Cereal Box Studio

06/05/2024

Our most recent Cereal Box publication by Katie Baker / “Lacuna” is an illustrated short story about self-inflicted stigmata, creating evidence of invisible experiences. We had such a fun release event for this book earlier this year at the Boxelder Community Room in Northside (Cincinnati) and copies are still available! Riso-printed and hand-bound in an edition of 200, with interior drawings in black and cover in bright red.

06/05/2024

Pleased to announce that our recently released poetry chapbook “Resurrection Letter” ~~ poems by Rikki Santer & artwork by Julia Lipovsky ~~ was honored by the Eric Hoffer Book Award committee as a 2023 Da Vinci Eye Award finalist and 2023 Grand Prize finalist in the poetry category! Congrats to Rikki & Julia for such a beautiful collection and tribute to the life and work of surrealist painter & novelist Leonora Carrington ✨🎉
Copies are still available on our website! The book is riso printed in black and sunflower yellow, hand-bound in an edition of 200. Published by Materialist Press.

06/05/2024

Studio visit with high school students from !! We love showing our studio and talking about our work with teens! / thank you to for the connection and the 📸

05/20/2024

Join us for the release of TIDELINES 20: Green Green Rocky Road at this Sunday May 26 from 3-6pm! We will have the entire archive on view as we celebrate over 4 years of community submissions, plus some limited edition TL posters, food & drinks.

This issue features work from .donohoe.bellman .cullen .eddy .lichen Scott Lowell Sherman, Nikki Barnhart, Julia Lankisch, .wallace.art Jessica Perkins

04/13/2024

Collating ✨

03/28/2024

We recently finished up the second edition of this book for and we are so honored that we got to be a part of it! Amazed by the immense generosity and transparency offered in these pages - a true gift to the world. Reach out to for copies ❤️
Images show cover and inside pages from a riso-printed spiral-bound book titled “I’m Having Top Surgery: An Illustrated Guide for You and Me” by Rimona Eskayo.
Featured pull quotes: Slide 2 “Surgery doesn’t have to be your destination. And binding should be just one of many options available to us.” / Slide 3: “Surgery Prep” / Slide 4: “Fluid flows away from the incision, out of the body, and into the bulb. Empty drains twice a day and measure fluid.” / Slide 5: “One of my favorite things about my chest is that it reminds me of AJ.”

03/07/2024

Proofs get better with time

01/09/2024

Announcing Tidelines Winter 2024 (issue #20!) ~~ Green Green Rocky Road ~~ titled after one of my favorite traditional / schoolyard songs, apparently heard from poet Bob Kaufman in greenwich village, which became the recorded song now made famous by Dave Van Ronk and other musicians from that folk generation. Tell me who do ya love? Help us make this a special 20th issue! Published in partnership wjth
Submissions due February 4, but as always, we love late submissions so just send it our way if you’re unsure! Email tidelineszine @ gmail dot com

09/27/2023

We are very excited to announce a new release from Materialist Press (our poetry imprint) by Julia O. Bianco “Habitats” — a document of encounters between the Self and the Land “where grief and sadness are met with love and hope, under the canopy of – and supported by - Mother Earth.”
All risograph printed in Sunflower, Bright Red, Seafoam, Cranberry, and Black and stab-bound by hand in an edition of 200. With a foreword by Maria Seda-Reeder and covers silkscreened by
Now available for pre-order on our website, link in bio! A large portion of funds will go toward covering expenses for the artist’s visa renewal. Visit for more information on the release event Saturday Oct. 7 in her backyard!

09/06/2023

🌟Announcement! 🌟In case you haven’t noticed in person, we are pregnant! Eric and I are over the moon about a new baby coming into our lives. As a self-employed person / small business owner, it is hard to prepare for a baby without any safety of maternity leave or paid time off!! The state of Ohio doesn’t have a program for people like me (a few states do) so it’s up to us to save up some money and do some complex schedule communication to make it all work. We are due end of October, so planning to take mid-Oct through end of the year completely off and get back into the swing of things when it feels right (january- february- ish?). I guess that’s the upside of being in charge is that I can return to this work when the stars align and my heart tells me it shall be so. In the meantime, we are so grateful for everyone that brings work our way, whether it be design or printing or publishing, and for the freedom to be ourselves in the process.
On a more practical note, subscribers should expect a fall and winter shipment as scheduled, including a calendar in early December! The only change we’re making is that the Winter issue of Tidelines is a big one ( #20) so we’re planning on postponing that issue for the new year and doing something special. So keep an eye out for that winter tidelines prompt and come see us at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair for a copy of any of the cool books we’ve been working on lately.

07/22/2023

We’re having a release party and gallery exhibition to celebrate ‘s new book EXTRACTED FRAMES at the General Store in Northside (next to the Comet). Come hang out, grab a book and silkscreen poster by and see tons of the animation art that went into the book // thanks to and for hosting! See you there // 6-9pm
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Link to pre-order the book is in the bio for those who aren’t local // orders ship starting July 31 🌀🌀

07/20/2023

We are now collecting submissions for the Fall issue of Tidelines! ~~Sidewalk Rambles~~ .
Tidelines is a quarterly zine co-published by Wave Pool and Cereal Box Studio. Prompts are released for each issue with an open call for submissions. As always, any 2D artwork or creative writing inspired by the theme are welcome in person or by email to tidelineszine @ gmail // photo by // Where do you go when you have no destination? How do you move inconsequentially? What do you say when you talk without purpose?

06/30/2023

Extracted Frames: the animated sketchbook of ++ This new 120-page volume is a compilation of frames and process imagery from his catalog of analog animation work. Each drawing has been lovingly translated for risograph printing and is accompanied by text from Neeley introducing each project, with a foreword from founder Justin Gage. ++. Designed, printed, bound & published by Cereal Box with cover silkscreen by ++ edition of 200

06/03/2023

Guten morgen with eric

02/27/2023

Philomath: the Aquarium Drunkard Journal // Issue 02 Spring 2023

Design and print for with writing by and artwork by ++ available only to Aquarium Drunkard's Patreon supporters. Pledge your support to get one and bolster an independent online music resource!

11/17/2022

A good mail day four times a year! Packages full of printed riso goodness! Check out our new subscription offerings for this coming year 🌞 And if you order before Dec. 1, you’ll be just in time to receive your first shipment in a few weeks with the latest fall issue of Tidelines 🧶 link in bio 🌻

11/17/2022

Just posted some new Cereal Box Subscription offerings on our website! It's the perfect way to support us and keep up-to-date with all that we're working on, without worrying about keeping up with all the internet noise. All three subscription levels = a good mail day four times a year, without any automatic renewals or any commitment beyond four shipments. AAND... the CBS Enabler is on sale now! until December 1st! Just in time to receive your first shipment and a brand new 2023 calendar before we meet the new year. Thank you so much for all the ways you've supported or engaged with us in the past, and we hope to continue bringing more unique printed creations into the world with each new project. And of course, many thanks to Wave Pool for helping us to bring Tidelines into fruition as a regular, quarterly, submission-based riso-zine full of goodness straight from our local community. More details are at the link:

We are over the moon about our new subscription offerings!! See options, prices, and schedule details below. Each of these options has been crafted to bring you the most Cereal Box magic while also providing us some stability to continue creating, editing, designing, printing, binding. Selling sub

02/23/2022

Cereal Box Studio is proud to release this debut nonfiction novella from Owen Ashe. Available now as an ebook: COMRADERY OF THE DAMNED is an autobiographical story about incarceration in California. It weaves short stories and dialogue from the narrator's cellmates with personal memories from his childhood in Northern California. A meaningful and important look at our corrections and rehabilitation systems through the eyes of an insider. The ebook is free, but we're also taking donations for his family on our website. Print edition coming soon!

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02/10/2022

Some tidbits from this book we worked on with designer Bridget Pavlick / Practice* Psychological Flexibility through Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
ACT was created in 1982 by Steven Hayes as a form of cognitive behavioral therapy / The book details the six core processes and how to apply them in your own life
From the intro: "Accept Thoughts & Feelings, Stay in the Present Moment, Connect with Our Values, Take Effective Action" / a recipe for success 🦊

02/07/2022

From a recent show zine made for Cincinnati artist TENZING / black ink on French Paper's Speckletone line (one of our absolute favorites!)
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02/03/2022

(𝓼𝓾𝓫)𝓽𝓲𝓽𝓵𝓮 is a submission based zine from printed summer 2021 / 60 pages printed in fluo pink + teal riso ink / i would describe the experience of flipping through like ⛷️ goldenrod and diamonds 🍉 in other words, electric! / just added extra copies in our shop

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02/02/2022

Just updated our online shop with a few last copies of Electric Word Life!

What if Purple Rain was a double album? Why did Prince hide a jazz side project? How did 1999 influence the creation of house music? How does it feel to get dissed in a Prince song? Electric Word Life collects five years of writing on the late pop star and his expansive catalog, including Batman, B-sides, 1999, and the disappearing digital singles of the 21st century. Jack Riedy (Pitchfork, GQ, VIBE) combines original interviews and personal stories to illustrate Prince’s lasting impact and the unique relationship between listeners and the music they love. The risograph-printed book features original artwork by Mary Gring.

50-page paperback, 7”x7,” sewn binding, printed in fluo pink, blue, and black inks; ISBN 978-1-7335169-2-1

01/14/2022

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The Jungle That I Am marks an exquisite new high point in the long arc of Nina Alexander's distinguished artistic career. This new publication highlights a recent collection of her vivid pastel drawings (2019-2021) all reproduced in full color that follow on an insightful essay looking at earlier d

01/14/2022

Such a joy to work with Nina Alexander on her new monograph!

The Jungle That I Am: Pastel Drawings 2019-2021, marks an exquisite new high point in the long arc of Nina Alexander's distinguished artistic career. This new publication highlights a recent collection of her vivid pastel drawings (2019-2021) all reproduced in full color that follow on an insightful essay looking at earlier decades of work preceding these images chronicled here for the first time in print. The 120-page volume reveals a colorful dream-driven mythos:

“Symbols from the depths of fantasy worlds and mythology animate metamorphic forms. Hints of folk, outsider and indigenous art are conveyed with fluent lines and vibrant colors. There are manifestations of a powerful unconscious drive and pan-cultural erudition in these luminous, festive works.”

—excerpt from Gordon McConnell’s essay A Dream World Bestiary

Published in paperback, french flaps, 123 pages, 10 x 10 inches, 77 full page reproductions, 4-color printing on satin paper. Introduction by Nina Alexander; essay by Gordon McConnell; edited by Christopher Warner. Published by Materialist Press, an imprint of Cereal Box Studio, 2021. ISBN 978-1-7335169-1-4