“Oh man, what an inspiration! (Love these labors of love-congratulations.) Frost, T.S. Sullivant, Kemble and the rest; amazing how those virtuosos could make a penpoint sing. Drawing with a dip nib is hard: they blob, they run outa gas just in the middle of a line. Looking at old Life humor mags and seeing ads for pen-nibs made me realize that every kid in school had to learn to use a dip pen. You’re publishing the guys who got straight A’s....”

Art Spiegelman – cartoonist and historian

• 112 pages
• 230 illustrations in
  glorious black & white
• same large 9"x12" size
• same great 100 lb paper
• EVEN BETTER reproduction
• same great price
  U.S. $20 + $5 postage
  non-U.S. $20 + $10 postage
• mailed first class or air mail in a protective envelope

Forty different artists:
Austen, Beard, Booth, Broadhead, Cady (32 pages), Chapman, Christy, Clarke, Cory, Craig, Crawford, Dart, Doré, DuMond, Dunn, Fish, Fosmire, Gibson, Gruger, Johnson, Leigh, Meylan, Mucha, Neilsen, O'Neill, Parrish, Paus, Penfield, Pogany, Pyle, Rackham, Railton, Sandys, Sargent, Sarka, Stanlaws, Steele, Sullivant, Taber, Talberg, Walker, Williams, Wyeth.

Previous Halftone Screen process

I actually have a copy of the Third Annual that was printed via the halftone method. I rejected it for quality reasons and was very pleased to be able to actually improve the quality beyond my expectations by way of the Stochastic process.

Hats off to Lahlouh (fomerly Color Copy Printing)

New Stochastic process

This scan also shows the selective descreening that I've done on every halftoned image. The screens that appear along the edges within the image above are retained to capture detail. If you look at the halftoned version at left, you will notice that these screen remnants are not immediately apparent when the image is rescreened for reproduction.