SKETCHBOOK PICTURE SLEEVES
Sketchbook Picture Sleeves is an on-going project by Ken Eppstein, in which he pairs 7" records with original pieces of cartoon art. The themes vary from record to record and often have little to do with the lyrics of the song offered. The basic idea is two-fold:
First, it's a play on the idea that picture sleeves for records are essentially cartoons: Images and text used in unison to tell a story. In most cases, the original pic sleeve's story is "buy this record." For Sketchbook Picture Sleeves the story is whatever dumb joke or pun feels right, hopefully avoiding a direct interpretation of the song's true narrative.
Second, the sleeves are meant to elevate 7"s records within collections. The often-overlooked hunks of wax become a one of a kind item with value beyond playability.
Volume 1 is a limited edition artbook that features the first 120 Sketchbook Picture Sleeves for records by:
? & The Mysterians / Hasil Adkins / Bar-Kays / The Barbarians / The Beach Boys / Bobby Bland / The Blasters / Carlene Carter / Alvin Cash & The Crawlers / Roy Clark / The Clash / Patsy Cline / The Coasters / Stud Cole / Sam Cooke / Alice Cooper / Elvis Costello / Coyote Men / The Creations / The Cynics / Dell-Vikings / Devo / The Egyptians / The Emperors / Esquerita / Everly Brothers / Fabulous Poodles / Fendermen / The Fools / Bobby Freeman / Bobby Fuller Four / The Go Go's / Ian Gomm / Roy Head / Ian Hunter / Isley Brothers / Jackie & the Cedrics / The Jaguars / The Jam / Joe Johnson / Benny Joy / The Kaisers / The Kingbees / The Kinks / Jeanne Knight / The Larks / Jackie Lee / Little Johnny And the Silvertones / Nick Lowe / Frankie Lymon / Loretta Lynn / The Lyres / Chris Montez & the Invincibles / MOTO / The Mystreated / Screamin' Joe Neal / The Neanderthals / Nightcrawlers / The Olympics / The Olympics / Roy Orbison / Carl Perkins / Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kicker Five / The Platters / Pretty Things / Real Kids / Tom Robinson Band / Tommy Roe / Romantics / Sue Saad & The Next / Sam & Dave / Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs / Earl Scruggs / Ronnie Self / Shoes / Hurricane Smith / Patti Smith Group / The Sonics / Soul Survivors / The Spitballs / Standells / Jack Starr / Sun Ra / The Supremes / Sweet / Sylvain Sylvain / Teengenerate / Them / Rufus Thomas / Allen Toussaint / The Trashmen / Joe Turner / Tina & Ike Turner / Dwight Twilley / Conway Twitty / Tyla Gang / The Ventures / The Vikings / Porter Wagoner / The Wailers / The Waitresses / Walker Brothers / Mary Weiss / The Who / Link Wray / Tammy Wynette / Yardbirds / Danny Zell and the Zell Rocks