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Published Issue 150, July 2026 Some sightings stay with you. Joe Vaux is one of them. From directing the animated sitcom Family Guy to creating imaginative, creature-filled paintings from his California home studio, Joe’s work lives somewhere between the familiar and the fantastical. Equal parts keen observer and art-scientist, Joe has carved out a creative […]

Published Issue 150, July 2026 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 104, August 2022 It’s the hottest day ever in LA, which is whack because it’s not even sunny out. Sky’s gray as a suit and the air smells like a trash fire. I take one look and say, “Foo, you got to get to

It was just after 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night in the winter of 2023 when the phone rang. It was my friend Mike Shine calling out of the blue and telling me he was holed up at a grungy beach motel about a mile away. He asked if I would stop at the nearest

BAD REPUTATIONBy Kaylie RivasArt: Cosmic Death Queen by Jaime ValderramaArt: Dog by Luke DiBona Published Issue 150, July 150 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 080, August 2020 I didn’t always used to be this way. You know … hated by everyone. In a way, all of this “evil” stuff has just given me a

Published in Issue 149, May 2026 “Cramped leg room on major international flights unlikely to change course of famous river.” The line above is a nonsensical riddle, kind of like a Zen koan. Zen koans, being the ultimate nonsensical riddle, are not meant to be solved rationally. Instead, they are meant to bewilder and confuse

Filthy Animals By Joel Tagert Art by Nick Flook Published Issue 149, May 2026 Originally Published Issue 101, May 2022 You have to let me go. Don’t be stupid. Me and this suit weigh a hundred kilos easy. You don’t remotely have the strength to pull me out. Work with me here. Listen! Let me

Epiphanies Are Louder When They’re Yellin’ In Your Ear By Brian Polk Art by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Published Issue 149, May 2026 I Had The Epiphany That An Epiphany Only Really Matters To The Specific Person Experiencing The Epiphany At Hand So I have been talking to therapists and journaling in an attempt to identify and

Discontinued By Gray Winsler Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 148, April 2026 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 107, November 2022 What do you do with a million tons of war machines in peace time? That was the big question on everyone’s mind when I returned from overseas. The folks I knew in command