A Brief History of Magic Cards, Etsy Book Printing (It’s a Kickstarter, Too!)

by Nicole Baxter | Sep 19, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies

CMLADL is an Etsy shop that features artwork about games and gaming culture. Last month, they added a book to their shop:  A Brief History of Magic Cards, by CML (Chris Morris-Lent). This Etsy book printing began as a Kickstarter that raised $5,152 with 150...

Children’s Book Printing for a Bookstore

by Nicole Baxter | Sep 8, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies

We do a lot of children’s book printing here at Bookmobile, and one great recent example is Home at Word Up: A Story of a Bookshop in Washington Heights.  Word Up is a a multilingual, general-interest, nonprofit community bookstore and arts space in New...

Custom Coloring Books from Multimedia Artists

by Nicole Baxter | Aug 10, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies

Here at Bookmobile, we’ve been printing a lot of custom coloring books. Just this week we shipped out Color Me Drone Warfare! by The Cluster Project, a web gallery and blog that “uses multimedia artworks to explore weapons, war, civilian...

Literary Magazine Printing for the South Dakota Review

by Nicole Baxter | Jul 27, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies

South Dakota Review, from The University of South Dakota, is a new literary magazine printing client for Bookmobile. The South Dakota Review is a quarterly print journal publishing fiction, poetry, essays, literary reviews, and translations. Since 1963,...

Webb, A Kickstarter Graphic Novel Printing

by Nicole Baxter | Jul 22, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies

Webb: The Big Race is the latest graphic novel printing we’ve done for a Kickstarter client. Created by Mike Cucka, John Salimbene, and Brad Gorby, Webb is the story a stock car racer (named Webb) fighting a corporation who pushes consumerism. As...

Kickstarter Books: A Happy Backer Unboxing Video

by Nicole Baxter | Jun 24, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies

This is definitely the first unboxing video that features a Bookmobile book! We print quite a few Kickstarter books, and we’ve seen social media shares of photos of proofs, boxes of books, and books out in the world, but seeing our books unpacked on...