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Welcome to the PK's
"Women, Snakes and Stalkers" is a collection of book covers from the PK (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) section of the University of Chicago's Regenstein library. Since I can't read any of the book titles, I make up my own interpretations of what's going on.
Other projects
- Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Confessions of the Regenstein Library - library graffiti at the University of Chicago
As for me, I'm Quinn.
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- How to gracefully pluck hairs from your chin
- A guide to raising cyclops llamas
- After the nuclear meltdown, dead trees and wacky o...
- For your next vacation, look for somewhere picture...
- All about black holes
- Welcome to the Hades Zoo!
- The woman who talked in boxes
- A very intense guide to wrapping your turban
- Color cominations suitable only for the color-blin...
- Mosaic-making for first-graders
- Happy Valentine's Day from the PK section
- Wave or bird?
- "No, I'm not going back in there. Cook your own da...
- "Walking around with your mouth open won't make me...
- Guys, are you sure that's where the teleprompter g...
- Orthodontia is for everybody!
- "Now, how many fingers do you see?"
- "Hop on Pop" gets violent
- A fashion guide for yoga bodysuits
- High school analogy test - witches::broomsticks : ...
- Monsters in the Red Sea
- This is going to be his year at the archery contes...
- Two lovers. Kept apart by a cactus.
- "You really didn't need to behead me. I just wante...
- A very angry spelling bee
- "Look, dear, it's one of those charming folk music...
- High-altitude mountain climbing is fun!
- A guide to toenail painting
- The little girl who wanted to join Twitter
- James and the Giant Ice Cream Sundae
- Are collagen implants right for your lips?
- New! Barbie water jug!
- New! Barbie water jug!
- Music lessons suck
- One eye between two faces
- Ooh! I know this one! It's purple, isn't it?
- Watching Twitter: you're doing it wrong
- Practicing for a career in cable TV punditry
- Bull fighting: you're doing it wrong
- The ecological disaster of sparkly algae
- Anne wanted to go to the Greek party, but she felt...
- Zoe hated the local Sears Portrait Studio
- Stood-up for a midnight rendezvous
- Paperwork can be fun!
- Welcome to the dress-up BDSM party!
- Woman-maze
- Bracelet sizing: it's important
- Your future career in the "carrying stuff" industr...
- Tulips under the sun
- How to buy a banister
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January
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- Moon-face
- The joys of curly hair
- Let's riot!
- Mind unraveling
- I'd get up to shake your hand...
- Geisha's wild night out
- Yes. I am special. Thank you for noticing.
- Self-portrait of a book cover artist
- ... Sarah Palin?
- It's EASIER to write with someone looking over you...
- Here, vulture, vulture, vulture
- Mumbai Theatre Company presents Anton Chekhov's "T...
- Purple spandex stripper
- Getting grabby on the dance floor
- Invasion of the flu
- Abstract Phoenix rising
- Indian book covers go green
- I have a headache. Go away.
- A guide to Ukrainian shits
- Comic bookish
- Six boobs in seven panels
- The woman who loved eyeliner
- Perfect pose for a Senior Portrait
- Super-Running-Boy and Perfect-Hair-Girl
- CoalShov3000 - the latest in coal shoveling techno...
- Smell my perfume! No, REALLY smell it.
- Fire goddess sprints through ice cavern
- Even the manliest of men love flowers
- An Indian take on the classic "Heidi"
- A head full of trees
- The dangers of sharing a blanket
- The spinniest dress in town
- Fuse beads!
- Recycle
- What is the inverse of a woman?
- The tree that liked wearing batik
- Picasso's muse, a biography
- A very anonymous Christmas
- Forward-thinking fashion designer uses live snakes...
- "Indian voices"
- How to wrangle Amazonian women
- Hair straightening worked for me!
- Alienesque statue of liberty
- Scary water snake wants to startle the sunbather
- Same old story, something about talking past each ...
- Choreography fail
- Close encounters of a third kind
- Everyone loves creepy-crawlies!
- Playing cards meet origami
- The man who spent too much time reading newspapers...
- Rainy with a chance of rain
- And the award for World's Creepiest Man goes to......
- Opthamology case study: eye with severe peacock-is...
- Art over boredom
- The water spirit with a face instead of a hand
- Afros for everyone!
- Putting the pieces together
- The Joker's girlfriend
- "Vertical, I said vertical, dammit!"
- Walking in a winter wonderland
- All the Big Brothers wanted to keep an eye on this...
- How to get the most for your organs on the black m...
- A guide to "raising the roof"
- The minimum number of lines necessary to convey bo...
- Early Hawaiian Airlines concept art
- A head full of words
- A peacock hat doesn't mean your flowers won't wilt...
- Touching the hand of God (industrial version)
- Spoons with human faces
- Never quite got beyond the concept art stage
- The woman with a retinal scanner doorbell
- Blue-skinned alien babe with green boob
- Left holding a flower
- She's so cool, she needs sunglasses
- The girl on the right missed the memo that this wa...
- Best. Dress. Ever.
- Please don't rain on me. Please.
- The man who grew a flower out of his back
- It was a dark and stormy night
- Simplified basketball for old ladies
- Swimming in the shower
- Dry, red eyes? Visine can help!
- This is the story of a girl who cried a river and ...
- Body parts on the black market
- Party like it's 1995
- I wonder if I could use my hair to strangle small ...
- So. Very. Stoned.
- How do you roast a dove? Light the forest on fire....
- A sword and shield make a poor substitute for a pi...
- Even the "Orient" has an "Orient"
- The girl whose best friend was a shrub
- Anti-drug PSA: Why you shouldn't smoke pot while p...
- Creepy stalkers don't know how to swim, right?
- -Got any weekend plans? -Nah, just lying here
- Depression hurts
- Just off the plane from Hawaii
- Recreating the Spiderman scene
- WalMart workers protest on Black Friday
- And so begins the Christmas season
- Vying for the Garish Awards
- Waiting in line on Black Friday
- How to row a rocket ship
- When you're out of design ideas... just scribble
- Sorry Mr. Gobbles, but we have to eat you tomorrow...
- Man with crumb on chin and guy who wants to bite a...
- Count the body parts
- Funky thermometer
- The totem pole that loved fish
- Give your fence a hug!
- A cyclops with a gun
- Watching the clock on the day before Thanksgiving
- Her dishwasher broke, and all her cups were dirty
- I want to kiss you, but your father is watching
- The amoeba that wanted to be a woman
- Bodhisattva on game day
- More baby-drawing problems
- Overcompensating?
- Sulky CactusHead
- New items in stock at Witchcraft R Us
- BURN THE DANDELIONS!
- Farting rainbows
- Outtakes from a Pepto Bismol ad
- Procrastination
- The rib cage that grew a face
- And then, a stench emerged from the apple tree
- The women who ate rose leaves
- LotusHead meets CactusHead
- Wish you were here. Signed, Alfred Hitchcock
- A practical guide to fratricide
- Watercolors do YMCA
- Trudging, a how-to guide
- Revenge of the book cover artist who was bad at he...
- The book cover artist who was bad at heads
- Shut up. Really. I mean it. Shut up.
- Would you stop having a migraine so close to me?
- How to tie a river in a knot
- The ugly boy who dreamed of being an opera star
- Oh! Some dramatic lighting! Better go stand there!...
- Terrified donkey wants to know where the rest of h...
- How to flush words down the toilet
- Cover art initially doodled out of boredom at a co...
- Mystical handbook for new-age religion?
- Waiter, there are gremlins in my salad
- So the robber wouldn't see her, Anita put on her C...
- Gee, I wonder if this was published in 1982
- You are entering the Twilight Zone (classic)
- How to make a girlfriend out of duct tape
- A very wacky Christmas
- Village life is the good life
- Indian woman mask
- The woman who was all boobs... and a rocking horse...
- Circle-phobia
- Flipping UofC the bird
- Meh. I dunno.
- Ham-handed Photoshop job
- Super Indian Robo-Girl
- My husband started dancing, my growler spilled, my...
- The tomato-splattered stand-up comic sobs
- A million little pieces (Indian edition)
- How to smell flowers: a guide for women
- A nice day at the beach... until A SCORPION ARRIVE...
- Arboreal pudendum?
- Take your hand off my head. Now.
- The Twilight Zone - now in color!
- Intravenous drug use
- The woman who really loved eyeshadow
- Pounce on Mom
- Toucan Sam on acid
- Party time!
- The dangers of carrying your diary around
- Weather forecast: moonlight, rain after midnight
- Birds in a hamster ball
- Another Star Trek skin disease
- Rusalka's Saturday morning walk of shame
- The woman who exhaled bubbles
- I beg of you, STOP PLAYING THAT THING!
- Snooze
- I'm getting real tired of holding up this leaf
- Mummies on parade
- How to cure jaundice at home
- A night at the club
- Duct-tape niqāb
- Pardon me, I believe my eye is on fire
- I'm purple, da ba dee da ba die...
- The skull that wanted to fly to the moon
- Indiana Jones and the Book Cover of Doom
- The plate-spinning act gets out of control
- Evil Theater!
- Birdie on a beaker (science begging to go terribly...
- Snake charmer's vessel
- Snake-charming meets knot-tying
- 100% chance of precipitation
- Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters", LSD Edition
- Alluring
- Horrific skin condition
- Could you be a little more heavy-handed, please?
- The woman whose interior designer liked boxes
- "Papyrus" font gone crazy
- Old men like flowers
- Staring match
- Dance like an angular Egyptian
- Going for the Marge Simpson hairstyle
- Oooh, swirly
- Saturday
- Unclaimed woman
- A little lower... no.. no, my lips are down here.....
- Headshot, auditioning for Bond Girl
- Stepford, India
- Repurposing dirt as makeup
- Bad TV reception
- Micro-manager
- Please, oh please, let me get a haircut
- The night's giant eye
- Knitting words - a handbook
- The wackiest tobaccky
- Disapproving billboards
- I wonder if I'll have a Cross-Cultural Encounter t...
- Awake for three days straight
- I think I need an umbrella
- Do you have a stalker? I'd like to apply for the j...
- Fur of the shaggy fire beast
- I disapprove of but am attracted to his beard
- I love you, but you're too short for me
- Snake-charming with dragons
- The sentient feather
- Sexy space romance!!!
- You're not going to eat me, right?
- Topless angel (because shirts don't come with wing...
- Indian Boris and Natasha
- I have an orange scarf! It's all okay!
- Carmen Sandiego and a ghost scientist kidnap a guy...
- I'm listening attentively. Really.
- Reject-pile cartoon characters
- Romance novel cover?
- The woman with giant hands
- Drawer full of polaroids
- Is that map eyeing me again?
- Gandhi's wild Friday night out
- Geriatric love story
- Look! I can balance a little person on two fingers...
- Your classic set-up (two women edition, the sequel...
- The hairiest man
- Your classic set-up (two women edition)
- Sewing is fun!
- The woman who loved really sharp crayons
- Your classic set-up
- Paint-by-numbers
- You know that door has a handle, right?
- It's fun to stay at the YMCA!
- How many cliches in one cover?
- Wet t-shirt contest of the gods
- No! Jazz hands do NOT go in front of your eyes!
- I've got a drum, so life is great!
- Okay, we've got the torches! Now what?
- Mmmm... delicious popcorn...
- She started wearing pants, and everything went dow...
- Why, it's only a flesh wound!
- Old man as puppet, a rainbow, some film, and a dan...
- What an AWESOME FONT!
- The woman who would only wear yellow
- A terrible case of bad breath
- Cover art by El Greco
- Welcome to the island! Here's a lei!
- Kamikaze flight of the evil parrot
- Crying lightbulbs
- There But For the Grace of Caffeine Go I
- You don't want your maid to get swine flu, do you?...
- Whatever should I wear?
- The man who spoke in lines
- Safety is for other people
- The lonely librarian
- The fetal position, or, yoga for the lazy
- The woman who wanted her hair in a bun, but just c...
- You promised I would be clothed!
- Help! I'm trapped in a heptagon!
- Hot styles for today's transvestite
- Sitting or running? Decisions, decisions...
- Disco dancing
- The love pentagon
- Handbook for the Calculon School of Acting
- The woman who liked pot(s)
- Got those colors backwards
- Shapes having an existential crisis
- How to make Wall Street grovel
- Literacy is fun!
- Scratch 'n sniff bracelets
- The jolly matron
- Indian Athena
- The silly putty that loved itself
- Hairstyles, for work and play
- Evil cyborg robot guy
- My hand is so soft-- I love this new lotion!
- Indian matryoshki
- Overcoming obesity: a guide for penguins
- The woman who loved flavored coffee
- The Lilliputian invasion of an Indian village
- A cruise that ended badly
- The man in the mirror (does not look like Michael ...
- Indian rusalka
- Out of boredom, Karen started doodling her suspici...
- Distorted faces, blank eyes, dead body... must be ...
- The publisher said 300 dpi, but the artist gave th...
- Menu at the Mumbai Mexican Restaurant
- The amoeba-stalker tries to ingest his prey
- How to go on a date in a bathrobe
- Land of the rising sun
- Itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie yellow polka-dot sari
- Needs red-eye reduction
- Hangover
- A baby elephant in a playpen?
- Good advertising
- Wardrobe malfunction
- It takes three lines to draw a woman
- The zombie whose skin was falling off in splotches...
- There's a story here...
- Lovebirds in fall
- Hark, I think I hear a dangly letter...
- Your daughter, the embryo
- The woman whose conjoined twin was a goat
- Woe is everybody!
- How to cure pinkeye
- Rather pleased with themselves
- Some kind of public safety warning sign?
- Grizzled old soldier
- A woman-shaped button on an ugly striped shirt
- Transgender
- Glorious chaos
- Jumping jacks for you and me!
- The woman who was a music note
- Nose piercing for fun and profit!
- It's a bird, it's a plane... no, it's a bird
- 5 easy hairstyles YOU can do at home!
- Father-son hunting: a how-to guide
- How to invade a village in 5 easy steps
- You know you have a cool alphabet when it naturall...
- The sitar girl who said "whatever"
- Tarzan, meet Jane
- Picasso's blue period
- Boogie down in the forest
- The book cover that got run over
- I'll have a blue Christmas without you
- Trying to impress a tree with a flower bouquet
- I like carrying this basket on my head
- Indian Audrey Hepburn
- A blue giraffe-woman
- 60's hair commercial?
- The pop star who mistook a gun for a microphone
- How to paint a woman when you're a painting too
- Laughing abstract woman
- Misunderstanding about eye whites
- Let's all clap for the bird that grew hands!
- Doing Yoga With a Gun in 10 Minutes a Day
- Harold drew himself a girlfriend with his purple c...
- The spiderweb that cried
- The woman who stared at a Mandelbrot Set
- The woman who had gills
- The woman who was a record
- Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden (Indian editi...
- Bring me some coffee.
- Mini-me, or, the pudgy clone
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