea of balloons, love hearts, chocolates and birds suddenly appearing make your teeth hurt with all of its sickly saccharine clichéd insanity? How about some real talk? It’s all a farce. Love sucks. As Oscar Wild said, “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” RICHIE TENENBAUM THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS The reality is, love is a madness that makes fools of all of us, and we’re better off without it. Whether you’re broken-hearted or just wise to the idiocy of love, know that you’re not alone. Love Sucks is a collection of funny, bitter and brutally truthful quotes about how terrible love is, from music, film, literature and history’s great and jaded LOVE SUCKS minds – and all artfully illustrated by a modern-day Sailor Jerry, Emma Munger. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Daria Summers is a freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia. She wears a lot of black and has been single for a really, really long time. Emma Munger is a San Francisco-based illustrator and cartoonist who works at a comic book store and likes to draw sassy pin-ups of her favourite pop culture characters while watching endless amounts of Frasier. WOODY ALLEN 63 Humour & Pop Culture Ginger Pride A red-headed history of the world By Tobias Anthony Illustrations by Carla McRae ISBN 978-1-9254-1865-1 On Sale 6th February 2018 £9.99 | 185 x 160mm | 104 pages Full-colour | Hardcover | Humour “A book more ginger than Prince Harry eating a carrot, Ginger Pride is a rallying call and calling card for ginger pride – this is the book the redheaded community (and their supporters) have been waiting for.” Part identification guide, part scientific textbook, part historical artefact, Ginger Pride – by proud redhead Tobias Anthony – is your manual to all things ginger. Split into three chapters, Ginger Pride looks at identification of redheads, the science of being red, and profiles the twenty most famous redheads in history, coming to the inevitable conclusion that the ginger influence on the world is more than a follicle deep. From the different shades of red to the things you should never say to a ginger; from the science behind the ginger aversion to the sun to why they smell different (correction: smell better); and from famous gingers in history like Queen Elizabeth I to 90s icon Ginger Spice, Ginger Pride will make all gingers cry ‘Ruadh Gu Brath’ (that’s redheads forever, if you don’t read Gaelic). –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Tobias Anthony is an author and university teacher in creative writing. He has recently completed a PhD examining the representations of mass culture in contemporary fiction. He previously published Hipster Baby Names, A Very Modern Dictionary and Should I Buy This Book? with Smith Street Books. He is proudly ginger. Carla McRae is a Melbourne-based artist, illustrator and muralist. She has worked with clients including Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Fashion Week and Oxfam, and previously illustrated How to Spot a Hipster. She is not redheaded. Humour & Pop Culture The World’s Best BFFs A celebration of truly perfect friendships By Nadia Bailey Illustrations by Juppi Juppsen ISBN 978-1-9254-1868-2 On Sale 6th March 2018 £9.99 | 200 x 170mm | 96 pages Full-colour | Hardcover | Pop Culture “This fun, colourful, fully-illustrated book celebrates the world’s most inspiring friendships – real and fictional – making it the perfect gift for you and your own BFF.” Is there anything better than seeing photos of Sir Ian McKellen & Sir Patrick Stewart palling around? Anything more satisfying than seeing comedy queens Tina Fey & Amy Poehler slay together at the Golden Globes? A great friendship makes us better people – more loyal, more true, more generous and funny, and more able to face the world. The World’s Best BFFs profiles 40 of the most awesome and inspiring friendships (real and fictional) throughout history, including Abbi & Ilana from Broad City, Tina Fey & Amy Poehler, Sir Ian McKellan & Sir Patrick Stewart, Matt Damon & Ben Affleck, Oprah & Gayle, Leslie Knope & Ann Perkins from Parks and Recreation, Iggy Pop & David Bowie, Charlotte and Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web, and many more. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Nadia Bailey is a freelance writer and editor from Sydney, Australia. Nadia has written for Oyster magazine, Pagesdigital, NW, Madison magazine and Vogue Australia. Nadia is also the author of The Book of Barb, published by Smith Street Books. Juppi Juppsen is a London-based illustrator and animation artist. His clients include RedBull, Universal Music, IBM, Adobe and Bosch. Humour & Pop Culture Warhol A to Z The life of an icon – from Adman to Zeitgeist Bewigged silver fox, mirror of society, As the first artist to really understand the He was remarkably prescient – he seemed to At the same time he was poised perfectly purveyor of art meets mass production, commercially driven culture of the late 20th predict reality TV cwith one offhand phrase as the observer, the voyeur, at a time when By Steve Wide Warhol truly embodies the 20th Century. – ‘in the future everyone will be famous for everything was changing, midst century. century, Warhol was thus the most important He’s a colourful character, a wig wearing, fifteen minutes’. It was as extension of his He was the conductor of an experimental – there were artists before him who has seen innovative artist and social butterfly own credo, where art was transitory - the orchestra. He was perfect for 60’s/70’s the satirical value in reproducing slogans who tapped into the burgeoning pop art historical vision/concept/acceptance of art society, the observer in a time when was that it was something permanent, everyone wanted to be seen. movement and made it his own. The toast of and advertising material – the reproduction glorious, a representation of the spriit – Illustrated by Alice Oehr the underground and the overground, Andy process being a mirror of both the shallow Ultimately though, he got pop. He Warhol was the first to see that it could be was truly a part of an organic new youth nature of the advertisement and the understood pop culture before it hadn’t really throw away – transitory. Ironically his art even began or been explored. A movement and pop culture movement that soaked in concept of the mass production, but became anything but. Once the repetition that started with Hamilton and Lichtenstien, music, art, literature and the joyful wonton Warhol was the first artist to fully age had come in, once photocopiers were dragged kicking and screaming like a smashing of both convention and taboo. explore the nature of art as a created, art would now be something that newborn babe from the loins of abstract art. Warhol new the value of modern American could be infinitely reproduced and therefore commodity. Futurism, the swinging sixties, the Beatles society – it traded on cash, the buy and sell, less valuable- there could bethan one version and the birth of low fi and punk in New York, and Warhol managed to both satirise it and of the produced art – but he saw that value Warhol was there with his camera recording at the same time use it to his full advantage. was inherent in the original object. the whole thing, exploring it and turning into He was the conductor, the lightening rod of art, a movement that would straddle the ideas. He was the circus master, forming a point between rock n roll, capitalism, post troupe of players around him that performed modern art and the future. and interpreted the excesses of the age. STEVE WIDE ISBN 978-1-9254-1861-3 On Sale 1st May 2018 £12.99 | 240 x 200mm | 56 pages Full-colour | Hardcover | Pop Culture Warhol was a relentless self- promoter, but he didn’t mind plugging other products. He appeared in a TV commercial for TDK Japan (his Japanese was truly terrible), and print ads for Sony Beta Tape and Vidal Sassoon Art Warhol saw his days as a hairspray (ironic considering he One of the leading lights in commercial artist as integral always wore a wig). America’s burgeoning Pop Art to his work. ‘Business art,’ movement, Warhol’s influence on he said, ‘is the step that contemporary art was immense. comes after Art. I started as a His obsession with celebrity and commercial artist, and I want glamour, and focus on everyday to finish as a business artist.’ objects, gave the world a new eye on art as a reflection of contemporary culture. Art critic “An illustrated A to Z, celebrating the unparalleled artistic impact of the Robert Rosenblum noted, ‘If nothing were to remain of the years from 1962 to 1987 but a Warhol retrospective, future historians and archaeologists would have a fuller time capsule to work with than that offered by any other artist of the Warhol’s commercial cultural icon Andy Warhol” period.’ art background, along with ... his artistic skills in mediums Artworks from drawing to silk screen Among Warhol’s most famous printing, helped broaden artworks are his Mao series (1972– contemporary notions about 1977), Self-Portrait (1986), Eight art, opening as many Elvises (1963), Campbell’s Soup Warhol drew more than 300 shoes for the I.

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