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I created and published a new zine: Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine. It’s an 8-page, quarter-size collage zine of odd letterpress blocks (illustrations/text mounted on a block of wood, to be inked & pressed into paper using a printing press) that I encountered while searching Ebay for letterpress things. Welcome to the weird world of things people used to want to print to paper repeatedly, like an illustration of hands unwrapping a slice of American cheese to a Very Goth “VOID IF DETACHED”.
All images are screenshots of Ebay.com for-sale items w/o stated creators; digitally horizontally-flipped for legibility. (Letterpress blocks and type are designed reflected, so when they are inked & pressed into paper, the correct image shows.)
See its details page for more info, to download/print the zine, or to read it online.