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This exclusive preorder package includes a copy of Plenty for All, a Giclée print of the artwork New Wave, and the zine No Es Justo. Plenty for All is the first book of Rick Fröberg’s art.

This page is for the exclusive preorder package. To order a regular copy of the book, follow this link.

All preorders will ship by December 1, 2025—one month ahead of the book’s official publication date.

Price: $100.00

Description

THIS PAGE IS FOR THE EXCLUSIVE PREORDER OF Plenty for All with a Giclée print of Rick Fröberg’s artwork, New Wave, and the zine, No Es Justo.

Click [HERE] to purchase a regular edition of the book.

The exclusive package includes:

  • A copy of Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg—the first book of Rick Fröberg’s art.
  • An 8.5″ x 11″ Giclée print of New Wave, a classic image that could only come from the mind of Rick Fröberg. New Wave is a mash-up of playful cartoons, geometric shapes, highly detailed renderings of guitar amplifier vacuum tubes, and squiggles that could be brush tests for a master calligrapher. The artwork is printed on 255 gsm Epson Somerset Velvet certified archival paper stock using the Giclée method—a specialized art printing/spraying technique that uses an expanded color range of archival ink and paper resulting in highly detailed and visually rich prints.
  • The 5.5″ x 8.5″ zine No Es Justo, a handcrafted zine looking into the man behind the work, featuring art not included in the book and writing by those who knew him well. Custom stamped with stamps made from Fröberg’s art.

Please Note:

  • All preorders will ship on or before December 1, 2025, ahead of the holidays and one month before the book’s official publication date.
  • All domestic orders will ship via UPS Ground unless you select a more expensive expedited shipping option.
  • For all orders outside the US, including Canada, please be sure to select your preferred INTERNATIONAL shipping method. International orders placed with domestic shipping will be canceled.
  • Please email info@akashicbooks.com if you have any questions about your order.

About the book:

Rick Fröberg was an accomplished artist and musician born in Southern California who spent most of his early creative years in San Diego before moving to New York, and then back to San Diego toward the end of his life. While juggling both of his creative outlets, he established a meaningful, urgent, vital, and powerful platform. Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg represents the many chapters and layers of his visual art practice. All of the different bodies of work he made are examined in detail—presenting the viewer with a well-rounded survey of his life’s work, mostly in chronological order.

One of the most compelling and fascinating aspects of this volume is the physical progression of Fröberg’s line work and brushstroke, and his eventual adaptation to digital means. His artwork was often featured on the record covers of his own bands, as well as other groups he met on the road, and much of his early work also appeared on posters, flyers, ads, skateboard graphics, logos, and T-shirt designs, before eventually progressing to illustrations in magazines, books, and newspapers. Fröberg’s paintings, drawings, etchings, and prints were also shown at art exhibitions throughout his career.

Plenty for All is the first look at his visual artwork in book form. It will be of great interest across the globe to his many fans (he played in a range of popular bands, including Pitchfork, Drive like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and Obits). Fröberg’s work has become very influential, and an inspiration to quite a large group of people in both the art and music worlds. He is sadly missed and mourned, but this volume will no doubt further his creative legacy. It includes short essays by curator Rich Jacobs and musician/artist Sohrab Habibion.

Book Details

  • Hardcover
  • IBSN: PFA-RF

Author

Rick Fröberg (1968–2023) was an accomplished and well-regarded artist and musician born in Santa Monica, California. He spent his formative years drawing, painting, etching, and making music, ultimately playing in seminal bands in San Diego and New York such as Pitchfork, Drive like Jehu, Hot Snakes, and Obits. His life was tragically cut short at the age of fifty-five. Author photo by Amelia Halverson

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