Chance Press

As we get closer to midterm election season in the US, I thought I’d share some photos of Carol’s book, now that we’re about halfway through making it.  We still need to add a couple tipped in pieces, including a letterpress print that will be printed by Bill Roberts, and an artist statement that will [...]

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Note: this post is longer than I anticipated… if you just want to see the damn pictures already, scroll down to the bottom.
With apologies to Carol Es, whose artist book I should have been working on yesterday, I have to say that this little project is pretty damn cool.  It’s in the vein of the [...]

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I love this accordion binding, and so should you.  I ripped it off of Two Fine Chaps, but they ripped it off of someone else, so it’s not that bad of a crime.  The main feature with this binding is that you can slide a paper spine in between the bound-in paper and the bookboard, [...]

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“Here we are alone again.  It’s all so slow, so heavy, so sad.”  These are the the opening lines of Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s Death on Credit, and the backbone of Tirez a la ligne, Celine, an experimental collaboration between Stephen Hines and Jordan Hurder.  Based on a technique called Larding (or “le tireur a la ligne” [...]

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One big change around Chance Press HQ that we haven’t made much of a big deal about yet – it is no longer located in Oakland, CA.  In mid-June, Justine and I packed everything up and moved north to El Cerrito, a small East Bay enclave near Berkeley, massively expanding our available space (TWO bedrooms [...]

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So we’ve got a facebook page, with around 200 fans, which is pretty good for a small press that publishes one book ever 5 or 6 months.  Problem is, like pretty much every other single company in the entire world, we still haven’t cracked the “how to get your legions of facebook/twitter/soon-to-be-defunct-social-media-platform fans to actually [...]

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Well, this fall was supposed to be a whirlwind of work, as we furiously printed, sewed, and published in anticipation of our debut at two bay-area shows: the SF Zine Fest and the Alternative Press Expo.  To get ready for the shows, we’ve been actively soliciting art and comics projects from various artists, cartoonists, and [...]

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What is Scribbles in a Sandstorm?

An illustrated account of the birth of Dan
A flurry of artistic output from a secluded desert outpost
What the Joshua Trees were pointing at all along
A celebration of printing and bookmaking
An accordion whose music is ecstatically visual

Chance Press is very excited to announce the publication of Scribbles in a Sandstorm, a [...]

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