The Joe Coleman Portfolio
NY: Bagginer Productions. Ten prints; graphite on paper; 8 x 11 inches. Unbound, collected in plain folder illustrated by Coleman (front: “Atomic Radiation Victim” plus 2 bubbled notations: “White Screams” “Meat Two” [as the portfolio is thus sometimes commonly known]; verso: a contemporary self-portrait above artist’s handwritten “contents”.)
Includes: One: “Storms”; Two: “Suburban Family”; Three: “Angus Grund ‘1961’”; Four: “Maison Joie”; Five: “Rough-Trade Yoot”; Six: “Disgussing the Brogan”; Seven: “Shack Fever”; Eight: “Scuppers Are Human”; Nine: “Someplace in Nowhere”; Ten: “Edward Mumford M.D.” approx. 500 copies printed.
The Midget World of Venus #Won
NY: Walter Bachner mini-comics. 8 pages, folded, 4 x 4 inches. approx. 100 copies printed. 10 hand-colored by the artist.
Bunkers of Mars by Mad Dog Joe
NY: Walter Bachner. 4 sheets stapled, 8 x 11 inches. (“only 13 sense”) approx. 100 copies printed.
1978
The Joe Coleman Portfolio of Steel Tips
NY: Bagginer/Bachner. Six plates; 8 x 11 inches; pen and ink on glossy card stock. Portraits of Steel Tips band members: Joe Coleman (aka “Mad Dog, Wild Man of Borneo”), Michael McDonnell, Patrick McDonnell, Karen O’Connell, Tom O’Leary, Stanley Du Thomas. approx. 500 copies printed.
1982
The Mystery of Woolverine Woo-bait
NY: self-published. Prefatory statement: “About the Author of the Mystery” by Manuel DeLanda. Full-color stapled wrappers, 11 x 14 inches. 32 pages pen and ink graphics interior; includes “Clues to the Mystery” by the author at inside back cover. 2,000 copies.
1992
Cosmic Retribution: The Infernal Art of Joe Coleman
Seattle/Portland, OR: Fantagraphics/Feral House,. Edited by Adam Parfrey and Pat Moriarity, with an introduction by Robert Crumb. Includes 32 full-color art reproductions; line drawings; b&w photos. Simultaneous paperback and cloth (Limited Edition available: bookplate signed by the artist laid in). First printing 5,000 trade paper, 500 cloth; second printing 2,500 trade paper. Available at AMAZON.COM
1993
The Man of Sorrows
Richmond, VA: Gates of Heck. Illuminated text in gold ink on black paper by Joe Coleman. 18 full-color die-cut tipped-in details from the artist/author’s 1993 painting of the same name. Limited to 2,000 numbered copies, handmade. You can only get this book HERE.
Deluxe Collector’s Edition: Boxed Artwork (9 x 12 x 15 inches, clamshell box, slipcased): signed and numbered and including full-size 50-piece wooden jigsaw puzzle of Man of Sorrows and a handmade reliquary containing Coleman’s hair and a tattered piece of shirt from one of his explosive performances (limited to 100).
1997
Original Sin: The Visionary Art of Joe Coleman
With essays by Jim Jarmusch, Harold Schechter, John Yau. NY: Heck Editions, 1997. Full-color (50+) and b&w art reproductions; b&w photos; and includes the artist’s own “interpretative keys” to 19 of the 28 paintings presented in the volume. The regular edition is available at Amazon.com.
Limited Edition: cloth, limited to 100 (bookplate signed by the 3 essayists in addition to Joe Coleman; also, special photographic print affixed: a pickled head in a jar, from the artist’s Odditorium.
2003
The Book of Joe: The Visionary Art of Joe Coleman
With essays by Jack Sargeant, Asia Argento, Anthony Haden-Guest, Rebecca Leib. LA and SF: La Luz de Jesus Press and Last Gasp, 2003. 224 pages, full-color reproductions; b&w photos. The regular edition is available at Amazon.com.
Limited Edition: signed with embossed cloth slipcover, limited to 139. Collector's edition: with signed engraving and slipcover, limited to 66. This special edition is only available HERE.
2005
Muzzlers, Guzzlers and Good Yeggs
A collection of Joe Coleman's true crime comics originally published in BLAB! and now collected in one Little Big Book-style hardcover "mini" format volume by Fantagraphics Books. Joe's classic tales of Jack Black, Carl Panzram, Boxcar Bertha, and John Paul Knowles will thrill chill and inform you. Fantagraphics Books, 168 pages, hardcover book, in black & white. You can order the book from Fantagraphics or 1-800-657-1100. It's also at Amazon of course.
