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Stories for Ways and Means
Ten years ago the founder of Waxploitation, Jeff Antebi, had an idea to ask his favorite music artists and favorite contemporary painters to come together and collaborate on original children’s stories for a benefit project. Today, 29 of those paintings make up the 350 page book project called Stories for Ways & Means.
The book includes stories from Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Frank Black, Justin Vernon, Laura Marling, Devendra Banhart, Alison Mosshart and Kathleen Hanna as well as painters/illustrators like Anthony Lister, Dan Baldwin, Swoon, Will Barras, James Jean, Ronzo, Kai & Sunny and more.
Guest narrators came along for fun as featured voices in short promo films: Danny Devito, Zach Galifianakis, Nick Offerman, Phil LaMarr, King Krule, and Lauren Lapkus.
Proceeds from sales of the book primarily benefit Room to Read, Pencils of Promise, and 826 National among a number of non-profits working to build schools and educate children around the world.
The book includes stories from Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Frank Black, Justin Vernon, Laura Marling, Devendra Banhart, Alison Mosshart and Kathleen Hanna as well as painters/illustrators like Anthony Lister, Dan Baldwin, Swoon, Will Barras, James Jean, Ronzo, Kai & Sunny and more.
Guest narrators came along for fun as featured voices in short promo films: Danny Devito, Zach Galifianakis, Nick Offerman, Phil LaMarr, King Krule, and Lauren Lapkus.
Proceeds from sales of the book primarily benefit Room to Read, Pencils of Promise, and 826 National among a number of non-profits working to build schools and educate children around the world.
350 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2017
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May 24, 2019
Much different from what I was expecting but still pretty interesting.
May 6, 2020
The stories in this book are stories to read any time, frequently. If you read one story once in a while you will constantly feeding on learned lessons.
August 23, 2019
From the Waxploitation label comes Stories for Ways and Means, a gorgeous collaboration of artists and musicians that feature ‘grown up’ children’s stories with the majority of the proceeds going to organisations promoting children’s literacy.
Featuring lots of musicians I like as well as others I’ve never heard of, the 29 collaborations in this book range from the whimsical to the weird, with my particular highlight (coming as no surprise to anyone who knows me) being Nick Cave’s The Lonely Giant. Other stories that also deserve a huge shout out are Sera Cahoone’s Merle is a Fat Orange Cat which features an unusual punk band, Song Yuzhe’s Snow Cap Mountain and the antics of its guardians protecting it from the Winter Olympics, Gibby Haynes’ The Next Big Thing, which felt really Stephen King-ish, and a chunk of weird in Tom Waits’ Circus.
The artists deserve a huge amount of the credit in the book’s gorgeousness stakes, with each bringing their own unique style and emphasising the individual atmospheres of each story – I particularly liked Ronzo (who paired with Del Tha Funky Homosapien for the excellent Watch How You Talk To People, where some angry ants get a surprise) as well as Joe Coleman, David Bray and Anthony Lister.
Ideal reading material for when you don’t have much time to dive fully into a book, none of the stories outstay their welcome and some of them I could have read a lot more of. An extremely good looking addition to my bookshelves, it’s made even prettier knowing that my money is going to a good cause.
**Also posted at Cannonball Read 11**
Featuring lots of musicians I like as well as others I’ve never heard of, the 29 collaborations in this book range from the whimsical to the weird, with my particular highlight (coming as no surprise to anyone who knows me) being Nick Cave’s The Lonely Giant. Other stories that also deserve a huge shout out are Sera Cahoone’s Merle is a Fat Orange Cat which features an unusual punk band, Song Yuzhe’s Snow Cap Mountain and the antics of its guardians protecting it from the Winter Olympics, Gibby Haynes’ The Next Big Thing, which felt really Stephen King-ish, and a chunk of weird in Tom Waits’ Circus.
The artists deserve a huge amount of the credit in the book’s gorgeousness stakes, with each bringing their own unique style and emphasising the individual atmospheres of each story – I particularly liked Ronzo (who paired with Del Tha Funky Homosapien for the excellent Watch How You Talk To People, where some angry ants get a surprise) as well as Joe Coleman, David Bray and Anthony Lister.
Ideal reading material for when you don’t have much time to dive fully into a book, none of the stories outstay their welcome and some of them I could have read a lot more of. An extremely good looking addition to my bookshelves, it’s made even prettier knowing that my money is going to a good cause.
**Also posted at Cannonball Read 11**
December 13, 2020
This collection of short stories are a big of a mixed bag, but the visual art is excellent throughout.
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