Mad was initially a comic book, and it converted to a magazine format in 1955 with issue #24. The elaborate frame on this cover was drawn by Harvey Kurtzman, Mad's founding editor, and it features the magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, and his…
A glimpse into one of the buildings full of wood at Irion Lumber, in Wellsboro, PA. One of the boards in this view eventually became the press's platen.
Marbled edges adorn the Cary Collection's copy of the enlarged edition of Giambattista Bodoni's Manuale tipografico (1818). Published after his death this type specimen remains a testament to one of history's most influential type designers.
This war comic contains three stories about the Korean War, one story about World War II set in the Pacific, and a story about 19th-century Marines in the "South Seas." Typical of war comics at this time, Marines in Battle offers a mix of historical…
Technical drawings created with digital tools to show the whole press, and the subsystem of the spindle and hose, which send the platen down to exert the printing pressure
Technical drawings created with digital tools to show the whole press, and the subsystem of the spindle and hose, which send the platen down to exert the printing pressure
Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft, Plate #58-59, "Monopolistic Production in European Countries, non-European Countries, and the USSR". These two plates show how different nations dominate the markets for specific products and commodities. For example,…