75: Agit 883, part I
Continuing and expanding on last week’s post on the covers of Sabat, an ’80s German ultra-left magazine, this week I’m going to go way to the late 60s, and look…
Continuing and expanding on last week’s post on the covers of Sabat, an ’80s German ultra-left magazine, this week I’m going to go way to the late 60s, and look…
I’m trying to decide what feature this week while riding out this hurricane hitting the east coast. Hopefully I’ll get this up and posted before the power goes out (if…
My friend “Ret” has sent me some great covers a couple times now. Originally a couple of B. Traven ones, and now a lot more (plus some Angela Davis covers…
I recently got the word from PM Press that I’m designing two covers for reprints of C.L.R. James books. It’s quite an honor, as James is one of those interesting…
A couple months back I was browsing the shelves at the awesome Book Thug Nation bookstore in Brooklyn and I came across a nice paperback copy of Julius Fuchik’s Spanish…
My colleague Jemila Hart, who is a fellow board member of the Flight 64 print studio in Portland, recently had a show in the space of a series of monotypes…
I was surprised to learn that Memorial Day was formerly called Decoration Day and was first observed on May 1, 1865 by recently freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina who…
Here’s a new project: a bushmeat food-cart. The project is called Viande de Brousse, the French translation of bushmeat, meaning simply wild meat hunted from the forest, or bush, as…
Many folks are gearing up for the June 4-11 March on Blair Mountain. The excerpt below came down the wire from organizers, along with this awesome new print from Providence-based…
Join all of Justseeds Pittsburgh and some of our collaborators at this great resource for printmaking in Pittsburgh. Rethinking Pittsburgh’s Industrial Legacy: Prints as Catalyst for Change Exhibition Opening, Symposium…
Here’s the final installment of the Peter Kropotkin book cover series, 19 covers this week, 69 total over the five week series. Although what initially drew me to doing these…
Over the next couple weeks I’m going to dig through the rest of the Peter Kropotkin covers I’ve found. Most are beardless, and many are banal at best, but there…
The March on Blair Mountain will be June 5 to 11, 2011 in West Virginia. It commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when 10,000…
Mark Vallen has published a nice piece remembering the terror of the Reagan years, and has included a great collection of political flyers he made during the 80s. Here is…
My friend Sean Stewart ran a bookstore in San Francisco for a couple years called Babylon Falling. He’s since moved to NYC, and is hard at work on a new…
I found this online summary of my art. Now I can quit!
I was just recently able to see Army of Shadows(1969), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, for a second time at NYC’s Film Forum. The film is adapted from Joseph Kessel’s Army…
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great time. Here’s a little something for your hangover! The National Science Foundation released a report on the 29th of December…
Orwell was lucky to be published in the UK by Penguin, one of the publishers with the best record of concern for, and investment, in their book covers. The cover…
The book to the left is the copy of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia that I grew up with (I think I first read it early on in high school)….