Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 134, February 2025 ABANDONS – Liminal Heart The ghosts of American paranoia and anxiety haunt the melancholic strains and rumblings of opening track, “Habitats,” like future archaeologists sampling those concerns from abandoned structures in the former hinterlands of civilization. ABANDONS thus explores, in composition and sonic emotional […]
Nightmares By Moon Patrol Published Issue 134, February 2025 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 by William
Art City By Daniel ‘DL’ Landes Art by John Casey Published Issue 134, February 2025 On the outskirts of Tucumcari, a town slowly leaking vitality like neon escaping the glass tubes which bathe the settlement in a warm glow, a man walks slowly towards the setting sun. The ancestral realm. He casts a long shadow.
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The Climbers By Jason Heller Art by Jaime Valderrama Published Issue 134, February 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 070, October 2019 The song at the heart of the starship Escalante sang. It sang itself, as all songs must. As such, it was no different than the six solipsistic humans who populated the
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Revenant III By Dang. Published in Issue 134, February 2025 Revenant III (2024) is a 8” × 10” acrylic & pencil on birch panel in black stained poplar frame at approximately 9” × 11.” Buy the original here or head to Dang.’s shop for more original work. Dan Gay aka Dang. is a painter, sculptor
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 134, February 2025 Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (2021) Celebrated as the 2022 American Library Association Stonewall Award Honor Book and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lee Lai’s graphic novel, Stone Fruit, explores the deep emotional bonds of chosen family and the complex pull of blood relatives.
Oora On The Aura We See By Zac Dunn Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 134, February 2025 “Darling, our lives are like computers that run on a software that we are given by those who make us. Our build is the way our CPU moves and keeps evolving across time and space as we
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Art by Jason White Published Issue 135, March 2025 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
By Jordan Doll Published in Issue 133, January 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 067, June 2019 The ocean. For centuries it has served as a delicate, inexhaustible source of nightmares. Why, it seems like every other day some asshole scientist is like, “Okay. I’m going back down there to rustle up some
Why We Are Whispering By Jason Heller Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 133, January 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 068, August 2019 Amy never meant to build an automaton. She didn’t know how to make anything. Nevertheless in her basement one day she heaped laundry baskets and car batteries and garden
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