Wednesday, January 5, 2011

"Batman" (1963-1967)

We'd like to start off the New Year by sharing a lovely new acquisition:

Marty Greenbaum's "trip book" Batman, which he created between 1963-1967 while living in Downtown New York.


Photos can only begin to convey the dense, layered, worked quality of these pages.


We particularly love the recurring pieces of yarn that work their way through multiple pages, as seen in this detail: