Even if you've never heard of Robbie Conal (which, if you're an Angeleno, is unlikely), if you've lived in Los Angeles for any length of time you have probably encountered one of his satirical portraits of greying, pock-marked politicians, typically underscored by savage one-liners and pasted up on the side of wooden scaffolding or telephone boxes. Since 1986 he has been artfully skewering politicians and bureaucrats who Conal argues have abused their power and deceived the public. He translates his paintings into offset lithograph posters and, backed by a loyal guerilla posse of volunteers, stealthily papers them up by the thousands in major cities around the country. For Conal, postering provides the most direct form of unmediated expression available, plus it is cheap, which makes it immensely accessible to a wide variety of practitioners. Most recently, Conal has stepped up his artistic practice by adding photomontage and computer manipulated backgrounds to his imagery, thus providing further context and greater critical depth. Since 1997, he has had a monthly column in the L.A. Weekly titled "Artburn" which allowed Conal to reach a Los Angeles audience outside of his guerilla postering tactics. Art Attack: The Midnight Politics Of A Guerrilla Artist, published by HarperCollins, chronicles Conal's postering adventures from their inception in 1986 to 1992.