His editing is badass. This book shows off Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky's two biggest strengths, the mashup and the teamup. The big name roster didn't deliver scraps; they are all on their A-Game, .. for example Jonathan Lethem provides a fresh essay, and then the key to that same essay showing where he "plagiarized" just about ever phrase in the proceeding few pages. Saul Williams, provides a pensive meditation on words as magic, something I was more used to hearing out of Grant Morrison or Alan Moore, but williams is sincere and Smart. And the inclusion of unsung geniuses like Alex Steinweiss, the inventor of the record jacket (before him there was no art on albums, you only saw their spine at the store) pushes it over the top and into the zone. The included CD is way cool in and of itself; its easy to poopoo such ambitious works, but Spooky lays it all down with love not pretense, throwing snippets of James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, actual spoken word over some avantgarde classical shit... he's not showing off he's having a ball and sharing the fun

Rick's got a new blog www.rickveitch.com with a new psychedelicious image each day... If you never read the classics from his own KING HELL press, they're being remastered and offered on
** http://www.rickveitch.com/store/

ATTENTION RETAILERS... there's still time to put in orders for HEARTBURST and Other Pleasures, which includes the original verson of Alan Moore's Mirror of Love illustrated by Veitch and Bissette
Preview: http://www.rickveitch.com/2008/02/16/heartburst-and-other-pleasures-preview/

Maximortal is Rick's twisted and highlarious take on the Superman mythos, complete with a pre-Kavalier and Clay Siegel/Schuster component...

BratPack is teen titans on steroids, LITERALLY and is viciously entertaining.

Shiny Beasts as well as Abraxas and the Earthman are remastered painted gems from his early Epic comics days.

and then there are his dream comics, the Rare Bit Fiends ... 3 volumes of what many consider to be the most authentic representation of dreams on paper... read them before bedtime and see what happens...