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Oooh! Shiny

Oooh! Shiny is about a crow getting what he deserves. A shiny!

Creator: Angela Boyle

Publication Date: 2011

Format: BW, 14 pages , 4.25 inches tall x 7 inches wide, Japanese stab binding with black thread

Printed as linoleum block prints on mulberry paper. The best pieces were scanned and turned into a computer-printed copy. The original pieces were bound into eight, special, hard-cover editions.

Angela spent the summer of 2011 carving the linoleum blocks and driving all the way to Bellingham (from Seattle) to press the prints every Saturday. All the text in the comic is hand-written on each copy of the original.

This is the colophon in the back of the special editions.

Of course, before carving all those linoleum blocks, Angela drew some sketches of crows to practice their shape. They are pretty cute. The crows. Not the sketches.

Studies

Pencils to get what the crows really look like. Inks to get their shapes as they would look as block prints. Angela just used a sharpie pen.

Creation

Angela did this nearly every Saturday for the summer of 2011. She could only print 8 copies of about 3 or 4 pages each day.

Printing press My mom's printing press. She usually uses it for mono-type prints
Linoleum block Before it has been inked.
Inking station Prepped and ready to go.
Inking station Prepping the ink with the roller.
Pages Finished pages drying.
Pages Finished pages organized into books.
Lettering Every page is hand lettered using a light box on a page with the lettering so I can trace it and not make mistakes.
Soft cover Printed and folded cover paper.
Soft Cover Printed and folded interior pages.

Binding

Binding the books was probably fastest. Both the computer printed copies and the special editions of the original are bound using traditional stab binding.

Hardback One side glued!
Hardback Gluing a piece of the other side
Hardback My wonderful book binding glue.
Hardback End pages glued in - different end papers for each color cover - Fancy!
Harback Pile of glued hard-back covers
Hardback Inside the front cover and the title page
Hardback Opened to an interior page
Hardback A completed hard-bound book.
Soft cover A completed soft-bound book.
Soft cover A pile of finished soft cover books! Look at all that hard work. So worth it.