How To Study

Here are two fun cartoons from the How To Study booklet put out by Careers, Inc. sometime in the hoary past.
Cartoonist(s) uncredited.

SMP Graphics

2 l'il graphics from SMP book E & F (Cambridge University Press, 1970)

Space Creature Duplicating Masters

I lucked out when my friend Ian, an educator, handed me a bushel of old teaching aids. In that pile was this gem, Space Creature Word Slides (Teaching Stuff, USA, 1979, #TS601).
From the copy:

Reinforce 217 BASIC SIGHT WORDS with these Space Creatures and word slides.

Your students color and cut out their very own 10 creatures, each with two word slides.

Students read each word aloud as they slide it through the slits made on a Space Creature.

I didn't bother scanning in the word slides.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SPACE CREATURES !
Can you smell the purple ??


Space Creature 1
(Space creatures illustrated by Bron Smith)

Space Creatures 2, 3, 4

Space Creatures 5, 6, 7

Space Creatures 8, 9, 10

Reading Series

Punched Pennies

A while ago I learned how to use the Addressograph I scored from a folded local paper.
It's a machine that presses characters (addresses) into dog tag like bits of metal that are then put into another machine that prints out the labels for magazine/newspaper subscriptions.
I make 'lucky' pennies, pressing four letter words into pennies for a small fee.
Scanning the pennies, though, is tricky...the words are sunken not raised AND they look way better than this in real life.
Place your orders today!

Who Knew ?

In the story "Heads I Win" from Archie's Double Digest # 140 it is revealed that
Riverdales' favorite two-timing klutz, Archie Andrews
not only is into 'The Boss !' but also has a CRASS poster up on his wall AND reads MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL.

The little person who drew these little people was certainly on the right track.

Jim et Jean-Paul on vacation

Caption reads:
Jim et Jean-Paul portent un toast.


Caption reads:
Une scène typique des Tropiques.


Caption reads:
Les Chaises Longues
de l'Halcyon Days Hotel,
par Jean-paul et Jim

Caption reads:
L'école de requins.
AQUA CENTER.


Caption reads:
Remember the day I met you darling
It was under the coconut tree

Jean-Paul et Jim

Caption reads:
The beautiful private beach
of Jim and Jean-Paul.

Caption reads:
Jim et Jean-Paul surveillent
les requins... who's next?

Jim et Jean-Paul

These guys, seemingly from Quebec, went on vacation in 1977, it seems, to St. Lucia and had their own postcards printed up, all in green with funny comments documenting their sunburns, bar tabs and snarky complaints.
I found a total of 8 different cards ( with several doubles!) in a batch of postcards I picked up for the shop.
I smartened up quick and pulled these from the shelves needing, somehow, to share their uniqueness before they sold.
They are now in my private collection and I'd love to meet these guys and ask them about their trip.
Front:

Back:

(each card has a different caption in the top lefthand corner of the back)
Also note the publishers' copyright: cul Q.
Cul = ass, btw.

Poseidon Council

In 2002 Sam Shalabi and I
laughed our heads off making a very serious prog record,
An Sphinx Awoken. Our band ? Poseidon Council.
This is the record sleeve I made at the time for our grand opus.
We released maybe ten copies into the world.
Now this underground classic is available from notype as downloadable files.
They gave it a snazzy new cover.
Have a listen...but know that Merlin, too, is listening!

Scrap Book

I tend to keep scrapbooks at work, no matter what job I have.
These books tend to be the repository of tiny scraps that I can't bear to let go.
This is the inside front cover of the most recent book started in April 2003.
Slow to fill.

some found beauties

some of these I've been holding onto for years.

How And Why Wonder Book Inside Cover

True Love

Artyping

My 1955 La Salle Elementary Bilingual Method Typewriting Course handbook mentions :
'The "La Salle Complementary Course" offers a complete 30-page chapter on artistic typewriting.'
There is also use of the word 'artyping'. My first encounter with it.
Here are some excerpts.




" We are pleased to mention here how greatly we are endebted to Mr. Julius Nelson of
Baltimore, expert sponsor of art-typing, for his personal guidance, and his generosity
in valuable and original specimens."

Oh, Julius! I'd love to see some of those original specimens!

Question

Is an overall aesthetic emerging here on these pages ?

I find it interesting what I am uploading
Stuff that's very different from
My personal art.