About Bad Press Books:

We are a very small independent book company located in Chicago on the near south-side. Our shop is located in Pilsen in a old Czech society center, occasionally doubling up as an art space for exhibitions. The firm was established in1999 by accident and by some mysterious faith, power, and beverage. We're sitting around today scratching ours heads in amazement.

The goal for the firm is to produce eyeball rousing stamp art that attracts and entertains the subversive part of the brain. We have embraced some characteristics of the Fluxus and Dada ideology mixed in with a variety of art styles and history. We believe a book works as it's own in an environment. It is a gallery, a museum, a document of time, etc. As this site is designed, as a commercial / resource entertainment art space, or shop to spend time and cash.

In the past decade as artists, we've made many people pissed off at us and we've made many folks laugh. Presently the artist Michael Hernandez de Luna is under a official postal investigation falling under the 2001 terrorist guidelines. Hernandez de Luna and Michael Thompson have been issued several cease and desist orders to curb their artistic activities, and both have been canceled from a museum show. We can truly say we've had some excitement in our life with Bad Press.

Our last book, The Stamp Art and Postal History of Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna has appeared in over 100 periodicals around the world. It has been given the kiss of approval by American Library Association's magazine Booklist, Border's magazine - the Book, and the Library Journal amongst many others. Our work can be found in any search engine by entering the artist full name or the title listed above or below.

Sextablos was produced in collaboration with the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in 1999 as a catalogue to it's touring exhibition entitled, Sextablos: works on metal. The catalogue features many famous and not so famous Chicagoans, several New Yorkers, and acouple of Seattle-lites. The exhibition has toured 5 major US cities: New Orleans, LA - Houston, TX -Portland, OR, and San Jose, CA. This project has hit it's own history and also has been featured in many periodicals across the states.

In Houston, Texas at the art space REDBUD this show was condemned, protested, and received more television and press coverage for what the Catholics were calling blasphemy. This exhibition featured many of Texas's best artists.

So we hope we were able to answer your curiosity about us. However, if you should have any questions, here's a list of things we enjoy, love, and hate.

We hate the C*nts, a Chicago Rock'n Garage Band.

We don't like bad politics.

We like to see the Bush twins in more drunken photographs, perhaps topless.

We'd like to see President Bush in beer commercials.

We hate fanatics of any kind: christians, white supremacist, right winged conservatives, fake communist, left footed liberals, the pompous and arrogant, most new rock'n roll bands, black, hispanic, or white cry baby groups, anti-abortionists, cry babies, homogenized art and artists, 98% of Hollywood films and actors, 99% of all television, politicians, city employees, ranting feminist, nosey neighbors, etc...

We love the C*nts, a Chicago Rock'n Garage Band.

We like to see every American insured and have social benefits at the Governments expense.

We'd like to see government work for all the people, and not just the ones that can afford it.

Wed like see a curb put on taxations of all kinds.

We'd like to see bad government management cease and desist.

We'd like see all property taxes cease and desist.

We think that most city and government officials abuse their titles and are as bad as the bumps we love to hate.

We'd like to start impeachment hearings for Alderman Crouthers of Chicago for wanting to impose a tax for garbage pickup.

We really hate trendy people.

We'd like to start criminal investigations on the Mayor Little Richy Daley and all of his cronies' for waste and fraudulent management, nepotism, and more misappropriation of Chicagoans taxes.

We'd like to see marijuana legalized and a free market.

We really hate sneaky publishers.

We love to hate the Cubs.

We'd like to promote euthanasia throughout America.

We'd love to see prostitution legalized in every state.

We hate child prostitution in any country.

We like to see teenage pregnancy outlawed and abortion mandatory regardless of religious beliefs.

We like to see every gang banger in America get along with each other or get sent to Puerto Rico.

We'd like to see Puerto Rico turned into a penal colony, similar to what England made of Australia.

We hate bad mannered, loud, and irresponsible persons, drunk or sober.

We can not stand cry babies.

We'd like to be the ones to put the bullet in everyone who does not respect life.

We'd like to keep religion out of Government, separate church from state and send every relegious group to Alabama.

We'd like to lock the doors of the Vatican in Italy and close down every archdiocese in America.

We'd like to cantanize ourselves as patron saint of all independent book shops, record labels, bad musicians and bad artists.

We hate all religions.

We'd like to casterize and lope off the the penis' of all rapist and pedophiles.

We'd like to fire the designers that have been creating the US postage stamps, they suck. We'd like to take over their job and design stamps for USPS.

We'd like Chicago to separate itself from the state of Illinois.

We'd like to see Hillary Clinton divorce Bill Clinton.

We'd like to see the Rev. Jesse Jackson under criminal investigation for anything (he is a whiner).

We can not stand whining talentless artists of any kind, race, or sex.

We'd like to see more of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's mistress' in the news.

We love to see the slum lords and yuppies rent inflaters get cited for insect, build code violations, and being just weasels.

We hate the music industry.

We'd love to see the enforcement of rent control in every city in America.

We think the New York Art Scene should end it baffling torture of making shitty homogenized art.

We hate everybody but our moms.

We think the West Coast Art Scene should also stop producing lame dainty homogenzied trend art.

We love to hate the Spaniards, Germans, French, Italians, and first on the list the Brits.

We love to see people stop expecting handouts.

We hate the art snobs attending or working in museums, institutes, and centers: this includes directors, curators, installation perpetrators, and wanna be gallery asssistants. (lighten up)

We'd like to put an end to cyber-marketing and racketeering: our penis' can only get so large, we can only win the lotto so many times, and cyber porno is passé already. (give it a break.), I don't take drugs.

We'd like to see the world blow itself up once and for all.

We hate bullies.

We love to appropiate images.

We love suits made in Korea and the food is at the top of our charts..

We hate American products, they are cheaply made with no pride, and over priced!

We hate new American country music. man, do we hate that stuff!

We hate the greedy and narrow minded.

We'd like every realtor's licenses around the world revoked for greed, racketeering, and over inflating the market for buying homes and rental units.

We'd like to see more of Janet Jackson's breast.

We'd like to see the democrats and republicains give us money to create their PR campaigns.

We really hate squirrels

We love Demi Moore.

We hate Bad Press Books, man do we hate those folks.

Thanks for visiting our site and remember always have fun, as the C*nts always says...

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