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Letterpress zine 132

This is issue number 132 of the long-running letterpress zine that has been published every other month since the summer of 1996. This issue is about having a parent with Alzheimer’s and therefore always questioning yourself whenever you forget something. 4.25”x5.5” folded, 8 pages,

The new issue of Ker-bloom is out and available!

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Remember! You can subscribe to Ker-bloom! by just signing up on our Patreon page. It takes a small monthly draft, and you don’t have to renew unless your card expires or something. If you level up to the Combo Platter, you also get a letterpress print mailed to you every month.

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Patreon subscribers at the Combo Platter level received this letterpress print this month in their mailboxes! This one is a two-color linoprint with a quote from the Ursula LeGuin short story “The Day Before the Revolution.” You can subscribe to Ker-bloom! on our Patreon page, and bump yourself up to the Combo Platter level to make sure you don’t miss a print!

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Melrakki! Make 100 letterpress arctic fox prints

Three-color letterpress print of the arctic fox ("melrakki"), the only mammal to travel to Iceland on their own four paws.

One way to subscribe to Ker-bloom! letterpress zine is at an add-on level for our current Melrakki (arctic fox) print campaign on Kickstarter as part of their Make 100 month.

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Process photo from the making of the November Print of the Month. Giant squids are giant!

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Ker-bloom!, Berkeley, California. 491 likes. Ker-bloom! is a letterpress printed zine published every other month since 1996 by the same person.

Have you liked the Ker-bloom page on Facebook yet? It’s a good way to stay current.

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I started experimenting with selling zines on the big cartel format. Just one more way to purchase a subscription or one of the latest issues of Ker-bloom!

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Thanks to everyone who came by the Ker-bloom! table at the SF Zine Fest earlier this month!

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What did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be an astronaut. (Spoiler alert: I’m not an astronaut.) Issue number 127 talks about what happened on the short path to outer space.

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Issue number 126 of the letterpress zine Ker-bloom features a Giant Pacific Octopus linoblock on the front cover. It’s about the octopus, but it’s really about parenting and how exhausting it can be.

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Where would you go on a dream vacation if you could? I answer this question in issue number 125 of Ker-bloom!. All letterpress printed, as usual.

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This is the cover of Ker-bloom! number 124, which is about the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland and how live-work spaces have changed in the Bay Area over the decades.

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Letterpress zine about Watership Down

This is issue number 123 of the long-running letterpress zine Ker-bloom! One novel that has stuck with me for years is Watership Down, by Richard Adams. In this zine I talk about the themes that carry me through dark times. Coincidentally author Richard Adams passed away at the age of 96 while I was printing this zine. His memorial is one of three on the back page of this zine. 4.25x5.5 folded, 8 pages, numbered edition of 300. All items letterpress printed on a Vandercook Model 4 in Berkeley.

Ker-bloom! issue number 123 features a vibrant purple cover and is about the book Watership Down.

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One-Year Subscription to Ker-bloom letterpress zine

This is good for one year subscription to the letterpress printed zine Ker-bloom!, which comes out 6 times a year. No more will you have to check my

Now is a good time to sign up for a subscription to Ker-bloom! letterpress zine before the twenty-year anniversary issue!

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This just in! The Ker-bloom! twenty-year anniversary reading will be at Pegasus Books in Berkeley! 7:30 pm on Wednesday, June 1. Be there!

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A reader requested a picture of the Hot Lem recipe from the long-ago vegan letterpress Ker-bloom! cookbook.

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A reader requested a picture of the cover of the long-ago letterpress vegan Kerbloom! cookbook, with a linoleum block by Los Angeles artist Daniel Gonzalez.