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Live Flong Party! A Show and Tell of Printing History

Live Flong Party! A Show and Tell of Printing History

Updated: The event was a great success and all the live streaming worked as hoped. You can watch the replay at YouTube or via the embedded video below.


At 9 am Pacific on Saturday, October 16, I and a few other print historians and collectors will show off some of our sets of flongs, printing molds used for much of the 18th century and through the 1980s for syndicating comics, shipping out ads, and making full metal plates for newspaper printing, among other purposes. Flong is mostly forgotten, and I aim to fix that!

Attend live and ask questions via this YouTube link; click through and you can have YouTube send a reminder when the event time is close. This one-hour informal show-and-tell will be archived, too.

And it may be repeated: I had more people who want to show their flong than time in this first outing.