Category: Visual

The Future: Four Illustrations by Selene dePackh

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Illuminated Passages 11-a Illuminated Passages 25 PTSD 2nd Restatement PTSD 3rd Restatement Selene dePackh creates innovative story lines that expand the science fiction genre of cyberpunk into an entirely new subcategory which she calls Neuropunk, which draws on her own autism to immerse the reader in a…
Haunted Passages: Three Visual Poems by Ana

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Seed Luminous Marrow Bestia Ana is a Zurich-based legal professional. She serves as art director with Pidgeonholes Magazine and recently published work in Obra/Artifact, Storm Cellar, and Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Poetry Comic by Patrick Williams: “Redactions”

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Patrick Williams is a poet and academic librarian living in Central New York. His recent work appears in publications including Vinyl Poetry, Nine Mile Magazine, Posit, and Bennington Review. His chapbook Hygiene in Reading was released by Publishing Genius in 2016. He edits Really System, a journal…
Illustration by Matt Kish: “Bestiary: Catoblepas”

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Matt Kish is a self-taught artist and librarian. He was born in 1969, in June, and lives in Ohio with his wife and their frog.
Alex Duensing: “The Politics of Love,” a painting

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Alex Duensing. Graduate of William Paterson and Columbia? Yes. Ran for St. Petersburg, Florida, City Council? Yes. Won? No. Stopped Mayan Apocalypse on rooftop with performance art? Yup. Strange but nice fellow? Clearly. Protégé of Arakawa+Gins, masters of the architectural body? Ongoing even after the supposed end.…
Five Strips from In Search of Basho, a haiku/comic mashup by Ross Findlay & Mark “Fittsy” Fittock

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. In Search of Basho is a haiku/comic mashup written by Ross Findlay and drawn by Mark ‘Fittsy’ Fittock. Both reside in Germany. The comic details the last year of the protagonist’s life as he goes on one final trip in search of the haiku master, Matsuo Basho.…
Chris Holdaway: Excerpt from CODE: Equinox, a poetry hybrid

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Chris Holdaway is a poet/editor/linguist from New Zealand, where he directs Compound Press (compoundpress.org). He is the author of HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost, 2017), with recent work in Cream City Review, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.
Sara Lautman Illustration: “overcast”

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Sara Lautman is a cartoonist, illustrator and editor in Brooklyn. Her drawings have been published with Tablet, Jezebel, The Pitchfork Review, The Believer Logger, and are forthcoming in The New Yorker. Her next collection, The Ultimate Laugh, was published by Tinto Press in winter 2016. She is…
Colleen Kolba Comic: “Up Late”

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Colleen Kolba is a writer and cartoonist from Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Rumpus, Hobart, Entropy, and elsewhere. She is an editor at weirderary and teaches writing and literature at the University of South Florida, where she is completing her…