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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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Buenaventura Press just officially announced their closure over here a couple days ago, although the writing seemed to be on the wall when they stopped updating their site (as of 11/09) and pulled down their webshop.  I had the privilege of meeting Alvin Buenaventura a couple times at signings and once when he graciously gave [...]

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As fans of author/cartoonist Dan Clowes are well-aware, some of his best work has never been collected into fancy, hardcover books (or even less fancy softcover books).  While much of the work Clowes is famous for was originally serialized in his comic Eightball, much of what appeared in Eightball has remained in the serial comics [...]

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So Justine and I are back from our two-week honeymoon in New Zealand, and we’re ready to make books again!  We’re about halfway through binding up the Larding books, and once we have the signed pages back from Steve Hines, we’ll be just about ready to list them for sale.  We sat down and figured [...]

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Sometimes personal issues and stress motivate the heck out of me, and I come home every day from work and put in a few hours of good work, and stuff gets done.  Other times, nothing.  Patience… Larding will come out soon, just not quite as soon as I had hoped.  (For those concerned, nothing too [...]

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