No One Told Me Not To Do This: Selected Screenprints, 2009-2015

Description

This third collection of Ryan's 'greatest hits' features prints made between 2009-2015, including posters for bands such as Andrew Bird, Shellac, My Morning Jacket, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Hum, St. Vincent and others, as well as posters featuring Lil BUB, Cards Against Humanity and pictures of sloths, walruses, and other mammals in states of troubled sleep. With a foreword by master illustrator Aaron Horkey, this volume comprises 200 screenprints with commentary and original drawings used in the screenprinting process.

Jay Ryan has been making screenprinted concert posters in Chicago since 1995. He learned to print at the now-legendary Screwball Press, and started his own print shop, The Bird Machine, in the basement of his apartment building in 1999. He served as vice president of the American Poster Institute from 2002-2007. In 2007, Crain's Chicago Business included Ryan on their prestigious 40 Under 40 list, and the following year, Time Out Chicago named him a Chicago Cultural Hero. His other books are 100 Posters/134 Squirrels and Animals and Objects In and Out of Water.