Sharpeners

“I figure, if I have to be forced to live in this modern, cold and digital world, I can at least point to the physical objects that I love.” Musician Mike Adams foregoes the ‘lyric video’ for a more analogue approach.

To read a Trina Robbins comic is to enter an alternate history: one in which the legions of women who entered the industry as writers, artists, and editors during the war years of the 1940s were never driven back out.

Scales, claws, fangs and (controversially) feathers. Meet the paleoartists and zines who believe the vision of dinosaurs belong to everyone who survived their extinction.

In the early 1900s, Spain was at the forefront of the largest anarchist movement in history. According to James Yeoman, it would not have been possible without the underground press.

As digital media burns, can independent media restore faith in reporting in the already unbelievable technology beat? Former Motherboard staffers are hoping to cover the future before the future consumes us whole.

Analog Sea is a publication devoted to maintaining a small community of writers who wish to live offline in the digital age. They advocate for the human right to disconnect and have international stockists carry their bulletin for free-taking.

As contentious book bans spread throughout America, Kim Hyun Sook’s book about her experience with book bans ended up in Clay County’s crosshairs.

Joe Matt erased the line between what should and should not be shared with an audience, which in turn made the reader realize that perhaps they didn’t need to be so fearful of their own dark secrets.

Jenn Woodall has had it up TO HERE with these cherubic luxury nostalgia-baiting mall dolls being passed off as DIY ‘girl power.’

In 1974, Vancouver artist Vincent Trasov ran for mayor of Vancouver. Or, at least, Vincent Trasov dressed as Mr. Peanut ran for mayor of Vancouver. Nearly 50 years later, documentary filmmaker Andrew Muir brought the performance piece back into the spotlight with Peanut For Mayor.