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The Great Enigma
Hanson Coleman

Created in the style of Goodnight Moon, The Great Enigma illustrates a page from Djuana Barnes 1936 Lesbian Cult Classic Novel Nightwood. An ode to the night, it features a glow-in-the-dark coil binding and special keyhole dicut page. 

Risograph printed,
2021
coil bound
34 pages
8 x 6.5 inches

︎ $20 USD  ︎

The cover of the zine, risograph printed on gray paper with a clear coil binding. A goldenrod yellow title is fashioned across the center in the “Goodnight Moon” font. In the background, printed in cornflower blue, is a bedroom scene including a doll in a plush armchair, a framed image of author Djuana Barnes, a clock, rug, door in the wall, and a window with a striped curtain looking out onto a starry night sky and a large full moon. An open spread of the zine, printed on gray paper with a clear coil binding at the center. On the left page is an illustration of a basset hound in human clothing, wearing an off centered wig, and drawing a line of yellow lip stick in a line across a doll laying on the floor, up his clothed body, and onto his opened mouth. Behind him, an ovular field of blue gives the sense of a walled space, and a hairbrush, forceps, and a second opened lipstick, are spread out across the floor. An open spread of the zine, printed on gray paper with a clear coil binding at the center. Across the spread is an illustration of a bed with a sleeping dog in striped pajamas clutching an opened book in one paw. At the other end, a doll is tucked in leaning again a pillow. A rug is placed under the bed and various books are stacked and spread out on it, including one yellow book with a moon sliver on the spine. The text is placed in the two upper corners of each page. The back cover of the zine, risograph printed on gray paper with a clear coil binding. A field of blue runs diagonally across the upper right half of the page and a block quote of Eve Sedgwick is knocked out of it at the top. In the lower left corner is an illustration of a basset hound in human clothing reading a book with a sliver moon on the spine to a doll perched in his lap. A page from the zine, risograph printed on gray paper with a clear coil binding. A more adult-like basset hound in a long dress is sewing an eye onto a doll. The dog sits in a plush armchair, with a stack of books at her feet, and a rack of drying socks and gloves nearby. On the wall behind is a framed picture of author Djuana Barnes, a tiny door with a key hold, and a window with large striped drapes that looks out onto a starry night sky with a full moon.