07/22/2026
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Scorpion Front Publishing proudly presents Coulter Jacobs: In the Direction of the Beginning, a noir descent into the world of a painter whose work feels at once familiar and essential.
Born in Los Angeles, Jacobs lives and works in San Pedro. By day, he is a Water Utility Worker for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Every other hour is devoted to a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and writing.
That balance of creative devotion and working-class discipline runs through everything he makes.
Drawing on years spent within tattoo culture, Jacobs brings an authentic eye to traditional tattoo imagery, honoring its visual language while filtering it through noir, memory, and abstraction to arrive somewhere entirely his own.
After losing his studio and archive to a fire in 2017, Jacobs rebuilt from the ground up. What emerged is a body of work centered on endurance, memory, loss, and the enduring act of creation.
Hardback, casebound limited edition
More than 380 pages
Drawings, photographs, paintings, writings, and ephemera.
Now available for preorder.
Expected to ship in November 2026, in time for the holidays. Shipping date is subject to change.
