Zandbroz Variety
420 Broadway, Fargo, ND 58102
Store Hours
Monday-Saturday
10 a.m - 6.pm
Known for paintings of intense complexity, Mike Wilks (British, b. 1947) challenges you to investigate each of his intricate images. Can you spot the jerboa in The Letter J? The oboe in The Letter O? The vixen in The Letter V? Or the zeppelin in The Letter Z? Linger over one of Wilks’s works and you’re ensured constant new discoveries.
Wilks began writing and illustrating books in 1975 and rocketed to fame with the publication of The Ultimate Alphabet in 1986. He went on to publish an annotated volume two years later, as well as The Ultimate Spot-the-Difference Book, The Ultimate Noah’s Ark, and more before establishing himself as a novelist with The Mirrorscape Trilogy, a fantasy adventure series.
Today The Ultimate Alphabet—alongside its annotated version detailing the more than 7,000 items drawn—is back in print as The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition (Pomegranate, 2015). The two-volume edition includes each of the paintings here (plus twenty-two others, of course) and a fully annotated key to each of the works.
Contains five each of the following notecards:
The Letter J, 1983
The Letter O, 1984
The Letter V, 1985
The Letter Z, 1985
Zandbroz Variety
Since 1989
About Us
ZANDBROZ VARIETY
Since 1989
In 1988, Jeff and Greg Danz had a dream. They would open a store that they would want to shop. So they bought an empty turn of the century building in the heart of downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The brothers spent a year restoring the building and developing the concept for what would become Zandbroz Variety. When the doors opened in May of 1989, Zandbroz was a bookstore with an eclectic mix of other inventory, an old fashioned soda fountain and coffee bar. The store was a hit and a couple of years later a second location was opened in Fargo, ND. Zandbroz Variety started in a world before Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and internet shopping were part of the landscape. That of course all changed and so too Zandbroz has evolved and changed –THIRTY years later and we are still here!
Store Hours
Monday-Saturday
10 a.m - 6.pm