Cats of Copenhagen

Cats of Copenhagen:

Designed and published by Ithys Press featuring pen and ink illustrations by Casey Sorrow, letterpress typeset by Michael Caine, and handmade paper marbling and binding of Christopher Rowlatt.

January: Publication of by Ithys Press

• ImagineFX Issue #82, the Ultimate Comic Art issue: Art Odyssey: Feline fun Michigan-based artist Casey Sorrow illustrates 1936 James Joyce children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen
• The Guardian: “James Joyce children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen gets first publication”
• The Atlantic Wire: “James Joyce, Children’s Author; The Western Canon as Graphic Novel”

October: Scribner (division of Simon & Schuster) publishes the Cats of Copenhagen:

• We Too Were Children: “JAMES JOYCE: THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN”
• Pawesome: “The Cats of Copenhagen: A Children’s Story by James Joyce”
• LitReactor: “Lost James Joyce Children’s Book Gets Published, Controversy Ensues”
• By The Book Reviews: “The Cats of Copenhagen – James Joyce”
• PYXIS Journal: “James Joyce and The Cats of Copenhagen”
• Brain Pickings: “The Cats of Copenhagen: A Newly Discovered James Joyce Children’s Story”
• Melville House: “James Joyce: cat lover and children’s book author”
• The State News: “Alumnus’ artwork used on Joyce book”
• Mitten Lit: “Who said there are no cats in Copenhagen?”
• The City Pulse: “Portrait of the artist as a playful grandfather”

• Brain Picking’s Best Children’s Books and Picturebooks of 2012
• Vogue’s 12 Books That Make Great Last-Minute Gifts (#11 for the anarchist)
• Yellow Book Reads: A Year In Review

• Giunti Editore released their Italian edition, “I gatti di Copenhagen“, on October 24th, 2012.  (Panorama‘s review: James Joyce e ‘I gatti di Copenhagen’, una fiaba surreale e anarchica scritta per il nipote Stephen)
• Psichogios Publications released their Greek edition, “ΟΙ ΓΑΤΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΠΕΓΧΑΓΗΣ“, on October 30th, 2012.
• Gyldendal released the Danish version “Københavnerkatte“, in November 2012.

Future foreign language translations still to be released.

Monkey Day 2012

Monkey Day 2012 Initiative:

• Detroit Free Press: Eric Millikin: For Monkey Day, the 5 wildest monkey stories of 2012
• Detroit Free Press: The 12 Stars of Monkey Day, as seen in USA Weekend and the Tennessean
• The Week’s “17 offbeat holidays and anniversaries to celebrate in December“
• Kleiner Kalender Affentag 2013
• Herkimer Telegram (2012) with publication in The Beacon-Villager, Hudson Sun, Brighton-Pittsford Post, Bridgewater Independent, The Suburbanite, Wakefield Observer, etc…
• The Devil’s Panties
• The Examiner: Celebrate National Monkey Day at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
  
• The Times Leader: Five Things To Know This Week
• Alachua County Library: It’s Monkey Day at the Library!
• Ice Cream Gallery and Toys’s Monkey Day Show

New York Times Sunday Book Review: Illustration of Peter Trachtenberg by Casey Sorrow

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Casey A. Sorrow
Director – Sorrow Industries

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Cristopher Rowlatt, Bookbinder and Paper Marbler in charge of binding the Cats of Copenhagen, has an excellent post up on finishing up the binding of the Cats of Copenhagen. If you’ve ever been curious about what goes into binding a book by hand, there are some interesting insights and photos to check out. Go take a look at some very cool behind the scenes shots here.

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Exciting news to follow.

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For all the traffic coming for recluse spider bites, here is the popular and previously blogged 6 part saga of my father’s finger (beware: nsfl):

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

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US Patent 5911998 – Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkey kidney cell line

Via NaturalNews.

Here is some more reading material.

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Humor with dead flies, via Neatorama.

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