PictureBox
PictureBox under Dan Nadel, which published C.F.'s Powr Mastrs and Paper Rad, and brought Takashi Nemoto into English.
Part of Underground Comics
29 moments in this segment.
- - Interview at Picturebox, Inc. Part 1. Frank Santoro describes how Cold Heat was made, sitting with PictureBox publisher Dan Nadel.
- - Interview at Picturebox Part1. Dan Nadel and Frank Santoro discuss Cold Heat, how PictureBox operated and what the books actually sold.
- - Interview at Picturebox Part2. Frank Santoro returns to the subject of printing technique, what was selling in comics at the time, and how PictureBox was operating as a publisher.
- - Cheryl Dunn's Gary Panter Video. Gary Panter discusses the PictureBox monograph of his work, filmed by Cheryl Dunn.
- - Cheryl Dunn's Gary Panter Video Part2. A second reel of Gary Panter on his PictureBox monograph, shot by Cheryl Dunn.
- - Cheryl Dunn's Gary Panter Video Part3. A third reel of Gary Panter discussing the PictureBox monograph of his work, shot by Cheryl Dunn.
- - Dan Nadel from PictureBox Inc.. Dan Nadel of PictureBox lectures at the University of Pittsburgh, with this excerpt covering his anthology Art in Time, The Wilco Book, and the Paper Rad collection B.J. and da Dogs.
- - Picturebox Interview by Dan Nadel with C.F. and Brian Chippendale. Brian Chippendale's If'n Oof follows two figures through dense landscapes trying to eat and pay rent, and he discusses it with C.F. and publisher Dan Nadel.
- - CF Powr Mastrs Interview part 3. CF, Christopher Forgues, talks about the Powr Mastrs series, how he came to draw, his attachment to noise music and his own recordings as Kites. This is the third part of a longer conversation.
- - CF Powr Mastrs Interview part 2. Christopher Forgues, who signs his comics CF, discusses the Powr Mastrs graphic novel series and how he came to drawing. He also covers his noise music work under the name Kites, in the second part of a longer interview.
- - CF Powr Mastrs Interview part 1. Christopher Forgues, who draws as CF, discusses his graphic novel series Powr Mastrs, how he came to drawing and comics, and his parallel work in noise music as Kites.
- - Oddly compelling chat with comix legend Denis Kitchen! 2010 INTERVIEW. Denis Kitchen recounts founding Kitchen Sink Press and publishing underground comix from the late 1960s onward, and his later work as an agent and historian for cartoonists including Robert Crumb and Will Eisner.
- - Constructing Knowledge - Gary Panter, Part 1. Gary Panter, who drew Jimbo and gave the 1980s its ratty line, is interviewed at Brooklyn College about how he builds an image.
- - Dash Shaw and Dan Nadel | Cosplayers. Dash Shaw talks about Cosplayers with Dan Nadel, a book following two young women who film the costume subculture they are part of.
- - Jacob Ciocci reads at Zine Not Dead 8. Jacob Ciocci reads at the eighth Zine Not Dead, a recurring comics reading night, in February 2018.
- - Frank Santoro - Pittsburgh. Frank Santoro presents Pittsburgh, his book about his parents' marriage and the city he grew up in, at the 2019 Angouleme festival.
- - Kramers Ergot Volume 10 Panel. Kramers Ergot returns for a tenth oversized volume with Sammy Harkham, Lale Westvind, Kim Deitch, Dash Shaw, David Collier and Christopher Forgues among the contributors on stage.
- - panellogy 326 - gary panter. A run through Gary Panter's books, taking in Dal Tokyo and Songy of Paradise from Fantagraphics, Cola Madnes from Funny Garbage Press, the PictureBox monograph and the Cambourakis edition of Facetasm. His work for Raw is discussed alongside them.
- - CF / Christopher Forgues | Paper Rad - Fort Thunder - Kramers Ergot - Powr Mastrs - Ganzfeld +. C.F., who also records as Kites, is charted chronologically through Paper Rad, Fort Thunder, Kramers Ergot, Ganzfeld and the Powr Mastrs volumes PictureBox published.
- - Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now | Exhibition Tour. Dan Nadel guides a walk through Chicago Comics at the Museum of Contemporary Art, an exhibition of more than forty artists including Jay Lynch, Lynda Barry and Chris Ware.
- - 55: Christopher Forgues (C.F.) on Comics, Noise, Airwaves and Ritual. Christopher Forgues, who draws as C.F. and records as Kites, talks about the logic of the comic page, the 2000s noise scene and the CB radio and occult material that runs through his work.
- - Dan Nadel - PictureBox Inc. & The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Curator and publisher Dan Nadel discusses PictureBox Inc., the small press he ran, along with how curation works inside and outside museums, his work connected to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and Robert Crumb.
- - Dan Nadel - Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life. Curator Dan Nadel reads from and discusses his biography Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life at a Washington bookshop, covering Robert Crumb's role in opening comics to adult subject matter, his part in founding the underground comix industry, and the sources of his drawing style.
- - NSE #1219 | Dan Nadel and Raymond Foye on Robert Crumb. Dan Nadel and Raymond Foye discuss Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, the biography Nadel published in 2025.
- - Dan Nadel on Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, May 6, 2025. Dan Nadel discusses Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, his biography of Robert Crumb published by Scribner in April 2025, at a New York symposium meeting, covering the research, Crumb's cooperation and his role in turning comic books into a medium for adult work.
- - Art Spiegelman, Dan Nadel and Matt Groening talking R. Crumb at Live Talks Los Angeles. Dan Nadel's biography of Robert Crumb is discussed on stage with Art Spiegelman and Matt Groening, covering Crumb's working life and the research behind the book.
- - The Dummy Show - Dan Nadel on CRUMB: A CARTOONIST'S LIFE - JUNE 2025. Writer and art historian Dan Nadel discusses his biography Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life with the Dummy zine, covering Robert Crumb's early years, the records and drawing that fed his work, and the research behind the book.
- - Book Review: Crumb by Dan Nadel. Dan Nadel's Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life traces Robert Crumb from a chaotic childhood to the centre of 1960s counterculture, reviewed here at length.
- - Frank Santoro Comics As Music. Frank Santoro lectures at the Pittsburgh Indy Comics Expo on reading a comics page the way one reads a score, the basis of his Comics Workbook teaching.