The 5th installment of the Poetry Foundation's The Poem as Comic Strip series features a Paul Hornschemeier interpretation of former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser's poem The Giant Slide.Upon reading the poem Hornschemeier says he "saw the entire comic, just as it is in the finished version, all of the panels just floating there along with the time and beats of the poem,”Here is a link to the strip. (pdf)Here are the other 4 strips in the series:#1: David Heatley and Diane Wakoski#2: Gabrielle Bell and Emily Dickinson#3: Jeffrey Brown and Russell Edson#4: Ron Regé, Jr. and...
A Dark Alphabet Book Comes to Life
Here is an amazing video tribute to Edward Gorey's sinister alphabet book the Gashlycrumb Tinies. The film is the work of Matt Duplessie of ClandestinyThanks to BookGirl for the lead
I Guess It Still Beats the LongPen
Steve Weber at the Selling Books blog posted this cartoon.He titled it:Easy way to get rich selling collectible booksthen said:"OK, here's how it works:1. Find out which authors will be visiting your town this week (you can search here).2. Pick the most famous authors, and buy some of their books.3. Everything else you need to know is in this cartoon."Please tell me he's kidding.
Deep Fried Books
John LaFalce and Drew Matott are two artists who set out to create something as a "commentary on America’s obsession with an unhealthy lifestyle, unstable foreign policy and blatant disregard for intellectualism."What they came up with was to produce "an edition of altered books that were battered and deep fried."Back in May as part of Chicago's Columbia College's Manifest Urban Arts Festival LaFalce and Matott cooked up 100 books, vacuum-sealed them, signed them and sent them into the world.Here is a visual tour:BasteFrySealand take homeI wonder if these would be eligible for the various Edible Book festivals? Maybe a special...
The Growing Bestiary of Briony Morrow-Cribbs
The "Cabinets of Curiosity" of the 16th and 17th century is the jumping off point for Morrow-Cribbs. These rooms of mythical constructs blur the boundary of fact and fiction, where the real and the imagined share the stage.Morrow-Cribs says she "uses the mediums of print and the book arts (and occasionally ceramics) to create a graphic connection between the recognizable 'real' world and my invisible, 'fantasy' world.Her latest project is providing 11 aquatint prints to accompany the first book publication of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's prose poem Iskandariya. The book is designed and published by Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey.Milroy says...