COLOPHON: "This chapbook version of The Airship is limited to an edition fo 250 and printed on 100% cotton Crane Lettra. The story, design, and illustrations are all the creation of Todd M. Thyberg of Angel Bomb Design + Letterpress. Typefaces used were Futura Book, Headliner No. 45 , and Bubbledot. This book was printed at Angel Bomb Design + Letterpress on a Vandercook 219.
For Theresa and all her support
Special thanks to everyone who helped make this happen, especially to the Jerome Arts Foundation for their support and my digital partner, Azule 7, without whom this would be just a regular old book."
Single sewn signature bound in illustrated paper wrapper. Text, images, and QR codes letterpress printed in three colors throughout.
"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.