I Forgot What I Was Going To Say, So I Came Up With Something Else By Brian Polk Published Issue 116, August 2023 The Last Time I Cut My Finger, My First Thought Was To Use The Blood To Write A Note That Just Said, “YOU!” And Save It In A Folder In Case I […]
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By Moon_Patrol Published as the Back Cover of Issue 116, August 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
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 116, August 2023 Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa J. Sevigny (2023) When Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter began planning their 1938 journey down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, only one other
From The Postcard Diaries By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 116, August 2023 These postcards are from a collection that was published in Myopia: Mark Mothersbaugh. 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 perpetually
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An Interview w/ Kid Koala, Part 1 By Jonny DeStefano & Krysti Joméi Print Layout Design by Julianna Beckert Art by Kid Koala “Keep it weird, they’ll get it later.” — Kid Koala Montreal-based Kid Koala (Eric San) is a polyartist who isn’t afraid to try new things and take left turns. A world-renowned scratch
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Published Issue 115, July 2023 “Burn it,” said Kroth. “Kill the villagers.” I frowned. “You mean the soldiers.” “I mean all of them.” Cara was watching me closely, trident held loosely. Hunch and Hew, two of the bulbous, malformed ogres Kroth called his Children, were grinning. Hew swung his oversized cleaver around in an easy
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Consequences of The Grand Cosmic Accident (And Other Observations About Life In Dying Times) By Brian Polk Published Issue 115, July 2023 Aw Fuck, Looks Like My Least Favorite Customer Survived Covid After All We hadn’t seen Old Man Lifton since before the Great Lockdown, and absolutely no one at my job at the coffee
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Tony Hawk w/ Birdy’s 100th issue Art + Photo by Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 115, July 2023 Legendary skater Tony Hawk holds Birdy’s 100th issue featuring Pandemic Oil Paintings in front of Mutato Muzika on the Sunset Strip by DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh. The world knows Tony Hawk as a legendary skateboarder, entrepreneur, and founder of
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Clank’s Dilemma By Gray Winsler Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 115, July 2023 “When Benji became sick, all of the playland became sick. For Benji was the Keeper of the Chest, the Boy King, the Great Imaginator. It was his imagination that powered their world, and as the disease dulled his thoughts, their world
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Return To Mills Island By Maggie Nerz Iribarne Art by Nick Flook Published in Issue 115, July 2023 Our island, Mills Island, sits in a spot where currents collide, ships crash and sink. We’re surrounded by old bones, death. We’re used to it. We remember our grandfather, the lighthouse keeper, telling us stories of bodies
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