The posters have been distributed throughout the land!

Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley, Calif

Gus Twintig's Blog is Up and Running

The official web site for The Clock Without a Face is up and running (sans the 'clock' video - which should appear shortly). My wife and I built the site, with flash animation by the awesome Julian Birchman. ALSO - there's an amazing mini-documentary video that gives the fascinating true-ish history of the cursed clock.

And(!) Elizabeth Bird of the School Library Journal gave the book a kick-ass review today. I'm stoked.

test drawing for The Clock book

This is a 22" x 22" tester-sketch I made in order to figure out how to make drawings for The Clock Without a Face. It will be included in my May show at Adam Baumgold Gallery.

Final postcard image

Actually, this might just be inserted in an envelope to promote the show. This is the final.

The Book is Finally REAL

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! Pre-order here.

Litho Proofs are Ready

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.

completed prints on drying rack

Phil Sanders, master printer for RBPMW

images for making the litho plates

litho plates set on printing press

pre-trimmed prints drying themselves

Kitchen table drafting shenanigans

Poster - line art (pre color)

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.