Friday, November 6, 2020

Robert Breer and William Wegman | Blue Monday flipbook

 


















Robert Breer and William Wegman
Blue Monday flipbook
Manchester, UK: Factory Records, 1988
[30 pp], 12.7 x 18.2 cm., softcover
Edition of 350

Factory Records catalogue number FAC235 was a flip-book signed by staff members and sent to friends as a promotional gift for Christmas 1988. It features design by Peter Saville and illustrations by Robert Breer. The sketches are from the music video for Blue Monday 88, which also featured William Wegman's Weimaraner Fay. 

There were reportedly 350 manufactured and 250 distributed. The copies above were signed Factory Records founders Alan Erasmus and Tony Wilson and by artist Robert Breer. 

Copies offered typically range from one to two thousand dollars. Breer's other flip books are in this price range, also. 

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