Mark Mothersbaugh at SXSW with Birdy Issue 027 + From The Postcard Diaries – June 14, 2024 By Mark Mothersbaugh Published in Issue 129, September 2024 Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver vital social commentary, he has […]
The Lonesome Pigeon By Zac Dunn Art by Kid Koala Published Issue 129, September 2024 One Hundred Pigeons by Kid Koala is acrylic & plastic eyes on canvas measuring 48″ x 48″ x 1.5″ The flock stalk in fluctuations upon Filthy porous surfaces of perverse waste, While fancy footwear clamoring by in flippant haste, Tasting
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CobraBy Jonny DeStefano Published as the Index of Issue 129, September 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 August interview with collage rebel Dave
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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