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Turning Points: In Italy Edition


Lauren Panepinto

Hi everyone, I'm on SABBATICAL. Orbit Books (our parent company, Hachette, actually) has a sabbatical program where after 15 years of working for the company you get a month off to do something healing/educational and heal a chunk of burnout. And I've been in Italy! I'm about halfway through, so I'll do a recap of everything and thoughts on sabbatical in general next month. For now, here's a repost of a fave episode on my…

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WILLFULLY DEFACING AN OTHERWISE FINE BOOK pt. II


Cory Godbey

June 25, 2024 - With  The Woods In-between marking my 15th annual sketchbook collection, it’s worth noting that I haven’t always offered “Artist Edition” versions of my yearly collections. Sure, for the first few I might scribble a little doodle alongside a signature on the title page or personalize the sketchbook in someway, but I wouldn’t exactly call these artist editions. At some point, I began to offer a version of the sketchbook identical in every way to the standard version, but with an original drawing on the title page. Not a new idea, certainly, but it was a new endeavor for me at the time (whenever that actually was, I don’t remember, probably 2017's The Walking Hills). And over the years, I’ve scanned or photographed some of my favorites. For example, I did about 100 title page drawings in…

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