‘Le
Gun', London, UK, January 2007
Cover & my contribution (click to enlarge):
Issue 3 of the narrative art annual LE
GUN has made its way onto bookshelves
worldwide from January 2007. Loosely themed around ‘the sea’,
issue 3 gathers together a motley crew of writers and artists from around
the world.
A veritable smorgasbord of images and words, the many stories within
LE GUN 3 encompass; Jacques Cousteau; a tale of fat girls in Hastings
by Salena Saliva, fallen angels, Francis Bacon straddling a gorilla in
1950’s
Tangier, a rowing
boat by Peter Blake, Polish accidents, Victorian Punk revivalists, Thames
crocodiles, Korean gangsters in Mauritania and a lost Soho orphan named
Caliper Boy...
LE GUN’s founding members collaborate in the curation of each issue,
selection being undertaken with ideals of originality and eccentricity
in mind.
LE GUN is more than a collection of artwork; LE GUN is a story of stories
and stands as an independent work in its own right. Somewhere between
pulp fiction and artist’s edition, this object asks to be treasured
and revisited...
‘A
bit like Viz if it was edited by Eighties Pop artist Raymond Pettibon’
Arena Magazine
‘Plenty of terrific material ... a spattering Uzi’,
The Observer
‘...a visually fantastic compilation of skillful, provocative
and intelligent art’
Cool Hunting
‘Something akin to a dense freewheeling visual poem.’
BBC Collective
‘The magazine-cum-collector’s item is one of the most
well produced tomes to come out of London in years...’ Flavourpill
Originally delivered to London shops in a battered purple suitcase, LE
GUN is now available world- wide. Its international readership is also
reflected in the thousands of submissions it receives per issue. LE GUN
#3 will be available at bookshops, galleries and news stands world wide,
and online
at www.legun.co.uk
LE GUN magazine was founded in London in 2004 by a group of MA graduates
from the Communication Art and Design course at the Royal College of Art.
Distributed world-wide, LE GUN is an independent narrative illustration
magazine published bi-annually. This publication provides a common ground
for both emerging and established artists, illustrators, writers and poets.
Contributors
included in LE GUN #3 are:
Ben Speck, Alex Wright, Echao Jang, Glen Baxter, James Unsworth, Sam
Kerr, Alan Kitching, Paul Lawford, Geoff Grandfield, Robert Greene,
Peter Blegvad, Johnathan Aldous, Janine Shroff, Sebastian Horsley, Steph
Von Reiswitz, Babette Wagenwoort, Salina Saliva, James De La Rue, Michael
Whittle, Zoe Taylor, Sir Peter Blake, Walter Newton, Russell Weekes,
Michael Smith, Neal Fox, Orly Orbach, Caliper Boy, Emma Rendel, Nicola
Pecoraro, Captain Horatio, Hornblower, Serge Seidlitz, Chris Bianchi,
Olivier Kugler, Andrzej Krauze, Nahoshi Tanaka, Anna McClelland, Steve
Parsons, Nick Morley, Amelia Johnstone, Tobias Tak, Les Coleman, Swava
Harasymowicz, Chas Smash, Luke Frost, Bill Bragg, Harry Malt, Debbie
Cook, Richard Dyer, Andrzej Klimowski, Jiro Bevis