Milton Caniff and "Now in my day" : a keepsake printed for the centenary of his birth
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Date
2007
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Logan Elm Press
Abstract
Colophon: This keepsake was designed by Robert Tauber and was printed at The Ohio State University Libraries Center for Book Arts to commemorate the centenary of Milton Caniff's birth. Special acknowledgements go to Lucy Caswell, Professor and Curator of The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, for her expertise and support; to Raymond Goerler, University Archivist, and Bertha Ihnat, Reference Assistant, for their editorial guidance; to Michael Williams for his diligent presswork; and to President Gordon Gee for his comments on "Now In My Day." Edward Brunner teaches American Literature at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He has written essays and studies on twentieth century poets (Hart Crane, W.S. Merwin, Richard Wilbur, T.S. Eliot), and cartoonists such as Milton Caniff, O.L. Harrington, and Jackie Ormes. Sidney Chafetz, Professor Emeritus in Art at The Ohio State University, has produced an internationally acclaimed body of work as a printmaker that includes numerous portraits of authors and cultural icons. The text was composed in Palatino, designed by Herman Zapf; it is a classic humanistic typeface based on the scripts of Giambattista Palatino, the sixteenth century master calligrapher. The titling, intial letters and pagination were composed in Tyndale, designed as a hybrid of Roman and Gothic pen-drawn forms by Ted Staunton of Sherwood Press. This keepsake was printed on a Vandercook letterpress from photo-polymer plates made by Boehm, Inc., Columbus, Ohio. The paper is Rives Heavyweight. The multicolored reduction woodcut portrait of Milton Caniff was printed by cutting away portions of a woodblock's surface after each color was printed, repeating this process of cutting and printing until almost none of the woodblock's surface remained, and then printing the final keyline image from a polymer plate. The edition was hand sewn and hinged into a non-adhesive structure of Hahnemühle Bugra paper wrappers over boards.
Description
Print Edition: 150 copies.
Print Pages: [10] p.
Print Illustrations: ill. (color laser) + reduction woodcut and photopolymer frontispiece
Printing: Letterpress
Binding: Double-section saddle-stitch; Self-wrapped
Paper: Rives heavyweight text paper; Hahnemühle Bugra cover paper
Typography: Digitally set Palatino; Tyndale
Physical Dimensions: 28 x 22 cm
Print Original Price: 100 U.S. dollars
Print Pages: [10] p.
Print Illustrations: ill. (color laser) + reduction woodcut and photopolymer frontispiece
Printing: Letterpress
Binding: Double-section saddle-stitch; Self-wrapped
Paper: Rives heavyweight text paper; Hahnemühle Bugra cover paper
Typography: Digitally set Palatino; Tyndale
Physical Dimensions: 28 x 22 cm
Print Original Price: 100 U.S. dollars