Monthly Archives: November 2011

12 Years of Babylon: An Interview with Myrtle Von Damitz, III

By Matt Runkle | Published: November 30, 2011

Not only is Myrtle Von Damitz, III a vastly talented painter, she’s also a bibliophilic dynamo. In 1999 she founded the New Orleans artist’s book exhibition, Babylon Lexicon, and has since continued to organize, curate, and serve as its chief muse in varying capacities. The twelfth annual Babylon Lexicon took place earlier this month, as usual [...]

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Matt Runkle
Matt Runkle
Matt Runkle is a writer, cartoonist, and book artist. His work has appeared in The Collagist, on BOMBlog, and is forthcoming in Beecher's. He has taught workshops in fiction, comics art, visual narrative, sequential collage, and zine making. The third issue of his zine, RUNX TALES, will be released in 2012. You can visit his personal blog here.

Dog Dreams Launch, Take Two!

By Annemarie Munn | Published: November 29, 2011

An announcement for lovers of letterpress, lovers of dogs, parents and friends of small children, and everyone who is young at heart: Michael Wertz’s book Dog Dreams, originally produced as a Small Plates Edition of SFCB, will soon be available from Gingko Press!  Dog Dreams is a 7″ x 7″ board book.  The original letterpress [...]

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Annemarie Munn
Annemarie Munn
Annemarie's abiding love of the broadside brought her to printmaking, book arts, and to SFCB, where she has been volunteering for almost two years. She is currently studying for her MFA in Fiction at SFSU, where she also studies printmaking and book arts.

Open Print Studio: Where the Magic Happens

By Annemarie Munn | Published: November 18, 2011

A quick dispatch from last Friday’s absolutely hoppin’ Open Print Studio: I was supervising this particular evening, but fellow OPS supervisor, and rockstar intern Meredith Hudson-Redfield was there, too, and she brought her senior projects class from CCA.  She used her OPS press time to give them an introduction to letterpress printing.  They learned how [...]

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Annemarie Munn
Annemarie Munn
Annemarie's abiding love of the broadside brought her to printmaking, book arts, and to SFCB, where she has been volunteering for almost two years. She is currently studying for her MFA in Fiction at SFSU, where she also studies printmaking and book arts.

Heroes & Criminals Press Grand Opening

By Rocket Caleshu | Published: November 15, 2011

Congratulations to our friend Jessica White (co-founder of Ladies of Letterpress and SFCB studio visitor) on the grand opening of her new letterpress shop! Wish we could have been there to celebrate, and if you are in the Asheville, North Carolina area be sure to check it out.

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Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu
Rocket Caleshu is the Marketing and Communications Coordinator here at SFCB, and a freelance letterpress printer.

Autumn Catalog Distribution and the Literary Life

By Laura Ferris | Published: November 2, 2011

As a little girl growing up in a small college town in the Central Valley, I believed that San Francisco was where museums and the Giants lived. As a freshman at Cal, I thought it was where the shopping and the adventure was. Now that I am newly planted on this side of the Bay, [...]

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Laura Ferris
Chickadees are collectively referred to as a "banditry" or a "dissimulation" of chickadees.