To dig into the pages of a Vanessa Davis book invokes feelings that are eerily similar to cozying up to her in real life. Her ability to transfer her snappy wit, hilarious honesty and vibrantly-colored life stories to the pages of her comics is uncanny. The author of two illustrated bio-comics– Spaniel Rage and...
I first met Abigail Wick when we were students together in the MFA Writing and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Impressed by her ability to string together an impeccable sentence, as well as her singular voice, I’ve followed Abigail’s writing adventures since we graduated in 2008. Over the past few months,...
My (Dani’s) introduction to Mike Sacks consisted of cyber-exchanging one another’s disturbing Cuddle Party articles. From there, the glory of his writing filled many sleepless nights with muffled outbursts of laughter which coincided with frequent suppression of the gag reflex, most recently a result of tearing through the pages of Sex: Our Bodies, Our...
The fact that Laine Justice creates her masterpieces of art with a series of paints and paint brushes– and not a magic wand– is utterly mind blowing, as is the patience and thoughtful time she carefully crafts each piece with. With an instinctual draw to the tender and delicate details of each character that...
Sorry seems to be the hardest word… but does it have to be? Something as simple as a sincere apology can change the course and direction of our lives. It can offer the validation that is often needed for decisions to be made… or avoided altogether. But what about those incidents that are misconstrued,...
Far from the bumpy backwoods roads of her youth, Kacey Koeberer is living the dream. And by “the dream”, we mean: she is actually using her brilliant mind to make a living. In Los Angeles, no less. A decade after completing her undergraduate degree in Sociology at the sun-shiny campus of UC Santa Barbara,...