"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
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SOURCE: Jack Prelutsky, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (NY: Greenwillow Books, 1980), illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
This morning, I’ve decided to bring you further selections from the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Muskete. The artist this time around is Alexander Rothaug (1870 – 1846), who studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Arts from 1885 to 1892, pursued further studies in Munich, where he produced illustrations for the German magazine, Fliegenden Blätter, and then moved back to Vienna, where he worked as a freelance artist from 1897, becoming a member of the Association of the Visual Artists Vienna in 1911; the paintings, which I have extracted from the online archive of Die Muskete hosted by the Austrian National Library and have processed for display here at RCN, are At the Source, Dreaming, and The Herdsman:
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Specific publication information for each image is included in the file name, as usual.
Another discarded library book, recycled here, by me, for your viewing pleasure, as Halloween approacheth…
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… with more to come, later.
SOURCE: Jack Prelutsky, The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (NY: Greenwillow Books, 1980), illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
The final phase of the Indiegogo fundraiser for the documentary Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones — the distribution of the donation perks/rewards — is underway right now, and today, I am happy to report that I have received a package from producer/director Maria Cabardo that includes a DVD of the film, the Jones-tribute art book, six postcards, and two neatly folded copies of the film’s huge poster.
The art book, which bears the title, Jeffrey Catherine Jones and Better Things, is graced with a wistful cover designed by John Pinsky. Here’s a scan:
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Jeffrey Catherine Jones and Better Things also comes with a paper band designed by Christina Graf. Here’s scan of the book with the band in place:
And here’s a rough-and-ready scan of the six postcards, arranged in two rows of three on the surface of my flatbed scanner:
Please note that all of the images on the postcards are also reproduced in the art book, so if you like what you see here, you’ll like what you’ll find there.
Although I myself am happy to have the art book in my collection, I have no plans to review it for this or any other site. Just so you know.
Also, I do not plan to post a formal review of the documentary here at RCN. In case anyone is wondering.
I am pleased to note, however, that both my name and the name of this website are preserved for posterity in the acknowledgements on the inside back cover — which makes the book a doubly lovely souvenir for me.
Thanks, Maria!
It’s been fun. But now I’m done.
Over and out.
Back to the treacle well that is my paperback collection:
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ABOVE: Michael Moorcock, A Cure for Cancer: A Jerry Cornelius Novel (London: Quartet, 1976).
From the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Muskete, here are three illustrations by regular contributor, Karl Alexander Wilke; the images, which are from 1929, 1931, and 1932, respectively, have been selected, sized, cropped, processed, and posted by yours truly from scans in the online archive of the Austrian National Library:
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Specific publication information for each image is included in the file name, as usual.
From the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Muskete, via the online archive of the Austrian National Library:
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Specific publication information for each image is included in the file name, as usual. Notice that all of the illustrations this time around were published in 1929.
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FYI, I just re-processed the last two images here and the last one here. When the pages from the Austrian National Library archive include reproductions of continuous tone originals, I find that it’s not ideal to make the white areas too white. Yes, the more accurately one preserves the colour and tones of the illustrations, the more accurately one ends up preserving the stains on the paper, but whaddayagonnado? It’s a balancing act, unless one has the time and the skill to attempt a full-scale digital restoration of each page — which I do not! That being said, since the three images I’ve reprocessed are line art and text, I’ve decided that it makes more sense in those instances to attempt to produce a nice crisp image than to worry about preserving intermediate tones, so… STAINS-B-GONE!
From the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Muskete, here’s an amateurishly processed version of a scan of a beautiful page in the online archive of the Austrian National Library; the artist is Franz von Bayros (1866 – 1924), the year is 1932:
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From the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Muskete, here are four illustrations from 1933 and three from 1934, all by Sergius Hruby (1869 – 1943), selected, sized, cropped, processed, and posted, for better or worse, by yours truly from scans in the online archive of the Austrian National Library:
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Specific publication information for each image is included in the file name, as usual.
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