Impeach Freights/Graf 27
December 30, 2014
Dumb 2 Frack, part 2.
207: Anvil Press
December 29, 2014
Over the last couple years I’ve been finding old political mass market books about Ireland, and squirreling them away. Then I realized they’re actually all published by the same press,…
St. Helena Giant Earwig
December 23, 2014
When considering the death of species and the grim biological impoverishment of earth, we have to take the lesser with the larger, and the less lovely as well. Recent news…
Impeach Freights/Graf 26
December 23, 2014
Dumb 2 Frack, part I.
The new Justseeds Print of the Month Club
December 17, 2014
Hi friends of Justseeds, we are super excited to announce a new project here at Justseeds: the Print of the Month Club. Purchase a membership and get 12 months of…
History From Below @ Sidewall (Pittsburgh)
December 17, 2014
For a couple weeks in November, I hammered out a four by eight foot version of my “Teach History From Below” print (from our Liberating Learning Portfolio) for the Sidewall…
Impeach Freights/Graf 25
December 16, 2014
Drones 2 Fear.
Workspace: Shaun Slifer
December 15, 2014
Here is another studio visit, in which I ask Justseeds members to describe their current studio and to talk about their ideal workspace. This time with Shaun Slifer from Pittsburgh:…
206: Benia Krik
December 15, 2014
A quick week, only one cover today. I recently found this amazing copy of Isaac Babel’s play Benia Krik. The design is attributed to “Lloyd,” the book published by Collet’s…
Call for Writing Submissions for Winter Tangerine Review
December 11, 2014
Winter Tangerine Review (WTR), a literary and arts organization, is curating a special feature called Hands Up Don’t Shoot that will explore what it means to be black in America….
Impeach Freights/Graf 24
December 9, 2014
Gratitude. Impeach as a new online shop with some of his artwork, you can check it out HERE.
205: Americanist Library
December 8, 2014
This week we swing from left to far right, Africa to Belmont, Massachusetts. Sorry for the whiplash. The Americanist Library is a collection of almost twenty mass market paperbacks put…
Justseeds Notebooks!
December 4, 2014
Last year we launched a set of new blank notebooks, co-published with the venerable Eberhardt Press (printers of our ever popular annual organizers, which are now only available from them)….
Oficina Arara/Poster Collective, Porto
December 3, 2014
Friends of Ibn Firnis (Baltimore-based political comics artists—we’ve sold their work on Justseeds before, and hopefully will again soon!) just took a trip to Portugal, and found some great street…
Impeach Freights/Graf 23
December 2, 2014
Shared sacrifice.
204: Three Crowns Africa
December 1, 2014
There were three major British publishers which began putting out books by African authors in the late 1950s and early 1960s, especially to the educational book market. The big two…
Ferguson goddam
November 26, 2014
Some recent copy-right free graphics that I made in response to the police murder and state violence taking place across the country.
Impeach Freights/Graf 22
November 25, 2014
Whistle blowers, the real American heroes.
Open House at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
November 24, 2014
Since this past spring, I’ve been honored to be working with a group of folks down in Southern West Virginia to launch an exciting people’s history project: The West…
203: Leonard Baskin, part II
November 24, 2014
The second half of Leonard Baskin’s book cover output I’ve found is composed of facial portraits. The portrait of Kafka to the right is exceptional. The picture feels like it…
Honoring Zumbi dos Palmares
November 20, 2014
Dia da Consciência Negra, or Black Awareness Day, is celebrated on this day every year in Brazil. The date of the holiday was selected to honor Zumbi dos Palmares for…
Ayotzinapa
November 19, 2014
Last week I posted this to my instagram, made sense to share it here: I spent the day harvesting in the field but constantly thinking about the students and families…
Impeach Freights/Graf 21
November 18, 2014
Less fines, more bankers with jail times. Impeach as a new online shop with some of his artwork, you can check it out HERE.
202: Leonard Baskin, part I
November 17, 2014
In my mind, three of the most significant social realist printmakers that were working in the US in the second half of the 20th Century were Leonard Baskin, Antonio Frasconi,…
Traps, Flows, Echoes opens in PDX!
November 12, 2014
I just opened a solo show of prints, installation, sound, and video in the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Gallery 214. It’s up until the end of November, so if…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: ACT UP and Gran Fury
November 11, 2014
A new excerpt from A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements that was published by The New…
Impeach Freights/Graf 20
November 11, 2014
Rolling Jubilee—Occupy Everywhere.
201: Ronald Clyne
November 10, 2014
Ronald Clyne is best known as the brilliant designer of most of the Folkways label record covers, over 500 from the 1950s through the early 1980s (for more on that,…
One Book, Many Communities: Mornings in Jenin
November 4, 2014
This winter, join Librarians and Archivists with Palestine for an exciting international reading campaign: “One Book, Many Communities: Mornings in Jenin.” The project draws inspiration from the “one book, one…
Impeach Freights/Graf 19
November 4, 2014
A lesser of 2 evils is still evil.
200: Two Hundred!!!
November 3, 2014
The first “Judging Books by Their Covers” post was on April 12, 2010. Four and half years and over 2,000 book covers later, I’ve reached the two hundred post mark….
Penny Smasher v.1: Public Debut
November 3, 2014
This past Saturday, Stuart Anderson and I dragged the penny smasher prototype out into public for the first time for a “soft” debut before the Flood Tide screening at the…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Combat Paper Project
October 31, 2014
Another excerpt from A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements that was published by The New Press…
Article on the People’s Climate March 30-City Wheatpasting Action: Upper Peninsula Report Back
October 29, 2014
Readers of the Justseeds blog likely recall the 30-city wheatpasting campaign of images that were put up in August and September to promote the People’s Climate March in NYC and…
DIYDPW #32
October 29, 2014
Burgettstown, PA, USA – story here. (Thanks, Becca!) DIYDPW is a (semi)weekly blog post highlighting global examples of Do It Yourself Department of Public Works projects. These are defined as…
But what does it have to do with Art?
October 28, 2014
Friends of the Orphan Signs from Michael Lopez on Vimeo. I recently came across this video made by Michael Lopez, a collaborator with Friends of the Orphan Signs in Albuquerque.
Impeach Freights/Graf 18
October 28, 2014
I recently got sent a nice cache of new photos from middle America’s graffiti troubadour, IMPEACH. I’ll be posting a new photo each Tuesday morning for awhile, enjoy! This one…
199: stage 1
October 27, 2014
In honor of my upcoming trip to London, I thought I’d do a feature on a little known lefty publisher from the UK. For awhile now I’ve been running into…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: The IWW and the Paterson Pageant
October 24, 2014
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, photo courtesy of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Here is another excerpt from A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt starts…
DIYDPW #31
October 22, 2014
Pittsburgh, PA, USA These are known as “sharrows”, a type of lane-sharing marking that cities often use on streets where bike lanes won’t fit (or for other mysterious municipal reasons)….