*and by Americans, I mean “people living in America regardless of identification!” 😀
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*and by Americans, I mean “people living in America regardless of identification!” 😀
Illustrated comic explains police search warrants and consent during home searches
Comic panels explain refusing consent and legal rights during police searches
Sample search warrant document showing authorization and seized items list
Americans would do well to peruse this ever-timely publication!
The section on search warrants includes scenarios for when police try to search your premises, info on when police can and cannot search, types of details a warrant must include, and example judicial warrants from various states.
Cartoon police officer questions a woman who asks, “Am I free to go?”
“Am I free to go, or am I being detained?” is a mantra that has been drilled into our household, sometimes to the dismay of one person (who may simply be requesting to leave the kitchen or end a conversation on shrink wrapping tools).
Hand holds “Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement” book showing a light-skinned cop detained a dark-skinned man behind a chain-link fence. The tile font references a 90s graffiti/hip hop aesthetic, with a red outline.
Cartoon officer detains a woman as she repeats, “I’m going to remain silent. I would like to see a lawyer.”
A prized possession in the Current Editions library is Katya Komisaruk’s Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement, published by AK Press in 2003.
A cartoon character named Sibyl Rites narrates various police scenarios, accompanied by advice and sample legal documents.
Not exaggerating—this went on for at least twenty minutes. Side to side, hopping on and off the board like a small child, not a dog. Just in case you needed to see this today!
Hard to decide what was better today: our new publication arriving, or watching this dog have a great time skateboarding while we waited
TV TELLS YOU F.B.I. LIES LIES LIES
Linda Thompson's iconic protest sign from Waco II: The Big Lie Continues.
Ever relevant, available in two colorways!
Love seeing Marie Equi pop up! Artist Tara Murino-Brault made this beautiful poster with her words for the Portland, Oregon edition of our project Class Set. Now it's enjoyed by students all over the world! ❤️
classset.org/Marie-Equi-T...
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Though what ends up being more helpful is reviewing previous sales at similar fairs in terms of attendance, sales, etc. It’s enormously helpful to have this one sheet overview and only takes about 5 minutes to input after a fair (just did one today!) since we track sales via Square
We have a spreadsheet that we enter numbers of each thing after every fair, along with the days. A formula spits out an average of how much we sell per day, which helps us estimate how much to pack for future fairs.
“There’s quite a bit more to painting than I realized.”
Thank you Landon for speaking The Truth!
by @katebingburt.bsky.social
A man wearing a black helmet, red t-shirt, and jeans rides a black electric bicycle along a station platform in front of a vintage yellow and brown train car. The train car is painted with the words "CENTRAL PACIFIC" in large red letters near the top and "PROMONTORY POINT" in smaller red letters below the windows. The train has a classic design with rectangular windows and a red horizontal stripe running along the bottom of the yellow exterior. Overhead, a pedestrian walkway and part of a watchtower-like structure are visible against a cloudy sky.
The rear end of the same vintage Central Pacific train car is shown at a station platform, with two men in casual clothing standing on the small back platform. The train car has a rounded roof and is painted in a faded yellow and brown color scheme with red trim. A circular sign on the back reads "PROMONTORY POINT – CHANDLER, ARIZONA." One man is holding his hands in the air and the other rests an arm on the railing. The side of the car again displays “CENTRAL PACIFIC” and “PROMONTORY POINT” in red lettering. The platform tracks, station pavement, and parts of other train cars are also visible in the background under an overcast sky.
morning foam
Data 70+Helvetica+desktop computer+the office+bar code+the earth+bar code ON the earth+implied sheeple+mailing address that's not a PO Box
A poster with a black background filled with white star-like speckles. At the top, bold text reads “PROCESSED WORLD.” In the center, a white silhouette of a person sits at a desk using a computer atop a large cube-shaped Earth with world map panels. One cube face has a barcode. Below, the caption asks: “Are you DOING the processing? Or BEING processed?”
Tucked away in the corner of Bay Area Then at YBCA is @hernberferd.bsky.social's holy grail of Gen X thought. It's a poster he’s wanted to see in person for years.
ARE YOU BEING PROCESSED?
Street photo of an abandoned pink Barbie-style dollhouse placed on a sidewalk near a street corner. The three-story plastic dollhouse is damaged and missing parts, with toy furniture like a yellow swing and toilet still visible. Surrounding the dollhouse are discarded items including a white trash bag, mattress, and toy palm tree
Photo of a zine cover titled “Affordable Housing in Avondale,” featuring an image of a pink and multi-colored dollhouse. The dollhouse is cut open to reveal its multi-level interior, including toy furniture and staircases, and is positioned against a white garage door and gray siding. The composition mimics real architectural photography
sometimes you look up and realize you’re living in a @marc-fischer.bsky.social world
Many other people were clearly inspired by Mandela’s words because this poster’s no longer in print, but you can still see it at classset.org; check currenteditions.biz for other (equally inspirational) posters in stock.
When discussing design ideas and motifs with Jeffrey, @jessalynaaland.bsky.social remembers proposing: “what about someone landing the most awesome skateboard trick?” Skate tricks, long shot mayoral races, the fall of an apartheid state—turns out the message holds up. 🍎🛹🍎
Scanned Risograph print by artist Jeffrey Cheung. The print features a drawing of a dark-skinned person with long dark hair, pink nails, blue shorts, and a long-sleeved red shirt, hovering above a skateboard as if mid-trick. Below the illustration is a handwritten quote: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” by Nelson Mandela on a plain white background.
Hand holding a Risograph print by artist Jeffrey Cheung in a sunlit studio. The print features a drawing of dark-skinned person with long dark hair, pink nails, blue shorts, and a long-sleeved red shirt, hovering above a skateboard seemingly mid-trick. Below the illustration is a handwritten quote: “It always seems impossible until it’s done” by Nelson Mandela. A rainbow reflection is visible across the print on the concrete floor.
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
It made our day to hear this Nelson Mandela quote pop up in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s post-primary speech this week—the same one featured in Jeffrey Cheung’s beloved Class Set poster from 2017.
Screenshot of a file upload window from a web browser showing an upload progress bar on the website "proofthisfile.com/framebar.asp." The status indicates "Uploading files..." with a progress of 6.47MB out of 159MB (4%) completed. The estimated time left is 3 minutes and 31 seconds at a speed of 736K/sec. Below the progress bar is an instruction that reads, "To cancel uploading, press your browser's STOP button." The browser window includes a typical address bar and macOS-style traffic light buttons (red, yellow, green) in the top-left corner.
Yet their upload progress bar remains committed to early internet aesthetics
This is why our newest publication was set in Twentieth Century!!
AI-generated hold music from our printer just sang about “varied paper options” and “in-house binding solutions”???????????
Awesome!! Did you hear of anyone doing it? Naturally that could have been another publication 😂
It would also be a fun opportunity for me to weed my sticker collection and some of those. @marc-fischer.bsky.social I bet you could figure out something like that to combine with the vast collection of other ephemera in your life.
Honestly my dream would be a train show if we made stuff for that
I like the idea of a specialist gathering if you make things that address that topic. One fair I wanted to do last year but couldn’t due to a conflict was a Sticker Fair, as we make a sticker related publication in addition to actual stickers (and I make other art with actual stickers).
We’ve streamlined packaging too: we like Stayflat mailers for booklets—they keep things safe, and all you have to do is pop it in and peel the strip. For wholesale orders, we save boxes and packing materials from our own mail. It’s free and we get to ☮️❤️♻️
Second: make it fun (whatever that means for you). We print note cards on leftover cover stock with our Risograph, but a black-and-white printer works too. Add a sticker, a doodle—something quick that makes the package a little more personal.
If mail order feels like a chore, my #1 tip: systematize it! We bought a secondhand label printer, and our shop auto-syncs with our shipping platform. Presets for each item let us print labels in seconds. The whole process takes about 5 minutes.
A hand holds a brown cardboard mailer with a goldenrod shipping label, a blue and orange Risograph-printed “Current Editions” card with the words “Peace” and “Earth,” and a bright yellow smiley face sticker with “Current Editions” in red text. Also on the package are two stickers: a small mint green “Thank You!” sticker, and a black triangle sticker with “Current Editions” in bold white text. The background shows a gray concrete floor and flat tiles, suggesting a studio or workspace.
Not every artist publisher I know enjoys doing mail order, but I honestly love it. I get to write a little note to someone I’m deeply appreciative of and decorate the package with stickers we designed. It also fulfills my mail art urges with minimal effort.
