Hello, everybody! The next poster in the Feminist Broadside series is here, featuring none other than Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie. Our sixth Broadside, "The Curie Cure," honors the life and work of Marie Curie, in light of the changes and reforms to the American health care system that (to us, anyway) are inevitable and necessary. As always, the piece is centered around a quote: "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals." You can read more about the piece and see images on the Anagram Press blog: http://www.anagram-press.com/blog A note to careful readers: the "Curie Cure" colophon (that explanatory blurb at the bottom that include Marie's biography and our details of production) includes a typo—an error that strikes fear in the hearts of all designers, printers, hand letterers and word lovers. We won't reprint, but will apologize and correct the record: "During WWI, Marie worked with her daughter Irene to train nurses in the use of xrays to locate bullets in injured soldiers." Also for curious readers with a sharp eye: the edition size is a nod to Curie's discovery of new elements (the half life of polonium is 138 days). For part of the illustration, Chandler referenced a vintage Periodic Table of Elements with an incomplete explanation of the meaning of each dot within an element. These dots float up the page to form atoms that battle the text for attention in vivid, radioactive color—and continue upward to gather into molecules, as a reminder that we're all in this together. Edition size: 138 Paper size: 10 x 18 inches Price: $35 Colophon (should!) read: Marie Curie (1867–1934) was born Maria Sklodowska in Poland. She left to attend the Sorbonne where she met her husband Pierre Curie. Together they studied radioactivity — a term coined by Marie, who focused on isolating radium and polonium (named in honor of Poland). The Curies won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903. After Pierre’s death, Marie won a Nobel in chemistry, becoming the first person awarded twice. During WWI, Marie, worked with her daughter Irene to train nurses in the use of xrays to locate bullets in injured soldiers. Marie later died of leukemia due to years of radiation exposure. She was the first woman honored with burial in the Pantheon. Illustrated by Chandler O’Leary and printed by Jessica Spring, inspired by Curie’s belief that “now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less” as our country moves towards providing health care for all its citizens. 138 copies were printed by hand at Springtide Press in Tacoma. November 2009. * * * If you are interested in purchasing a print, you can simply reply to this email (recommended if you're local and want to avoid Etsy's shipping charges), or check out the Anagram Press page on Etsy: http://anagrampress.etsy.com We're also still taking subscriptions to the Feminist Broadside series, and "End of the Line" is still available as well. Subscribers commit to purchasing at least one print from each edition for the life of the series; in return, the Subscriber's Price will remain $30 (plus tax and/or shipping) for the rest of the series. Regular price is $35. If you are interested in becoming a subscriber, please just reply to this email. (The prints listed on Etsy are the regular price.) A new print is available roughly every three months, with the next Broadside coming out in February 2010. The postcard reproductions of the first four Feminist Broadsides are priced at $1.75 each, and can also be purchased via Etsy or email. Everyone who subscribes to the series, starting with either "End of the Line" or "The Curie Cure" will receive one free set of postcards. (We'll be offering postcards of the two latest Broadsides once the originals sell out.) Many, many thanks for all your support, and best wishes! ~Chandler and Jessica -- Chandler O'Leary Anagram Press http://www.anagram-press.com Blog: http://www.anagram-press.com/blog Jessica Spring Springtide Press http://www.springtidepress.com