I'm making postcards of my favorite images from the archives -- vintage oddities and sometimes the work of the living. (The creators were kind enough to give permission.)

Contribute $10 and receive a postcard pack as a thank you.

The first two sets of 10 designs are gone and the third ("July 2018") is now available:

Postcard Pack 1.3 (July 2018 edition)

For United States $10.00 USD Outside the US (includes extra shipping fee) $12.00 USD

Twilight instrumental

I always wanted a music blog. (On Spotify as Will Schofield.)

Crouching and Screaming

Wonderful 1978 illustrations by Outi Markkanen (Finland, b.1951) on Kuriosas. Visit the link for many more illustrations from Kurnau ja Kamaluu.

Histoire de Magali

Illustration by Madeleine Charléty for Histoire de Magali (1930) by André Chamson (Amaz link)

Druillet in America

It's nice that legends like Druillet are being published in the US more and more.

René d’Harnoncourt, The Painted Pig and Mexicana

René d’Harnoncourt, from The Painted Pig and Mexicana (1930-31)

Evan M. Cohen

Loving the work of Evan M. Cohen

Kazys Šimonis, Mirages of Dreams

Kazys Šimonis (1887 – 1978, Lithuania)

via the exhibit Mirages of Dreams at ciurlionis.lt 

Marcus Behmer, Nobody Can Resist His Fate

See my big post on Marcus Behmer from a few years ago.

If I'm interpreting the auction house correctly, "Niemand kann wider sein Schicksal" is a picture story (for adults) on a single sheet made by Marcus Behmer in 1905 (printed later?) and dedicated to Harry Kessler (see Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918 and Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937). 

Mount Analogue 1960

Mount Analogue

binding illustration, first American edition, 1960 Pantheon

Read it!

Karl Wirsum

Karl Wirsum (from Karma International gallery, Zurich).

See more here: “Chicago Imagists” at Karma International

Previously: Smoke Hairy Who
Also see the book Chicago Imagists
(I have not yet seen the documentary Hairy Who and The Chicago Imagists.)

Antonio Fernandez Reboiro

Antonio Fernandez Reboiro, 1979, Poster for documentary film by Idelfonso Ramos (Debemos Saber, We Should Know) via MOMA (some reproductions of his work on Amaz)

Introducing 50wattsBooks

I'm now selling books from my collection. I put some info here. Please follow @50wattsBooks on Instagram. Thanks!

Jo Daemen cover designs

From the collection of Anne Aalders

I read about Johanna Maria Hendrika Daemen (1891–1944) on feuilleton and then found some book covers she designed. These are from 1928 to 1930.

Der Widiwondelwald

I try not to think about how much I would pay for a copy of Hilde Krüger's 1924 children's book Der Widiwondelwald. Some links (in German): one, two, three -- see the full book as smaller images at the last link to the kibook blog.

[Update: this was briefly in print last year -- might still be able to find it.]

I kept coming across this book when working on my Kinderbuch series over the years.

Mr. Frog Went A-Courting

Mr. Frog Went A-Courting by Evelyn Lambart, National Film Board of Canada

Also see: The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go