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Robbie Conal book release for Art Burn
Friday, November 14, 7PM
 
Robbie Conal-guerrilla poster artist-will be present to sign copies of his new book Art Burn
 
Artburn is a collection of the best pages from the last five years of Robbie Conal’s satirical monthly column in the LA Weekly, updated with background factoids and secret war stories about his subjects, including the likes (and dislikes) of: Dubya, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Rush Limbaugh, Bill, Hillary and Monica, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, even Bill Gates, among others. Artburn reveals production shots of the original pages Robbie and his midnight deadline crew perpetrated at the very alternative LA Weekly, and a chapter of images and voices of the denizens themselves. We’ve even thrown in a dozen late-night remixes that were too hot for the Weekly to print. Artburn is RDV Books’ second publication, following the acclaimed It’s a Free Country: Personal Freedom in American After September 11, which features Robbie Conal’s “Tower of Babble” on the back cover.
 
Robbie Conal grew up in New York City and became a stone-cold Hippie in San Francisco, landing in a storefront in the Haight Ashbury district in 1964. He did time in Connecticut–with time off for bad behavior in SoHo–then moved to Los Angeles, where he now makes street posters and caricatures for the LA Weekly, satirizing politicians of both parties, televangelists, media pundits, and global capitalists. Robbie has gained national prominence as the country’s premiere poster artist; his work has been featured on “CBS This Morning,” “Charlie Rose,” and in Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and many other national publications. His first book, Art Attack: The Midnight Politics of a Guerilla Artist was published in 1992.
 
More info at www.robbieconal.com
 

Neal Pollack reads from his first novelNever Mind the Pollacks
Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm
 
Acclaimed humorist and Vanity Fair contributor Neal Pollack, has been satirizing political and social absurdity to hilarious results in such publications as Vanity Fair, GQ, Men\’s Journal, The New York Times, Slate, Salon, McSweeney?s and The Stranger, as well as on his website www.nealpollack.com.
 
His first novel Never Mind the Pollacks is an epic history of rock-and-roll told through the eyes of two rival rock critics. The novel spans the decades from the 1940s to the present day, and includes such real-life characters as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Bruce Springsteen, Joey Ramone, Patti Smith, Kurt Cobain, and many more.