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June 6, 2017
Impeach . . . These Christian Fascists
Strike! Huelga! Shirt from Kayrock
June 1, 2017
I teamed up with Kayrock screenprinters here in Brooklyn to evolve my Strike flag design (downloadable graphic HERE) into a Spring-themed shirt for their Political Action wing. The proceeds from…
Justice for Margarita
May 31, 2017
Dave Loewenstein, muralist, graphics producer, arts organizer, CPH poster designer, and all-around great friend of Justseeds, needs our help. His partner’s mom, Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick, is fighting deportation! From…
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May 30, 2017
Gratitude
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May 23, 2017
Healing
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May 16, 2017
Like Goliath They Will Be Conquered
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May 9, 2017
Democracy . . . Dark Money
250: Dutch Mass Markets
May 1, 2017
A couple months ago I stumbled onto twenty Dutch mass market paperbacks scattered across the $.50 and $1 racks at the Strand here in New York. Although I can’t read…
249: The Wisdom Library
April 17, 2017
While working a shift at Book Thug Nation a couple years back, I stumbled across a couple really nicely designed hardbacks of Sartre’s philosophy. They’re interesting because they simultaneously have…
Commonwealth Official Opening This Sunday
April 5, 2017
This Sunday, April 9th, from 3-6pm is the official opening of the exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All at the Queens Museum, in Corona, Queens, NYC. The show is installed on…
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April 4, 2017
“Healing. . . Coming Home to Our Bodies.”
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March 28, 2017
“Oceans Do Rise. . . Empires Do Fall.”
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March 21, 2017
“Democracy Spring.”
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March 14, 2017
“Take from the Greedy to Give to the Needy.”
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March 7, 2017
“Use Your Words.”
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February 28, 2017
“Mother Courage and Her Children.”
248: Czech Crime
February 27, 2017
Three or four years ago I was supposed to go to a big book sales with my friends that run Book Thug Nation here in Brooklyn, but I ended up…
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February 21, 2017
“These Systems Are Failing.”
James Baldwin Mural in Pittsburgh
February 16, 2017
John Jennings’ Celebrate People’s History poster of James Baldwin has been turned into a 4 ft. x 8 ft. mini-mural as part of Pittsburgh’s Sidewall project. Sidewall is a mural…
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February 14, 2017
“I told him of the dead coyote by the road. He said, ‘good.’ I wished his whole world view was instead lying there in the ditch.”
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February 7, 2017
“Exxon lied, now temps are on the rise!”
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January 31, 2017
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts, and troublemakers, had becomes, as they must, soldiers.”
Audio Interference: Brad Duncan
January 26, 2017
In connection to tonight’s opening of Finally Got The News: The Print Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970–1979, Interference Archive has released a new episode of their podcast series….
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January 24, 2017
“We Just Lost the War on Christmas.”
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January 17, 2017
“The Iron Heel—Jack London”
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January 10, 2017
“How You Gonna Be a Racist and a Christian?”
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January 3, 2017
“Trump wrapped in the flag (not the Constition)—Pence carrying a (blasphemous) bible.”
247: Simenon, part III
January 2, 2017
This week is the final installment of covers of novels by the extremely prolific Belgian author Georges Simenon. When it comes to Simenon hardbacks, I’m partial to the 60s/70s…
246: Simenon, part II
December 26, 2016
This week, more Simenon! Although rather than focusing in on the author himself, this is a perfect opportunity to dig into one of my favorite moments of paperback cover…
245: Simenon, part I
December 12, 2016
Following last post’s foray into genre fiction, I’ve now hopped from sci-fi to crime. I’m a huge fan of detective novels and crime fiction, and in some might say that…
Capture the Flag!
December 6, 2016
For the past year Jesse Purcell and I have been working on a giant screenprinted book. What we ended up with is Capture the Flag. A meditation far…
244: Philip K. Dick
November 28, 2016
I used to work hard at doing one of these Judging Books by Their Covers posts a week, but I’ve fallen of, and recently realized I’ve been doing more like…
Interference Archive Ephemera Auction
November 16, 2016
As part of its 2016 Benefit Party, Interference Archive is holding a silent auction of over 35 pieces of social movement ephemera. The auction runs from now until 11pm on…
Screenprint Biennial Opens Tonight/Josh MacPhee Talk Tomorrow
October 28, 2016
I’m really excited to be heading up to Troy, NY today to see the opening of the 2nd Screenprint Biennial, and then to give a talk tomorrow at the Collar…
Worker’s Unite! Film Festival: Call for Submissions
October 18, 2016
My friend Sam recently sent me this call for submissions. I’m not a filmmaker, but I know some of you out there are!: Submissions Are Open for Season 6 of…
243: 50 Fists
October 3, 2016
This week is a bit of a divergence from my usual book cover fare. Instead of focusing on a publisher, author, or designer, I want to look at likely the…
242: Mbari Publishing
September 12, 2016
For years I’ve been hunting down issues of Black Orpheus (which I featured in my last post, #241), and books from it’s spin-off publishing-wing Mbari. I honestly can’t remember how…
Certain Days 2017
August 31, 2016
2017 sees the release of the 16th annual Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. Many Justseeds’ artists have contributed art to the calendar over the years, this year includes…
Help Reprint War In the Neighborhood
August 30, 2016
After being out of print for almost 20 years, Ad Astra Comics is reprinting Seth Tobocman’s seminal Lower East Side squatter graphic novel War in the Neighborhood. I remember getting…
241: Black Orpheus
August 29, 2016
Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature is likely the most important literary journal to emerge out of Africa, and one of the most important in the world…