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At Bluesky dbdowd.bsky.social | writer + illustrator WashUstl, DIRA Under contract Princeton U Press Reading Pictures: A Cultural History of Illustration
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Not deserting Twitter yet, but I have hedged the bet.

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Building on more handmade color separations, spurred by Newton's Optics, published 1704: Gautier Dagoty anotomical mezzotint, 1746; Descourtis Paul et Virginie, aquatint 1788; Louis Prang Dessert No. 4, chromolitho 1871; Jules Cheret, Pantomines Luminueuses, litho 1896 https://t.co/Bs0Oyb3k0t

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Forgot our friends at Fox! Thanks for reading this thread. Tagging a few folks I follow and admire. Amplify at will. 16/16
https://t.co/kX2ASkftzV

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Speaking of odious, assembly of bigots and xenophobes at CPAC in Orlando truly beggars belief. Fealty to Putin is a form of scarcely concealed white nationalism, with targets at home and “at the [southern] border.” Let the reputational collapse of Putin take a few with him. 12/16

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On the spread with U is V for Vampire in the dread person of Stephen Miller. The image has only grown more correct: apparatchiks like Miller embody a death of spirit, in dramatic contrast to the people of Kyiv, facing physical death with honor and courage. 4/16

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Fabulous femme!

I am adding this to my car-companies-try-to-sell-women-on-the-idea-of-cars file, midcentury chapter (clockwise: White Town Cars, 1912 [uncredited], Coles Phillips for Willys-Overland gathering boughs, 1915; at the beach, 1917)

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You might not believe it, but this is a serious book. An abecedarian with footnotes. A is for Autocrat: A Trumpian Alphabet, Illustrated

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I will live like a feral cat over the next 6 days. I will prowl, stalk, sleep little & (despite months of near-sedentary daily life à la Covid) maintain “that lean and hungry look,” like Shakespeare’s Cassius, coiled, waiting, watching, ready. (JJ Audubon’s Canada Lynx, ca. 1850)

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X is for ______

Always the trickiest letter in an ABC book, but easier with a Trumpian one. Did you watch that gaseous, criminal performance at the RNC? X was on display. Place your best guess for the word that captures something essential about DJT.

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