A signed edition series by The Portland Stamp Company — Anne Connell is an erstwhile painter and collagist who, owing to forces beyond her control and the vicissitudes of existence, has turned her creative energies (such as they are) to designing paper goods with an absurd attention to detail. …

Artist Series №41 with Simona Bortis-Schultz — Simona is an illustrator and designer based in rural upstate New York. She immigrated to the United States as a child from Romania. The only thing she ever stole was a pocket sized illustrated book (from a family friend and it was promptly returned). …

Creativity in action — One of our planned Artist Series collaborators for The Portland Stamp Company is Nina Dzyvulska, a Ukranian artist based in Kyiv/Kherson. This week since the Russian invasion of her country she has been creating work that can be used in support of Ukraine. We worked with Nina to make a…

The Portland Stamp Company Artist Series №40 — Claire is a multidisciplinary French artist who juggles between illustration, design, publishing, and scenery in fashion, textile, cosmetics, and haute couture. Her creations are an ode to the living, to the elements, to fauna and flora. She loves it when the work vibrates, when the colors burst, when the images…

Artist Series №39 with Lydia Makepeace Lydia Makepeace is a New Orleans urban sketcher and artist activist. With paint as her primary medium, she documents everyday life and explores complexity. It is her hope to inspire and enlighten others with what she discovers along the way. Have you designed a stamp before? No, but as a…

The Portland Stamp Company’s limited edition series — Deth P. Sun is an artist currently residing in Ft. Bragg, California, a small coastal town located three hours north of San Francisco. He received his BFA from the California College of the Arts in painting and drawing. Our eyes were glued to the screen, entranced, as he drew on…

Caricature as Cultural Intratext in The Wild Party — W. Scott Howard interviews Art Spiegelman Originally published in Plazm №10, 1995. I usually don’t smoke; but, since this is a wild party, I thought it would suit the ambiance,” Spiegelman said surreptitiously to the gathering crowd, while pointing to one projected image from his portfolio of over seventy-five illustrations…