KICKSTARTER LAUNCH! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, newly illustrated by New Yorker cover artist David Plunkert. A dreamscape of impossible geometry and uncanny color, celebrating the book that launched an Emerald empire, with an original introduction by MacArthur "Genius" Kelly Link, an essay by Gore Vidal, and more than 80 original, human-made drawings. |
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In the decade since we launched the Illuminated Editions series, we've heard a constant, quiet-yet-insistent thrum from our readership, asking a simple question: When are you going to take us to Oz? The answer, dear readers, is now. |
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Today, you can get a copy of our gorgeous new edition on Kickstarter, along with treasures from our archive that will transform your library into an Emerald City of its own. Come with us and explore the backroads and byways of Baum's lost empire on the other side of a twister. With David Plunkert, Kelly Link and Gore Vidal as our guides, we intend to draw a map that extends far beyond the Yellow Brick Road, the lands of the Quadlings and Gillikins, the Dainty China Country, and territories beyond. Plunkert’s atlas of Oz will be an heirloom edition that will last lifetimes, to be cherished across generations. |
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There's no place like home, and no Oz like this. In the hands of graphic artist David Plunkert, the Emerald City is a dreamscape of fractured image and woodcut texture, where bizarre humor and unsettling strangeness share a frame. |
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This is a version of Oz that embraces its strangeness: not the candy-colored dream of the MGM film, but something older and more unsettling, closer to the book Baum actually wrote. |
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Beehive will publish The Illuminated Oz in three exquisite oversized editions, including the lettered edition nested in a marvelous clamshell solander housing with laser-cut metal plates, signed and featuring a piece of original artwork by Dave Plunkert, limited to just twenty-six copies. |
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But, much like Dorothy Gale, we're going to need all of our friends to make it to the Emerald City. |
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Preorders are also live on our web shop. If you'd like to pre-order on our site to reserve your copy but also want to participate in the Kickstarter, you can pledge $1 to the campaign and we'll refund the buck to you at the end of the project. We hope you'll love this new Illuminated Edition as much as we do, and tell your friends to join us on our adventure to the Emerald City. Just click your heels, then: |
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You, our humming hive, remain the engine that that makes books like these possible. Thank you for being our brains, heart and courage. Yours,
Bees |
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