Art

collection of short fiction, poetry, personal, memoir, and philosophical

This book is a compilation of comic artists involved with Shortpants Press. Included are Amy Davidson, Corrine Mucha, Becca Taylor and Jeremy Tinder. The collection embodies the breadth of artistry in the Mid-western comic community.

A small zine of drawings created at the Chicago Zine Fest, 2010.

From the same metafictional universe as films like Best in Show and This is Spinal Tap, Walking Man documents the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man. The book satirizes so-called "alternative" culture while it fondly recollects the 80s and 90s zine scene.

The drawings, essays and poems in this book are all written by children and young adults living in the inner-city housing projects of Chicago during the 1990s.

Libushka Brown, a Chicago Native, began her performance career at the age of three--at her father's Christmas party--then went on to spend years as a solo dancer with the Chicago Grand Opera and the Chicago Civic Opera, as well as appear on stage, screen and radio, even authoring two children's books. At the age of 97, she published this memoir.

Prose and poetry exploring themes of childhood, memory, society and the experiences we all share as human beings.

Chicagoan Carlos Cortez is one of the U.S.A.'s leading Chicano artists and poets. In this new collection of poems and scratch board drawings, Cortez shares his love and concern for the land of his mestizo and Yaqui ancestors. Cortez's art and words help us see with "bicultural eyes" the history of California (Califas) with a landscape alive with condors, cougars, tall saquaros, and even giant cloud formations. Cortez's poems speak in the persona of Koyokuikatl (Coyote Song), who places his strong clear verse in defense of its threatened inhabitants, In addition, he embodies the nostalgic traveler who is capable of "Beat" haikus or the wisdom of the Chicano working-class.

general criticism of Bush administration, post-9/11 policy, the Iraq War, 9/11 profiteering, and apathy. Lots of interviews, also book & music reviews.

Politics, arts, culture with interviews. Criticism of Bush adminsitration, the War on Terror, American imperialism and general apathy.