Shin Godzilla By Erwin Papa Published as the Centerfold of Issue 144, December 2025 Erwin Papa is a California-based illustrator, sculptor, and toy designer with a background in art from Long Beach City College. His extensive professional work includes clients like Sideshow Collectibles and Super7, and his art is featured in the permanent collection at […]
Into The Wonderdome is an installation art exhibition at the Rainbow Dome. In collaboration with Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning (RMSEL), the installation brings together a shared belief in art as a space for wonder, experimentation and community-made experiences. Over the past semester, art teacher Alisha Black-Mallon’s students in RMSEL’s Genius Lab maker space
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GOD K By Daniel Landes Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 143, November 2025 Dreamy was a late addition to our tour. She boarded the bus, disheveled in an expensive way, scuffed up Gucci slides, oversized Louis Vuitton hand bag stuffed with the kind of detritus accumulated in Pemex gas stations across Mexico.
De-evolution By Paul Jackson Published as the Centerfold Issue 143, November 2025 What once defined us — curiosity, connection, presence — is being eroded by constant exposure to screens and social media. We’re no longer evolving forward, but slipping backward. Our attention spans shorten, our critical thinking weakens, and our emotional depth flattens. We are
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like By Brian Polk Art by Arna Miller Published Issue 143, November 2025 Unread Library Books, Unused Dental Floss, And A Pristine Yoga Mat Are All Reminders That The Me Of The Past Was Hopeful I Would Suddenly Become Someone Who Read A Book A Week, Flossed Regularly, And
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 143, November 2025 Broken Record – Routine One of the most emotionally resonant expressions of the complete and utter discrediting of not just the American Dream, but of the mid-century capitalist foundation of that notion. That all started to crumble in the mid-1970s, and America has been
The End of Stasis By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 143, October 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 083, November 2020 “What has been will be again,” intoned Preserver Lyons, “what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Forever and ever, amen.” He raised
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 143, November 2025 The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey (2025) “Friendship has a way of re-revealing the things you know in such a way you can’t help but accept them.” A half step away from her previous fictional works, Catherine Lacey’s 2025 release combines autofiction and memoir in
No Kings By Graham Franciose Index of Issue 143, November 2025 No Kings — Stand up, resist, be peaceful, be safe, look out for one another ✊🕊️ Open edition print of original watercolor available on 230 gsm archival matte paper. Priced for everyone. Free shipping in the continental US. Graham Franciose grew up in the
Ampullae of Lorenzini By Zac Dunn Art by Joe Vaux Published Issue 143, November 2025 “Hammertime” by Joe Vaux inspired Zac Dunn to write Ampullae of Lorenzini. The fins twitch and wish to swim quickly over reefs and tiny fish not large enough to quell the hunger that pushes them invariably forward. Electric currents, so
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