Milestone Monday
In celebration of National Cookie Day today, December 4th, we’re sharing Scott Teplin and Mark Wagner’s charming book Fortune. Published in 2000 by Birdbrain Press and Urst Books in Brooklyn, N.Y. in an edition of 100 copies, Fortune is a playful analysis of the predictions found in, and etiquette of eating fortune cookies.
Teplin and Wagner are both originally from Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1995. They are prolific artists, but it seems Fortune is their only collaboration perhaps in conjunction with the 2000 Artists Book show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Special Collections holds several other books from the artists, including Teplin’s Pope Ivory’s Brain Juices and Wagner’s Smoke in My Dreams, Fortune’s Daughter: An Allegory of Greed, or, Midas, and Souvenir.
Fortune is a single sheet accordion folded book mounted to the front cover. The front and back cover boards are bound with red ribbon.
– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern