Bo Press Blog

Dec 03 2 comments

Bo Press in the News, New Publications, Retrospectives

The Fifth Year of the Bo Press

And here it is, up now on eBay:

Endpapers

Introduction

The Minard Fold-Out

Samples

All

And here are the links, if you’d like to take a look:

Sep 30 2 comments

Bo Press Books, Bo Press in the News, Retrospectives, Uncategorized

IGMA Show – An Overview

1. Even after building and furnishing a dollhouse, I had no idea how really really small 1/12 scale is.

2. IGMA people are the best.

3. Miniature paintings that look like bad copies on a website look absolutely magical in person.

4. If you removed the miniature food and the miniature needlework, there would have been damn few of us left.

5. My homemade display furniture looked homemade.

6. I need lights.

7. I had lots of small sales and TWO BIG ONES! so I ended up in the black.

8. New Jersey’s humidity rivals Mississippi’s.

9. It’s really hard to sell my books unless I explain each one.

10. I get really homesick.

. . . . .more to come.

Jan 29 2 comments

Retrospectives

A friend of mine asked me the other day if I realized that the little astronomical toys I make are very Steampunk in style. I think a lot of the work I do tends that way, even if I don’t say so specifically. I haven’t actually read very much Steampunk literature. I tried get through Jeff VanderMeer’s Shriek: An Afterward with no success, but I’ve read a lot of China Mieville. Does that count?

In any case, it’s Steampunk’s visual aspect that delights me. Here are the works of mine that I think are the most Steampunky: