RE/Search #11: Pranks!
San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 1987. “Joe Coleman” Interview by Andrea Juno.
Village Voice May 10, 1988
“Life Is a Killer” by C. Carr.
The Boston Globe October 31, 1989
“Audience Flees Explosive Performance” by Jim Sullivan.
New York Press vol. 4, no. 18 May 1—7, 1991
“Infernal Combustion: Joe Coleman’s New Aural Fixation,” by John Strausbaugh.
Art? Alternatives Premiere Issue April 1992
“The Terrible World of Joe Coleman: A Geek Makes Good” (another Jonathan Shaw mini-interview).
On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century by C. Carr
Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1994. A chapter entitled “Life is a Killer: Joe Coleman.”
Comics Journal #170 Summer 1994
“The Infernal Machine, Joe Coleman” Interview cover feature by Katharine Gates. Cover: detail, The Divine Comedy (1993)
Argonaut “Crazies!” issue, Spring 1994
San Francisco. Illustrated article by Martin Wilner (a “Freudian Interpretation”). Cover: Self-Portrait (1986)
Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression by Jack Sargeant
London and San Francisco: Creation Books, 1995. (Includes Coleman interview; seen in context as a “collaborator” in the subcultural movement centering on NYC underground film; see Film section, p. 213.)
Raw Vision: The International Journal of Intuitive and Visionary Art, number 11 Spring 1995
“In the Age of Monsters: The Apocalyptic Vision of Joe Coleman” by Martin T. Wilner. Cover: Mommy/Daddy (1994)
Juxtapoz Spring 1996
“Joe Coleman’s Latter-day Saints” by Katharine Gates.
Atlantica: Internacional Revista de las Artes #14 Fall 1996
“Mondo Coleman: A Conversation with Joe Coleman and Candice Breitz (in Spanish and English translation). Back cover: The Victory of Hell (1995)
The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night, by Anthony Haden-Guest
New York: William Morrow, 1997. Descriptions of Coleman’s Performance Art in his “Dark Stars” chapter. (See Haden-Guest essay, p. 23).
Hot Air, April–June 1997
(A Publication of Virgin Atlantic Airways) “Shock Treatment” by Tony Thorne. Compares Coleman to Hogarth and Grosz.
The (Baltimore) Sun November 20, 1997
“What He Sees Is What You Get” by John Dorsey.
World Art, issue 18 1998
“Why I Like Joe Coleman” by Jim Jarmusch. Cover: detail, Coal Man (1997). (Reprint of essay from Original Sin.)
Raygun #53, February 1998
“Joe Coleman, the Infernal Machine” by Johan Kugelberg.
Dazed and Confused (UK) February 1998
“Holy Libel,” interview and article by Chris Campion.
Telegraph Magazine (UK) April 25, 1998
“Hell Is in the Details” by Chris Campion.
The (London) Independent May 19, 1998
“The Great Exploding Artist.”
Poliester, volumen 7 número 23 Fall 1998
Feature article by Carlo McCormick on Coleman’s use of text in painting. Cover: The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1995)
Suture: The Arts Journal volume one, October 1998
“Notes Towards: A Map of Devil Anse Hatfield / A Map of Joe Coleman.” Interview re. Devil Anse Hatfield (1996) with Jack Sargeant. back cover, inside: full-color reproduction Devil Anse Hatfield.
MEDICO Interamericano June 1999
“Persistencia del Dolor: Los ‘paisajes humanos’ de Joe Coleman” by Javier Martínez de Pisón (Published by the Spanish American Medical Information Communications Corp. in Wayne, NJ) cover: detail, The Glory That Was Once New York (1994).
New York Times August 26, 1999
“At Home with Joe Coleman: The Living Is Queasy” by William L. Hamilton.
Juxtapoz 24, January/February 2000
“Scary Monsters and Super-Creeps: The Second Coming of Joe Coleman” by Jim Knipfel. Cover: A Picture from Life’s Other Side (1998)
The Outsider, Volume 8, Issue 2 / Winter 2004
“"Sacred Monsters: Outsider Art, Neuve Invention, and the Nature of the Inner Life" by Michael Bonesteel. Reproduced on this site.
Los Angeles Valley Beat, December 18-24, 2004
“The Horrible, Happy Life of Joe Coleman” by Steve Appleford. Cover: Love Song (1999). Link to online version
