We had a great time at the 1st ever Iowa City Book Festival today. We were mostly working for the Heroes & Criminals side of things and Jessica made lots of new contacts and sold some cool artwork, zines, and books to really cool people. It only rained once and was the coolest July Saturday I’ve ever experienced. And look I got to wear my fancy new hat. To see all the pictures check them out on my Facebook Gallery
Jessica and her Heroes & Criminals Press and myself are putting on a Letterpress Printing Demo at this years Convergence We will be printing two different souvenir images on both Friday and Saturday nights at 10pm, in the Garden Courtyard near the parties. The images below are the Flyers we made this past friday and Saturday that we will be hanging throughout the hotel to advertise our demo. They are 11 by 17 and limited to 32 copies.
The type reads,
Experience the amazing sensation of the Kelsey Press: a wonder of the mechanical age!
Letterpress Printing Demonstration
by the celebrated printers of
HEROES & CRIMINALS PRESS
A fine establishment of certified rogue experts by authority of the crown; not necessarily involved in acts of piracy.
10 o’clock Friday and Saturday nights only.
Witness the feats of wonder in the lovely and raucous atmosphere of the Garden Courtyard
Fantastic Original prints will be handed out to every man, woman, and child in attendance at this once-in-a-lifetime display of artisanry.”
See you there!
Attention Iowa residents Jessica White of Heroes and Criminals Press show The Bad Sparrow goes up tommorow in the Art Gallery West building and will be up for one week. The Reception is next friday Apil 4th from 5-7pm. See you there.
The Present by Jessica White is the second in our Artist Poster series. It should be available in September. A page will appear on luckycreature.com this week for preorders. We are very excited to add this poster to the Artist Poster Series.
About the piece Jessica writes
“it was one in a series of drawings I made that echo images of old children’s book illustrations, and the slightly scary or sinister side to them. I made these to inspire creativity in anyone looking at them, and I like to think of them as “illustrations for stories that haven’t yet been written”. They’re like invitations to viewers to write that story when they see the drawing.”
Our good friend over at Bittersweetnessandlight have launched a new store for the Heroes and Criminal Press that currently includes two of their zines and a nice art book. You can view the items HERE I highly reccomend the Choose Your Own Moral Code. It’s very fun.
