Pakito Bolino is just fucking cool. How else can you describe the man who not only draws the greatest cartoons but also runs Le Dernier Cri! Le Dernier Cri is one of the most important publishing companies around. There output of dark and brilliant books are vital to us all. Get over to www.lederniercri.org for stuff your eyeballs need. He is also in Good vs Evil 3 so get your copy to see his demeneted world!
Here is my short interview with Pakito. I'm no fucking journalist so don't expect any great questions or anything...
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN THE ARTS?
BY ACCIDENT , start with stupid garage band psykocramps and sonicnoize
WHO WERE YOUR INFLUENCES?
American dc comic , underground us , Jack kirby , french comix scene from the 70 80 , hara kiri, raw , art brut , outsider art , children art ......
CAN YOU GIVE ME A BRIEF HISTORY OF LE DERNIER CRI? (you see I'm no fucking journalist)
Go on the web site lederniercri.org and visit the presskit ........
YOU PRINT SOME BEAUTIFULLY DARK STUFF, HAVE YOU ENCOUNTERED ANY CENSORSHIP ISSUES?
Sometime in bavaria for example the exhibition was forbidden under 18 , in swizerland border they burned books and taptes (illegal porn hahah), the las time was in the ica in london the obscenity police wanted to see the film before the screening and after i had to make a new editing in the afternoon if not it was not possible to play in an ART CENTER HAHAHAHAHAHAH STUPID ASS HOLE
HOW AND WHY DID YOU TURN TO SILK SCREENING?
When i went out of school i worke in a silksceen studio with another ass hole and at the end i was completelly bore of this but years later i thought again that it was the perfect way to print small press....
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SET UP FOR A PRINT?
666 years...........
BECAUSE YOUR OUTPUT IS QUIT DARK, DO YOU THINK YOU GET THE WIDER RECOGNITION THAT YOU UNDOUBTEDLY DESERVE?
I fucking don t care i just want to touch 200 peoples in the world everytime a book come out but for the moment it still impossible .....recognition comprimission.......
WAS MUSIC AN INFLUENCE TO YOU?
From ethno trad lowfi shit to xtremnoizharshdisto
ANY PROJECT YOU HAVE DONE YOU ARE EXCEPTIONALLY PROUD OF?
Le dernier cri
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT NEW PROJECTS WE CAN EXPECT FROM YOU AND LE DERNIER CRI IN THE FUTURE?
A new film for the next year if we still alive ...and 9 issues of hopital brut for this one .....
FINALLY, WHAT FOR YOU IS GOOD AND WHAT IS EVIL?
The women brain .....
ITS ONE GODFATHER!
ReplyDeleteHey! I'm from Argentina, and I have a question: can I send you some drawings to publish in this magazine or it is only made by a group of people, friends, etc.? I would love to publish something in this kind of magazine =)
ReplyDeletegeorgina, yes you can send work. the next theme is MAN VS WOMAN. Deadline is Nov 3. Images should be black and white. Email goodvsevilzine@googlemail.com
ReplyDeleteOh and buy a copy of the magazine so I can see the love!!haha
Great interview mate! Pakito’s Spremanga is very good ! I recommend it.
ReplyDeleteI also interviewed artists for EBD (I’m no fucking journalist but I guess it’s just something outsider artists have to do: self productions, self advertisements etc. if you know what I mean) So I interviewed some LDC artists Nuvish, Anne Van der Linden and Léo; Terre Noire propaganda also is related to LDC : have a look (we spoke many time about LDC in the interviews): http://eatenbyducks.blogspot.com/search/label/Interview%20Agaiihine
Also I’d like to say that the books produced by LDC are very beautiful and very crafty. I’m not sure but I’ve heard that LDC encounters a difficult period at the moment. All those books and posters are actually very cheep if you think about the amount of work which is necessary to produce them and as a consequence I suppose that LDC has a strong social commitment. Many things are worth buying. I especially recommend Nuvish’s poster about LSD… I spent loads of time looking at it: at first you perceive the grotesque elements, then, while focusing on it (like if you were trying to see faces or cartoons in the clouds), you start to perceive strange ghosts. There are three positions to look at it, I guess: far away, very close or just one meter away from it. Each of them brings different characters and impressions. There are probably many things which Nuvish didn’t intend: for example when you are close to it you can see many cool and strange little mysterious beasts… It is both raw and mystical.
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