"Hail Savage Pencil, may your eternal mutations bring light to this dark and twisted human world for eternity." - Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O)))

Strange Attractor are pleased to announce that Rated Savx: The Savage Pencil Skratchbook is now available to pre-order through our Shoppe! Release for the book is expected in early April, details of editions and ordering links are below!

Underground cartoonist, artist, writer, musician, and amateur magician Savage Pencil has been conjuring up images and making a noise since 1977. From his ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Zoo’ strip for 1970s music paper Sounds to his ‘Trip or Squeek’ and ‘Primers’ work for The Wiremagazine and beyond, his instantly recognizable, delirious and demented images have come to define their own form of acerbic graphic critique and satire. As well as producing comix he has also designed album covers, T-shirts, posters and other merchandise for such groups as Sonic Youth, Big Black, The Fall, Sunn O))), Coil, Current 93 and Earth – together with images for a host of obscure punk rockers and metal gurus. As a result, his drawings have become intrinsically linked with the sonic ideas that were being transmitted on such records as Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch’s Death Valley '69, Big Black’s Headache EP and The Fall’s Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul 45.

Gathered together from his archive of artwork, personal photographs, documents, and ephemera – including an exclusive revealing interview by author and legendary esoteric bibliographer Timothy d’Arch Smith – Rated SavX is an access-all-areas trawl through the life, art and uncontrollable imagination of Savage Pencil.

"From the most subterranean of underground cartoonists to full-blown daemonic visionary, here we see Savage Pencil’s horrid Lovecraftian metamorphosis in all its sublime and terrifying glory; all its ugly ecstasies. Hilarious, psychedelic, beautiful, deformed – give your nervous system a bracing dip into this lysergic acid-bath of a collection from the last Beatnik artist standing. Unmissable." - Alan Moore

Pre Orders available HERE

Signed HB £40 /  PB £25
236pp
Includes over 200 images, 32 pages of colour and a 6-panel black metal foldout
190mm x 260mm
ISBN: 9781907222696
 

Available in two editions:

• A signed clothbound hardback special edition, limited to 200 copies. Comes with Savage Pencil Fan Club sew-on patch and a bonus book of sketches. £40.

• An unlimited paperback edition available through Strange Attractor Press, MIT Press, and all good bookshops for the price of £25.