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Jocko Weyland
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| October 2011, 8.5 x 5.5" 70 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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“Observe its honesty, dignity, and moral courage; it’s drawn all the necessary conclusions from its own total loss of function. Objects also die my friend. And if they also must die, then that’s it, better to let them go. It shows far more style, above all. Don’t you agree?" So says Micòl in the most well known of the Il romanzo di Ferrara. Grappling with that question and the necessity of letting go is the motive animating the panegyric essay “Objects Also Die,” Doug Magnuson’s filmic memorial of the same name, and the two fused together with extra material that makes up Objects Also Die. Designed by Myron Hunt and built in 1920, The Ambassador prevailed at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard in the City of Angels through innumerable guests, six Oscar ceremonies, one assassination of a presidential hopeful, and countless unrecorded collective and personal histories before being demolished to make way for a school in 2006. Through the prism of the hotel and San Diego’s El Cortez and The Stanley in Estes Park, Colorado, this compendium explores the loss of the Ambassador by delving into the conundrum of dealing with the death of inanimate things that have taken on a life of their own. The draw at The Ambassador was communion with unknowable bygone times and that singular stillness pervading rooms where no one has been for a long time, a kind of mildly illicit romanticist exploration of seductive ruins. Magnuson’s elegiac, calm, dry-eyed yet poetic nineteen minute documentation is accompanied by George Draguns’s affecting and occasionally spooky soundtrack, and the collection also includes Greg Magnuson’s spectral photographs of the beautiful decrepitude that defined the hotel in its last days. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (and the bungalow they set fire to), the Cocoanut Grove, the Venetian Ballroom are all included, along with ephemera and mementos related to its seventy-year run. With guest cameos by Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Charles Manson, Alice Cooper, Norma Shearer, Art Nyhagen (the hotel’s doorman from 1946-89), and Dominique Sanda and Helmet Berger in Vittorio de Sica’s adaptation of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. 44 pages with a color cover and DVD, $15. |
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| 5.5 x 8.5" 44 pgs with DVD, $15.00 | ||
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Mary Dennis “Those who have aroused serious accident will be sent to related department for punishment” Next door to McDonalds there's a fast food chain called Kung Fu that sells noodles and has Bruce Lee instead of Ronald McDonald as a spokesman, a family lives and gardens in an empty lot until disappearing one day when the bulldozers arrive, and three men chase down an old woman with a Styrofoam cooler full of flowers, tackle her, rip her cooler apart, grab her flowers, and calmly walk away. True life stories from this Singapore- born, American-raised, Beijing-based author whose liminal status gives these accounts their punch, profundity, and humor. This endlessly fascinating and confusing megalopolis that is Dennis’ current hometown provides an alternately comedic and tragic backdrop for these seventeen short stories. Sights, sounds, and smells of ultra-vivid experience come through with full force, from absurdly mangled linguistic foibles of doing voice recordings of “Japan Cuisine Restaurant” dialogues in the title story, to the heart wrenching futility of giving a few bills to a woman crying over her dying daughter in the street, to the improbable existence of “ligers” at the Harbin Tiger Park. Attentive to detail and an authentic reflection on the mixed emotions and startling perceptions the city constantly elicits, they cover an arc of adaptation from first contact through mystification to more bewilderment, and then some level of quasi-understanding. An astute and perceptive mix of the nonsensical and the deeply affecting, this is a topsy-turvy and sometimes hilarious world of little monks brought in from the Shaolin temple so there would be something cool to look at, finding out that “Jazz was produced by the American Blackmen who were brought to the Southern states as slaves,” wrestling with the dilemma of an intimidating pile of skewered chicken livers, cartilage, and tripe, listening to MC Hotdog to learn Chinese and reading his Chinese character Chinese character YO CHECK THIS OUT Chinese Chinese MOTHAFUCKA liner notes, and buying a bicycle from a shady character in a back alley, naming it Bluey, and then getting it stolen three days later. 52 pages, with a centerfold photograph by Wayne Liu. $8. |
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| 5.5 x 8.5" 52 pgs, $8.00 | ||
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Jocko Weyland Angelos, Bruce R. Bachand, Dave Bevan, Charles Bukowski, Roman Buxbaum, James Castle, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Fred R. Conrad, Edgardo Contini, Binh Danh, Bill Daniel, Bruce Davidson, Marcel Duchamp, Niels Elswing, Tony Farmer, Elizabeth Felicella, Ale Formenti, Rick Friedman, Charles D. Gibson, Justin Goetz, Ton van Gool, Bruce Graham, Geoff Graham, Victor Gruen, Carlos van Hijfte, Miguel Jimenez and Martin Bernat, Johan Kleinjan, Jonathan Kroll, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Clarence John Laughlin, Lin Yu Sheng, Lucy R. Lippard, Chris Little, Janine Magelssen, Eric Mitchell, Alastair Muir, Coan Nichols, David Östlund, Claude Parent, Jean-Marie Périer, Michael Prince, Albert Riethausen, William Sauro, SIMPARCH, Pavel Tchelitchew, Andrew Testa, Miroslave Tichy, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Tom Tschida, Anne Turyn |
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| August 2010, 8.5 x 5.5" 70 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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The male gaze going where it wasn’t supposed to during the charged subterranean years after World War II and before the mid-1960s. That is, not at women. Compiled from a personal trove by critic and curator Vince Aletti, this collection of photographs showcases multiple archetypes from sailors and leather-jacketed rough trade to fresh-faced lettermen and nascent movie stars. Poetic pairings as aphrodisiac, unspooling like a visually syncopated scrapbook of young male pulchritude. Dudes who were cool and looked cool without trying too hard. Blue-collar, white ethnic, from another time and place, and with an air of un-self-consciousness woefully missing in this day and age. The taboo and suppression of the era mixed with the thinly veiled and sometimes completely unmasked homoerotic nature of these striking portraits evinces a different world that burbled beneath mainstream society prior to today’s anodyne homogenization on one hand and muscle queen grotesquerie on the other. At play is a refreshing almost wholesome lubricity that pays tribute to decidedly not cheesy handsomeness in all its iterations. Pomade and brilliantine abound, as do moles, salient collarbones, strong necks, smooth chests, hairy chests, shiny backs, nice biceps, heavy brows, wide lips, Roman noses, and dark eyes. The opposite of perfect, and that’s a big part of their appeal and what makes them perfect. Eyebrows cocked, bemused, defiant, wistful, coy, smoldering, vulnerable, though just as often happy, smiling and unguarded. Hand to chin, staring into space, in profile. Bowling shirts, checked jackets, cardigans, wide collars, hats tilted back insouciantly, and bulges below the belt. Some are living incarnations of the bawdy characters in Paul Cadmus’ “The Fleet’s In,” dangling cigarettes and looking tough, while a few seem to have come straight out of a college yearbook, like the fellow holding a copy of the classy early 1960s soft-core hardcover magazine Eros. Kustom Kar Kommandos, Caravaggio, Tom of Finland, and the less baroque side of George Platt Lynes all come to mind, but more universally this is a celebration of eternal male attractiveness. It ends with a banger on the last page with a shirtless dark-skinned stud sporting a sun hat, and includes an appearance by a Warren Beatty lookalike and a cover shot of Sal Meneo in all his Rebel Without a Cause glory. 50 pages, color cover and inside front and back covers, $10. |
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| 8.5 x 5.5" 50 pgs, $10.00 | ||
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Elk No.20 Jocko Weyland Issue #20 includes: James Andanson, Nicole Andrews, Lotta Antonsson, Wallace Berman, Lee Bontecou, Edward Colver, Fred R. Conrad, J. Costa, Quinn Li Crewdson, Horst Dwinger, Rob Erickson, Jaya French, Thomas Hauser, Hickey-Robertson, Peter Hujar, Christopher Isherwood, Rich Jacobs, Anders Jandér, Sta Joffe, Julius Klein, Nikolas Koenig, Lennart Larsen, Julie Lequin, Taiji Matsue, Travis McCormack, Matt McGinley, Mofo, Vann Molyvann, Barbara Mosely, Ira Nowinsk,i Miha Perne, Francis Picabia, James Rau, Alexander Rodchenko, Mark Rothko, Georges Rouault, Richard Termine, Cosimo Tura, Maarten Van Viegen, Ferdinand von Raysk,i John Wesley, Garry Winogrand, Xiao Yeo |
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| April 2010, 8.5 x 5.5" 66 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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Elk No.19 Jocko Weyland Guillaume Apollinaire, Slim Arrons, Norton Louis Avery, Evere,t Kennedy Brown, Susan Collis, J.M. Crossland, Pat Delaney, Tony Farmer, Focho, Martine Franck, Aaron Frisby, Axel Görger, Hwang Pyong Gyun, Eddie Hauser, Donny Humes, Roger Jackson, Thomas Jeppe, Ray Johnson, Gary Kachadourian, Andy Kessler, Paul Klee, Koco, Laura Larson, Jason Lee, Manon, Charles Marville, Leonard Michaels, Gjon Mill, Henry Moore, Oko, Paul Pagk, Rachel Papo, Richard Perry, Eric Gregory Powell, Luc Sante, Eero Saarinen, Edward Steichen, Lee U-Fan, J. Weber, William S. Wilson, Virginia Woolf, Adam Wright, Wei Yao, Tseng Yuhe |
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| October 2009, 8.5 x 5.5" 62 pgs, $6.00 | Out of stock | |
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| May 2008, 8.5 x 5.5" 62 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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Insieme Desirée Hammen Catalogue for Desirée Hammen’s one-night exhibition at the Elk Gallery on Crosby Street, December 20th, 2008, “Insieme” brings together all (and more) that was on display that cold sleety evening, including examples of Hammen’s painstakingly handcrafted clothes that mix fineness and grit with the spirit of sidewalk detritus that animates much of her intuitive couture, and vestments done in conjunction with the Painted collective. Also featured are willing strangers and the cigarettes they gave as part of “Share,” the idiosyncratic domesticity of the “Home Sweet Home,” and evidence of mask wearing at an “Animal Farm” event/birthday party in Mölnbo, Sweden. The fruits of inventive collaboration, trash appreciation, and exquisite craftsmanship comingle in these lush photographs, showcasing art and raiment as unexpected surprise and the action, reaction and randomness of unscripted social discourse. The crooked and weathered ten-foot long stick discovered near Smith Street and W. 9th in Red Hook that Hammen dressed in a one-of-a-kind sewed coat is on the last page, in situ. |
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| 6 x 8" 40 pgs, full-color $12.00 | ||
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| Nov. 2008, 8.5 x 5.5" 58 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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Jocko Weyland Issue 16 includes: Pontus Alv, James Edward Bates, Dick Blau, Torin Boyd, Benjamin Cecil, Nicholas A. Christakis, Clayton Brothers, Michael Conroy, Jim Damron, Ed Van der Eisken, Hans Esworth, Edie Fake, James H. Fowler, Sandra Gnandt, Kim Jones, Jim Krantz, Andre Lemos, Taliah Lempert, Milba Lloyd, Ed Luce, Robert Mapplethorpe, Beryl Markham, Wade McKay, C.F. Moller, Richard Mortensen, Matt Mullican, Chris Murray, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrea Palladio, Thomas and Poul Pedersen, George John Pinwell, Qui Ying, Southworth & Hawes, Edwin Smith, Starfire Optical Range, Studio Hoofbureau Elandsgracht, Aya Tsukioa, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, and Hein Wenzel |
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| May 2008, 8.5 x 5.5" 62 pgs, $6.00 | Out of stock | |
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Nothing... yet... Artus de Lavilléon Catalog for the "No Deposit No Return (I1m Not an Underground Artist)" exhibition at the Elk Gallery on Guanghua Lu in Beijing, April 2008. "Nothing...Yet..." is the bastard offspring of a collaborative miscegenation between Elk and Deadpan, overflowing with de Lavilléon1s witty, scabrous, incisive drawings that mix social commentary, true life experience, comely females, alternately hilarious and angst-ridden personal revelations, and a healthy dose of raunchiness. Spawned by Spring Festival fireworks and discussions over baozi in Sanlitun, this tome is both a record of the artist's six-month stay in the northern capital and document of the process that led to "No Deposit No Return" materializing on the walls surrounding a mini-ramp in a downtown Beijing warehouse. French skate-punkism and Situationist détournement and "customization" with Debordian comic book overtones, told through image and text depictions of Chinese Hip-Hop kids, guilty visits to McDonalds, punk snobs, workers eating lunch, old skaters, art collectors, dead cowboys and washed-up boxers, along with attendant rants, aphorisms and dialogue. |
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| July 2006, 7 x 5.5" 90 pgs, in English, French and Chinese $12.00 | Out of stock | |
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Jocko Weyland Issue 15 includes: Dave Bevan, Cècile Carrière, Gerardo Castillo, Georgy Chakhava, Frèderic Chaubin, Piero di Cosimo, Bill Daniel, Jimmy DeSana, Gerrit Dou, James Drake, Peter Fischl & David Weiss, Ashley Gilbertson, Justin Goetz, Thomas Hauser, Joe Hill, Peter Hujar, Kim Jones, Lionel Corporporation Robert Mapplethorpe, Henri Michaux, Ugo Mochi, Andrea Mohin, Greg Murphy, John Newsom, Pearson Pharmacal, Jean-Baptise, Perronneau, Lorenzo Petrantoni, Peggy Photo, Richard M. Powers, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Yuri Shibuya, Peter Simon, Varvara Stepanova, Soichi Sunami, Tod Swank, and Gee Vaucher |
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| Sept. 2007, 8.5 x 5.5" 50 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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Sleepers Rick Charnoski Taking pictures of sleepers is like bird watching. Rick Charnoski is a sleeper watcher nonpareil, documenting everything from poetic New York subway slumberers to four women enjoying a quick vehicular nap. "Sleepers" is comprised of amazing photographs showing people of all sorts and stripes dozing on benches, planes, trains and on the grass, interspersed with Charnoski's handwritten textual commentary such as "In Japan They Sleep Too" and "Meanwhile in LA, a person adapts to the bum-proof bench with a yoga mat." |
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| July 2006, 8.5 x 5.5" 60 pgs, $8.00 | ||
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La Perruquière Gloria Toyun Park Catalog for
the comprehensive exhibition "La Perruqueière" (The Female
Wigmaker) at the Elk Gallery on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, May-June
2007. Includes documentation of Parks's wigs, drawings, rock pieces, appearances
at Wigstock, the performances "She, Sublime" and "Hypothermic
Runway Rack" and stills from her films and videos. With photographs
of the artist and her work by |
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| July 2006, 8.5 x 5.5" 50 pgs, $8.00 | ||
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers Issue 14 includes: Wallace Berman, A.Brandt, Rudy Burckhardt, Veja Celmins, Jesper Fabricus, Elizabeth Felicella, Hugh Ferriss, Aaron Frisby, Godflesh Visuals, P. Goetelen, Phillip Guston, Raymond Hains, Heinrich Heine, Herbert L. Heller, Renko Heuer, Anders Jander, Gustave Klimt, Nikolas Koenig, Arnold Kovacs, Kraft636@aol.com, Marie Laurencin, Man Ray, Hiroko Masuike , Richard Melloul, Vann Molyvann, Mu Mu, Hanna Nilsson, Rasmus Norlander, Richard Perry, Merle Porter, Manfred Rahs, Roberto Rossi, Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Sheeler, Peter Nolan Smith, Mark Sussman, William, H. Tague, Margaret Thomas, Carlos and Miguel Vargas, Ruby Washington, Stanislav Zagorski, Michael Zhao, and Stefan Zweig |
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| May 2007, 8.5 x 5.5" 54 pgs, $6.00 | Out of stock | |
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Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World Thurston Moore & Jocko Weyland Catalog for
Thurston Moore’s and Jocko Weyland’s fall 2005 "Today
Your Love, Tomorrow the World" exhibition at KS Art on Leonard Street
in New York. Moore’s collages reconstituted from Creem and Rockscene
(amongst other sources) and Weyland’s close-up photographs of hardcore-era
record covers are reproduced, as are contributions by Jack Brewer, R.
Elis, Charles Henri Ford, Godlis, Bob Greun, Lazlo Maholy-Nagy, Dave O,
Raymond Pettibone, Pushead, Kerry Schuss and Fred Tomaselli. |
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| Dec. 2006, 8.5 x 5.5" 46 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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Catalog for exhibition at the Elk Gallery in New York running from
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| 2007, 8.5 x 5.5" 43 pgs, $10.00 | Out of stock | |
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers (some willing, others totally unaware) Issue 12 includes:Leonid Andreyev, Kimberly Baker, Paul Citroen, Otto Dix, Frank Grow, Stefan Marx, James Rau, Ed Roth, Spit, Maarten Van Tague |
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| July 2006, 8.5 x 5.5" 50 pgs, $6.00 | Out of stock | |
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers Accompanied by a CD of music composed and played by George Draguns. Each individual track is scored to a page from Elk No. 11, making for a total of forty-three musical selections. Issue 11 includes: George Barris, Samuel Beckett, Max Beckman, Dave Bevan, Gasparo da Salo, René Daniels, Mike DeCapite, Mr. Epp & the Calculations, Charles Henri Ford, Charlie Graeber, Wladyslaw Hasior, Lester Kasai, Emma Hunz, Miranda Lichtenstein, Nan Melville, Stu Mead, Chuck Miller, NASA Archives, Jeff Newton, Francis Picabia, Richard M. Powers, Michael Rakowitz, John Rose, Arnold Shoenberg, Maurice Seymour, Robert Stolarik, Tod Swank, Pavel Tchelitchew, Adam Wallingford, Patrick Walsh, Hein Wenzel, and Shawn Wharton |
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| April 2006, 8.5 x 5.5" 46 pgs, $10.00 | ||
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| July 2006, 8.5 x 5.5" 54 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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| March 2005, 8.5 x 5.5" 50 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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| Oct 2004 , 8.5 x 5.5" 46 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers (some willing, others totally unaware) Issue 7 includes: Itty Atcravi, Heinrich Berann, Karl Blossfeldt, Caufield and Shock Studio, David Allan Flattum, Graphic Union, M.H., Jenny Holzer, Jason Jesse, Stu Mead, Andre Rau, Hannes Schmidt, Bill Smith, A.L. Steiner and others. www.elkzine.com |
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| June 2004, 8.5 x 5.5" 65 pgs, 61 b/w illus. $6.00 | Out of stock | |
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers (some willing, others totally unaware) Issue 6 includes: Carman Andrade, Steve Badgett, Bruce Conner, Howard French, Melissa Jones, Craig Litten, Mckim Mead & White, NASA, Joe Rao, Meridel Rubenstein, Mungo Thompson, Ooi Beng Yean and others. www.elkzine.com |
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| March 2004, 8.5 x 5.5" 49 pgs, 48 b/w illus. $6.00 | ||
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| January 2004, 8.5 x 5.5" 42 pgs, $6.00 | ||
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers (some willing, others totally unaware) Issue 4 includes: Antoni Altadill, Salvador Dali, Fernando Elvira, Jack Goldstein, Joan Miro, Alexandre van Viegen, RW and others. www.elkzine.com |
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| October, 2003 8.5 x 5.5" 37 pgs, 37 b/w illus. $6.00 | ||
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers (some willing, others totally unaware) Issue 3 includes: Ashley Bickerton, Bill Cooper, Otto Dix, Hugh Gallagher, Jean Lowe, John Marr, Novgorod School, Michel van Dartel, Jacy Webster, Who Can It Be Now Productions, and others www.elkzine.com |
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| July 2003, 8.5 x 5.5" 33 pgs, 32 b/w illus. $6.00 | Out of stock | |
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers (some willing, others totally unaware) Issue 2 includes: M. Fo, Renee French, Ed Hermann, Yrma Matos, Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Smart Lapel Printer Software User Guide, Joanna Yas, and others www.elkzine.com |
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| June 2003, 8.5 x 5.5" 26 pgs, 24 b/w illus. $6.00 | Out of stock | |
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Jocko Weyland and a long list of contributers (some willing, others totally unaware) Issue 1 includes: Fred Conrad, Mark Gonzales, Chip Morton, Tran Van Can, Patrick Walsh, and others www.elkzine.com |
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| June 2003, 8.5 x 5.5" 26 pgs, 24 b/w illus. $6.00 | Out of stock | |