United Dead Artists

Founded in 2010 by French drawer and artist Stéphane Blanquet, a prolific figure in the contemporary art scene since the end of the 1980's, United Dead Artists publishes monographs, magazines, and art objects.
 
Paris
 
124 titles
 
Viande de chevet
2010
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Viande de chevet (“bedside meat”) gathers the burgeoning work from a collective of United Dead Artists's illustrators, in the same vein as Tendon Revolver publications.
Stefanie Schilling - Reborn Again
2010
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Blexbolex has partnered with German artist Stefanie Schilling for the making of 47 papier mâché masks representing monsters, skulls, demons and animals... A colorful procession of resurrected souls on a Mexican day of the Dead.
Laurent Lolmède - Brut de carnet
2010
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This impressive book of over 300 pages gathers a selection of drawings and paintings taken from Laurent Lolmède's personal notebooks from 1988 to 2010.
Le Tendon Revolver
2009
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The third issue of Le Tendon Revolver's erotic & macabre graphic eccentricities. With front and back covers by Jonathon Rosen and Ludovic Levasseur.
Le Tendon Revolver
2009
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Le Tendon Revolver's second issue: a visual trigger loaded with the most bizarre yet talented artists from the graphic scene. Front and back covers by Gilles Berquet and Frederic Fleury.
Le Muscle Carabine - Troisième gorgée (+ vinyl SP 7\'\')
2009
The third issue of United Dead Artists' visual magazine gathers contributions by regular signatures (Blanquet, Lolmède, Anne Van der Linden, Gilles Berquet among others) and living legend (Robert Crumb). Comes with a vinyl recording of William S. Burroughs and a tabloid “Pascal Doury est mort” devoted to the poet-artist's work.
Daisuke Ichiba - Coulour
2023
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The third book by Master of the Underworld Daisuke Ichiba published by United Dead Artists focuses on color, blending red demons with the sulfur of strangling gardens.
La Tranchée Racine weekly
2020
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La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to July 2021: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for almost a year...
Bernard Joubert - Elvifrance - L\'infernal éditeur
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
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This graphic anthology is dedicated to Elvifrance, the scandalous French publisher of erotic comic books whose catalogue was under the fierce scrutiny of French censorship authorities from the 1970s to the 1990s. The publication takes a look back at this infamous history through many unpublished archives and a wide selection of covers. It also features an ensemble of covers revisited by some forty contemporary graphic artists.
Keiichi Tanaami - Birth and Death Bridge
2015
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With Grotesque female creatures, atomic lightbeams, skulls, Pop monsters and ukiyo-e decoration... These polychromic hallucinations of a Master of Psychedelic art were inspired by a near-death experience.
Amandine Urruty - Dommage Fromage
2014
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Somewhere between Hieronymus Bosch and Roald Dahl, Amandine Urruty's frescoes picture a particularly rich wonderland inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. A graphite virtuoso, Urruty uses sfumato technique with abundant details to form her baroque & bubblegum universe.
Stéphane Blanquet - Rendez-vous Moi en Toi
2014
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Artist Stéphane Blanquet re-draws a collection of (mostly) vintage pornographic pictures. These disturbing diptychs constitute an essential catalog of sexual fantasies and oddities.
Recto Facial Verso Vertèbre
2014
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This extra large square format publication gathers 180 portraits of disreputable creatures by 180 artists... (United Dead Artists' exhibition catalogue).
Helge Reumann - Sexy Guns
2014
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A series of speechless strips made in Indian ink describing absurd warfare conflicts set in bucolic landscapes.
 Tom de Pékin - Le lac sombre
2013
French edition
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The series of drawings from “Le lac sombre” (“The Dark Lake”) were inspired by an episode from La Peste Brune (The Brown Plague), a written account of Germany in the Thirties by french writer, theorist and activist Daniel Guérin. There he described his encounter with the Wild Boys, a group from the “Wandervögel” movement, a libertarian youth community which crossed Germany and its history from 1896 to 1936.
Caroline Sury - Surin
2013
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Symmetrical portraits of female characters and unidentified creatures cut in black paper.
Olivia Clavel - La Recherche - Les nouvelles aventures de Télé
2013
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Olivia Clavel's long-awaited return to comics, with the new adventures of Télé, the screen-face character and Clavel's alter-ego created in 1976.
Yoshikazu Ebisu - A sens Unique
2013
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Variations on the theme of masculine desire: three short comic stories from Ebisu's off-the-wall universe.
La Tranchée Racine
2012
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Third issue of United Dead Artists' illustrated newspaper.
La Tranchée Racine
2012
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Special issue: 12 pages / 12 authors. An erotic & nightmarish cover illustration by Stephane Blanquet, a masochistic fantasy by Namio Harukawa, a Metal Monster by Francesco Defourny and many more.
Aleksandra Waliszewska - The Horse With No Name Is A Horse With No Shame
2012
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Dark romanticism revisited: Aleksandra Waliszewska' Gothic paintings are a nightmarish blend of European folklore and Mythological influences, macabre characters plunged on the brink of insanity, funeral landscapes, powerful irrational and morbid scenes... “Of bloody dreams, black threats, traps in the forest, tight throat, wasted faces...”.
Namio Harukawa - Maxi Cula
2012
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150 drawings of callipygian women dominating men: Namio Haruka's second book at United Dead Artists still focuses on his obsession for BDSM scenes.
 Tom de Pékin - Haldernablou
2011
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A series of drawings illustrating Haldernablou, an homoerotic text by 19-year-old Alfred Jarry and first published in 1894.
Frédéric Fleury - La passion du bois
2010
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The many ways to get pleasure from a tree, a log, a wooden stick...
Gilles Berquet - Le Muscle du Sommeil
2009
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An erotic series of staged photographs exploring the margins of sexuality, including bondage and fetishism. The use of chiaroscuro shapes the woman's body in a refined and vintage manner, light beams and shadow play contribute to create an atmosphere close to goth & queer aesthetics also close to Pierre Molinier's works.
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