We are trying to do at least a couple of new postcards each month to take to the monthly 302United meetings. 302United is a branch of Indivisible. If you are from the Newark, Delaware area, these are scheduled on the first Sunday of each month, 2:00 pm. If you are so inclined, register with their website.

IHB, Indivisible Highlands & Beyond, was having a President’s Day protest in Rodney Square, downtown Wilmington, Delaware. We got granddaughter Zoe to spend the night and spent Saturday making posters. Jill and I used the images from the two postcards above, and we wrote a line to draw some attention to Zoe and draw her into some political activism.

A bit more information than you probably want to know, but here it is anyway.

Suppose you want to do a good letterpress-related poster (generally, I’m not drawn to the Magic Marker ones that look like they were drawn on the bus to the protest march), though I appreciate at least that much effort. A few were done with the most amateurish technique, but you could tell they were done with heart and standing with them in the cold, fighting for the same things we were.

At this point, we’ve scanned 35 of our typefaces that I often use to make photopolymer plates for typically two purposes (politically focused postcards or Meander Book workshop pages).

We wanted Zoe to have a reason to be at the protest without using our posters, so we devised a “voter’s rights” one for her. She said, “But many 13-year-olds aren’t smart enough to vote.” I responded that a significant portion of the people who voted Republican fall into that category. I would trust a lot of 13-year-olds. Zoe would be one of them.

We took about 400 of our “Liar, Liar.” postcards and gave them all out. We could have given out 3 times as many. People seemed appreciative and interested, and many had immediate questions. I hope it generates a bit of Lead Graffiti interest.