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Exquisite Book Signing & Drawing Event.

Tonight I'll be heading over to Rare Device for their Exquisite Book Signing and Live Drawing event. Co-author Julia Rothman, and local participating artists will be there: including Caitlin Keegan, Lisa Congdon, Eunice Moyle, Tom Neely, Kelly Lynn Jones, Susie Ghahremani and Lorena Sim.

I am really excited to say hello to everyone. The book is such a wild and awesome concept (the practice of the exquisite corpse game is taken and put into book form through the drawings of 100 artists). I have poured over it a number of times since I received my copy last week. I'll post pics of the event and more extensive images of the book next week during the book's 'blog tour'!

Midnight Book: Christopher Davison.

Christopher Davison is about to release his latest book/zine, Midnight Book. It's filled with drawings and paintings all done around the midnight hour.

Carson Ellis at Nationale.

Tonight Nationale in Portland, Oregon presents Carson Ellis' Dillweed’s Revenge: A deadly Dose of Magic, a selection of original illustrations from the book written by Florence Parry Heide in the 70’s and now published for the very first time by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Here are a few pics that will be on display.

A little info from the press release:

Filled with nasty characters, beautiful details, and subtle humor, Dillweed’s Revenge has already received two starred reviews as well as a prestigious silver medal from The Society of Illustrators. Delightfully macabre, Ellis’ acclaimed illustrations are a perfect match to Heide’s dark and witty writing style.

Morph Traits: Daniel Higgs & Kyle Ranson.

Some 20 years ago, two friends Daniel Higgs and Kyle Ranson started a collaborative drawing excersize through brief encounters and the help of the postal system. In 2007, they decided to revisit their long standing collaboration and tonight Needles + Pens will not only have a selection of these drawings on show but they will also be releasing, Morph Traits, a collection of the these drawings. Published by Needles & Pens, Morph Traits is a 4-color, 60 page book, with letter press-style covers, printed in an edition of 500 copies. I took a bunch of pics at N+P yesterday of my copy, in the presence of the show. I was too excited to get home and find a fancy table top.

Morph Traits opens tonight at 7pm. Both Daniel Higgs and Kyle Ranson will be in attendence. They'll be music and fun, def not a show to be missed. Not in SF like most of you reading this? Buy the book here & support independent publishing!

Portraits of Kyle Ranson.

Portraits of Daniel Higgs.

Other: The Art Work of Troy Lovegates.

The good folks over at Anteism sent me Other: The Artwork of Troy Lovegates. I love covering Other's work, from his painted trains to his hand pulled linoleum prints. So I was delighted to have a new book to add to my library. It's the perfect size and stuffed full of pics, paintings, prints etc all of Other's work. Great for any long time fan or someone knew to his work. Either way, it's a great book. Even our cat, Owl agrees. ;)