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The Book is Finally REAL

Scott Teplin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:51 +0000

I just received three advance copies of the book (ships to stores on May 1) - and it finally feels real! I'm super happy with the printing/binding/feel of the whole thing. Yippee!

Maker's Market

Scott Teplin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:39:01 +0000

I have my Alphabet City prints up on Maker's Market.

Guess What Website This is For?

Scott Teplin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:36:10 +0000

New Ternky Towers poster

Scott Teplin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:37:11 +0000

I think this will, somehow, sometime, be turned into a letterpress print. Probably. At the very least it'll be (part of) the announcement for my show at Adam Baumgold Gallery this May. And I'll watercolor it, eventually.pen and ink

Eight Mini Crashes in Graphite

Scott Teplin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:54:01 +0000

These 5" x 5" studies are for the Agricultural Reader 4 (mentioned in this previous post).

Litho Proofs are Ready

Scott Teplin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:03:10 +0000

The proofs for the first print to promote the book are ready today. The awesome folks, led by master printer Phil Sanders (pictured in red had below) at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in Manhattan are hand printing (2 plate lithography) an edition of 175 of these.

Kitchen table drafting shenanigans

Scott Teplin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:26:47 +0000

Internationalisticness

Scott Teplin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:03:08 +0000

BangArt magazine from Italy has a feature on my crash series. I can't read Italian - so I hope what they said inside isn't mean.

BEASTS! has been published in Chinese, for, uh, CHINA! See the freshly designed cover below by the editor and hugely talented designer Jacob Covey, below (Frantagraphics art director - the best name in comics publishing).

My contribution for BEASTS! was The Loathly Worm:

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....and finally, my crash drawings will be featured in the March 2010 issue of a Russian glossy magazine focusing on "toys for men" (I'm assured that it isn't naughty - but instead translates more closely to "fancy cars for rich men").

Poster - line art (pre color)

Scott Teplin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:11:21 +0000

This is the poster I designed for the book, which is going to given away to the "raddest" American bookstores in (those that are independent, cool, and sell McSweeney's lit). We were originally going to do a crappy color copy poster, but then we thought, "yuck." Next we thought producing a glicee print. But since I'm a complete snob and not too down with computer/ink-jet prints with fancy names, we thought - SILKSCREEN! But then I remembered I'm friends with Phil Sanders - the master printer for the venerable Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. They primarily work with etching and hand-pulled lithography. I'm a sucker for fine-art printing - I studied litho and etching in undergrad and grad school - and my dad used to deal in antique prints. So we went with 2-color lithographs - in an edition of 150, and maybe an alternative edition with different colors of 100 after that.

It'll be in newsprint-colored paper, made to look kind of blue-printy - in blue ink, while the title in the center will be a bright, emerald green. That little scroll on the bottom of the frame is left blank because I plan on writing the name of each store inside of it. I think we are also going to make a special edition of 12 with gold ink for contest winners (or something along those lines - Charlie Bucket-esque). The particular frame for this one is an alternate one that I drew for the back cover:- but didn't use because my initial measurements for it were wrong, wrong, wrong. Duh, me.

Last Crash Drawing for a While

Scott Teplin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:11:21 +0000

This will likely be the last crash drawing for a while (too many other things going on) - but positively not the last one in the series. I feel like I'm just getting started with these (waterolor - ink - graphite). Anyhoo - this is the last one of many to be included in The Agriculture Reader 4, where I will be the featured artist. It is really a highly polished, beautifully produced poetry and literature hand-bound magazine/zine with letterpress covers by the same publisher, x-ing books, who published my Alphabet City series.