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There's a particular kind of nostalgia that hits when you see a kid holding a rotary phone surrounded by op-art zigzags and cherries. Inside the story behind Joshua Marc Levy's new large format blotter art release, "When You Get the Message, Hang Up the Phone."

No band is more woven into blotter art than the Grateful Dead. From the Acid Tests and dancing bears to a Jerry Garcia print in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's permanent collection — this is the visual history of Dead blotter art, and how to collect it today.

Blotter art was never supposed to survive — yet today it hangs in the Institute of Illegal Images and sits in the permanent collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Here's how perforated paper went from the underground to the institution, and how BlotterArt.io's work — including the Jerry Garcia large format print created with Joshua Marc Levy and Baron Wolman — became part of that history.

Want to make your own blotter art? Start with blank perforated sheets and print, screen print, block print, or draw your way to a one-of-a-kind piece. Here's how.

Not all blotter art holds its value. Learn why signed and numbered limited editions with border signatures are the gold standard for collectors — and how to spot the mass-produced, AI-generated sheets flooding the market that serious collectors won't touch.