"HOW SOON IS NOW?"

Raconteurs sets go on sale Wednesday February 20 at 10 AM Central Time. I decided for now to offer them as one giant 25 poster set. I have 47 sets available.

I realize it's a lot of kale to ask for at once, so you will have two options:

OPTION 1: 3 payments of $410 each plus shipping. Final payment due two months from date of purchase at which point all posters will be shipped to you.

OPTION 2: 1 payment of $1130 plus shipping. A discount for those who pay all at once.

SHIPPING: I'm enlisting the help of my buddy Dustin Slater to help pack everything starting this weekend. All sets will be ready to go upon full payment. I'm doing something new in that all 20X26 posters (16 in all) will be shipped flat. I like getting posters flat, and I'm sure you will too.

Larger posters will be shipped in tubes.

A random extra will be included: You might get some handbills, or you might get a brown-line only version of a Chicago poster, or you might even get a one of a kind test print or a process drawing. Who knows.

If you don't have a Paypal account, please email AFTER the sale begins to make other payment arrangements.

Chances are these will be on the electronic shelf for a while, but if you think you want them I'd advise acting fast just in case.

OTHER NEWS:

05 WHITE STRIPES EURO SETS:

To all those who bought 05 NA sets and have been waiting to buy 05 Euro sets, I ask you please wait a while longer. I need to make space in my flat files for incoming 07 White Stripes posters, and selling 25 posters makes a lot more room than selling 8 posters. You haven't been forgotten, and you will receive notification soon. Sooner if things work well with Dustin helping me pack poster sets.

FLATSTOCK

Yes, I will be attending the upcoming Flatstock Poster Extravaganza in Austin this coming March. If you buy a Raconteurs set and plan on attending, you can save on shipping by arranging to pick it up at my booth during SXSW. Show me some proof you contributed to the MDA this year, and I'll doodle on your box.

WHITE STRIPES CAMERAS

You hear about these? Man, I really need to update more often. Anyways, Jack and Meg have their own cameras courtesy of Lomography and they came out looking really nice. Thanks to Jack and Meg for letting me design the packaging and for supporting analog photography. A special thanks to Amber Easby whose long hard work made these cameras a reality. I dare say it's the biggest project design wise I've tackled since the Aluminium show and the most exciting thing I've received in the mail since my Mego Andorian.

Behold their glory on the hi-fi
official site HERE.

WHITE STRIPES SINGLES:

I'm all rabbit lately below my ankles as I was asked to continue working on the singles supporting The White Stripes' album Icky Thump. Lately that work included three covers for You Don't Know What Love Is, You Just Do As You're Told and four covers for Conquest which also sported some trading cards and photo posters.

Gracias to Meg and Jack for letting me continue work on the singles, and thanks for releasing three great new songs along with Beck. It's always an auditory pleasure to hear original B-sides as they often become favored songs (like The Damned's "Rabid" for instance).

Thanks also to Felimon Hernandez for snapping the photographs I needed to complete some of the cover art. If you live in Austin and need a photographer, give him a holler at his site.

PLUGS:

Holy vulture steaks, my film compadre Stainboy has a new book coming out entitled "Vicious Intent" which is perfect for Grandma's coffee table if you want her to keel over clutching at her withered heart. Stainboy handled all the layout himself, and it looks dynamite . . . Dixie Dynamite. If you crash his site right now you can pre-order the artist edition of the book which comes with some hefty free shit like a shirt, a Jamungo "Catwoman" figure designed by Stainboy, and best of all a screenprinted poster of the cover. On top of all that, he's even scrawled his name in it, and I hear if you float him an extra couple of C-notes he'll sign it the darkened sludge that passes for his blood.

Get infected HERE.

Also, if you're not familiar with Aesthetic Apparatus, you should peruse their Doom Drip art print series they have going on now. It's pretty great stuff. I'm trading them a lot of my trash and cash to get the whole set this coming Flatstock. They also did the cover to the recent Criterion edition of "if....", which is worth it for Malcolm's commentary alone. In fact it's been all Malcolm at my joint lately with new commentaries for Clockwork, O Lucky Man, and Caligula (Emperor Edition). Whoah, off track there for a bit, anyways AA did some stellar work, shit you want to design an environment around.

Meet your doom HERE.

Last thing. Randy Blake wrote a nice thing about my Raconteurs poster for the Providence show for Pause. You can read and see it HERE.