Print Mafia (not to be confused with Print Liberation from Amze’s post) have been making silkscreened gigposters in Kentucky since 1997. Print Mafia are masters of the hand-screened poster. With a retro sensibility that incorporates old horror imagery, they have tons of prints that work for a Halloween post at Printeresting. Here’s a monoprint made from random shop test pulls…

About their process (from an article by Alicia Carmichael)…

We make our posters the old-fashioned way. We design without the use of computers, well, sometimes we get our typefaces there and (we) hand-pull each color of our silk-screened editions, the Web site said. Our tools are X-Acto knives, copy machines and our archive of found images and illustrations, Old School Cut and Paste.

I really appreciate that sentiment. For as much appropriation as they do, I think it’s the hand manipulation that gives Print Mafia their own distinctive style.