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Jason Bradshaw: “My girlfriend Lisa and I decided to take up bookbinding. We’re starting off doing passport sized blank notebooks. We’ve been using printer paper for the insides and card stock for the cover. I took some Jim Flora album cover prints and made a small pile of mini sketchbooks which I intend to give out to a couple of friends.”

photo by Don Brockway, May 15, 2006, Norwalk CT

Japanese TV stars use odd commodities for dislodging food particles.

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has mounted the first-ever exhibit of Little Man Press memorabilia in their Library display case. Although not viewable by the public without appointment, the collection features rare chapbooks with Flora woodcuts, a narrative chronicle, original pencil sketches, and vintage Little Man ephemera. (Click to enlarge the above panorama.) Designed by Flora archivist Barbara Economon with the assistance of WAC Librarian Rosemary Furtak, the exhibition deserves a wider audience. Interested…

Jugglers, a 1957 Flora woodcut, was recently editioned at Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, in Knoxville. The 50 prints, struck from the original artist’s block, will be offered for sale by Jim Flora Art LLC in about a month. YH printed Railroad Town in 2006/2007, and plans to produce several more Flora relief prints over the next two years. A vintage artist’s print of this work was reproduced in The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora.

Jim Flora‘s art has appeared on record album covers, in magazines, in children’s books, and on fine art prints. You’ll soon have more options about where to display your Flora: Jim Flora Art LLC is working with the Colorado-based Faded Line Clothing Co., who are designing a very cool line of t-shirts, hoodies, and assorted apparel featuring Flora’s mischievous and curiously sinister art. Above are proposed designs, of which there are a half-dozen others being…

Ruth Seidler, of Brooklyn’s JollyBe Bakery: “Devils food cake with hazelnut dacquoise and chocolate/hazelnut buttercream. Design inspired by the 1960’s [sic] jazz record jacket designs of Jim Flora.”

… at the Lake County Discovery Museum, Wauconda IL. Original paintings and drawings, fine art prints, and Flora artifacts will be displayed, along with a collection of antiquarian Little Man Press chapbooks. Barb and I will be in-house for the opening reception, Friday evening, April 4. Flora books, prints, and merch will be on sale in the LCDM gift shoppe. The exhibit runs thru August 31. To find the museum, follow the signs on Route…

A Tribute to Alex Steinweiss, The Creator of the Album Cover, opens today at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica. In 1939, during the era of 78 rpm discs, Steinweiss revolutionized how record albums were sold by inventing the illustrated album jacket. At the time he worked for Columbia Records, a struggling label based in Bridgeport, CT. Previously albums were shelved in shops with only the spine lettering exposed. Steinweiss’s vivacious color illustrations inspired…

Floraphile Shannon Wade, of Portland, isn’t content to admire Flora art in books, on album covers, or displayed on walls. It’s not enough for her to wear it. She wants to BE it. Shannon combined elements from two of Flora’s more well-known album cover illustrations—the Pete Jolly Duo and Mambo for Cats—into some nifty skin art. Design-in-progress (at right), with color added (below). Shannon writes: “This was my first tattoo, and it was done in…

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.)