Defender By Moon Patrol Published Issue 094, October 2021 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 […]
The Unknown Visitor By Peter Kornowski Published Issue 094, October 2021 I remember always having a passion for creating … drawing, painting, design, carpentry, music; they’re all outlets for my creativity. I love bringing the imagination to life and sharing with others. Making things, and knowing how things are made, has always felt good to
Scarewolf Craydar: Cat’s in the Cradle, A Cautionary Tale By Nate Balding Art By Jason White Published Issue 094, October 2021 Brisk autumn air swirls over the northern hemisphere carrying the sweet funeral dirge that calls all Earth’s good people to goth Christmas. Yes, the time has once more come for Samhain, that perfect moment wherein
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Party Bound By Eric Joyner Published Issue 094, October 2021 I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie and newspaper comic strips), playing sports, and going to school, as well as drawing and painting.
The Hotel By Caitlyn Grabenstein Published as the Back Cover, Issue 094, October 2021 Caitlyn Grabenstein, a.k.a. Cult Class, is a collage artist, sketch artist, and designer out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started doing art at a very young age and has pursued it in different forms throughout her life. While working in the music
JANG! JANG! JANG! RANG THE HAMMERS IN THE RAIN. JANG! JANG! JANG! CLANGED THE LINKS OF BLOODY CHAIN. JANG! BANGED THE BOOMERANG BOUNCING IN HER BRAIN. JANG! SANG THE KANGAROO – Something touched her shoulder. In a fever dream of manacles and red rock, Naoko surged upward, grabbing for the throat. The intruder gagged, falling
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Lunacy By Gray Winsler Art by Dave Danzara Published Issue 094, October 2021 I swear I can hear his voice, like hushed whispers escaping from the abyss of my subconscious. The words are muted, barely audible, but it’s him. I know it’s him just as well as I know it cannot possibly be true, and
Man or Machine By Zac Dunn Art by Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 094, September 2021 I’m hard-wired into you love Like I’m connected to the stars above The eye in the sky it speaks to me Because we have the same circuitry AM I A MAN OR AM I MACHINE? They’re always turning me off
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 094, October 2021 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (2021) Torrey Peter’s debut novel zeros in on the lives of three people navigating all the complicated, messy and beautiful parts of relationships. Reese is deep into unsatisfying and destructive relationships with married men when she gets a call from
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 094, October 2021 Buck Gooter | Head In a Bird Cage A chain of genre tags like industrial, psychedelic, bluesy noise punk and references to obvious musical touchstones for potential listeners like Butthole Surfers, Chrome, Suicide, Swans, Alice Donut, Big Black and Screamers could never quite encompass what