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
Secret Chewy Grampa By Eric Joyner Published as the Back Cover of Issue 120, December 2023 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,
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A Fistful of Slice By Brian Sacca Art by Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 120, December 2023 This is Part 2 to Brian Sacca’s A Pizzapie Pizza Pie published in Issue 117. “Will you FIGHT?!” “Yes, Sensei!” “Will you DIE?!” “Yes, Sensei!” “Will you stop the invaders from spoiling our …” He kept speaking, but it
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A Window Into A Semi-eventful Life In Seven Easy Steps By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 120, December 2023 I Lost Five Hours Of Sleep Thinking About What To Write For An Opening In My Column This Month, And I Still Didn’t Come Up With Shit As a reader of this here
Published Issue 120, December 2023 Mark reflects on his new work and how his inspiration from Beat-style stream-of-conscious expression evolved: “When I was a single digit-aged human back in the 1950s, I remember seeing human wreckage sprawled on the sidewalks of downtown Akron. My mom would hold my hand and try to hurry me past
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