This is the
Digital Portfolio of
Mel Magdalene.
Cut Paper Risography Illustration Reportage Credits

Mel Magdalene is an illustrator, writer, cut paper collage artist, and printmaker with a concerning fixation on Mimeograph Machines and their modern counterpart, the Risograph / Digital Duplicator. She is experienced with the SF5130, owns an RP3105 and CR1610 under current repair, and is armed with an A.B. Dick Rotary no. 78 and Gestetner Flatbed no. 70, both from the early 20th century -- Though sometimes she just uses a Fax Machine to make a print like a freak. She is currently the Graphics Editor for St. Louis's FACES Magazine, and loves to draw strange, obscene, and/or irreverent material for money.

Chitown Born and Raised. Northwest Side.

She can be reached for freelance, commission, and collaborative work at Contact@melmagdaleneart.com.

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