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Letter from the Publisher
CNF: Yes, Eve, I will Eat Your Apple by Blue POETRY: Why Am I Like This and 168 York Street Cafe by Rob Colgate FICTION: Talking Bodies by Ark Ramsay CNF: Joy by Charlie VJ Bartlett FICTION: Falling by Patrick Earl Ryan CNF: Makeout Lessons by Kimberly Dark FICTION: Jakub Buczkowski’s Very Pretty Ghost Keir Newkirk POETRY: Devil's Rope, Testament's Winter by Kelly Weber: CNF: Pont Neuf by Eddy Boudel Tan ARTIST Q&A: Banned from China? Why yes, he is. Learn about this and more in our Q&A with Michael Thompson... HAVE YOU READ? Our new feature highlighting often overlooked work. This time: Rivers Solomon... |
FROM OUR COVER ARTIST:
"This project was born of a missed opportunity. I read an article about the publication of the panels of a Doonesbury cartoon that were printed as a series of postage stamps, and how viewers had cut the panels out of the newspaper, glued them onto envelopes, addressed the envelopes and dropped them into a mailbox. They were subsequently delivered, with cancellations! It seemed such a wonderful subversion: taxation with someone else's representation. Weeks later, while thumbing a national news magazine, I found myself staring at a cartoon stamp with Bugs Bunny, ears protruding beyond the frame, oversized, just the thing... I promptly cut the image from the page, affixed it to an envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. It arrived the next day. Cancelled. I was hooked." Read more in our interview with Michael...
"This project was born of a missed opportunity. I read an article about the publication of the panels of a Doonesbury cartoon that were printed as a series of postage stamps, and how viewers had cut the panels out of the newspaper, glued them onto envelopes, addressed the envelopes and dropped them into a mailbox. They were subsequently delivered, with cancellations! It seemed such a wonderful subversion: taxation with someone else's representation. Weeks later, while thumbing a national news magazine, I found myself staring at a cartoon stamp with Bugs Bunny, ears protruding beyond the frame, oversized, just the thing... I promptly cut the image from the page, affixed it to an envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. It arrived the next day. Cancelled. I was hooked." Read more in our interview with Michael...
