Embers By Josh Keyes Published Issue 134, February 2025 Embers is an acrylic painting on panel (2025). 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. Josh, however, does not place his […]
That’s Not Helpful and Other Words Of Advice By Brian Polk Art by Creatickle Published Issue 1334, February 2025 I Bet Recently Fired Managers Everywhere Hate Those “Under New Management” Signs I mean, shit, not only did they just lose their job, but now they have to see a sign that adds insult to injury.
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Army Surplus By Skot Olsen Published as the Centerfold for Issue 134, February 2025 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 led to a lifelong interest in folklore, dark histories,
The Walls We Fix By Zac Dunn Art by Joe Vaux Published Issue 134, February 2025 AS children we are told to YES and NO AS we are given play pens and aprons to keep the mess from us AS walls are given to us to keep the world and chaos of nature from leading
On To The Next By Nick Flook aka Flooko Published in Issue 134, February 2025 On To The Next — I’m very curious as to what’s inside this place. I’d like to think it’s a “goonies” style adventure. – Flooko Snag a museum grade poster of On To The Next here, or head to Flooko’s
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 134, February 2025 ABANDONS – Liminal Heart The ghosts of American paranoia and anxiety haunt the melancholic strains and rumblings of opening track, “Habitats,” like future archaeologists sampling those concerns from abandoned structures in the former hinterlands of civilization. ABANDONS thus explores, in composition and sonic emotional
Nightmares By Moon Patrol Published Issue 134, February 2025 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
Art City By Daniel ‘DL’ Landes Art by John Casey Published Issue 134, February 2025 On the outskirts of Tucumcari, a town slowly leaking vitality like neon escaping the glass tubes which bathe the settlement in a warm glow, a man walks slowly towards the setting sun. The ancestral realm. He casts a long shadow.
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The Climbers By Jason Heller Art by Jaime Valderrama Published Issue 134, February 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 070, October 2019 The song at the heart of the starship Escalante sang. It sang itself, as all songs must. As such, it was no different than the six solipsistic humans who populated the
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Revenant III By Dang. Published in Issue 134, February 2025 Revenant III (2024) is a 8” × 10” acrylic & pencil on birch panel in black stained poplar frame at approximately 9” × 11.” Buy the original here or head to Dang.’s shop for more original work. Dan Gay aka Dang. is a painter, sculptor