Jo Klaffki.
Smile Artmagazin # 6.
Minden, West Germany: , 1987.
Staple-bound softcover.
52 pages including covers.
German / English.
Very good.
Minor edgewear.
Scarce magazine edited by German artist Jo Klaffki. This Smile magazine was not produced by Stewart Home or Karen Eliot, but does have an explanation of "Karen Eliot" and "Smile" as well as information on how to order different Smile magazines from Karen Eliot in England, Graf Haufen in Berlin, and Jo Klaffki in Minden, West Germany. "Karen Eliot" and "Smile" are both examples of names that have been taken up by different people or organizations in the same spirit as "Monty Cantsin". Anonymous (sometimes) group pseudonyms.
Signed printed sheet with rubber stamps and sticker by Mona Catbird laid in.
Artwork, Mail Art Invitations, essay by Mona Catbird, Bunkerpainting 1977-87, Labyrinthe International Mail Art Show,
Featuring Joki Mail Art, Mona Catbird, P. Duquenois, Giovanni Fontana, Giovanna Strada, Fanna Roncorini, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Ruggero Maggi, State of Being, Salvatore de Rosa, Emerenciano, Pawel Petasz, Christian Laporte, Jacques Massa, Luca Fierens, Guy Stuckens, Mark Pawson, Dr. (Blaster) Al Ackerman, Crag Hill, D. Djurdjev, Vladimir Tesarek, Leon Ferrari, Achim Schnyder, Matty Jankowski, Norwid Mechow, Peter Morelles, Willi Metting, Birger Jesch, Dazar, Rudlof Takacs, D. (Dobrica) Kamperelic, Rolff Wanke, Metallic Avau, Guy Bleus, Vittorio Baccelli, Mogens O. Nielsen, Werner Elbrecht, Franz-Josef Weber, Mariarosa Simoni, Henning Mittendorf, Wolfgang Eigendorf, Robin Crozier, Michael Jeantieu, Pan Post, and Poul Esting.
"Smile is the name chosen by Monty Cantsin to refer to an international magazine of multiple origins. The name is fixed, the type of magazines using it aren't."
