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POST-IT ART IS FOR LOVERS (OF ART)

If you like owning pretty things for money you can either head down to Miami Beach this weekend for Art Basel and blow a few grand on something that looks like

this

, or you can go to LA and spend $20 on a stickie note filled with a drawing that will make your brain sweat blood.

Giant Robot

has been putting on these shows for the last three years where they get a whole bunch of comics-makers and illustrators to doodle on Post-It notes and they rule. Because the prescribed medium is so teensy and adhesive, they just stick them all over the walls until the entire store is like one huge book of gag panels that you can pull off and say "I buy this." You could consider this as an extended critique on the commodification of fine art in the age of mechanical and digital reproduction and the primacy of images if you are A FUCKING LOSER, but all we know is we's gonna see us some stickies all drawn on by some of the finest drawers of our age. Drawers like…

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Gillian Wilson, Nick Gazin, Marc Johns, Jeffrey Brown, Ray Sohn, and Travis Lampe…

Lisa Hanawalt, Apak!, and Allison Cole…

Matt Furie, Connie Wong, and Zack Soto…

Luke Ramsey, Aiyana Udesen, and "Skinner"… and the comics world's eternally-crusading moralist, Johnny Ryan.

Post-it 4 starts this Saturday at some time. Click here for Deez Tails.