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A French fan brought to me attention some remaining 1978 artwork. It wasn't possibly to scan it from the original art because there is no original art. Instead, the art was drawn on a think wax stencil that could be used for mimeograph printing. The stencil is of no Earthly used afterward, and the hand printed copies are all remain. It's an interesting artform -- you can't make mistakes that you can correct very easily, and it encourages spontaneity. But the copies you printed are all that remain. No original copy. "Typo" was the name of the letter zine I published at the time.
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Yes, but not individually. The entire sheet is covered with little dots, and you snip out a bit of it to cover the area you want to have dots. It's sticky on the bottom side, and you lay it over the area for the dots. However... in this case there wasn't a lay-down sheet. Instead, I used a shading plate, a plastic card that you lay under the wax stencil, the nubby-side-up, then rub a blunt stylus over the upper side. The blunt instrument wears holes through the stencil, leaving a dot patter that ink oozes through, creating the desired shading when printed. I have a pretty fair collection of such tools. Hardly anyone under the age of 50 is likely to know what they're for.
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