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  • Sad Train Station Sandwich

    Sad Train Station Sandwich

    (Sarah Broadhurst, self published, 2022) “A traditional redemption arc in zine form” according to its creator, who as one half of the much missed One Beat collective should know what she’s talking about, much as I’m usually up for distrusting an artist’s interpretation of their own work. Still, one read of Sad Train Station Sandwich

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  • Casino

    Casino

    CW: one extremely violent gif, some plot details from a big film from the ’90s (Martin Scorcese, 1995) Watched this at the GFT with some pals last night, having never seen it before. What can I say, I was a dumb Scorcese contrarian before it was popular, though I always had time for After Hours

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  • Angles and Demons

    Angles and Demons

    “We have to recognize these demons when they arise and utilize the formulas to dispatch them, which is what magic does. Magic has a time-honored, thousands-of-years old methods for dealing with the type of demonic energies that arose at Altamont, for instance. A bunch of highly-trained warrior magicians at Altamont would have defused the situation;

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  • Tie Me Up, I’m Yours

    Tie Me Up, I’m Yours

    CW: Hot Filth! (Jules Scheele, self-published, 2022) The cover to this zine promises is that the content will be “18+ explicit”, and Tie Me Up, I’m Yours makes good on this promise again and again, with a series of erotic images depicting a crew of lush queers in what someone only slightly more emotionally repressed

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  • Future Crimes #2

    Future Crimes #2

    I put the second issue of my Future Crimes anthology up for sale yesterday. Unlike the first issue, which was mostly a way for me to refresh and release unpublished work, this issue is all about collaboration. The first and longest piece in the book is Uncle Frank, which was drawn by my friend Shaky

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  • There Are Other Alphabets – on the fall of Roe and dirt bikes

    There Are Other Alphabets – on the fall of Roe and dirt bikes

    Browsing twitter the other day, I found myself getting annoyed at someone who asked for an explanation of a comic strip Eleanor Davis had shared. Drawn for the New York Times, the strip itself covers a journey to and from a protest for abortion rights that had been undertaken in the company of a small

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