Rockabilly/Psychobilly: An Art Anthology

I bought this for my best gal....she is such a huge fan, she's even modeled for Gretsch Guitars. She had friends that were right there in the book, immortalized in rockabilly art for ever. I cant stop looking through it myself. It is a very well put together hard back and jammed from cover to cover with what you bought it for.

I am loving this high quality book loaded with rockabilly and psychobilly graphics from all over the world. It’s laid out in great fashion transitioning from one style and artist to another. Full color and full page designs are stunning along with many multi graphic page layouts. Frame worthy art galore! One of my favorite purchases ever from Amazon.

Very cool art

This is a christmas gift, but I looked though the book and what gorgeous colorful pages of art! I'm sure my giftee will love this! The book cover is gorgeous as well!

Good quality, Fast shipping, Perfect!!

This book is great, it’s nice and colorful.

This is a very good art book with a few flaws. First off, I recommend listening to music such as the Gaslight Anthem or Misfits while going through the book as it will help you appreciate the art style even more. Now to get the flaws out of the way (I am not going to count the embossed barcode on the back as a flaw but will mention it as Jamie Kendall discussed it in his Skyrim book review and did it to his own book). First, the Forward for the book is complete crap as it is just some band trying to promote themselves and only provide one paragraph of meaningful information on the Rockabilly scene. Also, the entire time I was going through the book there were three things I kept asking myself; 1) how is this book arranged? 2) Who are these artists and what era are they from? and 3) where do these pieces come from and their historical impact? This book could really use some context. Just a paragraph here and there to give the book some context and background would have been so useful to those of us who are not subject matter experts in this subculture. If you want to learn more about the history and social impact of the subcultures art, you will need to supplement this book with other sources. Now the good; the artwork is terrific. If you are looking for the best collection of Rockabilly/Psychobilly artwork, this is the book for you. There is an incredible amount of art in the book and very little white space. The size of the art is great; no thumbnail art in this book. Also, recommending songs through the book is a great touch (even if some bands are mentioned more than once (was it the artists who chose the songs, who knows)). I also like that there is comments from pretty much all the artists and learn a bit about their inspirations. I can see this book being very inspirational for artists and others that are really into the subculture – it is also a great “coffee table” book as I have already gotten comments from people. I do recommend this book for people who are looking for a collection of art from the Rockabilly/Psychobilly scene.

I’m sure you’re already familiar with rockabilly. You’ve got plenty of men in suits or leather biker jackets and jeans, hair greased, admiring their cars, bikes and/or women. You’ve got the sexy, sassy bombshells, where oftentimes the only thing bigger than their butts are their breasts. The women are decked out in poodle skirts, short shorts and various combinations of not much, with plenty of Bettie Page inspiration and beehives competing to make it to heaven first. The beer’s flowing and the cigarettes are lit.Are you as familiar with psychobilly? I hadn’t heard of the word before this book but once I started that section I realised I did know it after all. I love the way psychobilly is described in the introduction:“I like to think of psychobilly as what happens to the rockabilly crowd once midnight strikes.”Besides all of the gorgeous artwork, there’s also a playlist running through the book, with each new song flagged by a jukebox for rockabilly or vinyl record for psychobilly.There are quotes scattered throughout the book by the artists and I think Leon Ryan nailed it with “I’d rather draw something to be hung and enjoyed in dorms and filthy garages than ignored in a respectable gallery.”I like an eclectic mix of bits and pieces people call art, including some that reside in respectable galleries. Rockabilly/psychobilly artists, though, these are my people! There’s an honesty to this artwork that I love. These are people inspired by such awesomeness as cartoons, video games, movies, and music.I’m no art critic, thank goodness, but the gaggle of butts and breasts aside (I’m not going to whinge because it’s part of the style) I really enjoyed this art. There’s something immediately appealing to me about a style that doesn’t care what you think because it’s just doing its thing, whether you’re paying attention or not.There was a lot to like in this book and so many artists to appreciate. If you’re in the market for a rockabilly/psychobilly tattoo, you’ll find plenty of inspiration here. There’s even an artist index at the end of the book where the artists’ websites are found so you can find even more awesomeness.I don’t have a specific rockabilly favourite but some of the ones that drew my attention included:🎙 Candy’s cat eyed woman with the orange beehive that is practically exploding with odds and sods, including three cars, some bats, a skeleton, fluffy dice with teeth, balloons and this green guy of some species holding a checkered flag.🎙 Nano Barbero’s Rockalavera Rockabilly Weekend México 2015 poster.🎙 Mark Rehkopf’s ‘I don’t know what the hell is going on here but I love it’ piece that I’ve discovered is the cover art for Nick Johnston’s Public Display of Infection. It’s got UFO’s, eyeballs in trench coats overlooking the scene from the top of buildings, and there’s too much else to describe but it’s awesome!In the psychobilly section I really liked:🧟‍♀️ Miss Cherry Martini’s style but couldn’t choose a favourite.🧟‍♂️ Zach Bellissimo’s art.🧟‍♀️ Kimberly Poizon’s pages.🧟‍♂️ Marcus Jones’ Zombie Pin-Up Anatomy. (I was going to leave it at that, with three artists in each category, but then I found this image and my coffee almost escaped through my nose in a very attractive snort.)It may seem I’ve already told you all of the Woohoo! moments in this book but I haven’t even come close. I’ve told you about the equivalent of a dollop of cream on top of a mountainous ice cream sundae. Sure, you can enjoy that dollop but if you don’t stay long enough to try the various flavours of ice cream, sprinkles and hot chocolate fudge sauce 🤤 you won’t realise what you’re missing out on. It’s highly likely your biggest Woohoo! moments are still inside the book waiting for you to discover them.Going into this I expected to find maybe one or two pictures I’d love and a whole pile of ‘yeah, it was okay’. I’m leaving it trying to figure out if I can afford to buy myself a copy because this is a serious contender to be added to my coffee table for future Woohoo! moments.Thank you so much to NetGalley and Schiffer Publishing Ltd. for introducing me to so many extraordinarily talented artists I may not have come across otherwise.

I love Rockabilly and I'm partial to a bit of old school Psychobilly and added to that i don't know about art but i know what I like so this should be right up my street. but sadly while there's a number of cracking good pieces here there's also a lot of sub standard seen it all before and done better artwork.Saying that I'll still recommend it has the good work is very good and well worth the price of the book

La portada si es de pasta dura. Encontrarás una gran compilación de arte aplicado a carteles, flyers, portadas de discos, mercancía, logotipos, afiches, etc. Todo con la misma temática, pero diferentes estilos y propuestas. Puede que muchos grupos musicales o artistas no los conozcas, pero es un buen inicio para buscar sobre ellos. El libro, no tiene algún tipo de acabado especial, ni algún tipo de impresión que haga que sobre salga, está impreso sobre papel común, pero no se ve corriente. Tiene buen tamaño y bastante contenido, por lo que entra en la categoría de libros pesados, similar a los libros de arte de películas o videojuegos.

Un libro che non può mancare nell libreria dei cultori del genere… bellissime illustrazioni!

Simplemente espectacular!!!!

Pour tous les fans de l'univers rétro, vintage, et des pin-up. Ce receuil d'illustrations est vraiment très beau et divisé en 2 parties: la première partie est très axé sur les pin-up et la deuxième est tourné vers le côté plus "rebel" du rockabilly. Vraiment très sympa j'y ai découvert de très bons artistes et le livre en lui même est aussi un très bel objet, bref je suis ravie.