It's no longer Valentine's Day, but I still wanted to share the bonus cards that came with the Limited Edition release from J-List since many of them are quite shippy! In the event that tumblr compresses the hell out of them, you can also view them here.
If you're wondering what I mean, a mouthful to get the idea to you:
These are selected/Utena specific scans of the Newtype Magazine special issue addendum, '15th Memorial Book,' packaged with the April 2000 magazine. Utena appears in a few spots, as well as Utena alumni like Yoji Enokido! These Memorial Books are literally celebrations of the magazine's work, a strangely masturbatory process that nevertheless kinda makes sense for an era before internet was how this stuff mostly got conveyed. A rich secondhand market existed, and this was a way to get people filling out their collections, I suppose. As usual, no idea what any of this says, just that I think it's neato as a larger archival process, and I'm just trying to find the best place for it, or the best chance to get an audience. Obviously it will all go on the site, but the how and where I haven't worked out just yet. I'm just not sure if there's an audience for this stuff here. Checking!
"Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem., get recipe for Mina."
FINALLY GONNA START POSTING MY DRACULA TAROT SERIES, Starting with our beloved friend and Fool, Johnathan Harker
black bear themed linoblock test print today!!! Pretty bang on only needed a few tweaks! Now to finish the grizzly! I cant wait to carve all the lil trouts in it.
Throwback Thursday > sweet pool One Coin Grande Figure Cards [2009]
Managed to get my hands on a few figures from the Nitro+CHiRAL no Mori series a few months ago, so I thought it would be worth uploading the little cards that came with them! I love this art style, it's just really cute... In the event that tumblr compresses the hell out of them, you can also view them here.
Issue 4.2 is on the way, and it's very exciting!! Unfortunately half the press was eaten by a massive sand dragon, so it may be a couple months yet before this issue hits print. Keep an eye out!!