In my next life, let me be after Natasha Rao By BEE LB Published Issue 124, April 2024 a rabbit or a bunny, little body, big teeth. let me sink into something crisp and sweet, let me nibble with delight, let me gorge myself on the garden someone else has planted, has tended to, has […]
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In The Dark Without A Weapon By Moon_Patrol Published Issue 124, April 2024 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
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 124, April 2024 Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz (2023) Addiction and recovery are often portrayed as a relentless battle back to normalcy, a straight path from the absolute ruin caused by substance use leading to the grueling climb to recovery, one which is
I Read You By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published as the Index of Issue 124, April 2024 Albuquerque-based Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found
The Devil’s Chariot By Joel Tagert Published Issue 124, April 2024 “Turn off your fucking engine,” Mackey groaned. It was three in the morning, for Christ’s sake. What was the point of living in the boonies if there were still jack-offs next door running their car all night? He waited, bones rumbling, and finally cursed
The Undermallers of Meow Wolf and Plotzo the R@ King By Shanny Schmidt Lead Artist: Benji Geary Published in Issue 124, November 2024 Meow Wolf Story Explained: The origins of an underground mutant army responsible for planting dystopian arcades interdimensionally. Times are changing and being changed. Recently, there’s been a noticeable amount of 80s-neon-cyberpunk-themed arcades
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Lucas Cows + April Postcard Art By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 124, April 2024 Lucas Cows (1969), decals and April’s Untitled Postcard Art were published in Myopia: Mark Mothersbaugh (2014) Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver
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Werewolf Radar: Tubular Hells By Nate Balding Art by Luke DiBona Published Issue 124, April 2024 People with no functional understanding of the justice system outside of folksy wisdom they were once told by another middle schooler are liable to, at some point, tell you that possession is nine-tenths of the law. Slightly less likely
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THE CURRENT By Zac Dunn Published Issue 124, April 2024 Encapsulating the ocean’s motion Krill spilling into harbors Guarded by monolithic stone towers Driven skyward with roots of MAGMA Foothold upon the edge of the precipice So deep its boundless immensity only hungers To know more water and bones To nuzzle and rest upon the
Published Issue 123, March 2024 One of the era’s most prolific conceptual artists and composers Mark Mothersbaugh has been making postcard art every day for the past 50 plus years. And this is on top of composing and scoring over 150 films, television shows, video games and hundreds of commercials and interactive pieces through his