King Size

I love art books, especially graffiti art books. King Size is an amazing project. Adams made a super-sized homemade marker and sent it to writers he thought would put it to good use. This book shows you how the marker was made and then the photos of them in action. Featuring Sacer, Twist, Foe, Kegr, Nug and Zys. Man, this is how big tags should be.
There's also three sections of text by various authors. The best one is 'Gotten Up' by Craig Castleman who wrote 'Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York' back in 1982, another damn good book, If you don't have it, why the feck not?
King Size has been next to my desk since I first got it, it's a great looking book. Each book is hand finished with it's own cardboard covers so each is unique. There was 3000 printed. The poor bastard had to cut out 6000 pieces of cardboard and gaffa tape them to the pages. I got the frosties box.. lol. The sticker on the front is the actual size of the marker nib. Nice touch



It's came out a while ago but it might still be available from some graff stores online. Please try and get one. Iv'e picked it up again because it turns out someone has posted the original PDF online. It's the original, not scanned, so all the pictures are clean and not all newsprint halftone dots. Niice!

Also this week, I went down to my local Borders to find a copy of the latest Juxtapoz featuring Chaz Bojorquez interviewed by Saber. Samples here. Love that guys writing style.

Instead I found the latest copy of VNA, very nearly almost issue 8.
Featuring Kid Acne and Nylon, this is the best issue they have done yet. Show your support and go get one.