Mark Batty Publisher Reveals PEEL: The Art of the Sticker

New York, January 30, 2008

Dave and Holly Combs traveled to New York City from Indianapolis, Indiana, to assist with Sept. 11 recovery efforts. While exploring Manhattan during their off hours, they were inspired by the wealth of stickers they saw all over the city. These stickers inspired the Combs couple to create the first street-art magazine to focus on stickers as an art form. PEEL gradually evolved from a black and white zine stuffed into plastic bags to a full-size, glossy, internationally distributed magazine. This book documents the development of PEEL and the sticker culture it commemorates (and propagates) with such palpable delight.

Showcasing stickers, interviews and articles from the first eight issues of PEEL, this book celebrates the innovation and diversity of sticker and street art, including interviews with some of the scene¹s legendary figures like Shepard Fairey and SEEN, along with profiles of international sticker communities, and sticker designs from artists across the globe. And of course, the book comes with stickers, 69 of them.

PEEL: The Art of the Sticker demonstrates how the Combs couple has created a nexus for the sticker and street art community, providing a forum for artists to transcend culture, language and geography by abiding by the PEEL credo: "Take your art and . . . STICK IT!"

PEEL: The Art of the Sticker Dave & Holly Combs Street Graphics and Urban Art 160 pages 8 1Ž2 x 10 inches (21.6 x 25.4 cm) Color throughout, with 8 pages of stickers Casebound ISBN-13: 978-0-9795546-0-5 $27.95 February 2008

http://www.markbattypublisher.com/servlet/book_view?number=57

For more information or to request a review copy, please contact Maggie Hohle, PR Liaison: markbattyPR@comcast.net