{"id":38008,"date":"2022-06-26T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=38008"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:15:11","slug":"duckwork-april-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/26\/duckwork-april-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"DUCKWORK April 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Embedded below is a PDF of the April 1981 edition of DUCKWORK<\/strong> which was CREATED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF ART COMMUNITY<\/em>. It was a newspaper put together by PCA students for PCA students, and I found a pile of them free for the taking in the entrance of the building at 260 South Broad Street which housed most of the art school’s classes at the time. I was there on that delightful Spring day portfolio in hand nervously interviewing for my space in the Fall 1981 semester. I grabbed it either heading in or heading out; threw it into my portfolio and still have it 41 years later.<\/p>\n

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Join The ARCO Park Preservation Society!<\/p><\/div>\n

I have posted about this issue before<\/a><\/em>, but my interest was more about the cartoons in the paper crafted by some of the founders of Comico<\/em><\/a> and other luminaries who managed to carve a career out of comics. Now that I’ve figured out how to embed a PDF into a post, I’ve decided to share the entire issue warts and all with my dear readers. There are a number of articles and letters to the editor that will be of interest to the members of The ARCO Park Preservation Society<\/em><\/a>. There’s even an announcement of the reopening of ARCO Park! Apparently it was closed due to security problems.<\/p>\n

There’s also a number of advertisements for stores that are sadly no longer with us.<\/p>\n

Take a look!<\/em><\/p>\nDuckwork-APR-1981<\/a>\n

Hover your cursor over the page and you’ll see navigation tools to go page by page at the bottom.<\/em><\/p>\n

Have problems viewing? Go direct to the document at this link.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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