NEW PRINT FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY (get at me)

As a thanks for reading this thing for 6 months now, I drew this and made a print of it, JUST FOR YOU. Only printed the amount of subscribers I've got here, and not making more or selling them anywhere else.

As I've already written in here, sitting and obsessively drawing tons of tiny lines is really helpful for me when shit is crazy in the world. Don't know if there's enough lines in the universe to cure that particular ill right now, but you want to know something? This drawing?

It doesn't hurt anyone.

At least I turned all that anxiety into something cool that I can send to all of you and getting it might be a non-shitty thing that happens to you that day. That's my hope, anyway.

I was going to be real sneaky and just send these out to paid subscribers for free (how great is it to get an unexpected nice thing in the mail, these days?), then let everyone else know: it's yours for the cost of postage, if you want one.

Well: best laid plans and all that. Because, you see, I thought all your physical addresses went in when you subscribed. But, upon checking, they are not. AND, as it turns out, you can't message directly me through this platform (damn it).

so:

If you are a paid subscriber, please REPLY to the newsletter with your mailing address (even if you're an old pal and think I already have it)

If you are an UNPAID subscriber and you'd like one, hit me with $6 (sorry, wish postage was cheaper) to:

orders(at)lamano21.com

AND your mailing address.

If you are in town and just want to grab it from me, that works too. Just let me know. Sorry for the runaround.

But really– thanks to all of you who've been reading this. There is a lot to manage these days in terms of attention (and everything else), and the fact that you spend a couple minutes a week with this stuff I'm trying to kick out (and hanging in there when I fuck it up) is no small thing to me.

But, in the meantime: it's a 2-color riso print (brown and cornflower*), on this tan textured paper I had kicking around) 12"x 17", signed for you. The drawing is from the very amazing and haunting Wisconsin Death Trip book (which I always avoided in the 90's because I thought it was some sort of Faces Of Death/ Serial Killer thing, which it most decidedly is not. It's an astounding document of rural Wisconsin falling apart at the seams, told exclusively through newspaper articles of the time, accompanied by incredible photographs.)

6 months. I think sometimes I should switch to once every 2 weeks, so I can be more consistent, cop to the fact that sometimes I just can't get it together in time (Like now: it's 12:03 am but I'm still awake so i'm calling it Wednesday.)

But this isn't a god damned business.

Take care, and be safe everyone, as best you can.

--z

*And yes, it was also an experiment to see what and how the Sammy colors would line up and work on the riso. Pretty good.