The Society’s names and stories are original fiction. Its Victorian illustrations are historical public-domain works reinterpreted as our shop’s imaginary cast.
- Henri de Montaut and François Pannemaker, Impey Barbicane, From the Earth to the Moon, 1868. Source scan and public-domain record.
- Fred Barnard, Wilkins Micawber, David Copperfield, 1912 edition. Source scan and public-domain record.
- Charles Laplante, phonograph in use, 1880. Source scan and public-domain record.
The shop’s own work
The mechanical spider and chain-web banner come from the existing SpiderPunk brand. Workshop photographs show Nicholas Antolick’s earlier finished work, including the archival 2004 group photograph. Captions identify these as examples, rather than photographs of newly stocked kits.
A remembered visual language
Early Beagle Bros software advertisements and Johnson Smith mail-order catalogs inspired the shop’s sense of a curious little company with a character of its own. The Beagle Bros logo and adapted advertisement artwork are not used as this shop’s identity. Explore the historical Beagle Bros repository.
Original SpiderPunk layouts, writing and board-design interface prepared for Nicholas Antolick, 2026.