I'm in the midst of a big marketing
push for the book right now, so for any and all press-related queries
about Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art and its author,
or to request a press kit, please click
here.
Also, if anyone wants to host a book
signing event—especially in Europe, the UK, and Japan—please
click there, too. I'd really like to travel on someone else's dime.
Web Articles:
Skatedaily.net
book review
"Anyone who has skated for even a brief period of
time can remember the graphic on the bottom of their favorite deck.
The artwork became a part of your story…why you picked that board
to skate, and why it spoke to you. This book is an extension of that
feeling."
EXPN
article/interview
"I never did any of the good inflammatory
stuff. That was all Marc McKee."
Centerdaily.com
article
"I'd always been into art,
mostly drawing birds and animals, but then I started doing Star Wars
and goofy Dungeons & Dragons crap in the latter stages of elementary
school."
Skateandannoy.com
book review
"If a class existed for
the history of skateboard art, Disposable would have to the
textbook. Sure to please anyone who pays attention to the bottom of
a skateboard or has nostalgia for boards they might have owned."
Frontwheeldrive.com
book review
"When I started flipping
through Disposable this afternoon, a jolt of energy soared
through my body. Damn it, my teenage years and early 20s were staring
right back at me in the face!"
Print Articles:
The
Skateboard Mag
article/interview (1.5mb
PDF download)
"In the end, I really
am just a big fan of skateboard graphics and the artists behind them—I
just happened to get lucky and wound up being one myself."
Streetwear
Today article/interview
"The deeper I got into the book, I
also started to uncover people who aren't in the collector scene but
still held onto all these amazing boards throughout the years—many
of them just boxed up in storage gathering dust, sadly—and this
was where it became really, really fun for me, kind of a gay little
Indiana Jones trip, I guess, uncovering all these seemingly lost treasures
and rarities..."
TransWorld
SKATEboarding Business article; December 2004
"Readers of Disposable may
wonder why this history of the skate graphic starts in 1978, when skateboarding
is obviously much older."
Razorcake
book review; Issue #24
"It is scary how thorough this tome
is."
Slap
book review; March 2005
"There have been a bunch of skate graphics
art books and shows in the last couple years as the 'subculture of skateboarding'
became en vogue with hip society types, but Disposable is by
far the best of the bunch. In fact, it's in a different league."
BPM
book review; June/July 2005
"While collecting these boards has
become a hobby for only the rich, with a book of this quality you can
at least pretend you have these hanging on your wall."