About

Barany Books is a publishing venture between artists’ agent Les Barany and
Scapegoat Publishing. If you can’t beat them, join them.

Les Barany

After many years as an award-winning advertising art director and graphic designer, in the early 90’s, Les Barany shifted his attention to working as the representative for a unique group of fine artists and photographers. The art and photo exhibitions he curates in U.S. and European galleries reflect his varied taste and wide range of interests, and his ongoing creative collaborations have influenced and sustained the careers of a multitude of artists working in all media.

Scapegoat Publishing

Scapegoat Publishing is a book publisher dedicated to producing fine art, fiction and non-fictional works of quality for a discriminating audience. Our books focus on the dark, sometimes sinister, often-controversial endeavors of some of the intrepid explorers of our cultural underworld.

Chris X is the owner of Reptilian Records and the sub-label Adversary Recordings. Kevin I. Slaughter was brought into the Reptilian Empire as a graphic designer and the two decided to take on the world of publishing. Working against the mediocrity of the publishing world, and in a time when more books are being published than ever before, and even less read.