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As of late November 2014, this site will not be updated and all press related info can be found via these links: 

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Caroline Paquita

442-D Lorimer St #230

Brooklyn, NY 11206

USA

The Golden Age Of Souvenirs, by John Orth

From the interior of this amazingly beautiful new Pegacorn release:

"The Golden Age Of Souvenirs," is a companion publication to the installation of the same name, exhibited by John Orth at Wayfarers (Brooklyn, NY) in the summer of 2014. The exhibition is the culmination of a residency in which Orth explored the idea that the objects that we collect reflect and sometimes inform our emotional lives. Four clay figurines depicting the servant class of British Colonial India and a peacock comprised of pipe cleaners, were the inspiration for this body of work. These objects occupied a shelf besides Orth's bed over the past several years. "The Golden Age Of Souvenirs," expands the narratives of these characters, all the while wringing from them the emotions they have absorbed as unwitting observers of his life.

This book is pure art- beautiful, thought provoking and poetic. It was such a joy to see John make all this work over the summer and then to finally pull together the drawings and inspirations into this publication. A definite must have for any serious art collecting, Risograph/silk-screen fan.

20 pages + cover, 8.5" X 7", saddle stitched with rounded corners.

Risograph printed using blue and burgundy ink on grey, tan and natural colored paper. Grey cover with three color (orange, white and gold), screen-printed by John, inner cover printed with brown Riso ink.

Edition of 200.

OTHER WAY, a new book by Lale Westvind

The second book (in a series of three) of Lale Westvind's neo-amazonian, sci-fi comic poetry. Such amazing work and vision- stoked that she will also be having a solo show at Booklyn later this fall! Get this new issue while it's still around! 

Risograph printed using blue and brown ink on gold and blue paper

Two color- blue and red- screenprinted cover (by Lale herself) on ivory coverstock

24 pages + cover, 8.5" x 7", saddle stitched

Pegacorn Press, Brooklyn, NY

Edition of 300      

New publications available!

Three new publications to be super stoked about! 

Once again, Mike Taylor delivers an incredible new issue of Late Era Clash, Aimee Lusty created the best graphite drawings of antiquities and absurdities found on Ebay (Down By The Bay), and I finally compiled five years of Paquita Calendars into one book (The Time Is Now). You can get all three in a package deal for one low price via Etsy, or on their own in either Pegacorn Press store (Etsy or Storenvy). If you're interested in carrying these titles at your store and have a Last Gasp account, feel free to do bulk orders from them!

Happy Summer!!!

Saturday! June 7th, 2014

Come celebrate some new Pegacorn Press publications with us on Saturday night at Booklyn!

Down By The Bay (Aimee Lusty), Late Era Clash #26 (Mike Taylor) and The Time Is Now (Caroline Paquita) will all be unleashed to the public. A box set featuring every publication made and/or produced by Paquita (since high school, aka, the 1990's!!!), will be available to check out, as well as the exhibition, GARDEN OF THE WOMANIMAL which ends the following day. It's definitely a meta-event of all things print related!

Booklyn: 37 Greenpoint Ave, 4th Floor

7-10PM- FREE

Brooklyn Zine Fest, art show and a new publication...

 Pegacorn Press will be tabling the Brooklyn Zine Fest, this Sunday, April 27th. Stop by, say hi and get a copy of the new exhibition publication for my solo show (more info below), Garden of the Womanimal.

The Booklyn Art Gallery is pleased to present GARDEN OF THE WOMANIMAL, an installation by Caroline Paquita and a small survey of thirteen years of drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures and zines.

GARDEN OF THE WOMANIMAL explores a recurring theme throughout the recent years of Caroline's work, depicted in a wide variety of media, a cult of  "womanimals" half-women/half-wild animals are illustrated in landscapes of playful sexual scenarios, mystical adventures, and explorations of nature and the body. The womanimals' corrupt playfulness and exuberance are contrasted by the meticulously clean line work of Paquita's drawings and paintings. Newer works are surrounded by thirteen years of imagery demonstrating the evolution towards this theme and its stylized representation.

Culling works from her personal collection GARDEN OF THE WOMANIMAL creates an audacious yet welcoming environment of new and past works including drawings, paintings, screenprints, paper mache, sewn soft sculpture, kinetic wood sculpture, Risograph prints and zines. The installation is climaxed by Paquita's  new artist book, published exclusively for the exhibition, compiling years of screenprints, Risograph publishing ephemera, and drawing reproductions into a beautifully hand-bound hardcover limited edition.

GARDEN OF THE WOMANIMAL is Caroline Paquita's first solo exhibition in New York. Born in Miami in 1980, Caroline studied creative photography and art history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In addition to her personal art practice, Caroline is a musician and an independent publisher working under the guise Pegacorn Press. Printing exclusively with Risograph since 2009, she has collaborated with and published work by Al Burian, Anna Haifisch, Brontez Purnell, Mike Taylor, Sy Wagon, and Lale Westvind. Coinciding with the exhibition, Caroline and Booklyn are collaborating on compiling and archiving sixteen years of her self-published zines to be released as a limited edition box-set in May 2014.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and additionally in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Booklyn Artists Alliance 

37 Greenpoint Ave  

4th fl, Ste. E4G 

Brooklyn, NY 11222 

http://booklyn.org 

t: 718.383.9621 

New publications in March!

Available via Etsy, or Storenvy...

 Now and Here, by Lale Westvind

CRYPTOZOOLOGY, by Al Burian

New work by Mike Taylor, Aimee Lusty and Caroline Paquita to be released this month!

Gonna be tabling this at the Silent Barn, along with a cornucopia of awesome New Yorkers!

This weekend + 2014 calendar pre-order:

Pegacorn Press will be tabling CAB this weekend, with old time pal, Mike Taylor. Come by the table and say WUZ UP?! There's a ton of events surrounding CAB, which you can find more about at their site: http://comicartsbrooklyn.tumblr.com/

Saturday, November 9th, 2013

Mt. Carmel Church

275 N. 8th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211

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2014 Paquita Calendars are up for pre-order via the Pegacorn Press Etsy store. All orders will be sent out by December 15th!

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New online store

I've made another online store via Storenvy, which will eventually replace my Big Cartel shop. As always, the Etsy shop is still up and running, so take your pick on how you want to get your Pegacorn releases. 

New publications are in the works and most likely, they'll be released by November 9th for the Comic Arts Brooklyn Festival. Pegacorn Press is definitely tabling and I'll post more info on the event in the coming months!

XOXO

Hot off the press!

A metaphysical journey in the new WOMANIMALISTIC:

Total dark comedy in Anna Haifisch's, amazing new Buddies installment:  

You can read more about them, as well as other current titles... HERE.

CAKE! (+ new publications on the way)

Poster by the ever amazing, Jo Dery

YO! Pegacorn Press will be tabling CAKE on June 15th and 16th in Chicago, land of the lovely comic freakers. There's some new publications to be seen, including titles from Leipzig, Germany's Anna Haifisch, longtime friend Mike Taylor and a new artist book that I've been working on. When I get back from Chicago, everything will be available online. 

AND... I'm was honored to be ask to moderate a panel during CAKE, with an all star line up, which includes Phoebe Gloeckner!!! Details of what the panel is all about is listed below. If you're in Chicago, definitely make a point to check out CAKE and stop by the table...

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 Sunday, June 16th

3:30 – 4:30pm

Intimate Anxiety

with Phoebe Gloeckner, Julia Gfrörer, and Heather Benjamin
Moderated by Caroline Paquita
Sponsored by Comix Revolution

Beyond the shock tactics of portraying “inappropriate” subject matter in comics, we find the medium is exquisitely suited for grappling with explicit content, unchained from the trappings of taboo. Intimate Anxiety focuses on three artists’ ferocious visions of sex and death, made all the more visceral through gorgeous and painstaking details. Special Guest Phoebe Gloeckner sets the standard for work that probes these realms. From her experimental memoir, Diary of a Teenage Girl, to her iconic illustrations for RE/Search to her current work dealing with the ongoing femicide in Cuidad, Juárez, Gloeckner continues to confront difficult realities with groundbreaking graphic integrity. Julia Gfrörer’s art vibrates off of the page while crafting oblique erotic worlds laced with terror. Through sparse text and a perfect sense of visual timing, Gfrörer’s comics, such as Too Dark to See, Flesh and Bone and Black Is the Color bring language to the unspeakable. Joining them will be Special Guest Heather Benjamin, whose obsessively rendered drawings aim straight for the jugular vein. Author of the cult art zine Sad Sex and contributor to the prolific output of Collective Stench, Benjamin’s art delves headfirst into complicated scenarios that are emotionally fraught and sexually feral. Moderated by Caroline Paquita, author of Womanimalistic and founder of Pegacorn Press, Intimate Anxiety is a conversation about the power and truth that lies within impropriety.

Brooklyn Zine Fest and Brain Frame performance

Pegacorn Press will be tabling this Sunday at the Brooklyn Zine Fest and then afterwards, I'll be performing afterwards in the BRAIN FRAME show. "Sparkle Puss, the Vajazzling Cat," will be making a real life debut and will be giving DIY directions on how to vajazzle on the cheap. Not to be missed! 

I'll let these great fliers dish out all the relevant information... 

Risograph demons

Been hard at work trying to get the new Risograph stencil duplicator up and running, after being so frustrated with it's condition that I could barely even look at this beautiful monster in my studio. For a hefty price, I bought it off Ebay from a guy who said that it was in "perfect working condition," and was "guaranteed," but upon arrival, I could tell that things were not as he said. A lengthly process ensued with Ebay (a complete disaster and total joke- I have no faith in their "resolution center"), which has led me on a magical journey into the complicated bowels of this thing. WD-40, a tiny hex set and a 450 page tech service manual have been a major part of the process of getting it up and running, as well as some help from my sweetie, Johnny, who is more mechanically inclined. 

I've already spent about five solid days trying to clean up totally dried out screens and have only recently started to mess with THE TIMING issue. TIME! Always a source of complaint in my life, so it makes sense that I'd have to spend time working on timing, meanwhile trying to keep the frustration at bay as my personal workload piles up and I'm covered in solvents and ink. No one has ever said that owning and maintaining printing equipment is a walk on the beach, by any means. This is the trade off for being able to print whatever and whenever I want, right? Right? I've learned that I can't do any of this unless I'm fully caffeinated and have snacks around, otherwise, I'm a hot mess and start thinking about taking a sledgehammer to everything. I won't do it, but this is what tinkering can do to you, especially if you're unsure of what you're doing...

After some debating over what certain diagrams and instructions meant, last night we were able to adjust it enough to get it to print a partial print, which is considerably better than it not doing anything at all. It's always a neat process to demystify complicated machinery and with the encouragement from Johnny and my fellow nerds on the Riso list-serve, I've felt more empowered to crack my machines open and tinker on them. Fingers crossed that I can get this new machine operable in the coming weeks, which will mean that I can print 11X17 and will have 5 more colors to work with! 

Late Era Clash #25

Epic new publication by Mike Taylor that we finished this week- so incredibly awesome! 

Get it while you can via Etsy or Big Cartel.

Available now:

Get it via ETSY or BIG CARTEL!

Risograph printed with blue, black, raisin and fluorescent pink ink
Saddle stiched, with duct tape binding
40 pages

Upcoming Pegacorn releases

Chaos, the dog- illustration from Zine Libs (colored for internet fun).


In 2005 and again in 2008, Erick Lyle and I collaborated and released two issues of Zine Libs. Long out of print, Zine Libs are the result of cross pollinating Mad Libs with stories coming from DIY punk rockers, creating hilarious tales that for some folks, might stir up feelings of deja vu. While technically fictional, the stories are informed by a cornucopia of experiences we had both had (or had heard of), through our "unconventional lifestyles."

A definite must have if you've ever spent time in a collective home, lived with 15 people + 8 pets, have dealt with 6 long term "house-guests," been involved in protests, eaten food out of the trash, squatted, blacked-out, hopped trains, hitch-hiked- or at least have been around these types of activities. Available next week through Pegacorn Press, this new release is both of the issues together as one, which means that it's forty pages of hilarity!

Also available in the coming weeks, issue #25 of Mike Taylor's LATE ERA CLASH. More on that as we get it all printed and put together. The mega laundry list of publications scheduled to be out by CAKE, will be announced soon!
Up da punx,
C.P.

Little video plug...

"This book is just so raw, it's right..." 

Awesome little interweb video with a spot on description of Those Fucking Unicorns, by Sy Wagon, which is the latest Pegacorn Press release. Last Gasp is my main distributor for Pegacorn Press and that's cause they rule!

See ya later, 2012

2012 is wrapping up and what a better way to conclude the year (the one where everything was supposed to END), then to release a couple more publications via Pegacorn Press?

Above are a couple pictures of the completed 2013 Paquita Calendar and of Those Fucking Unicorns, by Sy Wagon. I'm overjoyed to be able to print and re-release this for Sy, who is not only a complete "babely" genius, but she's also someone that is continually inspiring, both artistically and in the day to day, "real life," kind of way. 

Those Fucking Unicorns is a mini-publication that is definitely not kid friendly, or for anyone who is not sex friendly in general (lots of cocks in this). Just a little FYI for any potential unicorn lovers who just are into anything that has unicorns in it- this is XXX material, straight up.

To sum it up even further, this is what I have to say about the release of both of these projects, at the same time...
"It's all about love for the ladies and a better understanding on what exactly unicorns do in their spare time to help the transition into 2013, the year where all the previous problems in the world are supposed to disappear..."

Yeah, I'm turning into a crystal loving freak-a-zoid, but that makes for better art, right?

Hoping to update this blog more this year- I seem to be better at maintaining the stores and everything else besides the "blog-o-sphere." Gonna try harder! Just make sure to always check the online stores if you're wondering what's out and available, as those are definitely more up to date...

Happy 2013!!!

XOXO,
C.P.

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P.S. The limited edition of Those Fucking Unicorns that were printed for the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest are sold out! A new run should be available by December 1st.
P.P.S. Womanimalistic #1 has been re-printed finally and is available online. There's more than 2,500 of these floating around and I'm not sure if I'll re-print again. Time to move on!

Pegacorn Press in CHINA + new print studio

Every single Pegacorn Press release (thus far) made it into this amazing show that Marshall Weber from Booklyn helped curate in Beijing, China! The first show of it's kind there, I feel honored to have all this Riso work included: 

Fag School #4 (listed as New Fiction under Pegacorn Press): Brontez Purnell

Burn Collector #16: Al Burian

Womanimalistic #1 +2: Caroline Paquita

Late Era Clash #24: Mike Taylor

Future Tense: Edie Fake, Jo Dery, Anna Haifisch, Mike Taylor, Sy Wagon, Roby Newton, Josh Bayer, Al Burian, James Turek, Kasey Henneman + Caroline Paquita

Big thanks to Marshall, as well as to the artists that I've worked with over this past year.
Printed matter is still alive and thriving, despite what you may have heard.


-----PEGACORN HAS GONE "PRO" AND IS NOW HOUSED IN AN ACTUAL STUDIO--------------------------BLASPHEMY!------------

Having a real studio is a wildly new experience for me, particularly after exclusively working out of my bedroom for years. (Honestly, it's odd to not have a Risograph, or two, in the kitchen anymore, WTF?!) The change is welcomed though, as it's been super nice to have a completely dedicated work-zone and to not have to manage living and working in the same space anymore. Makes one focus more while making art, and helps make a bedroom an actual place to relax- who knew what I was missing all these years?

Spirit duplicator+ stencil duplicator+ decade old laser printer= printmaking wingnut

The new and petite print studio, located near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has been GREAT. All my printing equipment has finally been moved in and it's only going to be a matter of weeks until some new material starts making it's way out of the machines and into the larger world. It's about time! After months of trying to get back on my feet after my dad passed away, the olde brain is starting to work again after being in total stasis. It's not in perfect shape, but it's doing something, luckily, just in time for the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Fest coming up on November 10th. Pegacorn Press will be tabling that, and more than likely, our favorite pal/partner in crime, Mike Taylor will be at the table too. The BCGF is always a great way to see new work and meet other comic/printing freaks, so definitely check it out cause it's, "super badass."

Ok- enough with the updates for now. More soon on what releases will actually be done by the BCGF, release events, etc, etc, etc...

Goodbye Glorious Summer, but hello Autumnal Equinox!

XOXO,
C.P.

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A bit about the show in China:

Booklyn Artists Alliance is pleased to announce the opening of DIAMOND LEAVES: Artist Books from around the World. A collaboration between the Booklyn Artists Alliance and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing, the exhibition is curated by Xu Bing, artist and Vice-President of the CAFAM, and Marshall Weber, artist and Directing Curator of Booklyn; it is the first major museum exhibition of contemporary international Artist Books in China.

A decade in the making, the DIAMOND LEAVES exhibition showcases over 200 masterpieces of the Artist Book form created by more than 100 visual artists, some well known and some emerging, who approach the creation of Artist Books as an interdisciplinary and multi-media practice. Using collage, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and digital and social media, artists are creating books that provide us with complicated aesthetic experiences and push the boundaries of book design far beyond the limits of the conventional book’s form. Just as photography liberated painting from its documentary function late in the 19th century, digital media has liberated the book from the burden of operating as a vehicle for text and data, spurring the renaissance of creative bookmaking celebrated by this exhibition.

Focusing on books created in the 21st century, the exhibit demonstrates how an Artist Book can function as both fine art and as an experimental laboratory for global visual language development. The exhibition consists of conceptually, materially and structurally ambitious hand-bound hardcover Artist Books published in limited editions of under 100. Another component of the exhibit features a reconstruction of a Brooklyn-style bookstore of inexpensive, image-based, softcover, populist, intimate, and artist-produced Zines and comic books published in editions of over 100. Other exhibits components contain examples of the early 20th century Soviet constructivist books that revolutionized book and typography design, and a small exquisite selection of antique European and Asian illustrated books that show the trajectory from older book forms to contemporary Artist Books.