Tome Press builds community though creative collaborations and is based in Seattle at Woodland Theater. It was founded in 2018 by Tom Eykemans and is distributed by Asterism.
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"My City's Filthy" is a group exhibit and activation at Bumbershoot 2025 featuring 120+ works by 60+ local visual artists in tribute to Seattle’s cultural landmarks, iconic storefronts, and street scenes — both vanished and still here. Vanishing Seattle and Tome Press have teamed up again to produce a new art book that captures the exhibit — including pieces from Rodney H King, KSRA, Keven Furiya, and many more. Plus additional contributions from Amanda Manitach, Jacob Berrier, and Punk House Seattle!
$30 | Available September 1, 2025
Paperback, 72 pages, 8 × 10 inches, 140 images
Printed in Seattle by Chatwin Books
ISBN 978–1–732764–16–3
Signs of Vanishing Seattle celebrates places loved and lost by documenting a community-sourced collection of salvaged signs from gathering spaces and social landmarks that have shaped Seattle's visual and cultural landscape over the years.
This book beautifully captures the Vanishing Seattle interactive exhibit which took place in the historic RailSpur building in the summer/fall of 2023. Purchases support the work of Vanishing Seattle.
Watch an interview with the editors on KING 5's New Day Northwest (July 8, 2024).
‘Signs of Vanishing Seattle’ Preserves an Important Element of This City’s Legacy (Jas Keimig, July 26, 2024South Seattle Emerald).
5 Restaurant Signs That Tell Seattle’s Story (Naomi Tomky, July 29, 2024, Seattle Met).
New book showcases ‘Signs of Vanishing Seattle’ (Feliks Banel, July 24, 2024, MyNorthwest).
Recommended by The Stranger.
$30 | Available here!
Book launch July 28, 2024 at Common Area Maintenance
Paperback, 120 pages, 9 × 7 inches, 150 images
Printed in Seattle by Consolidated Press
ISBN 978-1-7327641-4-9
Collected by Chris Smith
Found Cats is a collection of 68 lost posters of missing cats from Seattle, Portland, and Baltimore - all of whom were confirmed to be found! Enjoy these found furry friends who had epic adventures that landed them a wanted poster.
Tome Press hosted a book launch and benefit art show HERDING CATS! at Woodland Theater on August 10, 2024. All proceeds from book and art sales go toward cat rescues and shelters.
$25 | Available now!
Paperback with custom jacket, 148 pages, 5 × 8.5 inches, 142 images
Printed in Centralia by Gorham Printing
ISBN 978-1-7327641-5-6
Tom DesLongchamp
This colorful book of portraits explores the evolution of Tom DesLongchamp's artistic journey. Its seven sections contain over 200 works that reveal the gradual development of his fingerprint/masking technique. It also explores the purpose and possibilities of keeping a pocket sketchbook. An introduction and section descriptions are provided by the author, as well as process photos, mistakes, and experiments.
Tom DesLongchamp is a multidisciplinary artist living in Seattle. He studied animation at Rhode Island School of Design. When he isn't creating portraits, he develops and hosts the Twitch livestream Cartoon Mess LIVE in his home studio. He is married to designer Jess Phoenix and has two cats: Reuben and Roscoe.
$24.95 | Available here!
$45.00 | Limited-edition signed copy!
Paperback, 100 pages, 6 × 8 inches, 200 illustrations
Printed in Minneapolis by Artmobile
ISBN 978-1-7327641-3-2
Nathan Vass
Introduction by Paul Constant
The Lines That Make Us is a collection of thirty stories and thirty photographs by Seattle bus driver Nathan Vass (The View from Nathan’s Bus).
Watch an interview with Nathan on KING 5's New Day Northwest (November 21, 2018).
“Read this beautiful book about junkies and hookers and bankers and lawyers in the last place in America they can’t avoid each other.”—Paul Currington, Fresh Ground Stories
Nathan “...describes the riders—often poor, often not white, often going to bad news, often just being in the world—with a prose that’s at once elegant, rhythmical, and clear.”—Charles Tonderai Mudede, writer, editor, filmmaker, cultural critic
With an introduction by Paul Constant (The Seattle Review of Books).
Tome Press is happy to announce that Seattle's Chin Music Press is now distributing this book nationally!
$19.95 | Available here and in stores
Paperback with flap, 228 pages, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, 30 illustrations
ISBN 978-1-6340501-5-9 (Chin Music Press, 2020)
ISBN 978-1-7327641-0-1 (Tome Press, 2018)
There was a brief window of time between 2002 and 2007 when cellphones suddenly had tiny cameras and anybody could take photographs anywhere at anytime. Smartphones did not yet exist and ever-present social media was still years away. With no audience, who were these inconveniently-formatted, poorly-composed, garishly-exposed, low-resolution, blurry snapshots for? This collection of orphaned photos is from a more innocent time, free from the burden of documenting a curated life.
$20 | Available now!
Paperback, 72 pages, 9 × 7 inches, 72 illustrations
Printed in Seattle by Girlie Press
A formal catalog of artwork from a personal collection featuring paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures from Erdman to Rembrandt.
Introduction by Frank J. Mather
$25 | Available now!
Paperback, 72 pages, 8 × 10 inches, 60 illustrations
Printed in Seattle by Girlie Press
ARTIST BOOK
A makeready sheet tests color and ink coverage when offset printing. These are often printed on recycled scrap paper, resulting in surprising juxtapositions as different books print upon one another. This salvaged makeready overlays Chinese paintings onto Dutch etchings.
$15 | Available online
Book launch October 18, 2018 at the Vancouver Art Book Fair.
Paperback, foldout poster, 16 pages, 9 × 12 inches
ARTIST BOOK
The oubliette - or in German, das Angstloch ("fear hole") - is one of the most terrifying medieval inventions imaginable. This artist book explores the subject through dimensional typography, compelling one to look into its black depths to uncover the very letterforms themselves.
Cloth hardcover tunnel book with magnetic flaps, 9 pages, 4.25 × 4.25 inches, edition of 2
ARTIST BOOK
Inspired by a memorable passage in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, this short story imagines the steps involved to bring animals back to life from their fate as food.
$20 | Available upon request
Paperback meandering book, Risograph-printed by Cold Cube Press, 2 colors, 16 pages, 2.75 × 2.75 inches, edition of 50
ARTIST BOOK
This book documents the aspirational nature photography pervasive to the windows of downtown Seattle storefronts and contrasts it with the complex realities of an urban setting.
Paperback with clear jacket, 48 pages, 4.25 × 5.5 inches
ARTIST BOOK
Twenty years of fortune cookie wisdom bound in a single tiny book.
Paperback with slipcase, 100 pages, 2.25 × .5 inches, edition of 1
