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The new CD by Seattle’s Reptet, Chicken or Beef? (Monktail Records), adapts elements of Flora woodcuts from Murderpie, a 1939 Little Man Press chapbook. The package—which includes additional Flora imagery on the back and inner disc sleeve—was designed by Jeffrey Huston and Reptet drummer John Ewing. The original typography replicates Flora lettering. This is the second release by Reptet to feature Flora imagery. Their 2005 Do This! was emblazoned with a critter we call a…

Detail, Green Mansions resort brochure, 1947Full work reproduced in The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora

It’s been a long time comin’ here in Minnesota — at last I can milk the cow, play some records and mow the lawn! Ah, yes — but it still drizzles. Hence the umbrella. And cigar. Saturday Evening Post advertising promotional booklet, 1955.

Detail, Mme Tellier’s Picnic, pen & ink, 1995

Detail, Chioggia, early 1960s, acrylic

Detail, The Big Bank Robbery, undated acrylic on board, ca. early 1960s complete work reproduced in The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora P.S. Another detail:

Detail, “Ohio,” illustration for Container Corporation of America Fortune magazine, 1947

Detail, Distress and Dismay, tempera on paper, ca. 1971-74

“Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.” untitled tempera with pencil, ca. early 1960s found in sketchbook

Spot illustration, Gup: 3 Adventures, Little Man Press, 1942

Cover detail, Morton Downey Sings Songs You Love (Camden CAE 245), 1954