Buying Original Pages from Fun Home and Are You My Mother?
I have lots of pages from Fun Home and Are You My Mother? available for sale. The originals don’t look exactly like what you see in the printed books because I did the drawing and the ink wash shading on separate layers of paper, and did the lettering on the computer. Here’s an example:
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In the book, page 217 of Fun Home looks like this:
But my line art—india ink on 11 x 14 Bristol board—looks like this (often there are pasted-up or whited out bits, and marginal notes):
So I figured out a way to print the words and the color on a layer of acetate, like this:
I affix the acetate layer to the line art, so it looks like this:
If you buy a page of Fun Home, I’ll prepare it like that for you if you want, so it’s not just black and white with no text. The art from Are You My Mother? is a little different because there’s a spot color in addition to the ink wash shading. Here’s what the book looks like:
Here’s the line art:
And here’s what that page looks like with the acetate layer of text, spot color, and gray ink wash:
The prices for the pages vary based on how interesting they are.
Are You My Mother? pages no longer available:
3, 26, 55, 69, 103, 108, 137, 216, 231, 287, 288, 289
Fun Home pages no longer available:
3, 4, 15, 16, 22, 23, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 44, 60, 65, 72, 74, 75, 76, 80, 86, 89, 98, 100-101, 103, 104, 107, 108, 117, 118, 119, 128, 129, 132, 134, 135, 137, 139, 146, 153, 159, 160, 165, 167, 181, 187, 196, 205, 207, 208, 210, 220, 221, 225, 232.