Published Issue 122, February 2024 Originally sketches by Erik Rogers: 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, Stimulus Check, or […]
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 122, February 2024 What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri (2022) Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s 2022 debut short story collection captures the fantastical inner lives of wild creatures across the globe. Crafted in the form of fables, these stories grant all animals inner thoughts and lives,
Potato Gothic By Moon Patrol Published Issue 122, February 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
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 122, February 2024 Acidbat – Dead Sun EP “Beaver Moon” begins with a finely processed progressive beat like an acid version of “On the Run” by Pink Floyd including the warbling off-center sonics. The pacing and rhythm warp and stretch but reassert an urgent forward motion with
Dream Guardian By Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 122, February 2024 See the Nick’s live painting process of Dream Guardian on his Instagram. 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
THE OWL OF WOODRUFF By Zac Dunn Published Issue 122, February 2024 The air is escaping through the vent So outside into the snow I went Looking for the old cold little boy who was once so brutally annoyed Gazing in the vacuum expanding endlessly Into sublime silence He would speak of another place Far
Creature On The Ridge By Peter Kornowski Published Issue 122, February 2024 Pete is a painter working primarily with acrylics to create imaginative story telling artwork. His paintings have been described “like being dropped off in the middle of a book.” Time and place are intentionally blurred leaving space for the viewers narrative. His paintings
Published Issue 122, February 2024 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 002, February 2014 My name is Harold and I’m a Miniature Werepoodle. I’m what you’d call a B-list monster. No one is scared of a man who, by the light of the waxing moon, turns into a black puffball. Really, the A-list monsters have
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Freedom of Choice Mutants By Rob Ginsberg (D.A.S.A.) Published in Issue 122, February 2023 When man first walked on the moon I crawled out on planet Earth, where I decided to live my life. From the beginning I was out of sync with everything around me. The Cold War those was prevailing all around. I
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Werewolf Radar: Stray Cat Smut By Nate Balding Published Issue 122, February 2024 Unaccepted as an archetype by a youthful Carl Jung trapped shivering within his dream-fevers, she rocks back and forth in the shadowy corners of aging homes on every block in America, surrounded by her feline companions. Her form is rooted as deeply