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07/15/2026

🔮 THE ILLUMINATED OZ is entering its final day on Kickstarter! L. Frank Baum's beloved novel, newly illustrated by New Yorker cover artist David Plunkert, with essays by Kelly Link & Gore Vidal.

This one has been a wild ride in a spinning house. We're already over 200% funded, and on the verge of unlocking our third stretch goal. An esteemed cadre of munchkins, charlatans and flying monkeys alike have joined our motley crew on the yellow brick road. Walk through the poppies with us while you still can.

Come along with us and explore the backroads and byways of Baum's lost empire on the other side of a twister. Beehive will publish THE ILLUMINATED OZ in three exquisite editions, all in luscious oversized art book format on acid free paper. The book is illustrated, designed, laid out and ready for print. We still have a few copies of the lettered edition left, too.

There's no place like home, and no Oz like this.

So click (a) your heels and (b) the link in our bio.

beehivebooks.com/oz.

06/16/2026

🔮 THE ILLUMINATED OZ is live on Kickstarter! 🔮 L. Frank Baum's classic American fairy tale, newly illustrated by New Yorker cover artist David Plunkert, with essays by Kelly Link & Gore Vidal.

Our Oz is not the candy-colored dream of the MGM film; it reaches back to something older, stranger, and closer to the book Baum actually wrote. Over the course of more than 80 original illustrations, Plunkert presents a handmade Oz built out of rough surfaces, fractured geometry and uncanny color.

Oz is a genuine homegrown American myth. It is also, Gore Vidal argues in an essay included in this edition, a genuinely subversive act — a vision of a world without money, without poverty, with women in positions of power, free from the grinding Puritan logic of productivity and consumption that governed American life at the turn of the century and still does. The librarians of the age who suppressed the Oz books for decades weren't wrong to sense a threat. A child who learns to imagine a differently ordered world is a child who might, one day, demand one.

Come with us and explore the backroads and byways of Baum's lost empire on the other side of a twister. Beehive will publish THE ILLUMINATED OZ in three exquisite editions, all in luscious oversized art book format on acid free paper. The book is illustrated, designed, laid out and ready for print.

But, much like Dorothy Gale, we're going to need all of our friends to make it to the Emerald City.

So click (a) your heels and (b) the link in our bio.

beehivebooks.com/oz.

03/30/2026

Could not be more honored to announce that after in the midst of a great weekend at MoCCA Fest, was awarded the MoCCA Award of Excellence for BOTANICA: Full Bloom, the new expanded version of his tarot deck about the language of flowers! Huge congrats to Kevin, and to whose incredible design work made Kevin's artwork sing. Thanks so much to the MoCCA Awards jury and the Society of Illustrators for this wonderful honor.

12/06/2025

Beehive Books will be open to the public for the first time ever! Join us at 4440 Ludlow street on Sunday, Dec 7 from 2-6pm for an afternoon during which no Wonka style catastrophes will befall our unsuspecting guests. Books! Blankets! Prints! 20% off everything!

11/28/2025

❄️ 🩸 THE BLACKEST OF FRIDAYS: 20-40% Off Everything! 🩸 ❄️

The unholy time is upon us. Black Friday: that special American day of hyper-consumerist bloodlust. As cold-eyed bean-counting entrepreneurs of the publishing arts, we hate to be left out of any terrifying feeding frenzy. So we have some offerings for you so enticing we almost hope you reject them -- it offends us to offer our beautiful wares at such disturbingly low prices. Come, you animals, and ravage our shelves.

❄️ Through Monday, December 1st, 40% off GRATNIN, MYTHS OF MAKING, MADNESS IN CROWDS, and all Illuminated Tapestries and art prints. No code necessary!

🩸 Use discount code HOLIHIVE25 to get 20% off all items currently in stock.

Find the sale at beehivebooks.com/holihive25, and may God have mercy on our materialistic souls.

11/19/2025

It comes to this: our beautiful new edition of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS from Lorenzo Mattotti and Patton Oswalt is current 87% funded with only thirty hours to go. This gorgeous edition of one of the most riveting, riotous and relevant pieces of writing in the English language -- featuring come of the most vibrant and visionary artwork ever produced by one of our greatest living illustrators -- will either sail to dry land, or wind up as another treasure scattered in the briny depths of an uncaring sea.

It's been a privilege to work on this extraordinary book, and to be joined on our adventure by three-hundred-some readers and collectors eager to bring beauty into the world. In our final hours, please help us spread the word -- or else we will all be doomed to continue to live in a world where this glorious thing does not exist. We have already lived in such a world for thousands of years -- and I think we can all agree that the results have been mixed at best. Find us at beehivebooks.com/gulliver or the link below.

We've gotten this far, and we believe we're going all the way. Land is in sight. What we'll find once we get there -- size or species, God or monster -- no one knows. With hundreds of hands on the oars and hundreds of eyes on the shoreline we push through the waves. We'll see you on the other side.

11/17/2025

We had lunch with while he was in New York for his opening at , and got to show him the first sample copies of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS! This beautiful book is live on Kickstarter for the next three days, and we've got a long way to go. Support us at beehivebooks.com/gulliver or the link in our bio.

11/14/2025

Sharing a few interior layouts of 's beautiful edition of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, a great tall ship of a book that needs your help to reach port. We have less than a week left on our Kickstarter, and still a lot of ocean in front of us. Enjoy these elegant text wraps around Mattotti's incomparable drawings, and consider supporting our campaign at beehivebooks.com/gulliver.

11/13/2025

We're into the last week and still a lot of worlds left to explore! Help us get GULLIVER'S TRAVELS as envisioned by Lorenzo Mattotti and Patton Oswalt safe ashore, and onto bookshelves everywhere. Order your copy now on Kickstarter at beehivebooks.com/gulliver.

11/10/2025

10 days left on our campaign to fund GULLIVER'S TRAVELS with and ! Support this beautiful project, or two very handsome horses will judge you. Find us at beehivebooks.com/gulliver or the link in our bio.

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