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I am not sure that any lexicographer or historian of linguistics thought of writing an essay on James Murray as a speaker and journalist, though such an essay would allow the author to explore the workings of Murray’s mind and the development of his style. (Let me remind our readers that Murray, 1837-1915, died a hundred years ago.)
This book is something. A mashup of poetry and pictures, washes of color and words.
(click to enlarge; this is an example of a spread that folds out to reveal an entirely new and more expansive illustration.)
Some thoughts from JooHee on the art and creation of Beastly Verse:
I wanted to create a book that not only tells wonderful stories, but one that is beautiful to behold. For me, the design of the book is just as important as its content; they are inseparably linked. I believe all elements of a book–its paper, binding, size and weight–create an atmosphere that plays an important role in the experience of reading.
The printing process fascinates me. Not only traditional printmaking, but also industrial processes as well, since these are just a further development of the old printmaking techniques. I have always been drawn to printmaking, and rather than mixing colors on a palette and putting them on paper, I enjoy working with flat color layers overlapping one another to create the secondary colors. My experience with printmaking informs almost all of my artwork today. I wanted to take advantage of the industrial printing process so the printer is not just reproducing the image I make, but in a sense creating the image itself.
This book has been printed using just three colors. The areas where the main colors overlap create secondary colors, resulting in a book that seems very colorful even though only a limited palette was used. Seen alone, each layer is a meaningless collection of shapes, but when overlapped, these sets of shapes are magically transformed into the intended image. To me the process of creating these images is like doing a puzzle, figuring out what color goes where to make a readable image.
I am very inspired by books from the early 1900s – 1950, when artists were forced to work with spot colors since reproduction methods weren’t as developed as they are today. It is amazing what some artists could do with just two or three colors, and this is exactly the same process I am using, but one from choice rather than necessity. There is a luminous brilliant quality to the colors when images are reproduced this way that I love.
(click to enlarge; this is an example of a spread that folds out to reveal an entirely new and more expansive illustration.)
It’s fascinating to pull the curtains back on an illustrator’s process, and I’m thankful to JooHee for her words here. Her explanation of something so simple, so exquisite, and so complex is as brilliant as those colors she creates.
And the book itself is definitely a work of art. Uncoated, thick pages. Slightly oversized. There’s a non-uniform feeling to the ends that isn’t quite a deckled edge, but a bit more raw and tactile. Hand-crafted almost.
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Beastly Verse’s dedication reads simply, For the Reader.
Here, the reader is also the design enthusiast, the art collector, and the wordsmith. A book for book lovers.
Huge thanks to Claudia Bedrick at Enchanted Lion for the images in this post.
Joe Lambert has posted some tips on a clever binding technique he used to put together one of the books in his Sundays 3 minicomic, an anthology edited and designed by himself, Alex Kim, Chuck Forsman, & Sean Ford.
Joe also posted this little video on Flickr showing how the books are packaged together:
I really like the designs of their covers and packaging. The comic inside the band is nice.
Binding your comic that way makes it a bit harder to read though, you have to hold it open.
I saw Joe at Heroes Con this weekend and recognized these comics! They are very very pretty in person!