A Few More Reprints

Besides the other material, I'm working on several other reprints as I get time.

1) John Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, collected together (with Gustave Doré's illustrations for the first).

2) A collection of two short books on the Mount Mica, Maine, tourmaline deposits, by A. C. Hamlin, with his full-color illustrations.

3) Almost finished with the eight earliest novels and collections of the old Hamilton Cleek mysteries.

A copy more I'm scanning, may or may not get to anytime soon: Moore's Ancient Mineralogy, and The Book of Buried Treasure.

Another Comic Ebook

I've compiled another free downloadable pdf of a classic newspaper comic: Little Growling Bear in Windego Land. 59 panels, I think it is actually complete, as it only ran from mid 1906-mid 1907. It's black and white, but almost full size (on very large pages) so that the fine print of the story, typed below the comic art, can be read. Not much on Windegos, unfortunately, but an interesting comic strip that might have been the first western-themed comic, according to one blog I saw. It's a large pdf (123 MB or so), but worth it for the comic connesieur. (Yes, all caveats regarding early stereotypes apply...)

Details here.

Still Working On...

Still waiting on images for Bill Gibbons' Mokele-mbembe book. Haven't got too much more done on the Varmints book, though have recently picked up a few more interesting stories.

Looks like I'll be working with one well-known cryptozoologist to put out a new edition of one of his books. (With a few more possibly down the line.) Working through contract details on that.

Talking to a guy with an interesting anomalous archaeology manuscript (ironworks sites too early for colonial period in Ohio and region). Also have been discussing a possible manuscript with another individual on little people folklore in Iceland from an anthropological perspective.

Working a collection of volumes with the old Hamilton Cleek mysteries.

Currently Working On...

Received the text for Bill Gibbons' mokele-mbembe book. Doing the final edit now, then layout when I receive the images. This will have details on several of the most recent expeditions, adventure-travelogue style. Some interesting nuggets... plenty of eyewitness sightings by Congo and Cameroonian folk...

Received the text for Raptors of the Northeast, by Dwight Smith and Thomas Bosakowski. This will be a small-format full color guide. Will be editing that soon; slides have been sent out for scanning, and need to locate some additional images, but this shouldn't take too long to put out.

Still working on Varmints, lots left to do, but it's coming together. (Biggest problem is my part-time job schedule is taking up too much time this month, as I cover for vacationers.)