Fiji Island Mermaid Press

Best thing I’ve seen today - found on the back of my first-grader’s schoolwork.
I’m impressed she spelled “sleigh” right, and I like the extra “a” in away to stretch the word. I hadn’t heard this particular version of the classic Jingle Bells with Batman smelling.

It’s amazing that corrupting Jingle Bells is something that ties her childhood and mine over 40 years. She first learned a version of the demented Jingle Bells song in kindergarten. After I quizzed her a little bit, I discovered that she learned it from the older kids on the bus. That’s when I decided that smelly Batman and Robin laying an egg is actually a language virus that has been continually transmitted on the school bus for decades.

So, this little thing is done!

I’m mailing these out to members of the Fiji Island Mermaid Press Book Club.

The envelope has a linocut printed on the front, titled in pencil “Rex Howls At”, and within the envelope is a linocut titled in pencil “The Moon”, with an edition number and signature.

Hopefully the fact that the address and stamp and whatnot are on the “back” of the envelope won’t make a difference to the post office. And does it not rock that you can get Marcel Duchamp postage stamps?

I wonder how beat up the prints will get? I hope they get some attractive wear and tear in their journey. Enough, but not too much.

Many moons!

These are the moons that are going to be inside the envelopes for Rex to howl at.

Here’s “Rex”, almost done.

This was my goofball move of yesterday. I work by making a fairly elaborate drawing on the block, only cutting when I’m really confident of where I want the marks to go. Yesterday I printed the block, thinking it was done, only to discover that I had forgotten to cut the fairly elaborate ruff/collar around the dog’s neck. How did I not see that?

This is printed on an envelope - the envelope will contain a linocut of the moon for the dog to howl at. It will be mailed to all of my FIMP book subscribers. I’m pretty excited about it. We’ll see how beat up Rex gets in the mail.