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An advance copy of our forthcoming third Flora anthology was delivered yesterday via FedEx courier from the printer. It’s quite lovely (the book, not the courier or the printer) and brimming with visual mischief. A street date has been announced by the publisher, Fantagraphics: first week of August. The book can be pre-ordered from Amazon.com now. Sweetly Diabolic features hundreds of rare and previously unpublished images from the Flora archives. The cover was designed by…

Our next Flora compendium is being compendicated. Target publication: September 2009, by Fantagraphics. Cover design by Laura Lindgren. UPDATE (1 June 2009): Publication announced first week of August.

Not quite hot on the heels of The Mischievous Art and The Curiously Sinister Art, Barbara and I are now compiling a third volume of Floriana. Tentatively titled The Sweetly Diabolic Art of Jim Flora, the book will be published by Fantagraphics in July or August 2009. Designer Laura Lindgren will once again transform our loosely organized text and Flora’s genial monstrosities into a tight, 180-page coffeetable bouquet. Over the next year, this blog will…

Fantagraphics has posted photos from the September 22 opening of the Flora exhibit. So has Ward Jenkins. (Who also journals.) And David Lasky. The exhibit runs through October 24. (Note: Flora co-archivist Barbara Economon could not attend the opening due to a family emergency.)

Barbara and I will be curating the first Jim Flora art exhibit since—well, since the artist’s memorial service in 1998. The exhibit, named after our second book, “The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora,” takes place at the Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. The exhibit will run from September 22 through October 24. The Florafest will include original paintings, fine art prints, woodcut relief prints, record covers, music ephemera, and Little Man Press artifacts. There will also be…

Fantagraphics Books Art Director Jacob McCovey writes: Flora is jaw-dropping to the point of being a spokesman for TMD, not to mention Bipolar Disorder. The entire tsunami of illustrators/designers making a new-wave career producing rock posters should be paying alms to the descendants of the man who made album design such an emotional experience.

Perhaps we haven’t been formally introduced. I’m the second book of Jim Flora art published by Fantagraphics. I was born in February and shortly thereafter found myself distributed in bookstores and on the virtual shelves of e-tailers. Even though I’m almost four months old, some of you aren’t aware of my existence. So I just wanted to say “Hi,” and give you a gentle poke in the ribs. Go find me and take me home….