Forthcoming this Spring from Damiani. Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel is the first definitive examination of the international language of psychedelia, focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective fields with a deft combination of hundreds of unseen images and exclusive interviews and essays, Electrical Banana aims to revise the common perception of psychedelic art, showing it to be more innovative, compelling, and revolutionary than was ever thought before.

The artists include: Marijke Koger, a Dutch artist responsible for dressing the Beatles; Mati Klarwein, who painted the cover for Miles Davis‘ Bitches Brew; Keiichi Tanaami, the Japanese master of psychedelic posters; Heinz Edelmann, the German illustrator and designer of the Yellow Submarine animated film; Tadanori Yokoo, whose prints and books, defined the ‘60s in Japan; Dudley Edwards, a painter, car designer, and graphic embellisher for the London rock scene, and the enigmatic Australian Martin Sharp, whose work for Cream and underground magazines made him a hippie household name in Europe.

Yes please. €29.00 – Order it here

Garth Marenghi (of Dark Place fame) has a new site up for a series of fictitious pulp detective novels called ‘The Reprisalizer’ in ‘the violent paperback worlds of Terry Finch‘. The Reprisalizer, aka Bob Shuter, is a throwback to the 70′s in the same way as Life On Mars was, think The Sweeney crossed with The Equalizer, set in Kent. There’s also a gunslinger character called Draw too – ‘one man whirlwind of the west’.

The site is beautifully realised with excerpts from old novels on yellowing pages, reverse covers, a biog of Finch with ‘praise for the author’ and even vintage fanzines from the 80′s supposedly commemorating the books. Apparently the recent ‘A Gun For George’ film is also tied into this but I’ve not seen it yet and there are ebooks and podcasts promised as ‘coming soon’ too.

Preparations over the Xmas period for the joint artwork show with Henry Flint at the Pure Evil Gallery on Jan 26th. Not much space amongst the art, records, frames and robots.

I’ve had this for years, the pages tear out and you can put them on your turntable and trip out. The book has a pre-punched spindle hole through the middle and info on each of the optical illusions and who created them. Coming in handy for the planetarium show…

Really like these, found them whilst looking for something else. Six reissued books by neurologist Oliver Sacks that all work as lovely individual designs or make up one big one. Don’t know who the designer is but well done.

A package at the doorstep this morning yielded the next batch of posters to be signed for Scraffer.com and a copy of Henry’s new book ‘Broadcast’. This is the collection of doodles Henry did whilst in front of the TV and provided the artwork for my EPs over the last few years. Several of the pieces are featured and I get a mention but best of all – Henry had done a full page Dredd in profile on the inside page! The fanboy in me was grinning ear to ear.

The posters were multiple copies of the ‘Mad Man’ print of the image I coloured for the ‘One Man’s Weird… ‘ EP. For the thought bubble in the centre, Henry had drawn unique doodles on each poster so that each one is different. Here’s a gallery of 16 of the doodles.

I think these are all accounted for and will be sent out on Monday to everyone who has pre-ordered, there are still some left though if you fancy one.

Henry Flint‘s book of ‘doodles’, ‘Broadcast’ – published by Aam Markosia, is out now. You can order from Amazon or Forbidden Planet and see several of the images I coloured for my EP releases over the last two years in their original state. Some of the original artwork will be featured in our joint exhibition in January at the Pure Evil Gallery, London.

Limited comic-sized 48 pg booklet / CD / flexi disc version of the DJ Food album ‘The Search Engine’. Available to pre-order at the Ninjashop for just £12 for a limited time.

The booklet features artwork by Henry Flint and Openmind, photography by Will Cooper-Mitchell, lyrics and more, the flexi disc will only be available with this package.

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I’ll have one of those please, now they just need to reissue his children’s book ‘Henri’s Walk To Paris’ and I’ll be happy.

Postscript – apparently ‘Henri’s..’ is due for reissue in Feb 2012! Also this beautiful compilation of Bass film titles was put together by Ian Albinson of the Art of the Title website recently, in honor of the book being published.