Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/25-10/31
This week: How Language Shapes Thought, the final Kaliedoscope Reading Series of the year, Muni Diaries Live! at the Makeout Room, and San Francisco’s favorite holiday (after Folsom Street Fair…
Art
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On the various contrivances by which German orchids are fertilised by zombies, and on the good effects of intercrossing…
Illustrations from Der Orchideengarten (1919), the world’s first fantasy magazine:
More Literary Trading Cards!
I grew up collecting baseball cards. They were my first passion. It was an exciting hobby because every pack initiated a quest. It wasn’t that I cared much for the…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/18-10/24
This week, the Porchlight Reading Series, Poetry and Jazz at Viracocha, yacht rock + psychedelia at the Blue Macaw, and Uberpup! Monday 10/18: Head over to the Verdi Club for…
Psychic Explosion
Adolf Hoffmeister, illustrations for Lautreamont’s Poesies (Bratislava, 1967):
Snuffbox Village
Illustrations by Nika Goltz (Ника Гольц) for a 1961 edition of Prince Odoevsky’s “Town in a Snuffbox”
New Comic!
Artist Susie Cagle debuts in our Comics section today with “CONCERNS: I’m Here from the Government.”
Ward’s Woodcuts
“Ward’s roots were not in comics, though his work is part of the same large family tree, belonging somewhere among the less worm-ridden branches of printmaking and illustration. ” Art…