Collaborative Mail Art Books

Wow, fabulous work and using video was a great way to show it - thanks  Angie!

Fabulous to see this Angie and wow, Cheryl, you are amazing!

Hey gals :-). Angie - thank you for going to the bother of making the video - I hope you're sending more work? There is another GENERAL mail art makes the world a town on the go as more work is arriving.  Rebecca - sad to report the other package has still not arrived - BUT I have not given up hope. If it arrives - well, there's a home for it.  Carina and Claire - yours will be posted tomorrow X

What a wonderful project. Congratulations all.

Good one Angie! How cool, I've never seen one of these collab books! Oooh, and those stamps on the envelope, too gorgeous!

Back. Behind in e-v-e-r-y-thing, but want to say Zine 1 has arrived here and is too exciting to say rightly. Spectacular--works by artists, Cheryl's cover and putting-together of the whole publication, and Les's help with that. Thank you all, more than I can say.

Well, you've really outdone yourself Cheryl! Once again, thanks so much for the great idea & all your wondrous work. (I can't wait! ^_^)

Pages from Bernd Reichert (Belgium) - sorry i did not post these earlier - but they were busy being bound before I realized I had not taken photographs - beautiful as you can see, with a lot of thinking and time behind the design - lucky for all of us its a double spread :-):

And today from Guido Vermeulen (Belgium) - the most beautiful set of Zine pages for # 4.  AND I received the original paintings.  Like Bernd, Guido puts huge amounts of time and effort into his pages - they make Zine collation a joy. MANY thanks Guido.

One of the original collages - they have a perfectly iridescent quality.

DRAT! Sorry - I loaded the same image twice - here is the other page:

Gorgeous once again Guido! Do you sweat painting?

My first correspondence from this artist Dao Badao (Switzerland) is a good luck for the Zine contributors too.  There is another general edition of Mail Art Makes the World A Town.  

More pages from Katerina Nikoltsou - many thanks :-) X

A great (as usual!!) package from TICTAC (Germany) - Zine pages for the Asemic Zine and a sheet of her wonderful fauna Quindi Island stamps :-) XX

Great great great pages.

So glad to see that the pages for the "general edition" of World/Town have arrived! No monkey business :-)

Those are wonderful pages from TicTac...minimal and dynamic!

Hello you two :-) - yes, another good one - Fancy Bell - you're sending more pages?? 

Wow, great pages indeed (now I want to be part of the Asemic too! %_^)

Hi! Cheryl!, you're calling me out of a hiding place. :--} Yes,but the right wording would be "I'm planning to send more pages." They mostly don't exist yet other than mentally. Where are we? I'll message you. 

How is my count for the Zines for the October 15 exhibit, Cheryl?

Zines 1-2-3: Mail Art makes the World a Town.

Zine 4 : Asemic World ... Town.

Extra Edition (#5): World... Town

Is there now the makings of one more zine????

A zine #6 ??? :-) Let me know!

So much fabulous stuff!

Katerina - the first 3 Zines are complete - the others are waiting to be filled. I am uncertain how many more will be filled before the exhibition - as with most of these projects there is an initial rush before tapering off into a more manageable exercise.  Zine # 3 has been mailed. 

3d issue of the zine developed by Cheryl Penn in South Africa (also cover art)

THANK YOU CHERYL !!!

In this edition contributions from

Katerina Nikoltsou (Greece)

Rosanna Veronesi, Domenico Severino (Italy)

Rebecca Guyver (UK)

Erich Sundermann (Austria)

Aprilia Zank, Patrizia Tictac, Svenja Wahl (Germany)

Bernd Reichert, Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

PW Kaufmann (Switzerland)

Carina Granlund (Finland)

Torill Elisabeth Larsen (Norway)

Gail Whitter, Theo Nelson (Canada)

Alicia Starr, Claire Dinsmore, John Held Jr, De Villo Sloan, No thi NG,  RCBz (USA)

Samuel Montalvetti, Marcela Peral (Argentina)

Harry Lock, Cheryl Penn (South Africa)

Ying-Chieh Liu (Taiwan)

NO WAYS!!! I think you have a sign on your roof saying - STOP HERE FIRST!

Can't wait!!!

WOW! Guido has direct helicopter delivery from S.A. to Belgium!!!

Zine #3 looks FAB...maybe next delivery after Belgium will be Greece????

And now I understand that I need not make 27 MORE pages :-)

May Zine #4 and Asemic Zine be completed soon xxx

Zine III Mail Art Makes the World a Town, has arrived in Finland. Wow, my first experience of these zines, what can I say - WOW, really amazing! Thank you so much Cheryl for making this and everyone!

YES! Yes, yes, yes! Zine #3 has arrived in Europe!

In the mail box this morning. What a great edition!

Thank you, Chery, and all the participants...BRAVOl!

From this famous masterpiece:

the crossword puzzle detail cut-up #19 to be part of the 

Cheryl-Cut-Up Collection xxx

Chery? Chery, Chery, CHERYL !

Mine arrived today too! Love it, perfect antidote to a stinking cold! will photograph extra contents soon.  XX

Glad to see the Zine are reaching their new homes :-) X

New Zine pages from TICTAC (Germany) - beautiful Asemics.

Pages from Rr Anon (PaRrys) Mail Art Makes the World a Town

New pages for the Asemic Zine from Alicia Starr - GREAT! This Zine is going to be ANOTHER goodie - many thanks to all contributors - SEND MORE!!! X

lord, looks like the Asemic Zine is going to be stellar indeed chere cheryl!! How much longer do you think you will be accepting pages for it (what's the status)...?

oh: and who is Rr Anon (PaRrys)?

I just received my copy of Mail Art Makes the World a Town, Edition III. Absolutely mind blowing. I'm so proud to have been able to be a part of such a great project.

Claire - I'm guessing Rr Anon is anonymous - its the first I've heard of this artist - ParRys is a 'drop' (small town) in the Orange Free State - generally spelt Parys - but I'm guessing being anonymous has all sorts of benefits - like spelling anything the way you please :-).  Not Hi Ng - don't be proud just once! Send again and be proud TWICE!! For sure, thanks to the contributors this has been a wonderful project :-) X

P.S. Claire - I have 7 submissions to Town Asemics in a Mail Art World - I know there are more coming - so theres time - but its going to be a beaut :-) X

New pages from Moya Evans (South Africa)

New pages for the Asemic Zine - Town Asemics in a Mail Art World - made by SNAILS from David Dellafiora (Australia)

Pages from Guido Vermeulen (Australia) - double set, double sided :-) X

These are great, love work by snails.

Yay, Guido's moved to Aus!!? Cheryl, you MUST sleep now and then!!! ;-))

URG :-))) - GUIDO FROM BELGIUM :-))) - definite sleep deprivation - which Guido knows all about too!! Thanks ViZma :-) XX

Nice asemics from TicTac and PaRrys. 

New pages from Tiziana (Italy) for the VISPO version of Mail Art Makes the World a Town.

Pages from Lesley Magwood Fraser (South Africa) for the Asemic version of Mail Art Makes the World a Town

Pages from Barry Truter (South Africa). Barry is retiring this year from DUT and MAN!! He is going to be missed.  He is a severely skilled printer and his drawing skills are among the best I have ever encountered. 

Zine Pages from Theo Nelson (Canada)

Pages from Morlino Marina (Italy) 

Pages from Vittore Baroni (Italy) - Town Asemics in a Mail Art World Zine

Pages from Claudio Romeo (Italy)

Town Asemics in a Mail Art World

Visual Poetry of the World in a Mail Art Town

Pages from Erich Sundermann (Austria) - each an original drawing. 

Pages from Sue Hobbs (South Africa)