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Will Schofield
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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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recto|verso
Amazing lost images from recto|verso, the blog of F. A. Bernett Books (“Rare Books on Art, Architecture, Design & Visual Culture”):
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Voyage Fantastique vol.2 (Embryos in Space)
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967) volume 2:
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Buggin Out in the Bunker
Specimens from the ‘illustration bunker‘ of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive:
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Lord of the Flugornas: More Vintage Swedish Book Covers
P-E Fronning of Martin Klasch shared more covers from his book collection.
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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 meet the Man in the Moon.
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Walpurgisnacht
Illustrations by Stefan Eggeler for a 1922 edition of Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht:
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Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
Illustrations by Lev Tokmakov for Fairy Tales about Animals, 1973:
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The Monk and the Ghost
Three pages from Josef Váchal‘s Mnicha strasidlo (The Monk and the Ghost), a 1919 “flip book.”
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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 bookstores. Any help identifying designers is appreciated.