Childhood dreams

I’ve been trying to be diligent about duplicating here what goes into my Tumblr feeds now that I’ve pulled the old stuff into the archives, but this time it makes more sense to combine these three posts into one.

As much as the stories and the images of old comics seared themselves into my memory as I grew up, the ads in them are burned in even deeper. The repetition of seeing the ads in issue after issue, month after month, give them a certain resonance. Here, then, are a few favorites that popped up on Public Collectors.

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Dazzling array of Bengali book covers

Bengali book 3

While I’m on the subject of Indian lettering, I should give a shout to this exquisite collection of book covers posted to Flickr by Quinn Dombrowski. The range of lettering and illustration styles shown in these covers will blow your mind, I hope, and show a little something about the richness of the lettering tradition in those scripts. And dig those rich lithography colors!

Bengali book 1

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