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May 2013 UPDATE: Mineshaft #29 is HOT OFF THE PRESS!! Click here for more info and to order your copy TODAY!! Featuring more Amazing "Excerpts From R. Crumb's Dream Diary" (dreams this issue include: "Dream of Government Agents Trying to Make Me Take Pills," "Dream of two toilets," "Dream of neglected children," "Dream of huge woman in thigh-high boots," "Dream of two girls in an elevator," "Dream of running with my brother Charles," and "Hypnogogic demons") & inside back cover sketchbook art by Crumb! Poetry-Comic Back Cover, "Stone Tiger Frozen Sea" by Charles Bukowski, illustrated by Pat Moriarity and David Collier! "Moon Going Down" black & white photos of legendary Blues musicians playing in Southern California during the late 1960s and early '70's... by Brad Barrett! "The End of Films" by David Collier! Political cartoons by Mary Fleener! Comics by Christoph Mueller! Sketchbook drawings by Spain Rodriguez! Comics by Aleksandar Zograf! Comics by Aaron Lange! Art by Robert Armstrong! And More! COMING UP in MINESHAFT #30 this coming Autumn-Winter 2013! Celebrating our 15th Anniversary Issue! MORE fabulous "Excerpts from R. Crumb's Dream Diary"! "WHAT NEXT?" by Dennis Eichhorn and R.L. Crabb! William Crook, Jr. visits Route 66! "A Draftsman's Life" by Christoph Mueller! Political cartoons by Mary Fleener! Poetry by J.R. Helton! Bill Griffith travels Back to Brooklyn! And lots More!!!
Mineshaft is an art, comics, and literary magazine bringing you exciting art from some of the world's greatest artists... Contributors include R. Crumb (who designed our logos), Bill Griffith, Mary Fleener, Charles Bukowski, Christoph Mueller, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Billy Childish, J.R. Helton, Pat Moriarity, Robert Armstrong, Andrei Codrescu, David Collier, William Crook Jr., Aleksandar Zograf, Nina Bunjevac, Peter Poplaski, Rika Deryckere, Frank Stack, Art Spiegelman, Kim Deitch, Carol Tyler, Justin Green, Phoebe Gloeckner, Jay Lynch, Spain Rodriguez, Diane di Prima, Bruce Simon, Jim Blanchard, Brad Barrett, Tommy Trantino, Justin Murphy, Adelle Stripe, Noah Van Sciver, Luca Donnini, Ben Myers, Simon Deitch, Aaron Lange, Jorin Ostroska, B.N. Duncan, Peter Bagge, Elizabeth Koenig, Dennis Eichhorn, Joseph Remnant, Harvey Pekar, Sophie Crumb, Ed Piskor, James Mundie, Ace Backwords, Robert Head, Darlene Fife, Tony O'Neill, Jay Kinney, Irving Stettner, & more amazing artists and writers! The magazine is published and edited by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri. It was started in 1999 and is printed on offset press in the United States. Back Issues are still available!
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