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| Mineshaft #23 (Paperback - New) |
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Full blurb:
The latest issue of Mineshaft features a fantastic and intricate front cover by Jay Lynch, back cover by Robert Crumb and inside special R. Crumb pink centerfold sketchbook drawings. There is also new work by Kim Deitch – ‘The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Kathryn Whaley’, ‘GROB SCHWANK’ by Ed Piskor & Sarah Sveda, Sophie Crumb, Pat Moriarity, Bill Griffith, ‘Rock City Terminally Ill’ by Harvey Pekar & Tara Seibel, ‘Letters to Sexology Magazine’ by Bruce Simon, Frank Stack's ‘Dirty Diana’, ‘Washington Beach’ by Aaron Lange, Mike Roden’s ‘This is Door-Eye’, Noah Van Sciver says ‘Hello’, letters from around the globe & MORE. 48 pages. The special R. Crumb centerfold feature is printed on beautiful French Paper Co. "Pop-Tone Bubblegum". First printing of 900 copies in December 2008.
"Uptown, downtown, all through the underground, Mineshaft takes you where the action is!" and the next issue out in May is no exception. It features a very special collaboration with The Brutalists – Tony O’Neill, Ben Myers and Adelle Stripe – and London-based artist Lisa Cradduck called ‘Cheap Thrills.’
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First page first lines:
Text from the graphic story ‘GROB SCHWANK’ written by Sarah Sveda, drawn by Ed Piskor
- Guess who’s coming in for a gyno exam today Curt? You gonna get a kick outta this!!
- I don’t know Ma. RU PAUL?
- C’mon now. Ru Paul don’t really have female plumbing. Dr Brian’s patient is one of your favourite actresses!
- Ummm…NO WAY! Pamela Anderson?!
- Uh hum. I thought you’d be interested in hearing that. Now you don’t be telling everybody at school.
- Why is she coming all the way out to your office? Don’t they have gynaecologists in Hollywood?
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Category: Literary magazine
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Author: Various including Robert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith.
Mineshaft magazine has been 'mining the depths for unpredictable visual and literary ore' since 1999. Created by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri, the magazine has published a number of underground literary greats over the course of its 23 issues, including Bukowski and Tommy Trantino. Mineshaft also has an enduring relationship with Robert Crumb, which began early in the magazine’s history and he has been contributing his unique work ever since. Rand and Palmieri related to many of the old underground comics’ artists’ views of the world, their cynicism and way-out open mindedness, and so, over the years, the pages of Mineshaft have featured the work of some of the very best - Robert Armstrong, B.N. Duncan, Mary Fleener, Bill Griffith, Frank Stack, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Jay Lynch, and Kim and Simon Deitch.
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Publisher: Mineshaft magazine
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Reviews:
“Another great issue of the increasingly necessary comics and forgotten culture magazine, focusing on the work of underground greats and those who follow in their tradition.” - Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter
“[Mineshaft] has become a depository for fascinating fiction and cultural critiques that don't have a ready home, fascinating presentations of historical cultural detritus worthy of another look, and of course lots of sketches and comics." - Rob Clough, High-Low Comics
"In our society where everyone it seems can't wait for the latest 'i-pod' feature, it's great to see MINESHAFT taking the long view, exploring with ink on paper how the artistic culture is surviving in the hidden corners of America and the world. MINESHAFT artists are able to look within to find that elusive spark of truth/magic known to mystics, shamans, zen hermit monks, and alienated graffiti artists. For me MINESHAFT contains a message of personal healing, a feeling of belonging to a community of artists who express their feelings about life with love, honesty, humility, and humor." - William Crook, Jr.
"Reading Mineshaft, I am conscious of its authenticity… it's one of the few true print vehicles around that carries the smokey torch of the disavowed, disenfranchised, lapsed, subsumed and beat-to-shit Counter Culture." – Justin Green
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| Book code: BTD021 |
| Price: GBP £ 4.95 |
| USD $ 6.95 |
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