Oh man, this sounded so familiar! I went to my bookshelf and sure enough, there was my copy of Sad Pictures for Children. I don't remember the drama, but I did receive my copy of the book. I...
Oh man, this sounded so familiar! I went to my bookshelf and sure enough, there was my copy of Sad Pictures for Children. I don't remember the drama, but I did receive my copy of the book. I posted a couple of pictures om imgur where you can see the cover and the last page with the dead wasp. I couldn't find any high-quality pictures online of this book, so I assume it's pretty rare.
I checked my email and apparently I paid $40 for this in 2012 (don't recall when I received it). Safe to say a substantial portion of that is shipping. It's not unusual when I buy books from abroad that half the cost is shipping, which is one reason I've almost entirely moved over to ebooks. But I'm really glad I have a physical copy of this book. It's a really high-quality production. It's a thick and heavy (but small) book that includes a blackened dead wasp and some of the pages have figures on them that are glued on top of the page rather than printed on it, which has to have increased production cost.
Apparently I paid for a signed copy with a little doodle in it, and I can't even tell if there is one. The first page inside the cover is entirely black, but there is a small doodle in almost imperceptible gray of two figures, one telling the other, "you're gonna die". The gray sharpie extends off the page slightly onto the inside of the book cover itself, so it might be hand drawn.
The page that normally has copyright information reads: "handmade in china by adorable and exhausted children / all rights reserved / for those with social power within their cultural context."
Oh man, this sounded so familiar! I went to my bookshelf and sure enough, there was my copy of Sad Pictures for Children. I don't remember the drama, but I did receive my copy of the book. I posted a couple of pictures om imgur where you can see the cover and the last page with the dead wasp. I couldn't find any high-quality pictures online of this book, so I assume it's pretty rare.
I checked my email and apparently I paid $40 for this in 2012 (don't recall when I received it). Safe to say a substantial portion of that is shipping. It's not unusual when I buy books from abroad that half the cost is shipping, which is one reason I've almost entirely moved over to ebooks. But I'm really glad I have a physical copy of this book. It's a really high-quality production. It's a thick and heavy (but small) book that includes a blackened dead wasp and some of the pages have figures on them that are glued on top of the page rather than printed on it, which has to have increased production cost.
Apparently I paid for a signed copy with a little doodle in it, and I can't even tell if there is one. The first page inside the cover is entirely black, but there is a small doodle in almost imperceptible gray of two figures, one telling the other, "you're gonna die". The gray sharpie extends off the page slightly onto the inside of the book cover itself, so it might be hand drawn.
The page that normally has copyright information reads: "handmade in china by adorable and exhausted children / all rights reserved / for those with social power within their cultural context."
In short, this is a really cool book.
An article about and interview with Simone Veil, the artist behind seminal webcomic, Pictures for Sad Children.