Cartoon Workshop/pig Tales

Comic strips, psychedelic imagery and lo-fi digital wizardry from the Paper Rad collective

This follow-up to the Paper Rad collective's recent hit, Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs, is both a return to form and a move forward. Comic strips, psychedelic imagery and the group's trademark lo-fi digital wizardry lend Pig Tales Digest the feeling of an old-school variety show. Bounding from stories, to suites of gag cartoons, to drawings of Alf, Miss Piggy and other pixillated creatures, this book literally ricochets between silly humor and serious satire, raising the house style of exuberant digital Neo-Primitivism to new heights. This well-priced, accessible sampler, featuring an introduction by the artist Donald Baechler, is sure to reach a wide audience.

Paper Rad is Jessica Ciocci, her brother Jacob, and Ben Jones, who were all born in the late 1970s in Massachusetts. They emerged out of the vibrant art scene in Providence, Rhode Island in 2000 and, since then, have created a massive catalogue of self-published and self-distributed comics and magazines, videos, audiocassette tapes, hand-painted T-shirts, stuffed sewn dolls, CD-ROMs and records. They have collaborated in different formations with a number of other collectives including Beige, Paper Rodeo and Forcefield, and their cutting-edge work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Deitch Projects in New York and many other places.

Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut and educated at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Cooper Union. His work has been shown all over the world, and is included in the collections of major museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, as well as many others.