Reprographics - The repro man blog

I’m gutted, I used to have the BEST picture of a copy of Pantone Blues in a disgusting cobweb and mould infested works bog on this thread but sadly it appears to have been lost to the mists of time..

I think it’s time to revive the trend of posting pics of it in mucky places...

Ha ha!! Yeah, there was some bleak bog shots!! I think my favourite is still the one a member’s daughter was reading in on the beach, and... well... shall we just say she was a damn fine specimen of young womanhood? My grim stories in those fair hands!

‘Derbyshire couple name son Lucifer’

I saw this!! Bloody sensible if you ask me!

A wee bit of a bump for all you Lucifer lovers to check out his lino cut work here https://www.etsy.com/shop/HuPaLinocuts.

^ nice reminder, ta.

Great reminder, have enjoyed this thread over the years so just ordered a copy of Pantone Blues

Thanks folks!
I’ve been damn busy so sadly neglected this forum...
I am recording Halloween Special episodes of Kraken Cove Podcast at the moment and could do with some help.
We’re asking for listener stories, your own stories of the weird, unexplained or the paranormal. It could be anything! We’re ideally after the story recorded in your own voice - a recorded dictaphone app recording is absolutely fine. If you don’t fancy that, write it out and I’ll read it on the show! The episode(s) will be our later in the month so if you want to be part of a rapidly growing comedy paranormal and Fortean podcast, please send me an email at krakencovepodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @krakencove and pm us a message!
If you get in touch and struggle to send a file I can organise sending a WhatsApp file which seems to work best.
Cheers folks!

Benny's last story made me shat myself good and proper. Don’t want to go to bed now.

Yeah just finished that.... Fucking scarey. Really well told by Benny too. 👍👍👍

Listening to new kraken cove.
Shit scary.

I came to Kraken Cove a little late and have absolutely hoovered Up the previous episodes. Really enjoying it. Particularly the fortean stuff rather than the quirky news stuff.

This weeks Cove was a proper belter for those who’ve not listened yet..

Has anyone got a Pantone Blues?
Do they want one?
Free.

Are you offering a copy?

Yes.

Someone should swoop on this, it's a great book

I'm well keen if no-one else has already dibsed it!

I love Luci's stories and have shared "Krapatoa, Beast of Java" with some friends and family who all loved it. Highly recommended as a go-to, in case you need to pick one.

Ping me your postage details

This is indeed one of the best stories written. I don’t think anyone could read it with dry eyes - I was crying with laughter.

Is Pantone Blues a collection of the blog, or different stories?

Has anyone heard from @General_Lucifer? Is he ok? This thread was one of the best things about this forum.

He’s still twatting.

https://mobile.twitter.com/generallucifer

Thanks.

Very nice that anyone remember me at all!! A brief update.
I managed to flee the print works.
I helped a pal out who was running a microbrewery and together we turned it into a larger brewery, I became a brewer, then operations manager of the brewery.
Sadly during lockdown my mate ran out of cash so I started selling my print art to make ends meet. And… it worked. I work in Linocut prints, and strangely enough I seem to be programmed to work in negative space the wrong way round.
Obviously selling art to the cosmos doesn’t pay the bills, so I signed up to work for Ocado.

From 4am to 12pm then 4pm to midnight I shipped folks groceries across Yorkshire. It was fucking mental, and one of the best jobs I ever had. Strange shifts in March, snow blasting across the moors, delivering shopping to farmers down mad tracks in my Mercedes Sprinter. So weird. I delivered for Morrisons too, to really poor areas, elderly and mentally challenged people. Evening & night I was lugging a metric ton of shopping to folk all over the region, from Manchester to Bradford, Selby, the coast, all over. It was pretty epic.
But why deliver shopping when you want to either be an artist or a verbal filthmonger?
The shifts at Ocado and Morrisons were 4am - 12pm, then 4pm to midnight.
Those hours in between I feverishly worked at making Linocut print art.
For 6 months I worked 90 hour weeks making art and delivering shopping, and on weekends I bought a gazebo to sell my art from. I joined travelling artisan fairs throughout Yorkshire and sold my prints across the same range I delivered groceries.
Sadly, I only had room for one job. The overlap of jobs no longer worked.
So… I chose art.
I quit grocery deliveries and became a full time artist, and I made it work.
Now, I press all of you, if you can be arsed, to see my very first post. Probably on the old blog then this thread, I don’t know. This was maybe 10 years ago.
It said, “I thought I was going to be an artist. How wrong I was. I fell into reprographics twenty years ago and I can't get out”.
I wrote this well over ten years ago.
Well, since then, I got out.
I’m no longer in Reprographics.
I’m now a full time artist.
My name is no longer General Lucifer.
It is Matthew Hooper. I trade as HuPa Linocuts on Etsy, Instagram and Facebook. If you want to see my work it’s on my website http://www.hupalinocut.com and buying a piece of my work will gently push this odd little boat slightly further and further away from the factory.
Thank you.

His name was general lucifer.