With A Fatalistic Sigh And A Shrug Of Resignation, I Attempt To Continue This Charade Without Being So Damned Dramatic All The Time By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 127, July 2024 One Summer My Roommate Experienced Some Kind Of Spiritual Awakening, So He Gave Away All His Things — Only To […]
The Creature In 3D By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published Issue 127, July 2024 Albuquerque-based Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found in pop culture, sci-fi,
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 127, July 2024 Bison Bone – 40 Grit Courtney Whitehead’s storytelling on this EP is characteristically cinematic in its evocation of tactile details as they anchor the themes of each song to inner life. All five tracks benefit from an economy of songwriting yet hit like a
On The Beach 2 By Eric Joyner Published in Issue 127, July 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 school,
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 127, July 2024 Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (2024) The 2024 release from author Danielle Dutton brings together numerous literary forms into a four-part collection that pushes the boundaries of text creating a surreal space more akin to visual art. In Prairie, Dutton weaves us through five
Sky Shark By Moon Patrol Published Issue 127, July 2024 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 part by William
Werewolf Radar: If I Had A Million Crawlers By Nate Balding Published Issue 127, July 2024 Look! Over there in the woods! It’s a bird! It’s … well, no, it’s not a plane; that would be ridiculous. More like the collective nightmares of all the children subjected to Return to Oz manifested as a fully
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Stream of Thought By Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 127, July 2024 Nick Flook aka Flooko is “the O.G astronaut painter” and takes his fans on adventures through original acrylic paintings and animations. This Toronto-based artist specializes in surrealism, space-themed work and impressionistic city and landscapes. See more of his work on his site
Dioramas & Dynamic Memories with Mister Christmas By Amanda Shafer Published in Issue 127, July 2024 Denver-based artist, Mister Christmas has a deep and rare understanding of the nature of memories — that we don’t remember things as they were, or even as we were. You pull up to an unassuming, industrial office building south
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Submarine JackBy Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 127, July 2024 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 upright bass. Check out Jonny’s July 2o24 Front Cover, Toho Summer, and his last