Gorillas Fighting Back
February 13, 2012
Here are a couple of interesting stories from the gorilla regions of central Africa: The Fossey Gorilla Fund, which operates a variety of active conservation efforts in Rwanda and DR…
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97: Angela Davis, part III
February 13, 2012
Here’s the last hurrah of the Angela Davis covers (pending any great ones y’all might send in to me!), a collection of books by other authors about Davis and her…
Honoring Marlon Riggs
February 3, 2012
Marlon Riggs was born on this day in 1957. A political filmmaker, Riggs started exploring themes of race and sexuality in his films while attending Harvard University. As he was…
95: Angela Davis, part I
January 30, 2012
While working on my posts about the covers of books about prisons (JBbTC 39–45, 52), I started a folder of Angela Davis covers, which has now grown large enough to…
Honoring Angela Davis
January 26, 2012
Today is the birthday of Angela Davis. Davis is best known for her work with the Black Panthers in the 1970’s, subsequent time on the lam, and incredible afro; she…
Narco Street Art Rooster Memorial
January 23, 2012
In drug-war torn Reynosa, Mexico, a large statue of a rooster has appeared on a busy roadside. The ten-foot sculpture is adorned with a flower wreath addressed to the memory…
94: Penguin Political Leaders
January 23, 2012
I’ve never hidden my admiration for the sheer volume of creativity, thoughtful illustration, and sharp design that has gone into the production of Penguin Books, especially from the 1950s through…
93: Kronstadt, part IV
January 16, 2012
My friend R. Marut in London has come through again with some more books I had missed, so here are the last three Kronstadt covers. First is this handsome Freedom…
92: Kronstadt, part III
January 9, 2012
This week I’ve got even more Kronstadt covers, with a lot of help from Dave at Recollection Books in Seattle (thanks!). To the right is the dust jacket of the…
91: Kronstadt, part II
January 1, 2012
I wanted to start this week off with a counterpoint to last weeks generally pro-Kronstadt sailor covers. To the left is the cover of Kronstadt by Lenin and Trotsky, published…
A History of New Jewish Agenda
December 31, 2011
Thread Makes Blanket Press is getting ready to publish their first book, on the New Jewish Agenda! Peep this link to see how you can help. From Ezra Nepon, the…
90: Kronstadt, part I
December 26, 2011
This week’s post is inspired by the book to the right, which I came across on Alec’s bookshelf during a recent visit to Pittsburgh. Emanuel Pollack’s The Kronstadt Rebellion (New…
86: Boni Paper Books, Part II
November 28, 2011
Here is part two of my series on the early American paperback experiment known as Boni Paper Book. To read the back story, and see the first four books I…
84: The Man Who Was Thursday, part II
November 14, 2011
Here is part two of the covers of G.K. Chesterton’s 1908 anarchist exploitation novel The Man Who Was Thursday. You can see the first 17 covers from last week HERE….
Dept. of Space & Land Reclamation Interview
November 11, 2011
My friend Daniel Tucker is working on a new research project about art and activism called “Never the Same: Conversations About Art Transforming Politics & Community in Chicago & Beyond.”…
82: Sha’un Falastiniya
October 31, 2011
About a month ago I started getting emails from my friend Charles, who works for the Journal of Palestine Studies. He started digging up old issues of an Arabic language…
81: Fizz
October 24, 2011
This week I’m going to jump back to Germany in the 60s and 70s, and look at Fizz, an antiauthoritarian political paper which split with Agit 883. Editors from Agit…
80: New Anarchist Review
October 17, 2011
About three years back I bought a small collection of cheap, but relatively handsome, UK Anarchist pamphlets under the title New Anarchist Review. They stretched from 1984 into the early…
79: Agit 883, part V
October 10, 2011
Here’s the last batch of Agit883 covers! These all rely on some version of collage and montage, to varying effects…I’m actually up to my neck in a poster project for…
77: Agit 883, part III
September 26, 2011
Here’s week three of covers of the German anti-capitalist paper Agit 883. This week I want to look at the covers that use the conventions of popular comic books to…