{{Short description|American entertainment company}} {{For|the on-demand movie service|PictureBox Movies}} {{Use American English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox publisher | name = PictureBox | image = | caption = | parent = | status = Defunct (2013) | traded_as = | predecessor = | founded = 2002 | founder = Dan Nadel | successor = | country = United States | headquarters = Brooklyn, New York | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = Books | topics = | genre = | imprints = | revenue = | owner = | numemployees = | url = {{URL|http://www.pictureboxinc.com}} }}
'''PictureBox''' was an art, music, photography, and comics publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York directed by Dan Nadel.<ref>http://torontocomics.com/dan-nadel/, Toronto Comics, The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, 2011 Exhibitors, Dan Nadel PictureBox Inc., Retrieved March 11, 2011.</ref> PictureBox published its own books and packages books and concepts for museums and galleries. The company began in 2002 with ''The Ganzfeld 2'' and gradually shifted to emphasize a diverse assortment of visual ideas and topics.<ref name="washingtonpost">{{Cite news |last=Zinman |first=Greg |date=2006-06-11 |title=Comic Book Guru |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801590.html |access-date=2023-04-27 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> PictureBox was best known for its books by artists from or related to the Providence art scene of the 2000s, music books, and projects for numerous artists involved with the New York gallery Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2014/04/art_books/in-memoriampicturebox|title=IN MEMORIAMPictureBox|website=brooklynrail.org|date=April 2, 2014|access-date=May 15, 2017}}</ref> The cover art for Wilco's ''A Ghost Is Born'', designed by Peter Buchanan-Smith and Nadel, won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blake |first1=Corey |title=Farewell, PictureBox |url=https://www.cbr.com/farewell-picturebox/ |website=CBR.com |accessdate=January 11, 2020 |date=December 4, 2013}}</ref>
In December 2013, Nadel announced PictureBox would cease publishing at the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pictureboxinc.com/blogs/pbox-world/2013/12/02/the-end-for-now/ |title=PictureBox / Blogs / PBox World / The End For Now |website=www.pictureboxinc.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204033235/http://www.pictureboxinc.com/blogs/pbox-world/2013/12/02/the-end-for-now/ |archive-date=December 4, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-12-02/comics/manga-publisher-picturebox-shuts-down-on-december-31 | title=Comics/Manga Publisher PictureBox Shuts Down on December 31 (Updated) | publisher=Anime News Network | date=December 3, 2013 | accessdate=December 3, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/12/02/picturebox-publisher-of-a-bold-assortment-of-manga-and-more-to-shut-down-on-december-31 | title=PictureBox, Publisher of a Bold Assortment of Manga and More, to Shut Down on December 31 | newspaper=Crunchyroll | date=December 3, 2013 | accessdate=December 3, 2019}}</ref> Since then, Nadel has curated exhibitions and edited books including What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/arts/design/review-what-nerve-presents-an-alternative-history-of-american-art.html|title=Review: 'What Nerve!' Presents an Alternative History of American Art|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=August 6, 2015|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 15, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Takeshi Murata,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artbook.com/blog-takeshi-murata.html|title=Takeshi Murata|website=www.artbook.com|access-date=May 15, 2017}}</ref> Jimmy De Sana's Suburban,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jimmy-desana-suburban-photos-311648|title=Jimmy DeSana Redefines Suburban Sprawl - artnet News|date=July 23, 2015|work=artnet News|access-date=May 15, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> and The Collected Hairy Who Publications. He also co-curated, with Carroll Dunham, an exhibition of drawings<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/arts/design/elizabeth-murray-a-singular-style-steeped-in-many.html|title=Elizabeth Murray: A Singular Style, Steeped in Many|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=January 5, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 15, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> by Elizabeth Murray.
== Publications == {{colbegin}} ''1-800 MICE Issue 1'' by Matthew Thurber<br /> ''1-800 MICE Issue 2'' by Matthew Thurber<br /> ''Art Out Of Time: Unknown Visionary Cartoonists, 1900-1969'' by Dan Nadel<br /> ''Bicycle Fluids'' by Matthew Thurber<br /> ''Blockhead Blues'' by Eddie Martinez<br /> ''Cartoon Workshop / Pig Tales'' by Paper Rad<br /> ''Cheap Laffs: The Art of the Novelty Item'' by Mark Newgarden<br /> ''Chimera'' by Frank Santoro<br /> ''Cold Heat'' by BJ and Frank Santoro<br /> ''Cold Heat 1-4'' by BJ and Frank Santoro<br /> ''Cold Heat Special'' by Jon Vermilyea and Frank Santoro<br /> ''Cold Heat Special 3'' by Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro<br /> ''Cold Heat Special 4'' by Jim Rugg and Frank Santoro<br /> ''Cold Heat: Castle Castle'' by Frank Santoro<br /> ''Color Engineering'' by Yuichi Yokoyama<br /> ''Comics Comics 1-3'' by Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel, editors<br /> ''Core of Caligula'' by C.F.<br /> ''Crazy Town'' by Paul Gondry<br /> ''Eddie Martinez/Chuck Webster'' by Eddie Martinez & Chuck Webster<br /> ''Elle-Humour'' by Julie Doucet<br /> ''Faded Igloo'' by Jim Drain<br /> ''For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis'' by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell<br /> ''Free Radicals'' by Leif Goldberg<br /> ''Garden'' by Yuichi Yokoyama<br /> ''Gary Panter'' by Gary Panter<br /> ''Goddess of War Vol. 1'' by Lauren Weinstein<br /> ''Good Life'' by Taylor McKimens<br /> ''Gore'' by Black Dice and Jason Frank Rothenberg<br /> ''H Day'' by Renée French<br /> ''Incanto'' by Frank Santoro<br /> ''If-n-Oof '' by Brian Chippendale<br /> ''Maggots'' by Brian Chippendale<br /> ''Mail Order Monsters'' by Kathy Grayson<br /> ''Me a Mound'' by Trenton Doyle Hancock<br /> ''Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby'' by Takashi Nemoto<br /> ''Multiforce'' by Mat Brinkman<br /> ''New Engineering'' by Yuichi Yokoyama<br /> ''Ninja'' by Brian Chippendale<br /> ''Nog a Dod'' by Marc Bell<br /> ''Overspray: Riding High With the Kings of California Airbrush Art'' by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel<br /> ''Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs'' by Paper Rad<br /> ''Powr Mastrs'' by C.F.<br /> ''Powr Mastrs vol. 2'' by C.F.<br /> ''Powr Mastrs vol. 3'' by C.F.<br /> ''Real Fun'' by Ashod Simonian<br /> ''SnooPee'' by Ken Kagami<br /> ''Some Kinda Vocation'' by Cheryl Dunn<br /> ''Storeyville'' by Frank Santoro<br /> ''The Drips'' by Taylor McKimens<br /> ''The Ganzfeld 1-5'' by Dan Nadel, ed.<ref name=washingtonpost/><br /> ''The Garden'' by Michael Williams<br /> ''The Magnificent Excess of Snoop Dogg'' by Katherine Bernhardt<br /> ''The Trenton Doyle Handbook'' by Trenton Doyle Hancock<br /> ''The Wilco Book'' by Wilco and PictureBox<br /> ''Travel'' by Yuichi Yokoyama<br /> ''Tuff Stuff'' by Joe Bradley<br /> ''Utility Sketchbook'' by Anonymous<br /> ''We Lost the War but Not the Battle'' by Michel Gondry<br /> ''Wipe That Clock Off Your Face'' by Brian Belott<br /> ''World Map Room'' by Yuichi Yokoyama<br /> ''Wu Tang Comics'' by Paper Rad {{colend}}
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== External links == * [http://www.pictureboxinc.com '''PictureBox''' website]
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