Noticing that International Beauty Saloon Issue 2 is now un-available / sold out, I decided to post one of it’s better parts on my website in digital form for your reading pleasure. For free. It was written by my good pal Cole Kushner — supposedly while using the washroom while at work — and illustrated by yours truly. Read it in it’s entirety HERE, or forever have small normal hands…
Now that the Royal Bison is done and over with, it’s time to unveil the new stock at the International Beauty Saloon Store.
Firstly, the brand new issue of our IBS zine, IBS3. It is more than twice as thick, and is jam packed with great content from about 11 contributors. It’s going for the same low price as it always has… $5 plus shipping.
I also made a few prints. One being this 2 colour Horse Coq print seen below…
The fine folks over at the Owl and Lion Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, have recently opened up an exhibition called Story Motel where you can find a nice handful of various handmade zines from 2009. Genevieve and I were approached by the gallery to submit some zines as well, so we threw a few copies of International Beauty Saloon, Issue 2 their way. If you live in Edinburgh, or are simply just passing through, swing by the gallery and check it out / buy all those lovely zines!
On a side note, the Royal Bison is coming up right away, which means new prints and a new, double thick issue of International Beauty Saloon with contributors from Vancouver to New York. You don’t want to miss this one!
The International Beauty Saloon Store has been updated with the addition of some new prints as well as the highly anticipated International Beauty Saloon Issue 2 ‘zine. I added a serigraph print of my cat, Nintendo, and Genevieve made a lovely print entitled “Wrath”. You folks should go out there and check it out / buy it up.
Below you will find an excerpt from IBS Issue 2. It is a story written by my pal Cole Kushner titled Huge Weird Hands which I made some drawings for. It reads even better when you hold it in your hands (hint hint).
You can read it in it’s entirety HERE.
The imaginative legend, Issac Asimov, drawn with a seeming lack of likeness. You can find him in International Beauty Saloon, Issue 2!
Genevieve and I finally got our butts in gear and have our mini-store site up and running. It’s at International-bs.ca. It’s Pay Pal friendly, and if you buy more than one thing, shipping costs (could) go down, down, down! (Duh)
Our selection of goods is currently pretty small. But keep your eyes open. It should be updated on the exact moment we have something for new sale… and every now and then you might even find some authentic Original Art pieces as well.
Buy something. We have left-overs from the Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair.
Once again, we’ll keep ya posted.
“IBS (International Beauty Saloon) is a for-profit mega-corporation here to exploit and destroy any shred of human decency left in this world.”
25 drawings from Genevieve Simms + 25 drawings from Josh J. Holinaty.
Genevieve and I finally pummeled these books out! Thanks to finally getting ourselves organized in the ways of home screen printing, we’ve been able to make some lovely IBS covers for all your visual needs. These will be for sale at the Royal Bison Craft + Art Fair. Cheap. More of our sell-ables to come soon (e.g. prints)!
Thanks to Raymond Biesinger for the book binder usage.
Coming up on the 29th + 30th of November is the Royal Bison Art & Craft Fair. Both Genevieve & I will be sharing a table full of goods worth giving money for. But worry not. It will be madly cheap and very worth your while(s). We will be debuting a small art book we have been slaving over for the past few days. Let’s call it the first issue of a zine we would like to try and publish slightly frequently. It will be composed of 25 drawings each, as well as having a beautiful screenprinted cover! I will show you more in the coming week!
Also, the main site has just been recently updated with three small black and white doodles. Colour illo update to come shortly!
