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a charm for good luck 🍀

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fool me once, fool me twice, fool me ten times, fool me twenty times

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I'M ALIVE ;0; Happy Monday! Work's been crazy, but hopefully this big post makes up for my absence 🙇 Someday i'll learn to post fewer images, but for now i feel the need to hide my batcat brainrot at the bottom... (if i wasn't already going to hell, i definitely secured my ticket with this one :'D)

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It's Fine Press Friday!

This 1967 edition of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is graced with the seven distinctive illustrations by Italian American designer, printer, illustrator, and printmaker Valenti Angelo (1897-1982). Printed in San Francisco by Grabhorn-Hoyem for the small-press publisher Lewis Osborne in an edition of 375 copies, it was designed by Sherwood Grover (1910-1986) using Poliphilus and Blado types handset by Katherine Grover (1911-1978), and printed on mould-made Cream Laid Medium paper by W. S. Hodgkinson of Wookey Hole, England. The binding for the edition is by Schuberth Bookbindery in San Francisco.

The Grovers were longtime employees of the Grabhorn Press, the iconic San Francisco printing house,founded by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, that ran from 1920-1965. The Grovers also founded the Grace Hoper Press in the 1950s and used the Grabhorn facilities to produce their editions. In many ways, this publication could be considered a Grace Hoper production. When Edwin Grabhorn (1889-1968) retired in 1965, his brother Robert (1900-1973) formed Grabhorn-Hoyem in 1966 with Andrew Hoyem (b. 1935) of the Auerhahn Press. After Robert's death, Hoyem transformed the business into the Arion Press, which continues to publish fine-press books today, keeping the Grabhorn legacy alive for over 100 years.

Valenti Angelo created decorations and illustrations for over 225 books over his long career. He produced his first work for the Grabhorn Press in 1926 and became one of their principle illustrators for over 40 years, decorating and illustrating 45 publications for Grabhorn and Grabhorn-Hoyem.

Our copy of this publication is another donation from our late friend Jerry Buff (1931-2025).

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mermaid megafauna

patreon . bsky

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queen of hearts

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I feel like some of you guys think "bad art" is like someone gluing rhinestones to a water melon, or a guy who made his own armchair out of Ohio license plates, or a trashy romance novel where someone says "the blue-eyed one kissed the brown-eyed one," when in reality bad art is a 1000000 Billion Dollar movie where none of the workers got paid and every single creative decision was market tested to see how lucrative of a profit it could foreseeably make to wow shareholders.

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Another 100x100 Multiplication Table. It has the same subdivision pattern as the original one.

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the correct term for most bugs is actually "friend"

all bugs*

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car sketchin'

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i love women

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It took me a long time, but I finally finished this illustration!!! So much work but so much fun (yeah, I did this just for fun)! This is a Mexican Gothic inspired piece, which is a novel I read recently. I absolutely loved the story and characters. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s writing is so mesmerizing.(*¯︶¯*) If you’re a gothic fiction fan like me and haven’t read it, do it now!

(Thanks to this book, I may have found my new obsession: fungi (≧∇≦) If you know any fun facts about mushrooms, feel free to drown me with them.)

Hehe, just sharing something that made me really happy lately. Oh! And if you haven’t heard the news yet, I’ll be exhibiting at Polymanga (18-21.04. Lausanne) and Fantasy Basel (29-31.05. Basel). Come find me. It’s gonna be fun! ٩(˃̶͈̀௰˂̶͈́)و

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Joust ⚔

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quickie 030

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nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

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