Beehive Books

07/11/2024

15 hours left on our Kickstarter to fund 's Illuminated Edition of Dante's INFERNO. The ascent out of Hell. Thank you for helping us make this beautiful nightmare. Let's close it out in style. Find us at beehivebooks.com/inferno or via the link in our bio.

07/09/2024

A tree grows in Hell. Counting down the final 57 hours of this journey through the darkness. Find 's edition of THE INFERNO on Kickstarter now via the link in our bio or at beehivebooks.com/inferno.

07/06/2024

Only five days left in our campaign to fund 's glorious new edition of Dante's INFERNO. Avoid eternal punishment by pledging now at beehivebooks.com/inferno or the link in our bio.

06/30/2024

The many demons of . Our edition of THE INFERNO, live on now, comprises a full bestiary of devils, demons and assorted unholy beings. From the thirteen varietal monsters of the Malebranche, the citizens of the ten dark funnels within the cursed city of Malebolge, the vicious Alechino, Calcabrina and Rubicante, to the great Satan himself, the icy wind of whose wings freezes the waters of lake Cocytus, all of these strange infernal creatures live in disharmony as citizens of Sophy's vision of the Pit.

We've got ten days left on our fully funded campaign -- find us on Kickstarter now at beehivebooks.com/inferno or the link in our bio.

06/27/2024

calls INFERNO "the best design book of the year!" Thank you for this outstanding article, . Find our live campaign at beehivebooks.com/inferno, and find the link to the article in our bio.

06/18/2024

🔥Giveaway🔥 One lucky winner will visit the gates of Hell, via a signed and numbered edition of Dante's INFERNO, illustrated by .

THE INFERNO numbered edition is a cloth-wrapped slipcase volume, featuring a foil-blocked fine art print that is exclusive to the INFERNO special editions, as well as a 1.25" die-struck enamel pin. It is signed and numbered by illustrator Sophy Hollington in an edition of 250. It also features foiled fore-edge printing on the page ends, a bound-in silk ribbon, and a natural-fiber cotton cloth slipcase.

How to enter for a chance to win this stunning volume:

👹 Follow
😈 Tag up to 3 friends in the comments below
👺 For five extra entries, share this post to your stories

On Saturday, June 22nd, we will draw one winner at random from the entries collected across Instagram and Facebook.

Follow this ongoing campaign at beehivebooks.com/inferno for updates on our INFERNO Illuminated Edition, or claim a copy of your own at beehivebooks.com/inferno-preorders.

Despite their generally infernal nature, Meta is not involved in this contest or its fulfillment. The flames of eternal damnation can frighten even the most demonic of tech giants. 

06/13/2024

What an extraordinary launch day, friends. THE INFERNO campaign is over halfway home. So excited to continue sharing this glorious book with you over the coming weeks. Profound thanks to everyone who rushed to support us. Here are some more sneak peeks at cropped pieces of the interior art. We're still live on Kickstarter until July 11th. Please help us spread the word and usher this unholy creation into our fallen world. Link in bio or at beehivebooks.com/inferno.

06/12/2024

🔥PROJECT LAUNCH! 🔥 With as our Virgil, Illuminated Editions goes to Hell. The eleventh title in our series of stunningly illustrated classics is a stunning new vision of Dante's INFERNO. On now!

This oversized slipcase art book features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's lyrical translation of the landmark Italian poem, alongside a rich and vivid portfolio of linocut illustrations depicting Hell's vast monstrous architecture, an exclusive introduction from the renowned Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky, and an original essay from the Dante scholar Kristina Olson. This handsome edition was designed by at .design.

We are live on Kickstarter as of only moments ago. Link in bio or at beehivebooks.com/inferno. 

Abandon all expectations, you who enter here. 

05/17/2024

Honored and thrilled that and have been nominated for an Eisner Award for BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN for Gratuitous Ninja, a graphic novel printed on 400 feet of accordion folded ninja scroll, served up with a massive subway map of the secret ninja tunnels of NYC, a complete set of GratNin trading cards, a bleach-printed furoshiki scarf, and much more. This project involved a full year of deep dive production and design work, and it's such a pleasure to see our intrepid artists and designers honored by the Eisner jury.

Many thanks to the judges, and to all our readers who helped make GratNin happen. Voting is open to all comics professionals, so we hope our colleagues will help us ninja-heist the prize back to our secret headquarters. You can order GratNin at beehivebooks.com or the link in our bio.

04/27/2024

TEMPLE OF SILENCE author is, as always, hot on the trail of some gorgeous mystery. In this case, a lost painting by the remarkable artist and mythmaker Sidney Sime, for a forthcoming Beehive monograph of Sime's work. In a generous new blog entry Justin invites us to ride along on his detective work as he traces the vanished Sime piece Wild Beast Wood through history. Find the piece at justinduerr.medium.com, and follow along as Justin puts together another incandescent tome full of recovered magic.

04/02/2024

🥷🏿 GIVEAWAY! 🥷🏿 Can you spot the ninja? Whoever catches a member of the stealthy Kuroda clan moving through the shadows wins a free copy of the KURODA Edition, a signed and numbered limited edition version of Ronald Wimberly's accordion-folded epic GRATUITOUS NINJA.

To enter:
✨️Like this post on Instagram or Facebook.
🗡️ Tag up to three friends to recruit them into the hunt. You'll get one entry for each tag.
📜 Share this post as a story, and you'll get three additional entries. 

On Saturday, April 6th, the ninja will step out of the shadows, and the winner will be revealed. 

☆Meta does not endorse, nor indeed even know about, this offer. Their ninja science is not strong enough.

03/13/2024

We'll be in Manhattan this weekend for 's MOCCAFest, a two day celebration of comics, illustration and various and sundry forms of visual excellence. We'll be hosting signings with two of our best-beloved authors, Ronald Wimberly (LAAB, GRATNIN) and Kevin Jay Stanton (BOTANICA). We might even have a sneak peek copy of PINOCCHIO on hand. Come say hello!

Metropolitan Pavilion
125 W 18th St.
March 16th, 11am - 7pm
March 17, 11am - 6pm
Tables 114 and 115

Signings:
3/16 - Kevin Jay Stanton, 1pm
3/16 - Ronald Wimberly, 6pm

01/27/2024

Some wonderful images and thoughts from divinationdragon! Stay tuned for the BOTANICA expansion later this year.

12/05/2023

🥷🏾 GLOBAL INFILTRATION COMPLETE. 🥷🏾 Ronald Wimberly's NYC shinobi saga GRATUITOUS NINJA steps out of the shadows into bookshops and libraries worldwide TODAY!

GRATNIN is a stealth epic that flows from the stoops to the subways, reinventing both the ninja tale and the graphic novel. 636 unbound accordion-folded pages flip-kick through a sprawling saga of a reimagined NYC where ninja run the underground and anarchist pyrates run the streets.

Publishers Weekly calls GRATUITOUS NINJA "a cannily constructed and rollicking saga. The nonlinear narrative unfolds in accordion booklets splashed with electric colors and propulsive manga art stylings that fuel the story’s dynamism...Fans of Afro Samurai will vibe with this high-adrenaline epic."

The fabled Namba clan went into hiding decades ago, living peacefully under the radar as community-minded hippies in Gowanus. But when they take some new blood under their wing, four young trainees take to the streets to solve Brooklyn's problems with ninja science. What good is being a ninja if you can't protect your own hood?

This unique box set contains four hundred consecutive feet of comics and ephemera bubbling with pugilist praxis, chanbara dialectics, pyrate vs. ninja warfare, and a whole secret history of NYC. Including a wall-sized subway map detailing the secret routes and ghost trains of the ninja clans, a set of trading cards, a ninja union badge and much more, GRATUITOUS NINJA isn't a linear story -- it's an elaborate world to journey through, and try not to get lost in.

Considering GRATNIN as a gift for for a ninjitsu-loving loved one? Sign up for the Beehive mailing list at https://tinyurl.com/yckp3ncw -- you might find an exclusive deal in your inbox later this week. 👀

11/22/2023

10/30/2023

🎃 A Haunted Giveaway 🎃 A council of spirits and daemons may select you to receive this exquisite blanket from Charles Burns to keep you cozy amidst the horrors of our ongoing Kickstarter campaign.

To enter:
🐈‍⬛ Follow this page
🐍 Tag up to three Halloween-loving friend in the comments below -- one entry per tag.
🕸️ Share this post to your stories and tag Beehive Books for three extra entries.

On November 4th, we will draw one winner at random from entries submitted through both Instagram and Facebook.

To find this blanket and our other Illuminated Tapestries, check out our live campaign at beehivebooks.com/burns or by following the link in our bio.

This giveaway is sponsored by Beehive Books and is not endorsed or affiliated with Instagram, Meta or any other unholy spectral entities. Cat not included.

10/14/2023

PCX is ON! Starring Jackie! At Headhouse Shambles in Philly until 3pm. Come thru!

10/12/2023

Only 12 hours left with $3000 still to go! Here in our eighteenth crowdfunding campaign, we find ourselves wondering whether this will be the one that doesn't quite make it.

But we don't believe you'd let that happen. The Beehive Society thrives in crisis. Julien-G's gorgeous and riveting adventure into art history and art-world myth is a book that belongs in libraries, in schools, and on your shelves. Help us spread the word here in our last-chance hours. Together, we can make make this transcendent publication manifest in our paltry material world.

Discover these artist's stories and more by backing the MYTHS OF MAKING Kickstarter campaign at beehivebooks.com/myths.

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10/04/2023

Excited to mingle with a cavalcade of great comic artists in our fair city. October 14th, 9am-3pm in Headhouse Shambles, hosted by the beneficent Philly comics impresarios known as . See you soon!

Poster by Caroline Cash.

10/03/2023

Was Francis Bacon's studio one of his great works of art? Or was it just a giant mess?

In 1998, the entire contents of his London studio were cataloged, packed up, and donated to Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, where the studio was then painstakingly reconstructed. Visitors can now peek in on the paint smeared walls and precariously stacked piles of books and photographs, physical remnants of Bacon's creative process.

Discover more artist's stories by backing MYTHS OF MAKING Kickstarter campaign at beehivebooks.com/myths.

10/02/2023

✨🎨GIVEAWAY!🎨✨ To celebrate the launch of Julien-G remarkable graphic history MYTHS OF MAKING, we're giving away a GALLERY edition of the book. This special edition, limited to a run of 250, comes with a tipped-in 5 x 3.5” signed and numbered bookplate based on one of the 25 featured stories.

One of these limited editions could be yours for free -- all you have to do is:

👁️ Follow Beehive Books
🖌️For one entry, tag a friend in the comments -- feel free to comment multiple times for multiple chances to win!
🥇 For five extra entries, share this project and tag us

On Friday, October 6th, we will draw one winner at random from entries submitted through both Instagram and Facebook.

To learn more about MYTHS OF MAKING and the stories contained within, tune in to the campaign at beehivebooks.com/myths.
This giveaway is sponsored by Beehive Books and is not endorsed or affiliated with Instagram or Meta. They won't even return our phone calls.

10/01/2023

Brooklyn Book Festival! Find us in Cadman Plaza at table 434 til 6pm.

09/29/2023

MYTHS OF MAKING features tales of dozens of historic artists, from Georgia O'Keeffe to Jean Michele Basquiat to Marcel Duchamp. One of the most singular artists the book covers is Hilma af Klint.

Classically trained at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and accomplished in realistic landscape paintings and botanical drawings, af Klint was also deeply interested in mathematics and spiritualism. Her interest in esoterica started in her late teens, but it was through her activities at the Academy of Arts that she ended up founding "The Five," a circle of women who met to conduct seances and recorded their collective interactions with the spirit world.

Despite her early involvement in spiritualism, af Klint didn't begin working on the highly symbolic, abstract work she is best known for until 1906, after she was in in her forties. Some common symbols and themes that appear in her art include:

🔵🟡 The colors blue and yellow representing the feminine and masculine, respectively, with green referring to the relationship between the two
🐚 Spirals symbolizing progress and growth
🍐 Bisected fruit, revealing star-like internal patterns in the seeded core
🦢 Swans and birds representing messengers, among other things

Discover more artist's stories by backing MYTHS OF MAKING Kickstarter campaign here: https://tinyurl.com/msmrywzm.

09/27/2023

✨NEW KICKSTARTER!✨ Announcing a brand new approach to art history, and a beautiful art object in its own right: MYTHS OF MAKING is a 372 page graphic history from the French artist Julien-G detailing 25 stories of how the myths and legends around great artists were built -- both how their work came to be, and how the culture around them shaped them into the mythical figures we know today. Stories from aboriginal Australia to West Africa to the Lower East Side, from Butades to Bacon to Basquiat, coalescing into a metaphysical schematic of what we talk about when we talk about art.

8th century, Chang’an, China: A landscape artist disappears into a cave he painted.
1645, Madrid, Spain: The slave of a famous artist uses his talent to leverage his own freedom.
1906, Stockholm, Sweden: A visionary painter deems her contemporaries unready to view her paintings and locks her work away.

Coincidence, culture and capital have always been co-creators of the artworks that survive through time. Spanning from pre-history to post-modernism, this eclectic anthology of illustrated stories shows how the legends passed down about who an artist is, how they make their work, and how their legends have always been a weave of fable and fact.

We can’t do it without you. Join us in bringing to life this work of art about the Work of Art. Our Kickstarter launched moments ago, and we need our community to help us realize this vital project. You know what to do. Find it on Kickstarter at beehivebooks.com/myths or preorder at shop.beehivebooks.com/myths.

09/26/2023

Hello, Brooklyn! Beehive is coming to Brooklyn Book Festival this upcoming Sunday, October 1st. Come find us at table 340 by the Columbus Statue Garden in Camden Plaza and peruse our various and sundry wares.
This year's festival poster by Oliver Jeffers .

06/30/2023

In celebration of our newly-funded ILLUMINATED TAPESTRIES campaign: a GIVEAWAY for your choice of a blanket designed by Ben Passmore, Lorenzo Mattotti, or Michael DeForge.

One of these eye-popping graphic wonders could be yours. All you have to do to enter is:

❤️ LIKE this post
🐝 FOLLOW Beehive Books on Facebook
👋🏻 TAG a friend you think might be interested in this campaign

On Sunday, July 2nd, we will draw one winner at random to receive a fabulous blanket by this September, just in time for cozy season.

Meta and Instagram, you are not involved in this giveaway, so stop sliding into our DMs.
Follow the Kickstarter campaign and learn more about these plush works of art at beehivebooks.com/blankets.

06/26/2023

One of our favorite cartoonists currently walking this earth, Ben Passmore (YOUR BLACK FRIEND, SPORTS IS HELL), took a little time off his forthcoming opus BLACK ARMS TO HOLD YOU UP, a graphic history of Black armed resistance in the US, to create this glorious illustration entitled “ACRAB,” reminding us yet again that anarchists love dad jokes.

Find it on our Kickstarter campaign live right now at beehivebooks.com/blankets. Or, preorder directly on our website at shop.beehivebooks.com/passmore.

06/22/2023

The Italian graphic novelist, filmmaker and multimedia artist Lorenzo Mattotti is one of the most iconic figures in the history of comics and illustration. His original painting "Cascada" floats us down cooling falls, past breezy boughs, and straight through the summer.

Find this gorgeous piece on Kickstarter at beehivebooks.com/blankets. Or, preorder directly on our website at shop.beehivebooks.com/mattotti.

06/21/2023

The ILLUMINATED TAPESTRIES Kickstarter is now funded! Thank you, friends!

Let's celebrate with a closer look at this wild beauty from cartoonist & illustrator Michael DeForge, which you can reserve at beehivebooks.com/blankets.

Michael DeForge (BIRDS OF MAINE, LEAVING RICHARD'S VALLEY) brings us this stunning reversible black-and-white graphic piece in which bodily forms and aquatic motifs combine in a mad vivisection of something existentially otherworldly yet recognizably human.

Join our crowdfunding campaign now at beehivebooks.com/blankets or preorder directly on our website at shop.beehivebooks.com/deforge. And stay tuned for a giveaway featuring several of these gorgeous things in the coming days and weeks!

06/20/2023

Our adventure into the more cuddly, less paper-cutty world of textiles continues. Beyond thrilled to have Michael DeForge, Ben Passmore, and Lorenzo Mattotti join our mission to weave a more vivid world. Three new blankets, live on Kickstarter at this very moment.

The Illuminated Tapestries are an ongoing line of gorgeous cotton blankets designed by the greatest graphic artists, cartoonists and illustrators on Earth. We launched last year with a stunning collection from Lisa Hanawalt, Yuko Shimizu, and Jim Woodring. Now we’re back, with a total of six blankets, and more brilliant artists waiting in the wings.

These beauties are tapestry-woven on looms in Blacksburg, South Carolina, made from natural cotton, and fully machine washable. Each piece is limited to an edition of five hundred blankets, never to be reissued.

We’re so excited to continue this ongoing series. Help us blanket the world in beauty, won’t you?

Join us at beehivebooks.com/blankets. See you at the picnic. (Bees always show up to the picnic.)