My wife's grandfather gave me this coaster he picked up during a 2002 trip to Prague, the capital city of his homeland. It features a drawing of the Czech folk hero Svejk, from Jaroslav Hasek's lengendary tale, The Good Soldier Svejk. The image on the coaster is plucked from one of the book's original illustrations by Josef Lada. On the back of the coaster, written in czech, it reads 6pm in the evening: drinking time. Amen to that, Svejk.

I love Hasek's character, Lada's drawings, and pretty much anything to do with beer. So this coaster is a treasure to me. Thanks Pappy.

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The hockey card fairy (Melanie) visited my studio a couple nights ago and dropped off a whiskey box full of player cards from the early seventies. These ones made me smile. I want to give Stanley (Stanislav?) Mikita a big old hug.

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Annie Koyama of Koyama Press has published a comic I wrote a few years ago called A Very Kraftwerk Summer. It originally appeared in Taddle Creek Magazine.

The story is a memoir of a lazy summer spent with the boys from K-werk. The journey takes the posse from the mall, to the soccer pitch and beyond. The boys sing dance, sing, and, in the end, even manage to push a few tears through those austere, Germanic eyes... Look for the Devo cameo!

It's a lovely little book if I do say so myself. The cover was hand-printed by Studio XIX on Japanese wood vaneer paper, and the pages are full colour (and by full colour I mean red and black). Click image for larger view.

Thank you Annie Koyama for bringing this to life, and for your support in general. News on availability and distribution will be posted on this entry soon.

Ralf and Florian, computer Love 4evah.

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