Rabbit Rabbit Press (ꓤꓤ) is an imprint and small print and book studio based in Anchorage, Alaska. Owned and operated by Jimmy Riordan, ꓤꓤ was founded in 2007.
≥ 2020
2021 ANC Zine Fair
For a second year ꓤꓤ offered free design and printing assistance as part of the ANC Zine Fair. This year the service was opened up to anyone with an interest in making something for the Zine Fair that desired assistance. As part of this offering we put on a zine making workshop at the Girdwood Community Center and a 24 hour zine making event was hosted at the Anchorage Museum’s SeedLab. As a result a we provided assistance to a much larger group this year, ranging in age. Our youngest participant was 5 years old.
2020 ANC Zine Fair
ꓤꓤ press worked with 5 Anchorage based artists on designing and printing collaborative books during December 2020 and January 2021. These books included Before We Went Inside by Jovell Rennie, Hands Up by Thom McIntyre, I Protest by Michael Conti, Say Something by Courtney Rose Grechen, and Weathered by Young Kim.
Corresponding with the 2020 ANC Zine Fair, the production of these books was partially funded by a Community Art Development Grant from The Alaska State Council on the Arts.
2017-2019
Pittsburgh Queer History Project Magazine
Pittsburgh Queer History Project
2019
The Pittsburgh Queer History Project is an archive housing a growing collection that, along with oral history, ephemera and other media, contains hours of vhs footage.
The Pittsburgh Queer History Project Magazine is a 24 page newspaper. The magazine was free and its pages were full of QR codes linking to archived video. The 5,000 copies were distributed around Pittsburgh, to coffee shops, bus stops, laundromats and restaurants..
Proposal for a Fountain
Jimmy Riordan
2019
Ryan Romer & Jimmy Riordan
2019
Brendon Hawkins
2019
A self portrait book made in advance of Brendon Hawkins’ 25th birthday, in which he asks himself what it means to exist. Part of Jimmy Riordan and Nina Friedman’s Lift series.
Billy Joe Miller
2019
A selection of photographs Miller took during The Island Institute’s 2017 Tidelines Residency in SE Alaska. Designed and printed by Jimmy Riordan.
Vlad Smolkin
2018
A series of vignettes depicting the adventures of 2 friends; a crab rabbi and a young lobster from New York. This book was created to accompany an exhibit of Vlad Smolkin’s paintings at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek Synagog in the fall of 2018.
S Hollis Mickey & Jimmy Riordan
2018
Both a document of Mickey’s Bleigiessen performance, including a series of photographs and poems, and a how to book on lead guessing. Lead guessing is a form of fortune telling using the shadows cast by metal forms - themselves the result of meting and pouring - as a medium for predicting the future.
Jenny Irene Miller
Designed by Nora Gecan
2018
A book intended to accompany Jenny Irene Miller’s Continuous project, showcasing a selection of her interviews with and portraits of LGBTQ2 Alaska Natives.
Edited by Jimmy Riordan
2017
The abridged transcript of a panel discussion Jimmy Riordan organized on the subject of food as it relates to cultural exchange in Alaska.
≤ 2017
Christy Powers & Jimmy Riordan
2016
A series of artist books collecting photographs and paintings by Christy Powers. Riordan printed each book using a different selection of colors, serving as color mixing studies for Risograph printing.
Jimmy Riordan
2016
Printed as part of the Point A, Point B, Point C installation at Neu Kirche Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, PA.
2015
A collection of reading material for the week long Social Object Organic Line project Jimmy Riordan undertook with Chris Stiegler and the Institute for American art in Portland, ME.
Tameka Cage Conley & Daniel Patrick McCloskey
2016
A correspondence through poetry.
Jimmy Riordan
2015
This guidebook was created as a supplement to the Seeking the Source project on the Chester Creek Trail in Anchorage, AK. It filled with augmented reality content over the course of the weeklong expedition, accessible through the Junaio AR app.
The AR no longer functions, after Junaio was acquired by Apple, but the content is still accessible at http://chanshtnu.com/.
Francis Jammes
Translated by Jimmy Riordan
2014
Jimmy Riordan’s 2008 amateur translation of Francis Jammes’ turn of the century novel, letterpress printed as part of a participatory project at Zygote Press in Cleveland, OH.
Monotype printed on Mohawk Extra Fine paper. Cover paper handmade specifically for the project at the Morgan Conservatory.
Comics
Paul Peng
2018
A 2018 interview between Nina Friedman and Paul Peng, accompanied by Peng’s comics and illustrations. Part of a series of publications edited by Friedman and designed/printed by Riordan over 2018 and 2019, funded by a Lift Grant from The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.
Jimmy Riordan
2017
A 16 page collection of short comics looking at the concept of scale free in relationship to the body.
Giovanni
Jimmy Riordan
2016
Collecting the chapters of Giovanni originally collected in SOWSEAR Vol. 1.
Anna Raupp
2016
Collecting the chapters of Shaman Pig originally published in SOWSEAR Vol. 1.
Jimmy Riordan
2015
Collecting Chapters 1-6 of Held Up. Originally printed in Held Up issues 1-5 between 2012 and 2014.
ABC Bourgeoisie Z
Jimmy Riordan & Andrew Wellner
2015
The first volume of a three part alphabet book focussed on the Russian Revolution and early Communism. Book 1 collects the letters A-I.
Jimmy Riordan
2015
Jimmy Riordan
2015
A small trifold comic exploring the failings of memory and a couple Carvel ice cream cakes.
by Jimmy Riordan
2012-2014
A series of comics structurally based on the first section of Francis Jammes’ Le Roman du Lievre, drawing content from Riordan’s ongoing Marginalia project. Held Up is a Mnemonic device, as well as a slow paced dream-like story about the first leg of a journey.
Edited by Jimmy Riordan
2012-2014
A comic anthology series collecting the work of Alaskan artists. Contributors included Peter Dunlap-Shohl, Lee Post, Keren Lowell, Anna Raupp, Brian Payne, Sarah Frary, Melissa Shaginoff, Duke Russell, Chad Meyer, Michael Conti, and many more.