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John Pound began by doing underground comix, art prints, comic book covers, and fantasy book covers.
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Soon after he decided to focus on humor art, Topps invited him to paint for Wacky Packages stickers, which led to his designing and painting hundreds of the popular Garbage Pail Kids stickers, enjoyed by kids around the world.
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He painted covers for Howard the Duck, Mars Attacks®, and Rhino CDs. His commissioned artworks also include magazine illustrations for MAD, BLAB!, and Business Week, skateboard designs for Shortys, and street fashion t-shirts for Stussy.
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His art was featured in JUXTAPOZ magazine issue #1 and the street art anthology MORNING WOOD.
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His personal art projects include the RAN DUM series
(randomly- generated comic pages, art prints, animations,
and books, created entirely by writing computer code), and
the WOO-WOO series (rough cartoon scenes of magic and loss,
often featuring the Eyewiz character). Recent WOO-WOO series panorama paintings
have appeared in BLAB and BLAB WORLD.
He is working on WOO-WOO and RAN DUM code art book projects.
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Randomly-generated "Self Portrait #1" |
Ran Dum 1 (catalog of random computer-generated comics and art prints), 2005
Woo-Woo #1 sketchbook issue (mini-comic), Starhead Comics, 1996
Ground Pound Comix (collected underground comix stories), 1987
On Art Process, Non-Sport Update Vol. 10, #5, Oct./Nov. 1999, pg. 52.
On R. Crumb, The Life and Times of R. Crumb, Monte Beauchamp editor, 1998, pgs. 161-162.
On Mad and Undergrounds, Blab #2, Monte Beauchamp editor, 1987, pg. 66.
Be-Street magazine #16, 2012. (12-page interview on GPKs, Woo-Woo art, and code art, in English and French)
Terse comments on art and working, on Eric Millen's blog. Oct. 2011
Brief comments on drawing and materials, on David Paccia's blog. (It's #188) Nov. 2010
GPKs, chance and random digital comics, in Dossier, Aug. 2009 (or try this link)
Barren Aaron's GPK World: http://www.gpkworld.com/GPKInterviewsPt1.htm , Nov.2007
The Artist magazine #5, 2004, pages 48-51. (email interview on undergrounds, translated into Italian)
Destroying Angels zine, issue #7, May 2004
Panache magazine cover feature, Dec. 2002, pgs. 24-26.
www.malepig.com/pound.php (site no longer up) 2001
www.brassknuckles.net (site no longer up) 2001
Shout magazine, May 2000
While You Were Sleeping issue #8, Jan./Feb. 2000, pgs. 18-21.
Juxtapoz issue #1, Nov. 1994
Edge City, Aug.1993
Overload #4, 1980
From The Tomb #16, "Commies From Mars" and "Mars Attacks" theme, (UK), 2005
BPM magazine cover feature (France), 2004, cover and pgs. 16-17.
Player1 magazine (Sweden), 2004, pgs. 80-81.
How magazine, February 2004, pg. 18.
Non-Sport Update Vol. 14, #4, 2003, pg. 55.
Non-Sport Update cover feature, Vol. 9, #1, 1998
The Comics Journal #171 "Random Computer Comics", September 1994, pg. 42.
The Comics Journal #130 sketchbook section, 1989, pgs. 135-137.
BAZOOKA JOE AND HIS GANG, Abrams Comic Arts, 2013, pgs. 206-207
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS, Abrams Comic Arts, 2012. Many GPK paintings, and afterword text ("Popping Out Garbage Pail Kids").
BLAB WORLD 1, Monte Beauchamp editor, Last Gasp, 2010, pgs. 80-81.
COMIC-CON: 40 Years of Artists, Writers, Fans & Friends, Chronicle Books, 2009, pgs. 1, 20, 26, 134.
Underground Classics, the Transformation of Comics into Comix, Abrams Comic Arts and Chazen Museum of Art, 2009, pg. 107.
BLAB!: A Retrospective, Beach Museum of Art, 2008, pgs. 12, 88-89.
American Illustration 26, 2007, pg. 267.
BLAB! 18, Monte Beauchamp editor, Fantagraphics, 2007, pgs. 52-53.
American Illustration 25, 2006, pg. 97.
Communication Arts #348, Design Annual 47, November 2006, pgs 110-111.
BLAB! 17, Monte Beauchamp editor, Fantagraphics, 2006, pgs. 60-61.
MADvertising, David Shayne, Watson-Guptill, 2005, pg. 203.
Can Rock & Roll Save the World? An Illustrated History of Music and Comics, Ian Shirley, SAF Publishing Ltd., 2005, pg. 249.
Morning Wood, Roger Gastman editor, R77 & Gingko Press 2003, pgs. 68-73.
Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals, Jerry Beck, Abrams, 2003, pgs. 17, 146.
Mad Art: A Visual Celebration of the Art of Mad Magazine and the Idiots Who Create It, Mark Evanier, Watson-Guptill, 2003, pg. 210.
All New American Logo, Madison Square Press, 2000, pg. 23.
Spectrum 7: The Best of Contemporary Fantastic Art, Underwood Books, 2000, pg. 180.
Saucer Attack, Eric Nesheim, Stoddart, 1997, pg. 45.
Spectrum 3: The Best of Contemporary Fantastic Art, Underwood Books, 1996, pg. 122.
Spectrum 2: The Best of Contemporary Fantastic Art, Underwood Books, 1995, pg. 130.
Humor (Society of Illustrators), Madison Square Press, 1987
American Illustration Showcase, vol. 6, 1983, pg. 30.
2003
"John Pound, His Secret Life", Humboldt State
University's First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
(brochure)
2000
"What Was I Thinking?!", College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
1986
Festival of Animation (opening night), La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA
1977
Visionary Paintings and Drawings by John Pound, Unicorn Cinema and Books, La Jolla, CA
2013
"Sum of the Parts", College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
2012
"100 Houses", Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK
2010
"Never Judge?" In Association with Penguin Books, StolenSpace Gallery, London, UK
"Accident Gallery 5th Birthday", group show at Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA
BLAB!: A Retrospective, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
2009
The BLAB! Show, CoproNason Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Body Erotic, Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA
Underground Classics, the Transformation of Comics into Comix, Chazen Museum of Art, 2009, Madison, Wisconsin
2008
American Illustration 27 (website only)
BLAB!: A Retrospective, Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS
2007
The 13th Annual Junque Arte Competition and Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA (mixed media artwork in collaboration with Todd Sullivan)
The BLAB! Show, CoproNason Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2006
The BLAB! Show, CoproNason Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2005
"Rumble in the Humboldt", group show at Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA
"Of A Digital Palette", group show at the Ink People Gallery, Eureka, CA
The BLAB! Show, CoproNason Gallery at Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2nd Annual "Snap To Grid", LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art), Los Angeles, CA
3rd Annual Small Works, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2004
American Illustration 23 (website only)
"Between The Lines", group show with art selected by Trenton Doyle Hancock and other artists, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (May-June 2004)
Redwood Art Association 46th Annual Spring Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA, (Richard Shaw, judge)
"Of A Digital Palette", group show at the Ink People Gallery, Eureka, CA
2003
"Morning Wood" book release group show, 111 Minna St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA (December 2003)
American Illustration 22 (website only)
Redwood Art Association Juried Spring Show (award), at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA 2003 (Kenneth Baker, judge)
Guidelines, Concept Art show, Ink People, Eureka, CA
2002
Redwood Art Association Juried Spring Show (award), at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2000
Invitational Inaugural Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
1999
"The Millenium", Xmas group show, Gallery Dog, Eureka, CA
1995
"Visual Assault", Storefront Gallery, Arcata, CA
1994
"West Coast Works On/Of Paper", Ink People, Eureka, CA
1993
"Twentieth Anniversary Invitational Exhibition", Humbolt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
Cartoon Art show, Las Truchas Gallery, Eureka, CA
1990
25/25: 25 Portraits of Artists by Jim McVicker and 25 Works by the Artists, Humbolt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
1987
Humor '87, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
1985
Karen Sullivan, John Pound, Two-person show, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
1982
San Diego ComicCon Inkpot Award, Illustration, San Diego, CA
1981
Seventh World Fantasy Convention Art Show, Berkeley, CA
Fantasy Show, Candy Stick Gallery, Ferndale, CA
Redwood Art Association 23rd Annual Spring Exhibition, Humboldt Cultural Center, Eureka, CA
1977
Twenty-Fourth Annual Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute Gallery, San Diego, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
