Jealous Sunbeams By Daniel ‘DL’ Landes Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 129, September 2024 ✨ For Alicia Cardenas ✨ A long steady gaze at nothing in particular is better than prayer. A slow walk, side by side with a friend in silence, is a dream within a dream. Life does not pass […]
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 129, September 2024 A Shoreline Dream – Whitelined The songs on this seventh A Shoreline Dream album sound like Ryan Policky and Erik Jeffries mined through the ambient despair and melancholy of recent years to infuse the songwriting and production with a hopeful vitality. It certainly doesn’t
X-ray Cow By Moon_Patrol Published Issue 129, September 2024 Best of Birdy, Originally published Issue 106, October 2022 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
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 129, September 2024 Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías, Translated by Heather Cleary (2024) In an era that might seem overwhelmed with plague, epidemic and contagious disease, fiction and reality, Fernanda Trías puts her twist on the genre in her second novel translated into English, Pink Slime. A toxic
Face Off By Caitlyn Grabenstein aka Cult Class Published Issue 129, September 2024 Caitlyn Grabenstein, a.k.a. Cult Class, is a collage artist, sketch artist, and designer out of Connecticut. She started doing art at a very young age and has pursued it in different forms throughout her life. While working in the music industry and
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Art by Erik Rogers Published Issue 129, September 2024 Erik Rogers is a self-taught artist from the Midwest. He primarily works with pens, colored pencils and crayons. His art is childish, poorly illustrated and often disturbing. He currently lives and works in Metro Detroit. See Erik’s last Birdy install, Manuel of Omaha: Dinosaurs Will Fuck
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Invisible Force By Eric Joyner Published as the Centerfold of Issue 129, September 2024 About Eric Joyner: 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
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Interview by Krysti Joméi & Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 128, August 2024 New Mexico-based art rebel Dave Danzara creates for our eyes to wake up our minds. With the world as his stage, Dave has played roles as an illustrator, filmmaker, custom framer, international graphic designer, artist for musical giants and cultural icons, and more,
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Children of Ava Story + Art by Joel Tagert Published Issue 128, August 2024 A hundred miles from the poisoned ghost of Salt Lake the rearview screen on the dash caught a flash of sun on a vehicle topping a ridge miles back. The horizontality of it caught Maya’s eye: a brilliant hyphen winking in
Polydactyl Poppy By Gray Winsler Art by Tyler Davis Published Issue 128, August 2024 Most house cats have never been on opioids. Maisey was not most cats. She was no longer sure she was a cat at all. Her fur was warm and tingly. It felt like microwaved glitter. It felt like Rainbow Road. She could
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