Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press

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https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)

Poster outside of a HS school library that reads "You're Never Alone In The Library" with a sticker of Punch the macaque and his orangutan stuffie
Meatball sub on a sourdough ciabatta
Airport signage, reads Remember, Mr Beef Loves You!
Doggy, liking nose
Me and a stupid waymo delivery drone, dancing our dance.
Martini, up
My dog Ramen, smiling
An "erasure" interpretation of the US Declaration, letterpress print, by Johanna Drucker, framed by penned illustrations drawing on the iconography of 19c prints of the Declaration
Me, holding hotdog and napkins, on the shore of Lake Michigan, posing like a loon, being ignored by my kids
Drip sand castles and photoshopped corn dog spires
Corn dogs raised in display of family unity
View from Rosy Mound sand dune looking out over Lake Michigan
Doggy on a car ride
A free little library in front of a tree stump carved and painted to resemble a library! And a Sunbeam is shining onto the little library
Carved and painted tree trunk/stump with a little library carved inside the trunk and doggy and sunflowers on the outside
David Walker's Appeal layered quote prints in frames in my dining room wall.
Burrito made with a griddled cheese wrapper in lieu of a tortilla
Me, dancing with a patriotic inflatable tube guy
Me, excitedly posing with the Mary Katharine Goddard printer exhibit in the children's section of the Frazier History Museum
Me and a wax figure of colonel sanders. I'm looking at a bucket of chicken with lust in my eyes and my heart
Taxidermied otter next to a "do not feed" sign
Letterpress poster that reads, Raise Up Coloured Historians / Troubling The Pages / To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren / David Walker's Appeal
Letterpress print that reads: We are all in the world together!! David Walker's Appeal
Letterpress poster, reads: Hear Your Language / All Men Are Created Equally!! / David Walker's Appeal
Footnote from Walker's Appeal 3rd Edition
Drying rack and other surfaces loaded up with fresh prints, surrounded by box fans
David Walker prints, quotations drawn from his antiracist / antislavery pamphlet, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World 4 layers in Kente cloth, US flag, and wild and wooly color schemes
Still from 1776 (film musical)
My dog, eyeballing my partner's snack
Layered print of quotations from David Walker's Appeal
Ibuprofen and Vodka
Raise Up Coloured Historians/ Troubling The Pages / To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren, printed in a dark red on a light blue background
Hear Your Language / All Men Are Created Equal, inked orange, printed on purple background
Screencap of media player, playing MMMBop by Hanson
First text layer from the first of three prints in a series on 19th century activist David Walker. Green ink on a yellow background. Reads "We are all in the world together" and there's a sweet printer's fist in the middle
Purple and yellow/gold background layers for letterpress broadside series
Selfie in front of the masterwork, Red Hot Lovers, in which a brace of coneys embrace a la the cover of a romance novel.
Tenure letter!
Beautiful slab of brisket, before going a tad during the stall to done phase
Digital thermometer display
The flat of a brisket, sitting in the grate of a Weber grill, ready to be smoked
Alcedo Euryzona im wood type