Last autumn, we wrote about illustrator Barry McWilliams’ discovery of The Wrylon Robotical Illustrated Catalog of Botanic ‘Bots and his efforts to crowdfund the restoration of the publication. Barry is back with three sketchbooks full of whimsical depictions of the flower-delivering automatons going about their daily botanical business.
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This Kickstarter is for the reprinting of a 1911 Engineer’s Handbook, a 1911 Field Guide and a 1912 Field Guide. These were simple, utilitarian books, meant to be kept in breast pockets and used daily. They’re 3.5″x5″ and 32 pages long. That’s 30 ‘bots per book and two pages of statistics, delivery ranges, notes on optimum soil moisture & more.
These aren’t the glossy catalogs from the first campaign. Instead, these are “books meant for greasy-fingered mechanics and ‘bot enthusiasts” and you can preview the art that will reside within them at over at Barry’s blog.
With less than 24 hours to go, if you want in on the field guides, you’d better act fast. The campaign has already hit its 200% stretch goal and everyone who backs it will get a fourth book: the Official Wrylon Robotical Ready-To-Use Notebook, with a full-designed cover and 32 blank, grid-ruled pages ready for your own ‘bot designs.
Check out the Wrylon Robotical Field Guides Kickstarter here.
