With this cover release my book is now real! It’s on Amazon and Barnes&Noble, there for you to pre-order. On Amazon you can even read blurbs from Teju Cole, Laurie Anderson, Emil Ferris and more. The book will be in stores March 31st. Published by the redoubtable Abbeville Press.

I’m so grateful to the brilliant Sophie Crumb for the fabulous cover. Sophie catches the spirit of the book with images from five of its twenty-five stories. Stories about: my friend Ernest Withers, the great Civil Rights Movement photographer who was outed as an FBI informant; about the Greenwich Village mobster who painted like Henri Rousseau; about the majestic Clayoquot Woman that Edward Curtis revered and despised; about Philip Guston, the smoking Zen Master; about me and that flamingo.

I began writing in the summer of 2020. It’s a book about images that changed my life—starting with a tiger and a sandpiper from childhood, encompassing my years as an art student, an artist, an art dealer. Stories about images that live large in my mind, about the meanings I find in them, the lessons they teach.  

Over the coming months until the launch I'll be sharing images and excerpts on Instagram: @stevekasher and @stevenkashergallery. Pre-order the book here: Amazon

The great Tara Booth just won the Eisner (the Oscar of comics/graphic novels). Category: Humor Publication. For her book Processing. A compendium of 100 painted stories that make us laugh/cry. Congrats, Tara!!

Original paintings on paper for sale. Call or email me.

MUUS Collection has donated the Fred W. McDarrah Estate to The New York Historical, New York’s first museum. The McDarrah Estate includes approximately 51,000 prints,  200,000 negatives, 9,000 contact sheets, and related ephemera. The New York Historical is one of the premier institutions for historical research and exhibitions in the United States.

You can can explore four exhibitions and 25 press items about Fred here: www.stevenkasher.com/artists/fred-w-mcdarrah

Read the donation announcement here: https://www.muuscollection.com/post/donation-announcement-the-fred-w-mcdarrah-estate

Born in 1981 in Woodland, California, Sophie Crumb began drawing and making cartoons and illustrations at the age of two. As a young girl, Crumb was an avid reader of comics and contributed some of her childhood illustrations to her parents’ well-known series Weirdo and Dirty Laundry Comics. In 2002, Fantagraphics Books published Belly Button Comix, Crumb’s autobiographical comic detailing living in Paris in her early twenties. Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist, a publication featuring over three hundred of her drawings, which tracks her development as an artist from her youth through her late twenties, was published in 2010. She has had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, New York (2014, with Kominsky-Crumb; 2010), and her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan, France (2022), and BravinLee Programs, New York (2016), and David Zwirner, Paris, (2021). 

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Emil Ferris' first book, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, has taken the comics world by storm since its publication in 2017. It has been published in nine languages and honored with numerous awards, among them: The Lambda Literary Award, multiple Eisner Awards, the Ignatz Award, and the Fauve d'or at the Angouleme Festival, France. Ferris has exhibited her art extensively in the US and Europe and was most recently honored to teach classes at the Louvre.

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Leela Corman’s comics are riddled with explicit self-portraits, beautifully rendered. And many of her characters look remarkably like her. Corman was brought up on the isle of Manahatta (Lenape land), but spends much of her imagination in the Old World, in the Europe of World War II. Her ancestral departure from that world has left in her a wound that never heals. Leela has a second, a deeper wound that never heals.  Her first daughter, her first child, for no apparent reason, at two-years-old, died in bed. She offers her stories as inoculations.  As she says, “Each one is like a gigantic lullaby for people whose grief is exhausting.  A cave to crawl into, where our sorrow is seen, and we are allowed to rest.” Please click below to link to her Artist page, replete with images, press, publications. 

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