The Story Behind The Whimsical Animal Cave aka Womb Room By Artist Jess Webb Interview by Leah Clancy Photos by Jess Bernstein Published in Issue 121, January 2024 They started as simple doodles: Two-dimensional drawings, flat, in a graphic, illustrative style, no shading. But there these animals were. So, she talked to them. And like […]
Luchador Masks By Hyein Lee Published in Issue 121, January 2024 Hyein Lee is an engineer turned illustrator and motion graphics designer. She gave up her big fat paycheque to pursue her dream; she is poor now, but somehow a lot happier. Her work is populated by lonesome, humble and friendly monsters which depict melancholy
Queen City Sounds: A Tribute to Shizuko “Suzie” Murphy By Tom Murphy Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Murphy and Tom Murphy Published Issue 121, January 2024 Normally the January Queen City Sounds column is dedicated to trends and assessments of the year prior. But 2023 brought me the most life-altering event of recent years when my
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Dino’s Comet By Arna Miller Published Issue 121, January 2024 When they got married, they were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. They are still maladjusted misfits, and they have loved every minute of it. 🦖❤🦖 This is a wedding anniversary commission. What an honor! ❤ The text my client chose is from the movie
Art by Jason White Published Issue 121, January 2024 Jason White is an artist living in the suburbs of Chicago. His favorite mediums are oil on canvas and pencil & ink drawings. When he was a kid he cried on the Bozo Show. His work varies from silly to serious and sometimes both. Check out
Mothra By Eric Joyner Published as the Centerfold of Issue 121, January 2024 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, as well as
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 121, January 2024 Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, Translated by Megan McDowell (2017) Mariana Enríquez’s first work translated into English from the Spanish arrived in 2017 in this collection of twelve haunting and gruesome stories set in Argentina. In the opening story, a middle-class
Werewolf Radar: The Wind Cries Scary By Nate Balding Published Issue 121, January 2024 Chicagoland has a lot of history. Most of it kinda bad. The Mob? Check. Violent cops? Double check. Aetherial hitchhikers from another time? Turns out, also check. The initial meeting with Resurrection Mary comes from Jerry Palus, a cab driver who
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Final Girl II By Moon Patrol Published Issue 121, January 2023 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
Spawning Ground By Joel Tagert Art by Roman Makarenk Published Issue 120, December 2023 The fabricator would endure only a few blocks’ exposure in the short journey between Nishiki Tech’s Koto-ku factory to the Shinsei Maru, currently docked at the Port of Tokyo directly adjacent to the industrial ward. Once at sea it would be