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I have always been fanatical about narratives, but I hadn't really contemplated the possibilities of the book as an object until working at Special Collections in college. From 19th century miniatures to hand-printed Yolla Bolly aquatint etchings, books came to be portable sculptures, records, decor …
Camera Obscura: Lightning Bolt's 13 Monsters
"PAPER RAD is a Pittsburgh, PA/Northampton, MA collective that has bubbled under the elastic waistline of the world’s slacks for over a decade, tickling its privates and filling its diapers." — Load Records The collective behind the music video 13 Monsters, Paper Rad, utilizes a low-fi style that crosses many …
A Comic Con Survival Kit
Comics books geeks unite! In honor of the super fun and overwhelmingly inspiring Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) Festival this weekend (June 6 and 7, 2009), I've put together your trusty comic con survival kit. Brush up on your early cartooning history before you go. Find more vintage comic books. 1886 …
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Spinstersummer's Ode to the Queer Animal Kingdom
Nicole Georges, a.k.a. Spinstersummer, has been making zines since she was thirteen. Her ongoing autobiographical zine Invincible Summer is about bands, relationships, animals, vegan food and beehived hairdos. Nicole's Etsy shop is full of goodies, from fun zines to stuffed sock monkeys, narwhals and queer …
Free Comics Day: May 2, 2009
I predict...Comics will rain from the sky today. You know why? It's annual Free Comics Day! Alex Cox of Rocketship, a local comic shop here in Brooklyn, says, "It's pretty much our favorite day of the year, when we can say 'thanks' to everyone in the neighborhood, with big piles of free comics!"Stop by and support your …
Etsy Finds: Books and Zines
It's been perfect book-reading weather in my living room lately. Pete has built us a large and beautifully irregular bookshelf for our apartment, and all the winter quilts have been unearthed from their closets. Since watching Etsy's Handmade Portrait on Leslie Stein last week I've been on a zine and …
Handmade Portraits: Leslie Stein
YouTube | MP4 | blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes (music by Prince Ruperts Drops) Leslie Stein, aka larrybear, spends most of her time drawing comics, listening to old time radio shows and playing records. Leslie started her first comic series, called simply Leslie, back in high school. It revolved around her wacky …
Top 10 Gifts for Bookworms: Books, Zines & Comics from Sarah Nicholls of the Center for Book Arts
In our increasingly digital lives, handmade books remind us to appreciate the tactile beauty of an interesting binding or the unique linework of the artist, or if it's a blank journal, that we have such a thing as handwriting (whether messy or neat)! Books, zines, and comics make great holiday gifts, and so we …
Etsy Finds: Mini-Comics!
Sean Flannagan, aka sean11, is a new hire to the Etsy product team. Welcome, Sean! I've had a love affair with independent comics since grade school, when my mother took away my prized collection of Robert Crumb books and consequently made weird comic art even more desirable. These days I enjoy hunting for the …
Get'er Done: an Interview with Cartoonist Jessica Abel
Jessica Abel is having a busy week. With a newborn baby on her hip, she is reviewing submissions to the guest-edited Best American Comics series. She's been doing interviews and press for her new book coming out — one of the few textbooks for teaching comics, entitled Drawing Words & Writing Pictures (see also …
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