Angel Bomb

05/19/2022

It's Art A Whirl weekend at the Northrup King Building this weekend! I'm clearing out old inventory and making way for upcoming books. Stop on by and get 30% off all letterpress prints and get any greeting cards for $3 cash.

10/13/2021

Angel Bomb's 6th book, Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell is now LIVE on Kickstarter! In a matter of hours, it's been over 50% funded. Help me reach my goal to print this amazing science fiction classic!

A limited-edition, letterpress edition of Who Goes There? This story by John W. Campbell inspired 'The Thing' movies.

09/02/2021

Come on by Angel Bomb tonight during Northrup King Building's First Thursday. It will be the first time I've been open in over a year and a half. Come see the new letterpress book I'm working on: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. It was the story that inspired The Thing movies. I'll be open 5-9:00.

06/05/2019

Come see a preview of my latest book, The Miskatonic Papers, at Rain Taxi's Print Matters this Saturday! I'll be selling all three of my previous books as well. http://www.raintaxi.com/print-matters-2019/

01/10/2019

A Kickstarter Collaboration with Wonderfull Design is Live!!

Recently I started working with Dan and Erika at Wonderfull Design, an award winning design firm that creates amazing art books, exhibits and experiences. I've helped them with book plates and a letterpress slip cover for a beautiful book of Merryll Saylan's woodwork. The book was published for an exhibit of Merryll's body of work at The Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia. Dan and I got to talking and through our mutual love of art and books and books about art, the basis for a collaboration was born.

This collaboration, called Shared Love is now live on Kickstarter and features beautiful imagery of found hearts archival printed and tipped onto a limited edition letterpress print. The story of how these images came to be is a sweet one, and I encourage you to click the link above and read about the project. Dan and Erika want to share the love they feel and find when they're out in the world and with all the crap happening these days, that's a very good thing. I'm proud to help them launch this project and hope it leads to more great work being created together.

This Valentine’s Day give the gift of “Shared Love”—photos of heart shapes found in the world.

01/09/2019

My fourth book project, Lovecraft’s Journal, is coming along nicely! Slow, but continued progress is being made. I should be able to show images soon of the first prototype for an artifact that is discovered in the story. This is by far the hardest book I’ve worked on, partially because it’s huge and has dozens of different pieces, but also because it’s much more than a book. The way I envision this project once it’s finished is more of an experiential discovery than just a read. What does that mean, exactly?

Imagine, if you will, receiving a package with a somewhat archaic sounding letter from a very old friend. You remember them being of less than sound mind and that they passed, unremarkably, many years ago. You open up this dusty and ancient looking box, careful not to damage it and discover a plethora of stained old pages within. There are letters from professors at prestigious universities and telegrams from an expedition you’d never even heard about. Carefully handling the crinkly old pieces of paper, you begin to read…

You look up at the clock in surprise as it strikes midnight and suddenly the shadows in the room seem much larger and malevolent than before. You’ve been reading for hours and didn’t even hear your better half when they said goodnight. Oh dear!

But you can’t stop. You can’t put it down. For there’s a journal from that long ago expedition and you’ve been flipping through the pages, reading the scrawls from Miskatonic University’s Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Tyler Freeborn. What was it that he discovered? Was he slowly going mad?

You mark your page and reach deeper into the box. Below the journal are a pile of sketches and maps and newspaper clippings, all stained from age and scribbled profusely with arcane notes. In an envelope are dozens of small pieces of some letters or notes of some kind…all torn and burned at the edges. What the hell are these?

Beneath this, you feel something lumpy wrapped loosely in a dank old piece of burlap and tied with twine. Hanging from the twine is a tag with something you can barely read….warning.

This is what I mean by experiential. You’re part of the story, you need to piece it together and try to figure out what all these things mean. Are they connected somehow or really just the ravings of a lunatic?

11/02/2018

It's time for Art Attack, a great open studio event perfect for holiday shopping. It starts tonight!
Friday 5-10:00pm
Saturday 12-8:00pm
Sunday 12-5:00pm
Come on down and see what we've been up to!

08/08/2017

This is a great write-up of our American Manifesto. It's in Italian, so you'll need to click translate at the top. http://edizionidelfrisco.com/

07/31/2017

Our mini-book, Mister F, was accepted into the Book As Art v5.0: Illuminated show at the Decatur Arts Alliance. We're very happy to be included in this show with so many other great book artists. If you're in the area, please check it out. It will be open August 11- September 29. http://decaturartsalliance.org/book-art-illuminated/

Book as Art: Illuminated August 11–September 29 | open during library hours The Periodicals Gallery of the Decatur Library 215 Sycamore St., Decatur, Ga. Opening Reception Friday, Aug. 25 | 7–9 pm The luminous sheen of copper, brass, gold leaf and enamel lights up the annual Book as Art exhibition.…

05/19/2017

Come to Art A Whirl this weekend and say hello! Tag us in your social media posts and possibly win some letterpress treasures!

05/18/2017

It's time for Art-A-Whirl™ everyone! Come on out this weekend to see the best art crawl in the country! Angel Bomb will be open all weekend giving letterpress demos and letting you take home a killer coaster celebrating our 20th anniversary! Stop on by and say 'hi'. Hours are Friday 5-10, Saturday 12-8, and Sunday 12-5. You can also ride the transit system for free: https://nemaa.org/art-a-whirl/metrotransitpass