There was a time that ad-cubes became quite popular as give-aways during Christmastime. As children whose usual source of paper was limited to school notebooks and various sizes of pad paper, the possession of an ad-cube represented an almost unimaginable wealth of paper. (The reams of coupon bond in our supplies cabinet were reserved for "official use" only. Those were not for drawing or playing unless one side had been used and the sheet had subsequently been declared as scratch paper.)
One of the things we would do with ad-cubes would be to make flip books or make big drawings on the sides while the pad was slightly tilted so they sort of shrank when the pad was realigned. I was never really good at either but it was still lots of fun.
RD knows I go for these sort of interesting things so he introduced me to fore-edge painting. Apparently it was quite popular in the 19th century and a lot of books still exist with these secret hidden within their pages.
I wonder how they managed to work their magic during the early stages of this art. This is how they CAN make it today.
This one shows the artist's painting skills.
Check out this entry from Colossal which has a lot of great samples of fore-edge painting plus some nice youtube links.
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