[kj] Just in case - MALICIOUS BOOK UPDATE

[Carlos Fandango]

Me again!Thanks so much for the continuing support, we're now up to 72%  of the total book printing costs. 
If you want your name included in the roll of honour on  page 3 (attached), all you have to do is order AND PAY for your book before 1st May  - only three-and-a-bit weeks to go...Full details below and you can buy it now in the malicious shopPLEASE FEEL FREE TO PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE WHO YOU FEEL MIGHT BE INTERESTEDcheers,colesyPS: If you're a facebooker you can like my page at MIKE COLES ART, DESIGN, VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS
A GRAPHIC VOYAGE OF ART, DESIGN & STUBBORN INDEPENDENCE
MIKE COLES · LONDON · 1976-2016
A 216 page 30 x 30 cm luxurious hardback picture book
(available october 2016)•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
WE'RE PRE-SELLING THIS IN ORDER TO RAISE FUNDS FOR PRINTING.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
EVERYONE WHO PAYS BEFORE MAY 1ST WILL HAVE THEIR NAME 
PRINTED IN THE ROLL OF HONOUR AT THE FRONT OF THE BOOK. 
ALL  COPIES BOUGHT THROUGH THIS WEBSITE WILL BE STAMPED 
& SIGNED BY MIKE  COLES. ANYONE WHO PRE-PAYS & PICKS UP 
THEIR BOOK AT THE EXHIBITION  WILL HAVE IT PERSONALISED 
& POSTAGE WILL BE REFUNDED.
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Forty Years in  the Wilderness is a visual  account of Mike Coles's graphic journey on  the fringe of art, design and  music since his arrival in London in 1976  armed with £90, a rucksack  and a little book of drawings. 

"Whilst   living in Covent Garden in 1977 a friend gave me a set of prints by  John Heartfield, the   German artist who produced highly political  anti-nazi photomontages. I  started messing around with cut-up magazine  photos and newspaper ads   creating twisted and surreal images and soon  I’d swapped the pen for the   scalpel. And I bought a camera."

In  1979, MIke, a few mates   and an unknown band called Killing Joke  formed Malicious Damage  Records, his logic being that if you had your  own record label you could  design  all the record sleeves, posters,  t-shirts and maintain what he  refers  to as "stubborn independence".  Some of the label's more  idiosyncratic  releases include a Shriekback  album released on an egg and  elaborate  Orb box sets featuring, aside  from the music, prints,  postcards, badges, boxes of  "ephemera" and  action figures.

That  early bold, atmospheric  Killing Joke  imagery is now legendary and forty  years later Mike is still  creating  and treading his own path,  single-handedly running Malicious  Damage  Records, still working with  Killing Joke and The Orb, doing live VJ   sets, realising his visions on  film and video and meddling with the art   of photomontage. 

Mike's  career has spanned five decades, from  the twilight days of hot metal  type, drawing boards and cow gum,  through the revolutionary arrival of  the computer and on into the  digital future of smartphones and social  media.

"I  love to  subvert images and twist them out of  context, transforming something  nice into something  nasty, or taking  something evil and making it  funny. It's always  fascinated me, the evil  behind the smiles and the  grin behind the wickedness. I  think it  probably harks back to my  strict catholic schooling... all  those nuns  and priests... I like cute  things too."•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
THE BOOK WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN EXHIBITION OF
MIKE COLES GRAPHICS AT 5th BASE GALLERY IN LONDON
FROM 21st-26th OCTOBER 2016
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