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The sound of summer

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coffinvows

1927

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jstor

For Ephemera Friday, we’re taking a drive along the mid-century Malibu coast through a collection of vintage matchbooks.

Bright illustrations, tiny road maps, palm trees, swimming pools, and plenty of lobsters promoted destinations like the Lindomar Lodge, the Albatross Hotel, Las Flores Inn, and the Malibu Sea Lion. Once handed out as disposable advertisements, these matchbooks now preserve traces of institutions shaped by the changing world that housed them. The matchbooks belong to the Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera at Pepperdine Libraries Special Collections and Archives.

Read more about the history hidden inside these matchbooks in “Malibu in Matchbooks: Clues to a Lost Coast” from JSTOR Daily.

Images: 1, 2, 3, 4, all from Pepperdine University's Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera

monstermonger

AAAAA PHEW i just finished binding a bunch of new zines that compile my PNW fantasy sketch pages :”) just in time for when I get to table at the Portland Zine Symposium tomorrow!!!!! if anyone’s in the area come say hi!!!

I’ve loved walking through this event for several years now, I’m so happy that i get the chance to table this time 🥹🥹🥹

monstermonger

Thanks for the interest folks ;_; I went ahead and added it to my ko-fi shop for those who want one but can't make it to Portland!

(Since I'm tabling this weekend and next, I might be a little slow sending them out, but i'll do my best to do it asap, definitely within 2 weeks! Thank you ;v; )

monstermonger

So this zine managed to sell out twice, and your guys' support on it kinda actually changed my life. ( <- I've been anxious to say it that bluntly,.. but it's true.) Thank you, seriously ;_;

For this reprint, I made a new cover (since the old one was just a repeat of one of the inner illustrations), and also added one more ecoregion: The High Desert :D So now it has:

The Coast Range

The Valley

The Cascades

The High Desert

I'm definitely going to expand on this idea into a bigger project as soon as I have a bit more time-- like an actual book :") But this will be the final version of the zine! Thanks so much again yall.

monstermonger

Zines are open again!! 💜💜💜🌲🌳🌲

Thank you again everyone :”)

IN LIGHT OF SHIPPING UPDATES... (price has gone up 70%+ in the last year), I've made it so you can choose two shipping options: Default Shipping: $7 Includes tracking number, no bending Large Envelope (enter code "NO-TRACKING" at checkout): $3.75 off No tracking number, experiences a little bending in the mail (the zine is very sturdy so it should be perfectly fine)

jayrockin

Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is OVER 90% funded!! Will it happen today?? Tomorrow?? Tango and Swing may combust from the pressure first! Concerning, since they're usually underwater.

Interested in reading hundreds of pages of gorgeous fully illustrated speculative zoology, botany, mycology, phycology, whatever you like? Check out the campaign now!

jayrockin

LESS THAN 1K LEFT! RED ALERT!!

wormspoodle

22/23 - early days

wastrelwoods

new mychart message! aw damn....doc says my reality and existence lab work was wayyy off so she's referring me to an Ontologist

jayrockin

Happy to announce I was the one to push Almost Real past to 35k - only 5k more to go!!!!! I've got two empty spots in my bookshelf cmon!!!!!!

Thank you for your invaluable help with the Kickstarter goal. Here, take this. On the house...

jayrockin

Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is OVER 90% funded!! Will it happen today?? Tomorrow?? Tango and Swing may combust from the pressure first! Concerning, since they're usually underwater.

Interested in reading hundreds of pages of gorgeous fully illustrated speculative zoology, botany, mycology, phycology, whatever you like? Check out the campaign now!