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Those perennial favorite Jim Flora calendars are in stock for 2012. You’ve got your bug-eyed saxophonist, an Aren’t-We-Having-Fun? moon, and a manic drummer to guide you through the coming Leap Year. These are hand-printed mini-calendars measuring 10″ x 4-1/2″.  If you prefer something of greater magnitude in a maritime motif, our Sheffield Island poster-sized calendar should suit your tastes:

JimFlora.com is offering a new 2011 poster-sized calendar featuring a 1954 Flora woodcut illustration called SHEFFIELD ISLAND. The artwork is hand-printed letterpress in black ink on kraft card stock; a 12-month tear away calendar is attached on the bottom. When the year ends, you have a unique hand-pulled letterpress Jim Flora print suitable for framing. The full dimensions of the card with artwork are 13-1/2″ x 17″. The calendars, which were hand-printed by Yee-Haw Industrial…

We’re honored to have worked with the fine folks at Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, producing Flora limited edition woodcut prints (including the 1951 tour de force Railroad Town and the 1957 LP-sized Jugglers) and letterpress notecards and calendars. Printmaker Brian Baker with Jugglers edition print (left) and vintage block (right) Co-proprietors Julie Belcher and Kevin Bradley, along with the Yee-Haw staff, are committed professionals and we consider them friends. We’re working with Yee-Haw on new projects,…

We’ve sold a bunch but they’re still in stock: 2010 Jim Flora calendars. The spunky hyperactive figures date from Flora’s mid-1950s RCA Victor LP period. Each calendar is letterpress printed one color at a time on card stock, and accessorized with a 12-month tearaway calendar. Buy one ($12.50) or a set of three at the Little Shop of Flora’s. These keepsake datekeepers were produced by Yee-Haw Industries, of Knoxville.

Back in stock: letterpress-printed cards with cool 1940s and ’50s music and turntable illustrations by Flora. The cards were designed and printed by our friends at Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, in Knoxville. Packaged in sets of four: Dig You Later, Stardust Moon, Deluxe-O-Tone, and Trees.

We’ve received no reports of malfunctioning 2009 calendars—every day has thus far been accounted for, in the correct sequence—so we’re offering 2010 models, hot off Yee-Haw’s industrial presses. The spunky hyperactive figures date from Flora’s mid-1950s RCA Victor LP period. Each calendar is letterpress printed one color at a time on card stock, and accessorized with a 12-month tearaway calendar. Buy one ($12.50) or a set of three at the Little Shop of Flora’s.

Google yourself. Discover forgotten incidents from your past—like this 2005 interview by Coury Turczyn for PopCult magazine. The occasion was the publication of The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora, and tho the interview is dotted with Flora iconography, it also touches on outsider music, record collecting, the Langley Schools Music Project, R. Stevie Moore, and Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn. Three years later Cory wrote an incisive cover story about Flora for Knoxville’s Metro Pulse.

… is now open. Jim Flora hand-printed notecards, fine art bookmarks, and 2009 letterpress calendars at affordable prices. We’ve also released a number of new fine art and album cover prints over the past few weeks but haven’t had an opportunity to alert our mailing list. Here’s two, but there’s more over at JimFlora.com: Self-Portrait, ca. 1947 Gunfight on the Roof, 1951

The Jugglers woodcut limited edition was completed last May, but we’ve been too preoccupied with other Flora business to release the work. A Jugglers page has finally been posted at JimFlora.com and the first five numbered prints are now available. In the next week or two, we hope to enact an official launch. The print was produced by Bryan Baker at Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, Knoxville. The work appears on page 58 in The Curiously Sinister…

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.

rew Taylor “is a sucker for a nice mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.” He’s also keen on Jim Flora, as revealed in “Knoxville Showcases Pop Art Icon,” from the March 30 issue of Vision, an arts publication of East Tennessee State University.

Now on eBay:Spanky new from Jim Flora Art LLC and Yee-Haw Industrial Letterpress, Knoxville: three different sets of four unique cards each. The cards are hand-printed letterpress on recycled paper and come bundled with kraft envelopes in a clear sleeve. Fun to mail, funner to receive, but also klassy-kool for framing.Above: quartet of 1955 hepcats from the “Plant You Now, Dig You Later” set. Below, the “Deluxe-O-Tone” line of retro-record players (1940s- and 1950s-era):Here’s the…