Graphic Union Press publishes illustrated books, manuals, catalogs, and multiples from New York City. ...

Invitation Vol. 1 No. 3 (second edition)

Graphic Union Press is celebrating THE DAY OF THE SERIAL EPIC on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 8pm at the 139th St Branch (608 W 139th St 4G, New York City). Join us for EOD (exhibit-on-demand), a serials auction, a David Foster Wallace memorial, cocktails and other serial productions. What to bring? Here are three suggestions:

  1. A donation of an original item of printed matter, or any two-dimensional part of a serial production, with special meaning, suitable for display and auction,
  2. Food/drink,
  3. Companions

For a printed, hand-written invitation delivered by the U.S. Post Office and guaranteed to arrive before the Day of the Serial Epic, 2009, email your physical address to sign@graphicunionpress.org.

For MORE about the Day of the Serial Epic, read on past the font-change.

Please come by!

The Cereal Epoch?

After an eight-year gestation period, Graphic Union Press was born into the world of printed matter on May 22, 2008: the Day of the Serial Epic, according to the “personalogy” book The Secret Language of Birthdays, the relevant pages of which Mark Domino thoughtfully scanned and emailed to us. (Written by Gary Goldschneider and published by Penguin in 2008, The Secret Language of Birthdays describes itself as “combining astrology, numerology, and pure psychic intuition.”) The personalogical sketch provided in the book fit the personality and ambitions of the press eerily well. In the excerpts below, we replaced impersonal pronouns with Graphic Union Press (this necessitated verb adjustments, note changes in brackets), which resulted in a very apt description:

[Graphic Union Press] [is] magnetically drawn toward serial creations and forms of entertainment in which [it] can exercise [its] talents again and again with development and variation. The excess of [its] [life] does not necessarily lie in the amount of material wealth [it] [piles] up nor the number of friends [it] [acquires], but in the production of work. [Graphic Union Press] most often repetitively [creates] within a model or construct, and [its] projects are rarely isolated or one of a kind. ...

Numbers and Planets. ...fascinated with various doubles, including twins, coicindences, and symmetry. ...

Health. Because [Graphic Union Press] is often busy with [its] hands, [it] must take special care with them, particularly the wrists and finger joints. Also, the energetic use of [its] arms and shoulders may lead to cramps, tensions and neck pain. Hot baths, massage and sauna are useful here. [Graphic Union Press] must allow [itself] the periodical rest (naps are excellent) which [it] requires. The diet of [Graphic Union Press] is best kept well-rounded, including a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.