The Flipbook Archive: Early Flipbooks |
| After I made my first two films, "Eggs" and "Body Sketches", I wanted to find another way to get my animation out into the world. Inspired by my faculty advisor at Harvard, George Griffin, who had been making flipbooks a part of his animation practice for a while, I photocopied sequences of drawings from the films, collated and bound them. I sold copies for $1.50 at Seattle's and/or gallery in 1979 as part of the Suspended Animation show curated by Maxine Martell. |
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| The following year, I made new titles "Dolphin Cycle", "Hot Licks" and "Running Octopus". I sold these through the "and/or Store" that the gallery held during the Christmas season to highlight work by local artists. These books were photocopied and bound with a dutch lap stapler rented from Handy Andy Rent-a-Tool. Friends helped collate them. I made about $150 (which more than covered one month's rent...). In 1981, I published "TV Dinner" inspired by work I was doing in the Seattle Public Schools with children. In 1982, I decided I needed to find a better way to mass produce the flipbooks. I was introduced to Maura Shapley and Jack LeNoir of Day Moon Press. They printed new editions of all my books thus far. I still did all the collating, working in their shop. |
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