Published Issue 136, April 2025 Chicago artist Jason White uses pen, ink and oil to create eye candy, portraits and scenes of otherworldly creatures often interacting with morphed, peculiar people in curious fantasy environments. His illustrations and paintings are seemingly riddled with a deep sense of humor and child-like play, but dig a little deeper […]
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Once Again, I Find Myself Astonished That Life Can Be So Precious And Boring At The Same Time By Brian Polk Art by Creatickle Published Issue 136, April 2025 I Always Thought The Band Oasis Was A Lot Like Olives: I Simply Cannot Understand How Anyone Could Enjoy Them Every three years or so, I
Valeriia Volokhova aka Ooqza is an artist on a mission to literally leave her mark around the world. Her instantly recognizable art speaks for itself — raw, honest, a spectrum of emotion — with each tattoo being a symbiosis of her own personal journey and that of her client. From drawing in her youth in
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Published Issue 136, April 2025 The ship had capsized a night before. Mayday calls weren’t answered, at least not on time. Perhaps because the captain who called didn’t give adequate details before drowning. People died. The ship was gone without a trace, gravity showing its earthly omnipresence. When rescue copters and boats arrived, the sea
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 135, March 2025 Ghosts of Glaciers – Eternal Echoes of drifting melody form a musical equivalent of ripples on the surface of a lake created by carefully dropping stones into its depths. But for this band, the wave forms crash and escalate into epic passages that dissolve
“Golden Age Thinking” (Part Dos) By Brandon Earley Published in Issue 135, March 2025 The original Golden Age Thinking was featured in 2021’s Punk Rock and Paint Brushes group art show, Whip It, featuring Mark Mothersbaugh, Ed Colver, Mark deSalvo, Matt Skiba, Chris Shary to name a few. It went up for auction and a collector
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Gasbag By Joel Tagert Art by Moon Patrol Published Issue 135, March 2025 Out of the poisoned wastes in the east he drifted like a decrepit dirigible, a gasbag so bilious and vile the earth though wounded repelled his pustulent flesh. Upon him clung the remains of a survival suit that had obviously failed its
Neighborhood Watch By Skot Olsen Published as the Index for Issue 135, March 2025 Neighborhood Watch is a 12″ x 12″ oil painting. Skot Olsen spent most of his formative years enjoying the extreme seasonal weather of New England. It was his childhood explorations of cemeteries, colonial homes and the islands surrounding the coast. This
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Never Ahead, Never Behind, Never Said, Never Mind By Brian Polk Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 135, March 2025 In My Imagination, The Last Date I Went On Ended In Humiliation When She Referred To Me As “A Completely Undateable Waste Of Time” And Said, “How Could A Loser Like You Think He Deserves
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Sink By Josh Keyes Published as the Centerfold of Issue 135, March 2025 Sink is an acrylic painting on 4”x6” acrylic panel (2024). Inspired by 18th-century aesthetics and philosophy, Portland-based ecosurrealist Josh Keyes paints animals in a style reminiscent of anatomical diagrams. His work is characterized by an attention to detail and to physiological accuracy.