#jumbo press

[komatsuyuko]

“A little recipe, a pure heart, and sudden magic happens. On your plate, a dessert is waiting, simple and sweet, as you did.” by peiyuuuuue, 2025 This book is a collaboration with JUMBO PRESS, a Barcelona-based studio known for its RISO printing and sense of beauty. Proudly printed in Barcelona, the first edition is extremely limited. Following the spirit of “Recipes for Happy” released early last year, this book uses Riso printing to give each piece of food illustration a sense of being “cooked” a second time. Embracing the tactile, imperfect beauty of Riso, this is a sweet little lo-fi recipe book made with care. 

You can buy it at next week 12/19~21 Tokyo Art Book Fair at my booth B2 Zinemate No.572! This first edition is really limit!

[salchicharandom]

Louis Otis

[saintelauren]

@ dazyfauna ig

[jackteagle]

I’ve added the Savage World of Garfield risograph prints, printed by Jumbo Press to my online store. 

https://jackteagle.bigcartel.com

[jackteagle]

The 4 colour risograph print I created for Jumbo Press is now available on their online store! 

https://shop.jumbo-press.com/collections/prints/products/jack-teagle-risograph-print

[jackteagle]

Hammering out some risograph plans for a new print in collaboration with Jumbo Press.

[uwmspeccoll]

Historic Woman Printer/Publisher of the Week

Jane Bissell Grabhorn (1911-1973)

The Grabhorn Brothers, Robert and Edwin, were the predominant California fine-press printers of the 20th century for over 50 years. What is lesser known is that Robert’s wife Jane was a highly accomplished printer and publisher in her own right, working at the Grabhorn Press along side her husband and brother-in-law, and founding two of her own imprints, the literary Colt Press, founded in 1938, and the more playful Jumbo Press, founded a year earlier as a vehicle to satirize male dominance, the pomposity of the fine-press industry, and to humorously propose a legitimacy for women printers. For financial reasons, the Colt Press was absorbed as a Grabhorn Press imprint in 1943, but Jane continued to work with her husband at the press until his death in 1973, followed soon after by her own death the same year.

After their deaths, the press operations were taken over by Andrew Hoyem, who had been Robert’s partner since 1965 when the press was renamed Grabhorn-Hoyem. In 1974, Hoyem renamed the business Arion Press, which remains one of the preeminent fine-press literary publishers in the country. 

Find the 1941 Colt Press printing of Edmund Wilson’s  The Boys in the Back Room in the catalog here.

Find the 1946 Colt Press printing of Henry Miller’s Maurizius Forever in the catalog here.

The image of the young Jane at the letterpress was lifted from this website.

The image of Jane in 1966 was lifted from this website.