ABOUT John Pound Art
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John Pound's commissioned artworks include paintings for humor
trading cards, comic book covers, fantasy book covers, art prints,
skateboards, and magazine illustrations for MAD,
BLAB!, Business Week, and HomePC. He painted many
Garbage Pail Kids® for
Topps®, and art for Wacky
Packages®, Mars Attacks®, Howard the Duck, and
Animaniacs®.
His art was featured in JUXTAPOZ magazine issue #1.
His personal art projects include the RAN DUM series
(randomly- generated comic
pages and art prints, created entirely by writing computer code),
and the WOO-WOO series (loosely- painted poster- like
cartoon scenes, often featuring the Eyewiz character). Recent
WOO-WOO series paintings appear in BLAB.
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Randomly-generated "Self Portrait #1"
2003, wall installation 51 x 88 inches
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
SOLO BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
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
ESSAYS BY JOHN POUND
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.
INTERVIEWS
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
PERIODICALS
From The Tomb #16, "Commies From Mars" and "Mars
Attacks" theme, (UK), 2005
BPM magazine cover feature (France), 2004
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.
BOOKS, GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGS
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.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 Your, 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 1977
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento CA
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA