A comiXologist recommends
DIY Screenprinting
Need something to do this weekend? Have any projects planned for the future? You know, aside from reading more comics? Or perhaps you want to learn about a new hobby, while ALSO reading comics. No need to make sacrifices here!
If that’s the case, this here is the perfect book for you, dear readers. DIY SCREENPRINTING by John Isaacson explains concisely how to produce screenprinted t-shirts for the market at large! It also peppers in a casual and clever humor between the important details, so as not to be the atypical illustrated instruction manual. And thank goodness for that!
John Isaacson tells us everything we need to know about turning a home into a t-shirt factory and then how to sell those t-shirts on the street corners as a burgeoning small business! All this told through his eccentric and sweeping humor we learn to be ready for anything on the forefront of street merchant sales. I don’t want to spin and dance up the facts about this one. Isaacson tells a solid narrative while at the same time explaining what it takes to be prepared for street markets. It truly is well written. Excellently written in fact.
The writing itself is inherently casual, simple even, but the way in which narrative and instruction blend together effortlessly after we learn how to make shirts is exceptional. Coupled with Isaacson’s cartoony, comic strip style-art during narrative panels, and almost technical drawing accuracy during instructional panels, DIY SCREENPRINTING will prove to be a great way to learn this craft.
This reviewer needed a refresher on screenprinting. This book is going to come in handy, and unlike instruction manuals on the subject, I won’t mind reading it multiple times.
