Heh. Thanks guys!
@lba: I do sell most of 'em- the lithos tend to be a bit pricier, but the letterpress stuff is mostly $15-$25. (Vandercook printin' is the way to go, man. It takes me 8 hours to do a 12-20 print edition in litho, and I could do, like, 500 letterpress posters in the same time.)
@Aurora: Plague doctors are pretty awesome. There were about 5 of us in my old studio (around the time that I made that) who- independently of each other- started making work with plague doctors. Then we switched to peg-legs. Funny how you just get on the same wave-length as people if yer around 'em enough. ;)
@Ryu: My favorite part of that poster is Dick Cheney. I'm proud of myself that I could not only draw a convincing Cheney that small (he's about 1"x1.5"), but also that I could carve him out. Heh. It's the little things in life, right? Unfortunately that poster was made before I learned to lay text out on the computer and then transfer it to the block- I still carve out the letters by hand, but they look like set type because I'm working from a consistent font. Ah, technology! (
Here's one where I did that , if anybody's curious.)
@TheMidge28:
Except for the lithos, they're all linoleum, which I like better than wood because there's no grain, it's easier on your tools (and hands), and while it costs way more than I'd like, it's still cheaper than the end-grain or hard woods I'd have to use to get that kind of tight detail- especially with the larger blocks. I've stopped doing etching, for the most part, because the price of zinc and copper has gotten ridiculous!
I do posters and illustration gigs every now and again, but that stuff's kind of catch as catch can, where I'm living now. I'd love to go intern (or work for money!) at Hatch Show Print in Nashville; they're one of the oldest letterpress shops in the country(maybe the oldest that's continually functioned as a business), and did all those old wood type posters for Hank and Elvis and all those guys. :)
