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Jugs & Mugs
by Michael Swaney

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130 pages
15.5 x 22 cm
Digital offset
Perfect bound
Edition of 200
2016
Jugs & Mugs showcases Michael Swaney's comprehensive collection of both real and imagined kitsch European vessels. Designed by Esther Miquel and with an introduction from Sofia Leiby, the book brings together drawings created through a combination of pencil, oil pastel, ballpoint and felt-tip pen between 2012 and 2013 on vintage book paper sourced from Swaney's father's school books.

About

Undercurrents in international publishing, est. 2011 (London, UK)

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Distributed in the UK by New Dimension
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Website by Dan Powell

All splash page images by Holly Rae Jones


Press

The Face - Bronze Age: 10 Years of Riotous Independent Publishing [March 2021]

AnOther Mag - Party Like It's 1999: Eerie. Forgotten Photos From an End of the World Rave [July 2021]

It's Nice That - Acts of Natural Magik presents Pokémon landscape photography in the post-Giovanni era [November 2019]

C4 Journal - Sasha Kurmaz - Poisonous Berries [February 2022]



Stockists

Antenne Books (London, UK)
Dashwood Books (New York, USA)
Desert Island (New York, USA)
Donlon Books (London, UK)
Draw Down Books (Guilford, USA)
Floating World Comics (Portland, USA)
Good Press (Glasgow, UK)
Gosh! Comics (London, UK)
Gnash Comics (Ashburton, UK)
ICA (London, UK)
McNally Jackson (New York, USA)
Orbital Comics (London, UK)
Other Books (Los Angeles, USA)
Printed Matter (New York, USA)
Quimby's (Chicago, USA)
Rye Wax (London, UK)
Tenderbooks (London, UK)
Ti Pi Tin (London, UK)
Village (Leeds, UK)
Needles and Pens (San Francisco, USA)

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