Jed McGowan: Blog

12/27/07

Savagery Continues

I've added some pages to "Ritual of the Savage." You can read those here. I hope hope hope I can add more pages soon, good friends.

Below is an unused page from the comic. Drawn while listening to "Gila" by Beach House.

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12/12/07

Charles Burns Tattoo!

I got a tattoo. Well, a temporary tattoo.

They're by the estimable cartoonist/illustrator Charles Burns. They came with the December issue of the Believer. Other tats were done by Ron Rege Jr., Walton Ford, PaperRad, Marcel Dzama and some others. If you want your own set of tattoos, you can buy them from the McSweeney's shop here. Trust me--they'll change your life.

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12/3/07

Thrift Store Find, the 2nd

As promised, here are scans of my other vintage children's book find, The First Book of Electricity(1959). The text was written by husband-and-wife team Sam and Beryl Epstein. The illustrations are by Robin King--another illustrator new to me.

The endpapers of this one knocked me out.

Here are some charming depictions of electric household objects.

The plate on this page is really nice, no? This coloring technique seems to work best when there are strong spotted blacks. The hands, for instance, are less successful I think.

Here we get a better glimpse of the book's printing process.

Hot! Am I alone in my fetish for printing misregistration?

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