Ep. 215: Tunnel Book

After making four clamshell boxes for small books, I moved on to the tunnel book. The tunnel book offers the ability to tell a story in one viewing, sort of like a painting. But without the painting part. I have made, so far, one tunnel book. I’m working on my second tunnel book. This second book requires me to learn how to draw the human figure in motion; something I have not been able to do so far in my life. In fact, drawing the human figure in stasis has also not exactly been my forte.

Nevertheless, I venture on pushing my personal boundaries of creativity in both drawing and creating books. In this first tunnel book you can almost see a rabbit, an elephant/bear and a cat/giraffe. Such are my drawing skills that these animals are easily confused. The final part of the tunnel is green paper which, I hope, shows off the animals and et cetera. By the way, the last panel of the tunnel are buildings. Animals and buildings mixed together; that was my idea.

My next tunnel book is in the pre-making/planning stages. This tunnel book will be people doing things: walking, using a computer, smoking, playing the flute and other difficult to draw activities that will a) Push my drawing abilities to their limits b) Engage the viewer, I hope. I think tunnel books will allow the viewer to see a complete story in one place; rather than read several pages or look at pictures on several pages. For this reason, I must work more.

Finally, I picked up everyone’s favorite Japanese binding book, Japanese Bookbinding by Ikegami. In the back are several ways to make boxes for books. After I make four or five tunnel books, I am going to try my hand at a four-sided case and, maybe, a box case.

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The City of Cocks - a murder mystery starring an alcoholic poet who sees ghosts, the wife of the suspect, and a host of oddball characters who either help or hinder the wife and poet’s investigation into the innocence of the suspect. 

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The Venetian Slime Woman – A Biological Love Story

A deadly slime is discovered in a canal in Venice; it has killed at least one woman, maybe more. The slime is sent to the EPA in Seattle for diagnosis. The researcher is stricken with a disease that eats her alive. No cure can be found.

At night, in the slime mold, a female emerges from it. She is discovered by an EPA water specialist who fears she will kill him, too. Instead, she tells him her strange story. He believes her. She finds out about the sick researcher and insists the water specialist take her to her. Once in the hospital, the slime woman cures the researcher’s sickness. However, an agent — from the CIA? the FBI? Homeland Security? — finds the slime woman and wants to dissect her. The water specialist helps the slime woman escape. They find a mysterious tunnel in St. Augustine, Florida that leads them to safety. Book Five of the Calvado Pentalogy.

 

Tristram’s Printer – A Typographical Love Story.

A young female bartender embarks on a long strange ride across the US. She meets her first husband, the hyper-jealous accountant; she meets an obese egotistical artist and his skinny devoted wife.

She learns about paper making, bookbinding, drugs, jealousy, and letterpress printing. She has a drugged up lesbian affair, escapes from a police raid, and tries to be the good wife to the financial officer of a small company in a small Vermont town.

Through the artist, she meets a letterpress printer old enough to be her father. He believes she is his daughter who died in a car accident on graduation night. They fall in love. Book One of the Calvado Pentalogy.

 

 

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