WET CARTOONS /// 21.5 ~ 16.6 2011 A.D. /// A DRIPPY BONE BOOKS RETROSPECTIVE @ LE PETIT MIGNON STAALPLAAT STORE …PRESENTED BY WILD SMILE STUDIOS OPENINGING 21 MAY PERFORMANCES BY JEALOUSY PARTY + PRETERITE Wet Cartoons is a retrospective show celebrating 5 years of Drippy Bone Books zine and comics publishing. Started in 2007 by artists Kristy Foom and Mario Zoots as a way to catalog the underground art scene happening in Denver, Colorado and other cities in the US, over the years it's become a strong platform for collaborating with artists involved in underground comics, illustration, video, music, and design. Keenan Marshall Keller, a comic artist based in Los Angeles, joined Foom and Zoots in 2008. Each artist prints and pays for the publications they release under the hood name Drippy Bone Books. All editions are small run varying from 10 – 100 copies. Living in different cities, publications are now released from Los Angeles, Denver and Amsterdam. The name Drippy Bone Books was inspired by the comic Oops Goops (2006) drawn by David Magdelano and Brian Bamps of Los Angeles. Wet Cartoons refers to the looseness of the Drippy Bone Books publishing project, and how it's a liquid mirror on some contemporary underground communities. The show will feature books from the Drippy Bone Books archive and video art and prints from Kristy Foom, Mario Zoots and Keenan Marshall Keller. Publications still available will be for sale.