¡WOW! Goes Like This is a book lover's delight. The printing, the design, the production, and, of course, the work itself all come together to generate a uniquely satisfying finished product. Collecting Jordan Crane's comics and prints from the last twenty years, this one-of-a-kind volume features – unusually – an exposed spine, in which all the sewn-signatures are then in turn joined and sewn across the spine (we counted an even dozen horizontal stiches) and rubber cemented for a kind of industrial strength stab-binding. Then, there's the a mix of paper stocks: starting with the heavy-duty glossy stock of the covers (which is then spot glossedf like nobody's business) – which we find again, interspersed occasionally throughout; then there's a mix of standard glossy stock; heavy flat, off-white; and even, thin, fragile newsprint. Each stock matched to the material for best effect.
And what material! This volume's large size – 8 1/2" x 11 1/2" – and super crisp printing throughout its 192 pages together well serve to showcase a dozen classic tales that originally appeared in Jordan's one-man series, Uptight, as well as Kramers Ergot and elsewhere, along with fifty of the fabulous prints for which he is justly renowned. A true feast for the eyes!
Don't miss this one!