2009 Archives
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An almost unbelievably productive year.
January
- 2009 (old site)
- Beresford Egan's Flowers
- Image Dive (old site)
- Charles Burchfield and more at The Art of Memory
- LIVRENBLOG
- The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press
- Julian Green, Diary 1928-1957
- Mr. Absurdity
- Tadanori Yokoo photograph
- Wendingen Upheaval
- Trevor Winkfield on Raymond Roussel's Names
- Monsters and Madonnas: Looking at William Mortensen
- Rokuro Taniuchi 3
- Crest Syndrome
- Image Dive 2 (old site)
- Antonio Rubino
- Oliverio Girondo
- Persian Lettrism (old site)
- Rokuro Taniuchi 4
- I'll be along
February
- The Will to Sickness
- Snake-O-Rama: An Ophidian Extravaganza part 1
- Snake-O-Rama: An Ophidian Extravaganza part 2
- Image Dive 3 (old site)
- Lions of Literature: Swinburne 1 (old site)
- Lions of Literature: Swinburne 2 (old site)
- Lions of Literature: Swinburne 3 (old site)
- Lions of Literature: Swinburne 4 (old site)
- The Bear Press
- The Other City
- Stasys Eidrigevicius for Children 2
- Poems for Melting Children
- When everything flies away, the outline of the heart goes black
- Bob Cobbing, Finger Painting, 1952
March
- Joel Rothberg's Princess of Mars
- Karukaya, Japan's First Illustrated Book (part 1)
- Cendrars, illustrated by Dos Passos
- Cannon Magazine
- Margret Hofheinz-Doring
- Ex Libris Wolfgang Wissing
- Lions of Literature: Adelheid Duvanel
- Adelheid Duvanel, Inner Tumult
- Three illustrations from 1920 (old site)
- Kufi Frag
- Illustrations by Bahman Dadkhah
- Dolfi's Graphomania
- Serbian Sesame Street
- The Sound of Clocks
- Iranian Kids' Books
- Horst Sagert and The Dragon
- Graham Lambkin 2
- Damnations, Matta and Mansour
- Rokuro Taniuchi 5
- Forty-five thousand dollar leftovers (old site)
April
- Seven Convolutions
- Suction the Epicurean, Quid the Cynic, and Sipsop the Pythagorean
- Max Ernst Certified Organic
- Ulisse Aldrovandi on Monster Brains
- Hexentexte
- Ex Libris Dr. (Von) Robert
- Madame Edwarda's Metamorphosis
- Swinburne Centenary (old site)
- Eye Hazards in the Book Industry (old site)
- In the Grotto
- First Utterance
- Kurt Seligmann's Initiation Rites
- Photochromosomes
- Animal on est Mal
- A House Boat on the River Styx
- Arcanum
- Ready Or Not, Here I Come
- A Paper Zoo
- Riding an Ostrich
- Forgotten Illustrator: Helga Aichinger
- Forgotten Illustrator: Helga Aichinger 2
May
- Mad Man and Friends (old site)
- Mystery Zone (old site)
- Poets Ranked by Beard Weight
- An Artist's Interpretation of a Flashback
- Foreign Body in the Eye
- Forgotten Illustrator: Egon Mathiesen
- Takeo Takei, Children's Days in Japan, 1936 pamphlet
- Vintage Indian Pulp Book of the Month Club
- Water Acrobats
- The Story of a Silkworm
- Lumps of Life are Droning
- Lions of Literature: Christopher Spranger
- E. McKnight Kauffer Flickr Group
- Forgotten Illustrator: Joan Kiddell-Monroe
- Harry Clarke, Illustrations for E. A. Poe
- Michael Ajvaz, The Other City
- Subterranean Adventures in South America
June
- The Persian Peter Max
- Forgotten Illustrator: Jaroslav Serych 1
- Rilla's Garden of Earthly Delights
- Lions of Literature: Flavia Company
- Extraordinary early 20th century book covers from Japan
- Extraordinary early 20th century magazine covers from Japan
- Forgotten illustrator: Ancka Gosnik-Godec 1
- Forgotten Illustrator: Ordan Petlevski
- Forgotten Illustrator: Viera Gergel'ova 1
- Forgotten Illustrator: Dorothy P. Lathrop
- Photochromosomes 2
- Folon's Metamorphosis 2
- Fantasmatic Enjoyment of Animation Stills
- Stacks of Books Crushing Me
- Forgotten Illustrator: France Podrekar
- Urdu Health Pamphlet
- Forgotten Illustrator: Jiri Trnka 1
- Decalcomanias of Shuzo Takiguchi
- Forgotten Illustrator: Viera Bombova
- Forgotten Illustrator: Albin Brunovsky 1
- Pinocchio's Spanish Cousin Pinocchio
July
- Salvador Bartolozzi's Pinnochio
- Mussolini's Toothpaste
- The World's First Fantasy Magazine: Der Orchideengarten
- To have ventured outside the limits of your own perimeter
- Indoslovakia
- Illustrations from Der Orchideengarten
- Bente's Vintage Books
- The First Men in the Moon
- Blue Elephant Hour
- Yukihiko Tajima's Gion Matsuri
- The Great Northern Wasteland
- I've actually seen the next world
- Go forth and picture this: Hermann Obrist's Superior Mirage
- Cocktaildags: Vintage Swedish book covers
- Iranian Kids' Books, part 2
- Fairy Tales for Work Days and Personal Days
August
- Wandering from Organ to Organ with Hermann Finsterlin
- Round My Skull in Eighty Days
- Don't Turn The Light On, Leave Me Alone
- Joe Camel's Little Brother Alberto Savinio
- The Wonders of Life on Earth: Yokoo details (old site)
- Slovakian Expose
- The Unintentionally Terrifying World of Bright Tales and Funny Pictures
- Image Dive 4 (old site)
- Mokkelbost's Entity
- Lilliput Lyrics
- Bloyspawn: An Interview with Andrew Bloy (old site)
- Give Us Back Man: Japanese Graphic Design
- The Appetite of a Bird
- Gebrauchsgraphik in the Sixties
- The Buttermilk Tree
- Denizens of the Fantastic Planet
September
- The Taint of Lucre by Leon Bloy (old site)
- Book Cover Design in India 1964 to 1984
- Here comes the ocean. And the waves.
- Frolicsome Flowers of Evil
- Thirty Book Covers from Poland
- Artaud in Full Bloom
- Peter Foldes, Forgotten Animator
- Slovakian Expose Redux
- Bahman Dadkhah's Poems for Children
- The Evil Orchid Garden bookplate contest
- Ghost in the Rain
- 19th Nervous Clip Show (old site)
- Bold settled on some foreign shore
- Stuff and Nonsense: Woodcuts by Bold
- Thirty More Book Covers from Poland
- The Autobiography of Poison Gas
- Russian Fairy Tales from A.A.
October
- The Burning Star Core of Robert Beatty
- When are you going to take your hat off?
- BLICKFANG: The Eye-Catching Covers of Weimar Berlin
- Dino Buzzati's Restless Nights
- Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip
- Rest In Peace, Charles Seliger
- The Night Spiders and Co.: Book Covers of Manny Schongut
- Not-so-forgotten illustrator Josef Lada
- Dan Meth's Eastern European Stash
- Alexeieff's Queen of Spades
- Oscar the Grouch in Hell
- E. McKnight Kauffer's Poe illustrations
- Alexeieff's Fall
- Luisa Frascati
- The Bloody Nun
- The Maze of No Emergence
- Scarbo Suite
- Voluptuous Corruption
- Ex Bibliotheca Macabrum
- Watering the Toxic Garden
- From the Library of the Evil Orchid
November
- Michelle Duckworth's Forest Party
- Image Dive 5 (old site)
- The Sphinx
- The Wonderful Wizards of Lodz
- Brainy Berries: A Night in Crystal Cave
- Slovakian Expose III
- Egg Mong's Crew: Collages by Ouchtomsky
- In combating myself I can only report one bloody defeat after another
- The bitter lapse into everyday life
- Sing Swan Song
- Michelle Duckworth's Forest Party 2
- In the silver moonlight growing thou wilt see a pale-eyed flower
- All Sorts of Remedies
- The Wonderful Wizards of Lodz 2
- Dood in Ecstasy: Dutch Mystery Covers
- The Holy Mountain of Contemporary Polish Posters
- The Apocalyptic Longing
- Alexandra's Aquatints
- Atomic Anadolu Pop: 25 Book Covers from Turkey
- La Danse Macabre
- The Chess Set in the Mirror
- Big Mouth Strikes Again
- Eskimo Grasshoppers: French Children's Books of the 30s and 40s
December
- Anya Triestram
- Besuboru Bromides
- Baba-Jaga Gubi Trop: Crime Novel Covers from Poland
- Notre Temps
- The Raven
- Iranian Kids' Books, part 3
- Artaud's Tableaux
- Erwin Blumenfeld's Frozen Emulsion
- Nights of Siberia
- Daniel Kent's Collages
- The Animals Are in Cages
- Mummy Was A Robot, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil
- Apes on a Horse and More Toys from the Void
- Dressing the Yellow Chicken
- The Swamp Ladies of Estonia
- 2009 Over and Out (Candido's Carnival)
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