So this thing is here, though I don’t have the big shipment yet, just a rush box. Pre-order now! I can just tell this issue is going to sell faster than ice tea at a sweat lodge.
We were lucky enough to have Chicago small press stalwart Anne Elizabeth Moore contribute a little something to issue #4. Anne edited the now-defunct Punk Planet as well as Best American Comics series. So the lady has chops. Oh, and if you’re the pro-integrity, anti-advertising type and you haven’t read Unmarketable yet then you’re clearly not taking adbusting culture to its logical conclusion.
Just uploaded a new essay over at Annalemma. Stella is a bitter sweet love letter to a ‘91 Cutlass Cierra that saw a family through good times and bad, sickness and health, life and death. You Chicagoans may recognize the author, Rob Duffer, from the beer-hazed nights at Sheffield’s monthly reading series RUI. Also accompanying the essay is a stellar soft-focus image by long-time friend Josh Letchworth. It’s all part of our lead-up to the release of issue #4 which is available for pre-sale now!
New and exciting things happening over at Annalemma. We’ve got a new story from Nick Ostdick accompanied by a pretty wicked depth-of-field shot by Mr. Bryan “Bear” Soderlind. All this is just a whistle-wetter for issue #4 which, I might add, just became available for pre-sale. Issue #4 will ship on 2.17.09. Order from the website and you get 25% off the cover price! Can’t beat that deal with a lone baseball’s shadow growing longer in the dusk light symbolizing waning youth.
The Annalemma site is having some technical problems today. I’ll keep you posted as to what’s going on as soon as things get rolling with us. And to thank you for your patience I’m going to be throwing a story from the new issue up on there this afternoon. I’ll be posting one or two stories up there per week until the new issue release date, which is February 13th, btw. Those of you attending AWP will be the first to get your mitts on it.
UPDATE: We’re up and running again. Not sure what happened. I think our host decided April Fools Day came early this year.
If you don’t know anything about Raquel Aparicio then you should strongly consider checking yourself. We were lucky enough to have her contribute some work for the new issue (release date to be announced soon, btw) and it’s phenomenal. While searching for her web address I came across this:
I feel lucky to have met this person, if only through the internet.
Here’s a taste of the fruits of me and Bob’s labor. Well, Bob’s labor mainly. I mostly sit around being fed grapes by young Argentinian women and shoot all of Bob’s ideas down whenever he surfaces from the design dungeon.
So this is the new cover. The image is by Justin Gibbens. More on him, and other contributors, in the future. Enjoy this for now and brace yourself for the issue #4 hype train.
When not wasting away the golden days of his young life looking at stupid shit on the Internet, Chris Heavener publishes a biannual lit and arts magazine called Annalemma. It features short stories, essays, art, and photography. You should take a long, hard look at yourself and consider subscribing.
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