PictureBox was an art, music, photography, and comics publishing company based in

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

directed by Dan Nadel. PictureBox published its own books and packages books and concepts for museums and galleries. The company began in 2002 with ''The Ganzfeld 2'' and gradually shifted to emphasize a diverse assortment of visual ideas and topics.https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801590.html, The Washington Post, The Insider Comic Book Guru Dan Nadel, 29, New York, By Greg Zinman Special to The Washington Post Sunday, June 11, 2006 , Retrieved March 11, 2011. PictureBox was best known for its books by artists from or related to the Providence art scene of the 2000s, music books, and projects for numerous artists involved with the New York gallery Canada. The cover art for

Wilco Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup changed frequently dur ...

's ''

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'', designed by Peter Buchanan-Smith and Nadel, won a

Grammy Award for Best Recording Package The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album. It is presented to the art director of the winning album, not to the performer(s), unless the performer is also the art dir ...

in 2005. In December 2013, Nadel announced PictureBox would cease publishing at the end of the year. Since then, Nadel has curated exhibitions and edited books including What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present,

Takeshi Murata Takeshi Murata is an American contemporary artist who creates digital media artworks using video and computer animation techniques. In 2007 he had a solo exhibition, ''Black Box: Takeshi Murata'', at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden i ...

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's Suburban, and The Collected Hairy Who Publications. He also co-curated, with

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, an exhibition of drawings by Elizabeth Murray.

Publications

''1-800 MICE Issue 1'' by Matthew Thurber
''1-800 MICE Issue 2'' by Matthew Thurber
''Art Out Of Time: Unknown Visionary Cartoonists, 1900-1969'' by Dan Nadel
''Bicycle Fluids'' by Matthew Thurber
''Blockhead Blues'' by Eddie Martinez
''Cartoon Workshop / Pig Tales'' by

Paper Rad ''Paper Rad'' was an art collective from approx. 2000 until 2008, based on the East Coast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island. Known for creating comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and mu ...

''Cheap Laffs: The Art of the

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'' by

Mark Newgarden Mark Newgarden (born August 1, 1959, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American underground cartoonist. His work has appeared widely, and his influential shape-shifting weekly feature ''Newgarden'', which appeared in alternative weekly newspapers lik ...

''Chimera'' by Frank Santoro
''Cold Heat'' by BJ and Frank Santoro
''Cold Heat 1-4'' by BJ and Frank Santoro
''Cold Heat Special'' by Jon Vermilyea and Frank Santoro
''Cold Heat Special 3'' by

Dash Shaw Dash Shaw is an American comic book writer/artist and animator. He is the author of the graphic novels ''Cosplayers'', ''Doctors'', ''New School'', and ''Bottomless Belly Button'', published by Fantagraphics. Additionally, Shaw has written ''Love E ...

and Frank Santoro
''Cold Heat Special 4'' by Jim Rugg and Frank Santoro
''Cold Heat: Castle Castle'' by Frank Santoro
''Color Engineering'' by Yuichi Yokoyama
''Comics Comics 1-3'' by Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel, editors
''Core of Caligula'' by C.F.
''Crazy Town'' by Paul Gondry
''Eddie Martinez/Chuck Webster'' by Eddie Martinez & Chuck Webster
''Elle-Humour'' by

Julie Doucet Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965)
is a Canadian

Storm Thorgerson Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was an English graphic designer and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other a ...

and

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''Free Radicals'' by Leif Goldberg
''Garden'' by Yuichi Yokoyama
''Gary Panter'' by

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''Goddess of War Vol. 1'' by Lauren Weinstein
''Good Life'' by

Taylor McKimens Taylor McKimens (born 1976) is an artist based in New York. His work is informed largely by his childhood in Winterhaven, California, and life in the small town on the Mexican border. McKimens was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his BFA fr ...

''Gore'' by

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and Jason Frank Rothenberg
''H Day'' by

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''Incanto'' by Frank Santoro
''If-n-Oof '' by

Brian Chippendale Brian Chippendale (born July 22, 1973) is an American musician and artist, known as the drummer and vocalist for the experimental noise rock band Lightning Bolt and for his graphic art. Chippendale is based in Providence, Rhode Island. Brian ...

''Maggots'' by Brian Chippendale
''Mail Order Monsters'' by Kathy Grayson
''Me a Mound'' by

Trenton Doyle Hancock Trenton Doyle Hancock (born 1974) is an American artist working with prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings. Through his work, Hancock mainly aims to tell the story of the Mounds, mystical creatures that are part of the artist's world. ...

''Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby'' by Takashi Nemoto
''Multiforce'' by

Mat Brinkman Mat Brinkman (born 1973 in Austin, Texas) is an American artist and electronic musician. Also known as Matt Brinkman, Meerk Puffy, Mystery Brinkman, Brinkman, Brinkmangler, and Mucid Cuspidor. He is based in Colorado. History Brinkman was a ...

''New Engineering'' by Yuichi Yokoyama
''Ninja'' by Brian Chippendale
''Nog a Dod'' by Marc Bell
''Overspray: Riding High With the Kings of California Airbrush Art'' by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel
''Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs'' by

''Powr Mastrs'' by C.F.
''Powr Mastrs vol. 2'' by C.F.
''Powr Mastrs vol. 3'' by C.F.
''Real Fun'' by Ashod Simonian
''SnooPee'' by Ken Kagami
''Some Kinda Vocation'' by Cheryl Dunn
''Storeyville'' by Frank Santoro
''The Drips'' by Taylor McKimens
''The Ganzfeld 1-5'' by Dan Nadel, ed.
''The Garden'' by Michael Williams''The Magnificent Excess of Snoop Dogg Katherine Bernhardt'' by

Katherine Bernhardt Katherine Bernhardt (born 1975; Clayton, Missouri) is an artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. Work and career Bernhardt received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Inst ...

''The Trenton Doyle Handbook'' by

''The Wilco Book'' by

and PictureBox
''Travel'' by Yuichi Yokoyama
''Tuff Stuff'' by Joe Bradley
''Utility Sketchbook'' by Anonymous
''We Lost the War but Not the Battle'' by

Michel Gondry Michel Gondry (; born 8 May 1963) is a French filmmaker noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. Along with Charlie Kaufman, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers ...

''Wipe That Clock Off Your Face'' by

Brian Belott Brian Belott (born 1973 in East Orange, New Jersey) is an artist, performer and found object art collector based in New York City. Belott received his BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York in 1995 after 1 year attending Cooper Union (th ...

''World Map Room'' by Yuichi Yokoyama
''Wu Tang Comics by

References

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External links

PictureBox website
Defunct book publishing companies of the United States Book publishing companies based in New York (state) Comic book publishing companies of the United States Publishing companies based in New York City Companies based in Brooklyn Defunct companies based in New York City Publishing companies established in 2002 Publishing companies disestablished in 2013 2002 establishments in New York City 2013 disestablishments in New York (state)