Le Gun's The Family at Rochelle School

Wednesday saw the launch of the much anticipated fourth issue of Le Gun, the superb narrative art annual which compiles and displays the works of the London-based collective of the same name. Set in the surreal and fantastic alternative reality of "Legundon" they simultaneously depict and create, the issue is a treasure chest of stories, ideas and images from contributers as diverse as Polish artist Andrzej Klimowski, Paul Noble, and Will Sweeney (creator of "Tales of Green Fuzz"), and with writing from beat generation expert Barry Miles and Sebastian Horsley, as well as fresh work from young novelist Richard Milward, Iain Sinclair and the "Hunter S Thompson of Hartlepool" Michael Smith.

The issue was launched to coincide with an exhibition and temporary arts club called The Family, installed at the Rochelle School in Arnold Circus. In the show, the artists worked together to depict a series of darkly comic and bizarre portraits of the dysfunctional family born of their collective imaginations. A series of giant ink drawings tells the tale of the family's journey from their far flung home cities, to cross the ocean and come together in "an outlandish Interzone of mind bending intoxicants and bordellos"; a world where the Marchesa Di Casati can be seen walking her leopards outside Francis Bacon's butcher shop, where the streets are lined with gin-soaked boys and loose women, decadent drunks and cream cakes; the fabulous under-belly of Legundon. Another highlight of the show is the cardboard "drawing-room" reached through an Alice in Wonderland tiny cardboard door in the gallery, complete with cardboard piano, bookshelves filled with cardboard books, fireplace and furniture, all perfectly decorated with charming and hilarious details in black marker pen (look out for the toilet door and the hidden peep-hole).

The Family is at Rochelle School, Club Row, Arnold Circus, Shoreditch, London E2 7ES until 6pm today.