Sure to be as successful as his 1999 bestseller, Fucked Up + Photocopied, Bryan Ray Turcotte’s just published Punk Is Dead: Punk Is Everything! (hardback, $40.00) broadens its scope to expose the lasting impact of “punk” on visual culture worldwide. Described as the “last organically incubated oppositional youth movement” of the pre-MTV era, punk slipped quietly under the cultural radar before rising again to inspire new generations of creative and idealistic artists and musicians.

Bryan Ray Turcotte is a music producer and author. His Fucked Up + Photocopied is considered one of the definitive reference books on the North American Punk scene. In 2000, it won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Music.

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  Shooting War (hardback, $21.99) is the “scary-smart,” “must read” online graphic novel (a bold, irreverent, unflinching spoof of the network news, the war in Iraq, and the burgeoning “citizen journalism” movement set in the near future) started by Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman at www.smithmag.net, where it generated fantastic attention from Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, etc…. At its peak, Shooting War received over a million unique visitors a day, and was nominated for a 2007 Eisner Award for “Best Digital Comic.” Now it’s a book.

Anthony Lappé, an executive editor at Guerilla News Network, is a journalist who produced a documentary with footage he shot while he covered the war in Iraq. Dan Goldman, artist and designer, is a founding member of the daily online comics anthology Act-i-vate, and the coauthor of the political fiction graphic novel, Everyman: Be the People.

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