Paper Ashes
Bette Burgoyne is a Seattle-based artist whose recent works are made with only a white prismacolor pencil and black paper. I asked her to describe her methods for this post:
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Will Schofield
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Will Schofield is the editor of 50 Watts (original name: A Journey Round My Skull) and Writers No One Reads.
recto|verso
Amazing lost images from recto|verso, the blog of F. A. Bernett Books (“Rare Books on Art, Architecture, Design & Visual Culture”):
Voyage Fantastique vol.2 (Embryos in Space)
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967) volume 2:
Buggin Out in the Bunker
Specimens from the ‘illustration bunker‘ of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive:
Lord of the Flugornas: More Vintage Swedish Book Covers
P-E Fronning of Martin Klasch shared more covers from his book collection.
Karl’s Journey to the Moon
First published in Sweden in 1926, Karl’s Journey to the Moon (Kalles Resa Till Manen) is the story of a boy who blows a soap bubble which takes him to…
Walpurgisnacht
Illustrations by Stefan Eggeler for a 1922 edition of Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht:
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
Illustrations by Lev Tokmakov for Fairy Tales about Animals, 1973:
The Monk and the Ghost
Three pages from Josef Váchal‘s Mnicha strasidlo (The Monk and the Ghost), a 1919 “flip book.”
Czechoslovakian Expose Redux
The series that will never die. (My favorite installment is still this one.) For those just tuning in, I find these covers by spending hours browsing online Czech and Slovak…