A VERY SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION

This book a joyful, chaotic collection of drawings by our good friend Peter Pranschke has been out of print for years, so we’re very excited to have a few copies to sell. Peter has generously agreed to sign each one of these archive copies. He used our house-made shellac inks to put his signature in different places (and with slightly different embellishments) on each copy.

WATCH OUT! THIS MIGHT HURT!!!

Published by now-defunct St. Louis gallery Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, Watch Out! This Might Hurt!!! is a collection of the drawings featured in Peter’s solo show of the same name. The subject matter is wildly various and frequently ambiguous; many of the drawings seem like single animation cels from lost films.

What unites this collection is Pranschke’s immaculate drawing, which is sharp and well-considered even when it’s intentionally rough. A natural cartoonist, Pranschke draws in a style that recalls comics’ Golden Age; this smooth fluency contrasts with the unfinished and unsettling nature of his work.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Peter Pranschke, a native to St. Louis, received his BFA in Painting from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2003. Since then he has exhibited his work at numerous artist-run and alternative art spaces throughout the area. Those spaces include Boots Contemporary Art, PSTL Gallery, Snowflake, Mad Art Gallery, Los Caminos, Museum Blue, The Millitzer Studio & Gallery, The Granite City Art and Design District (G-CADD) and Macklind Appliance.

In addition, his cartoons have been printed in several local zines and periodicals including Shitty River Comics,Bad Jacket,ScuzzReport,All the Art,andThe Mound City Tattler.