The Grand Review

06/08/2026

Switching for now from ETSY to SHOPIFY, and mean to use ever clever part of their system to its fullest.
Here we are, sorta raw...

Large art prints crafted in house from obscure historic imagery, the tiny originals here in our collection. Automotive, African American, Civil War, the wildest

05/13/2026

Israel does NOT equal Judaism.

The LOVE that is utterly central to real Judaism, real Islam, and real Christianity, has completely left the hearts and souls of MORE THAN HALF of the Jews living in the new country of Israel. That well over 50% of Israeli Jews have left the embrace of God, willingly, and all of Israel will now enter into a very long period of punishment from God, the bad Israelis along with the good.
God will not bother to separate, but will lay in like a slower, more painful end than the destruction of the twin cities of the Bible. Not as a plague of locusts, though ya never know with God, but by effectively being completely isolated from the rest of the civilized world. NO exports from Israel. NO imports to Israel. That last load of bulldozers and 2000 bombs and money from the United States is, in fact, THE LAST OF IT. Israelis NOT accepted as tourists outside of Israel. Israel scholars not welcomed at universities around the world.

The world HAS JEWS, much beloved, all around the world. It is THE ISRAELIS who have become anathema.

Here is a large wall art print from the Etsy and Shopify shop of historian printmakers, The Grand Review. THE SEIGE OF ISRAEL. The end WON'T come that way this time, but know that after the complete implosion of the State of Israel, a NEW ISRAEL will arise. One with light, and love, and peace, and brilliance. It'll just take a good long time for the dust from the end of the current Israel to settle.

10/29/2024

Conversation between Henri Toulouse Lautrec and a prostitue he's brought home to his artist's studio home.

What was it that policeman called you?
Monsieur Toulouse something?

- Yes.

What kind of a name is that?

- My own.

It isn't a name. It's a town.
People don't go about calling themselves
Paris or Marseilles, do they?

But, come to think of it,
I knew a man once they called Five Points...

after that corner in the Temple district
where all the streets come together.

He was born
while his mother was crossing the road.
She was delivering washing.
He said she put him in a wash basket
and carried him home.

Are you from Toulouse?
Is it the same with you as with Five Points?

- More or less.
__________________________________________

Here is the Portrait Of Philadelphia, 17th Century

At the end of the 1600s 'Philadelphia' was in the news in Court circles, and her adventurous parents were tired of yet another Sue-Ellen or Glenda

Probably Philadelphia Carey Of Aske Hall, Richmond, North Yorkshire, English Courier & Lady In Waiting to Princess Elizabeth

10/23/2024

LAST NIGHT, I TURNED TO R. CRUMB FOR HELP.
Our Shriner Mirthmobile, the 48 Buick Roadmaster stretched by Flxible, formerly a hearse then cut down to a flower car, then acquired by the Shriners, 'circused' up by them and used as a parade car, needs total restoration.
Gone are the days when a couple grand would restore an old car. Gone by about 50 years.
I pitched Simple Green, and while they gushed about my proposal "best pitch we've EVER seen in all our years", they couldn't pull the trigger at this time.
Then I pitched The Imperial Potentate and his 'Imperial Divan' of the entire Shriner world. I didn't want their money, just their public embrace of the project while we offer old school water decals to the public, including to rank and file Shriners, with a badass graphic and a "We Saved The Shriner Mirthmobile!" logo.
Despite a promise to make the restored rig available to them for the Macy's Parade and such like to help raise monies for their hospitals, they couldn't wrap their heads around it.
SO... the offering car window decals, old times water decal type, is still righteous. $5, postpaid. I know LOTS of great illustrators, first and foremost our son Thor, who will happily create the graphic, BUT...
Last night I pitched close to my heart cultural icon Robert Crumb to draw our sticker.
R. Crumb is quite wealthy these days. He does not need commission money from anyone. I made note of that to his business manager and further that, if it is something that makes a GREAT campfire story, it might peak his interest.
FURTHER, he drew, in the 60s, many variations of American postwar cars, deriding them as grotesque and calling them All Meat Cars. I mentioned this, and asked if perhaps his heart has somehow unhardened, especially in the face of how comically insane our Shriner rig is, and returning it to public view and use would be a slapstick SMACK to the mundane world.
I added just a few pics our The Shriner Mirthmobile to the pitch.
Oh, Lordy AND Beelzebub, please work together to get a yes out of R. Crumb for this project.

Robert Crumb is obsessed with women. At the age of 72, the artist (who goes by the pen name R. Crumb), continues to draw them prolifically and passio...

08/24/2024

Kristin and Toddly, late 1992.

Fitzwater between 6th and Passyunk.

04/26/2024

TOMORROW!!! Stop by and visit with me. Share company.
I'll be making a rare appearance with prints from The Grand Review on Lancaster Avenue on the north edge of Drexel. Bring a folding chair and a couple of quarts of Carling Black Label, for you that is.

Scenes from the Drexel University Flea Market in Philadelphia, PA.

04/20/2024

MOOD!

Jubalaires · Presenting The Jubalaires · Song · 1944

03/09/2024

International Women's Day
A hearty sampling of our myriad gal forward prints, here at
The Grand Review
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGrandReview

03/09/2024

International Women's Day
Just a sampling of the gal forward works in our Etsy shop catalog.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGrandReview

02/05/2023

Here is a surprisingly groovy discovery as I glean, file, organize and prepare for a round of digital restorations.
Frontispiece and separate illustration, though attached, from the 1st edition of Charles Dickens’ THE CHIMES, A GOBLINSTORY. 1844.
While it looks familiar, I do not remember where or in what circumstances I acquired it.
I did not pluck it from someone’s copy, as I am not a cad and scoundrel. I think it might have been in a box of miscellaneous paper my friends since third grade, the Eckel sisters, gifted me when clearing out their parents’ miscellanea.
It is not without value, but removing it from the first edition assasinates the value of the book.
I will ask them if they in fact have the book, and restore the integrity of such a gem.
For those of you interested, look deep into the mechanics of bell ringing in the illustration on the left. Pretty boss.