Our friends Abby Portner, Jeremy & Claire Weiss and a slew of other artists are a part of a new book called Smoke Bath which has been curated by Peter Sutherland to help raise money for The Fresh Air Fund. Here’s what it’s all about:

“Smoke Bath is a collection of photographs and art work loosely based on the theme of camping/ nature/ exploring. The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that provides free summer vacations to New York City children from low-income communities. The goal of smoke bath is to showcase the work of artists that are inspired by nature and raise money for freshair.org in the process.”

Smoke Bath is available here for only $25 or you can just straight up donate.
All proceeds go to to freshair.org.

Brooklyn based photographer, artist and art lover Jessica Williams has organized a zine library for our viewing pleasure.  Check it out here. You can purchase her latest photography publication Glance, here.

It’s been awhile since we heard from Daniel Clowes … the cartoonist. I stopped asking for new issues of Eightball during trips to The Beguiling years after his popular serialized Ghost World graphic novel became a major motion picture. A few years later Sony Classics released Art School Confidential, loosely based on a short story of the same name that appeared in Eightball #7. He seemed to be on his Hollywood A-Game and so, still, all I had was my Death Ray issue to reread over and over again. (Rumour has it Jack Black’s Black and White Productions are to adapt The Death Ray into a film). Well, the wait is over. Come May of this year we can smell and hold the sweet pages of Wilson by Daniel Clowes. Wilson is the story of  ”an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else”. It is to be published by Drawn and Quarterly making him the newest member of the D and Q family. Preview the pages of Wilson here.

Leanne Shapton and  Jason Fulford founded the not for profit New York / Atlanta based book company in 2000 and their catalogue keeps growing. I once had the honor of being published in one of their books. They’re adding a few new titles come Spring 2010. Check out everything else J and L here. Below is a video of Leanne discussing one of her books.

Free Stuff from Craigslist.org is a book compiled by LA based photographer Jimmy Collins. There’s some crazy shit that people are willing to give you for free on Craiglist. Jimmy has done his research and found such shit. Why pay when you can get it for free?

Download a PDF copy of the book for free HERE.
Check out Jimmy’s other photography books HERE.