Inefficiency Has Feelings Too By Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 110, February 2023 Jonny DeStefano is the co-owner and co-founder of Birdy Magazine. He is also the founder of the comedy activist space Deer Pile. His favorite color is red, he loves shark attacks, hockey and upright bass. Check out Jonny’s interview with Mark Mothersbaugh in case […]
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SharkBy Heather ReynoldsPublished Issue 110, February 2023Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 027
Reclamation By Gray Winsler Art by Caitlyn Grabenstein aka Cult.Class Published Issue 109, January 2023 Of all the ways humanity imagined its own demise, few predicted it would be at the hands of a plant known colloquially as knockweed. If there were any humans still alive today, they’d frankly be embarrassed. Getting offed by a
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Artifact 1 By Moon_Patrol Published as the Back Cover of Issue 109, 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,
Suckers By Erin Brookins Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 109, January 2023 “I had the dream about the spaceman and the giant squid again.” Peter shifted in his chair. It probably wasn’t the most helpful thing to be addressing in therapy. But then again maybe it was. Dr. Bowers raised her eyebrows
Published Issue 109, January 2023 I want to get a port. Absolutely not. All my friends have them. What friends? My friends online. Those aren’t your friends. You’ve never even met them. That’s not true, Mom. I know them. You should see the places we go. Alex, you don’t go anywhere. You hang out in
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Werewolf Radar: Mo Bunny Mo Problems By Nate Balding Published Issue 109, January 2023 Some would call Burke, VA — a DC suburb — an idyllic locale well-suited to raising a family. Movoto Real Estate calls it the 10th Most Boring Place in Fairfax County. And that’s compared to the constant susurration of governance thrumming
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Published Issue 109, January 2023 There are few individuals that stand for and embody a collective declared “extinct”, few artists that use their art to revive a culture obliterated by genocide, few ways of being that continually point to what we need to return to, what we have lost along the way. L Frank is
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Wavy Cat By Matt McCarthy Published Issue 109, January 2023 Matt McCarthy lives and works in Chapel Hill, NC. His collage artwork contrasts domestic felines with various scenes and objects to create humorous surreal compositions. The utilization of existing cat images reinforces the timeless appeal of felines, and draws a common thread through a variety
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