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It’s Probably a Fake
Since it’s my name in the ‘Contact Us’ section, I get a lot of emails with pictures of things people think are original posters. Sometimes they’re totally legit, and I…
Gallery Fun Time
Every now and then my boss comes up with some horrible interesting idea for a book project. …..Because, you know, I have nothing better to do than write coffee table books…
Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts Including David Copperfield
Christie’s is proud to announce that they will offer Charles Dickens’s personal copy of David Copperfield in the sale of Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts on 13 June 2012. Charles…
Space Shuttle Enterprise
NASA loves posters This entry was posted on Friday, April 27th, 2012 at 3:10 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can…
Edward Earle
I’m not sure how I feel about this guy using my signature erotic pose while juggling. I also don’t like him borrowing my Sargent Pepper bathing suit collection. This entry…
The Children’s Wonderland
“Cute” has never been a favorite adjective of mine. If something can possibly qualify as awwwdorable, I’m probably not going to want to have it anywhere near my house. And…
Cirque d’Ete
It isn’t too often that we get a poster for an auction that makes me scrunch my brown, widen my eyes, and go “hold the phone….what?!” But about four months ago,…
Conservatoire Africain
Riffing on yesterday’s theme of the racially insensitive, I thought I’d share with you this poster promoting the strangest charitable tradition I’ve ever heard explained. I’d seen this poster a…
Sauvion’s
Don’t you just hate it when you’re dressed up like a cancer patient in maternity wear, and a rouge parrot swoops in to steal your booze? Happens to me every…
The Octoroon
If you haven’t been able to tell by now, racially insensitive posters from the turn of the century have a special place in my heart, mostly because they are so…
