20 TITLES

We've reached 20 titles! 

The longtime hope has been to produce a letterpress catalog of Two Plum Press titles to hand out at events and include with orders. This will either happen very soon, to commemorate 20 titles, or later this year, when we're inching towards 25. 

2016's NEW TITLES:

Awake, Wild, Secret, Free by Andrew Barton (016) / The Collected Plays 2010-2015 by Portland Preschoolers (017) / Pop by Chris Maday (018) / Book To Share by Emma Young (019) / I Was The Nostalgia by Michelle Overby (020)

SHORT RUN, 2016

We were pleased to do another year at the Short Run Comics and Arts Festival in Seattle this November. 

This event marked the release of two new books, completing a mini milestone for Two Plum Press. We have now released 20 books since starting halfway through 2013!

They are titles we're thrilled to be releasing: Book To Share by Emma Young (019) and I Was The Nostalgia by Michelle Overby (020). 

The usual shot of the table!

A customer modeling their accidental Two Plum Press tattoo. 

Andrew was there! Selling books! Thanks, Short Run photographer, for doing such nice portraits every year!

Introducing: AleX Hatzakis

Two Plum Press has an apprentice! Alex Hatzakis met us at the Portland Zine Symposium in 2015, then was working a shift at People's Food Co-Op with Sofie Sherman-Burton, recognized her, and offered up her services to help out the operation. Since the operation is usually just Andrew, struggling along, and Sofie assisting when and how she can, this help was accepted and encouraged. 

Several months later, Ms. Hatzakis is now a fully trained letterpress printer, who helps with most stages of production on our books. The above photos shows Andrew and Alex creasing dust jackets! 

She worked on the production of our spring release "Awake, Wild, Secret, Free" by Andrew Barton, and our summer titles, "Pop" by Chris Maday and "The Collected Plays 2010-2015" by Portland Preschoolers.

PORTLAND ZINE SYMPOSIUM, 2016

In the words of Delphine Bedient: "Another year, another 'Zine Symposium'..." 

We took this year's event as motivation to put out two long-in-the-works titles–

The Collected Plays: 2010-2015 by Portland Preschoolers (017)

Pop by Chris Maday (018)

"Preschool Plays" was a wild hit, selling out of all the copies we brought in a few short hours!

STUMPTOWN COFFEE ZINE POP-UP

We were invited to do this fun afternoon pop-up as part of someone's art show opening at the Belmont location of Stumptown Coffee. Cold brew and Underwood wine flowed, nice people stopped buy, we sold some books and zines with our pals Antiquated Future and Sincerely Analog.