The airship
By: written and illustrated by Todd M. Thyberg
Contributors: Angel Bomb Design + Letterpress (Firm)
Edition: Chapbook version.
Publisher: Angel Bomb Design + Letterpress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
ISBN-13: 9780984610426
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Space and time; Comic books, strips; Dystopias; Airships; Inventions; Technology in art; Space and time in art; Science fiction comic books, strips; Specimens; Graphic novels; Letterpress printing
Description: "The Airship is a science fiction story and first in a trilogy of planned letterpress graphic novels ... [T]hree-color letterpress pages ... In this story, set in a fictional past, one of the characters is transported to another dimension in space and time. His attempts to communicate across this gulf are indecipherable without access to a smartphone. The reader must also bridge the gap from the era of the story and the equipment used to produce it by scanning QR codes in order to fully experience the book. Through digital enhancement, the story continues with video and interactivity on the viewers smartphone. The story explores a government becoming a military industrial complex which has echoes of past and current trends in this country"--Publisher's website, viewed on January 18, 2013.
Notes: Limited edition of 250 copies, signed and hand-numbered by the artist.

"This chapbook version of The Airship is limited to an edition of 250 and is printed on 100% cotton Crane Lettra. The story, design, and illustrations are all the creation of Todd M. Thyberg of Angel Bomb Design + Letterpress ... This book was printed ... on a Vandercook 219"--Colophon.

Single sewn signature bound in illustrated paper wrapper. Text, images, and QR codes letterpress printed in three colors throughout.

Rare Book copy: No. 21