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Published Issue 132, December 2024 Part band. Part film producers. Part SNL level comedy sketch artists. Part existential therapists. Part … magicians? The impliers aren’t just a psych-dream pop-electro duo. Or even a comedy act. They’re a fully self-taught, self-produced multimedia entity and concept band who create expert level visual and sonic content and deeply […]

Early in spring Yama-uba fell sick with a fever. One morning, after a terrible night in which she thought she might die, she woke to hear the crying of a child. Startled, she sat up, looking around with alarm. “Who’s there?” she called hoarsely. The only answer was more crying. “Hell and death, child,” she

Attempts To Become Whole Again Are Forthcoming, But First I Have Some Work To Do By Brian Polk Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 132, December 2024 Do You Ever Feel Like You And Happiness Used To Be In A Relationship, But A While Back, You Agreed To Stop Seeing Each Other? Because that’s what

By Jeff LaGreca Published Issue 132, December 2024 I finally get to be a Santa Elf. After a week of assignments ranging from Welcome Elf to Train Elf to Crossroads Elf, I get to be in the actual house with the big, red-suited man himself! The house itself is a small wood-paneled room about 10

POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY 2024: A Collective Post Art Demonstration By Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe Published Issue 131, November 2024 Legendary musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh and acclaimed conceptual artist and musician Beatie Wolfe once again joined forces to reactivate Postcards For Democracy — their non-partisan, collective post art campaign in anticipation of the 2024 Presidential Election.

CUJO AND THE DARTS By Zac Dunn Art by Selin Serhii Published Issue 131, November 2024   He stepped out of the van looking smug.  She was not impressed. It had been a very dry spring and the boxes that were filled with DART-driven dreams were hungry to house the DENDROBATIDAE. LICK THE TOAD. The

Charybdis By Joel Tagert Art by Chris Austin Published Issue 131, November 2024 Chris walked in crimson, the goggles’ night vision painting the willow and aspen with a red and bloody brush. It was fall, the ground dry, and his steps would have been noisy but for the wind rasping the leaves, a wind that

Butterfly Jazz at The Cocoon Tonight By Godric Photo by Tommy Coyote Published Issue 131, November 2024 It was the Lion’s birthday round a table her picked flowers sat “plucked-too-soon!” a few spat Life Benders? ‘stuffing of tombs’ Where The Hard Things Spoil trouble feeds hiss-soil and whoever’s left for a time is panned, potted

Toronto-based illustrator, writer, musician, dream warrior Matthew Therrien is a bonafide autodidact. With art coursing through his veins, there’s nothing that can stop his creative flow and tackling whatever project or medium that comes his way. No matter the guidelines or clientele — Marvel/Upper Deck, Lionsgate, Vestron Video, SYFY, HorrorHound, Cauldron Films, to name a

A Joyous Meal By Gray Winsler Published Issue 130, October 2024 Amal glanced at the family photo clipped to his visor. They looked so happy. He smiled inwardly to himself, for a moment. But outwardly his expression remained unchanged, empty. He had always wanted a family. But he was never home. This cab was his