TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here’s how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Issue 101
Review: People Collide
Unfolding like a thriller, People Collide is as much about marriage and what draws people together (and apart) as it is about gender or art.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh’s brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
“People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it.”
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: The Novice
In Sean McCarthy’s The Novice, a strolling snail-man is consumed, only to survive and meet worse horrors in the gullet of the beast. Things are not always what they appear to be. Both within and without this whimsy world.
Zines Killed the Video Star
“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.
Review: Her Body Among Animals
There is seemingly no situation a Ferrante narrator will not relate to a point of arcane science trivia. When metaphor becomes the primary vehicle for storytelling, the device soon feels forced.
Review: at the 7/11 outside Club Q
A deeply personal zine rendering moments of grief and joy, cartoonist and science illustrator Annabel Driussi reflects on the aftermath of the shooting that occurred at Colorado Springs’ Club Q in November, 2022.
Folio: Hannah Epstein on Rug Hooking and Art Churches
Folio asks artists and curators to gather works made with unexpected materials and adapt them for the printed page. In this issue we speak with Hannah Epstein, whose rug-hooking manifests the madness of the digital world into fiber.
404: VICE Not Found
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.
Remembering Ian Ferrier
By the sound of Ian’s voice, we were drawn into inclusion. It could reach a boom-level in his most explosive poetry, but as the beloved host of countless Words and Music shows, and not only those, his voice kept a signature hushed tone as though inviting us closer to the wonderful artist he’d invite to the stage.