superdilettante's Page

Back in the middle '90s I was working a boring job, where I developed photos all day long, and I would get so bored listening to the same Paul Simon tape over and over again that I'd draw my own strange versions of people's vacation pictures and baby photos. This evolved into a little pamphlet I meant to send to my longtime pen-pal TC, but before I put it in the mail, it occurred to me that I'd just made a zine (and photocopied it in secret on the work copier), so I sent it in to Factsheet 5.

That was the beginning. That zine was called Bottom Feeder, evolved into something called Palimpsest for one issue, and then I stopped. I didn't have a crummy job anymore, and I wasn't a bottom feeder anymore, so I didn't know what to write about.

The dormancy of many years passed in 2004 when I decided to make a new start and try making things again. I met a book-artist Japanophile and we took a sake-and-Kit Kat-fueled trip to Tokyo. When we returned, we cobbled our magpie travel journals into a zine.

These days, I keep at that project, Pod Post, with that same friend. I make handmade books under the name superdilettante, teach bookbinding classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book, and make weird boxes, restore ancient papyrus, and repair circulating copies of Dianetics at my day job in the library of a major research institution.

My recent collaborative zines, 3-2-2-1, I Remember These Places When They Used to Exist, and Kimagure na dowa no Hon (A storybook of whimsy), can be found at the Pod Post shop. I've also been working on little scrappy solo one-shots that I'll post here periodically.

I'm so glad this site exists! Thanks, Krissy!

ETA: Gianni's info reminded me that I neglected to include my snail mail address! Shame!

Carolee
PO Box 19706
Stanford CA 94309

These days I'm swamped, and it may take a while for me to respond, but I *will* respond!