Spawning Ground By Joel Tagert Art by Roman Makarenk Published Issue 120, December 2023 The fabricator would endure only a few blocks’ exposure in the short journey between Nishiki Tech’s Koto-ku factory to the Shinsei Maru, currently docked at the Port of Tokyo directly adjacent to the industrial ward. Once at sea it would be […]
Secret Chewy Grampa By Eric Joyner Published as the Back Cover of Issue 120, December 2023 I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie and newspaper comic strips), playing sports, and going to school,
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A Fistful of Slice By Brian Sacca Art by Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 120, December 2023 This is Part 2 to Brian Sacca’s A Pizzapie Pizza Pie  published in Issue 117. “Will you FIGHT?!” “Yes, Sensei!” “Will you DIE?!” “Yes, Sensei!” “Will you stop the invaders from spoiling our …” He kept speaking, but it
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A Window Into A Semi-eventful Life In Seven Easy Steps By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 120, December 2023 I Lost Five Hours Of Sleep Thinking About What To Write For An Opening In My Column This Month, And I Still Didn’t Come Up With Shit As a reader of this here
Published Issue 120, December 2023 Mark reflects on his new work and how his inspiration from Beat-style stream-of-conscious expression evolved: “When I was a single digit-aged human back in the 1950s, I remember seeing human wreckage sprawled on the sidewalks of downtown Akron. My mom would hold my hand and try to hurry me past
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Published Issue 120, December 2023 The hummingbirds and black flies were swarming in the back yard. It had been a typically fierce winter. But the ice had almost receded and the base would swing back to life. The little one who shall here forward be referred to as ROO, had just finished eating salmon with
Published Issue 120, December 2023 Welcome to the short list of non-local music I found compelling over the past year, much of it is informed by seeing the artist live. Hope this list is interesting and useful to you as well as the extended list to be published on queencitysoundsandart.wordpress.com in early 2024. Andy Loebs
Werewolf Radar: The World’s a Mess, It’s In My Claus By Nate Balding Art by Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published Issue 120, December 2023 Dear Santa, I know you have a lot going on and I don’t want to press your schedule at this time. Surely you must be inundated with demands
Words by Michael David King | Concept by Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 120, December 2023Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 058, October 2018 Jonny DeStefano is the co-owner and co-founder of Birdy Magazine. He is also the founder of the comedy activist space Deer Pile. His favorite color is red, he loves shark attacks, hockey and
Dangers of Role Playing By Moon Patrol Published Issue 120, December 2023 Moon Patrol is a Northern California-based artist. Taking themes including 80s cartoons and video games, classic pulp illustrations, and comic book narratives, Moon Patrol remixes these many and varied cues using a collage technique he compares to “Kid Koala’s turntable albums, and in