Cover of BLAB! #11 by Mark Ryden

BLAB! is the name of a comics anthology edited by Monte Beauchamp. Though its primary focus is comics, it regularly features non-comics illustration and graphic design work as well as some prose articles. Early issues were published by Kitchen Sink Press. Since issue 9 it has been published annually by Fantagraphics Books in a 120-page, 10" x 10" square format in a mixture of full color and black-and-white. Image File history File links Blab!11Cover. ... Image File history File links Blab!11Cover. ... Mark Ryden Mark Ryden (b. ... Comics anthologies collect works in the medium of comics that are too short for stand-alone publication. ... Illustration by Jesse Wilcox Smith. ... Saul Basss poster for the film The Man with the Golden Arm - a highly regarded work of graphic design. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publisher in from the late 1960s until the late 1990s when it went out of business. ... Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint. ...

In 2003 Chronicle Books published the book collection New & Used BLAB!. As the title suggests, it consists of selections from previous issues along with new works by frequent contributors.

Several solo books by individual BLAB! contributors have been published with the subtitle "A BLAB! Storybook."

Partial list of contributors

• Daniel Divox
• Doug Allen
• Gary Baseman
• Charles Burns
• Daniel Clowes
• Sue Coe
• Joe Coleman
• Al Columbia
• Howard Cruse
• Kim Deitch
• Mary Fleener
• Drew Friedman
• Camille Rose Garcia
• Justin Green
• Bill Griffith
• Tom Huck
• Kaz
• J.D. King
• Peter Kuper
• Terry LaBan
• Gary Leib
• Jay Lynch
• Mark Mothersbaugh
• Gary Panter
• Archer Prewitt
• Spain Rodriguez
• Mark Ryden
• Richard Sala
• Gilbert Shelton
• Frank Stack
• Chris Ware
• Robert Williams

Doug Allen is a writer who has worked in the comics industry. ... Gary Baseman (b. ... Charles Burns (cartoonist), cartoonist/illustrator Charles Montgomery Burns, fictional character from The Simpsons cartoon This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Daniel Clowes The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image. ... Sue Coe (born 1951 in Tamworth) is an English artist and illustrator working primarily in painting and printmaking, often in the form of illustrated books and comics. ... Joe Coleman can refer to different people: Joe Coleman: (born 1947) a film actor Joe H. Coleman: (born 1947) a baseball player Joe P. Coleman: (1922-1977) a baseball player Joe Coleman: a painter and illustrator This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Al Columbia is an American comic book artist. ... Howard Cruse is a gay American cartoonist. ... An underground comic that Deitch contributed to. ... Mary Fleener is an underground comics creator from Los Angeles. ... Drew Friedman is a cartoonist known for his stippling-like style of caricature. ... Camille Rose Garcia is a Los Angeles-based lowbrow artist. ... Justin Considine Green (born 1945) is an American cartoonist who pioneered autobiographical comics. ... Bill Griffith (born 1944) is a popular cartoonist best known for his comic strip Zippy the Pinhead. ... Tom Huck, a nationally known visual artist, was born in 1971 in Farmington, MO. Known for his large scale satirical woodcuts, he is a regular contributor to BLAB! (Fantagraphics) and was the illustrator of The Roots Phrenology album art in 2003. ... Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis, or Kaz, (born 1959, Hoboken, New Jersey) is an underground American cartoonist. ... Album cover art by J.D. King J.D. King is an innovative American artist who has explored the edges of surreality while creating sophisticated illustrations for a wide range of campaigns and clients, including Absolut Vodka, Atlantic Records, Bravo, Condé Nast Publications, Discover, MasterCard, Outre Gallery Press, Scholastic Press... Peter Kuper (b. ... Terry LeBan is an artist who has worked in the comics industry. ... Gary Leib is an American underground cartoonist and musician. ... Jay Lynch, born January 7, 1945 in Orange, New Jersey, is an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles. ... Mark Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950, in Akron, Ohio) is an American musician, composer, singer, and painter. ... Gary Panter (born 1950 in Oklahoma), known to many as the father of punk comics, is a fine artist and a luminary of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW. Overview As an early participant... Manuel Spain Rodriguez (born 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an underground cartoonist best known for his character Trashman. His experiences on the road with the biker gang the Road Vultures provided inspiration for his work as did his left-wing politics. ... Mark Ryden Mark Ryden (b. ... Richard Sala is an American cartoonist , illustrator and comic book creator with a unique expressionistic style whoses books often combine elements of mystery, horror and whimsy. ... Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940, Houston, Texas) is an American cartoonist and underground comics artist. ... Frank Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon) (b. ... The cover to the collected edition of Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called the Acme Novelty Library, and a graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. ... Robert Williams Robert Williams is a famed, controversial painter and editor of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. ...

External links

• BlabWorld.com
• Fantagraphics Books page on Blab!
• The BLAB! Show, a gallery show by Blab! contributors