Marcel Dzama, Raymond Pettibon

Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama collaborative zine, with a signed drawing on the reverse.

• Raymond Pettibon (American).
• Marcel Dzama (Canadian).
• New York: Zwirner Books, 2015.
• Softcover.
• With color and black and white illustrations.
• Part of an edition of 200.
• Ink drawing on the reverse, signed by both artists.

Featuring an original signed collaborative drawing by the duo on the back cover of this limited edition collaborative zine, the drawing playfully explores Dzama and Pettibon's love for baseball ("All our Bats").

Dzama / Pettibon is the first collaborative zine between Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon. It was issued at Printed Matter's 2015 New York Art Book Fair and contains a series of corpse drawings produced by the duo. The zine quickly sold out and was reprinted when David Zwirner held a successive collaboration of Dzama and Pettibon called "Forgetting the Hand" in 2016.

Having emerged from the Southern California DIY culture and its punk-rock sensibility, Raymond Pettibon fuses together youthful edginess and political engagement. Drawing from disparate cultural sources—from Marcel Proust to the Bible—the artist’s cartoon-inspired ink drawings on unframed paper recall the look of fanzines and concert flyers, however with an often cryptic semblance of narrative. More recently, Pettibon’s works have been a sustained critique of the Iraq War and American foreign policy, such as No Title ("Why press him?") (2007), which depicts George W. Bush with bloodied hands and surrounded by pointed, ironic commentary. Pettibon was a recipient of the Whitney's Bucksbaum award in 2004.

Often compared to outsider artist Henry Darger, Marcel Dzama’s small ink and watercolor drawings of hybrid characters, resemble story illustrations. Interspersed with a range of references including Surrealist film, Dadaism and Soviet-era prop art, his work more often recalls folk and craft storytelling traditions. Dzama also works in sculpture and video and has experimented with puppetry and costumes. His work has been used as cover art for bands such as They Might Be Giants, Beck, and The Weakerthans; and his costume designs have been seen in music videos, including the video for the Bob Dylan’s When the Deal Goes Down.