Bubbles #17 is:  48 pages long

Bubbles #17 includes: 

Four Interviews:
- M.S. Harkness
- Raymond Pettibon (by Josh Bayer)
- Noel Freibert
- Presses In China: An Indie Publisher Roundtable Discussion (organized by Paradise Systems)

Articles:
- I Kinda Read The Incal by Dash Shaw
- Is This Real? Reality and Fantasy in Comics by Ray Meese
- Takehiko Inoue’s Vagabond: Living by the Sword by Shah
- The Fascination of the Abomination: On Josep Baqué’s Monsters and Mysteries by Jeff Alford
- Photos from Pretty Animal - Noel Freibert & Leomi Sadler’s Art Show

Comics by:
Karla Paloma
Nazir Hedgepeth

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Publisher sez:

Text by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American “high” and “low” culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings take, as their point of departure, the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement—but they have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary. His subjects have included political figures and historical events throughout the years and with mounting intensity since September 11, 2001.

Raymond Pettibon: Here’s Your Irony Back includes full-color, striking images of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, both Bush presidents, the Kennedys, Hitler, scenes from the Vietnam War and protest movements, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib, President Obama, and Osama bin Laden. As artfully described by art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh in his essay for the book, Pettibon’s works from this period engage the recurring tropes of the day, from caricature, sleaze, and pop, to graffiti and patriotism, engaging universal issues with a tone that is at turns desperate, hilarious, ironic, brutal, or tragic. Brought together here, the images in this book serve to capture the power and urgency of Pettibon’s original graphic endeavor.

Publisher: David Zwirner / Hatje Cantz / Regen Projects

Artists: Raymond Pettibon

Contributors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Designer: David Chickey, Skolkin/Chickey

Printer: Offsetdruckerei Karl Grammlich Gmbh, Pliezhausen, Germany

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in (26.7 x 31.8 cm)

Pages: 212

Reproductions: 122 color

ISBN: 9783775737333

Retail: $60 US & Canada | £40 | €54