July 2026

Published Issue 150, July 2026 Some sightings stay with you. Joe Vaux is one of them. From directing the animated sitcom Family Guy to creating imaginative, creature-filled paintings from his California home studio, Joe’s work lives somewhere between the familiar and the fantastical. Equal parts keen observer and art-scientist, Joe has carved out a creative […]

Published Issue 150, July 2026 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 104, August 2022 It’s the hottest day ever in LA, which is whack because it’s not even sunny out. Sky’s gray as a suit and the air smells like a trash fire. I take one look and say, “Foo, you got to get to

It was just after 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night in the winter of 2023 when the phone rang. It was my friend Mike Shine calling out of the blue and telling me he was holed up at a grungy beach motel about a mile away. He asked if I would stop at the nearest

BAD REPUTATIONBy Kaylie RivasArt: Cosmic Death Queen by Jaime ValderramaArt: Dog by Luke DiBona Published Issue 150, July 150 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 080, August 2020 I didn’t always used to be this way. You know … hated by everyone. In a way, all of this “evil” stuff has just given me a