ISSUE FOUR: COMEDY & THE GROTESQUE
Issue Four was published in February 2011.
This issue features cover art by Edie Fake, inside cover art by Eamon Espey; guts include….
- A review of the cult horror film Slither by Daniel Moseley
- A slicing-dicing deconstruction by Bonnie Kaserman
- Two comic vignettes by Ellen Nielsen
- A Real Asshole — essay by Marc Baez
- Bernhard – Kinski – Theodore: Only a Madman Would Imitate Madness — essay by John Berndt
- FEH-MUH-NIST: A Consideration of Offense in Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist — essay by Vicky Lim
- Reinventing the Grotesque: Wangechi Mutu’s Beautifully Mutating Women — essay by Joyce Kuechler
- Charlottesville’s Lady Arm Wrestlers: A Bawdy, Rowdy, Satirical, Political, Feminist, Community-Based Performance Art Movement — feature by Leeyanne Moore
- Barf Transitive: Bulimic Writing as Feminist Resistance — essay by Megan Milks
- You Want to Make a Joke About That? A Brief History on the Development of My Lisp by Jim Joyce
- a feature on artist Jimmy Joe Roche by John Bylander
- a feature on puppeteer Sean Samoheyl by Leeyanne Moore
- fiction by James Tadd Adcox, Jake Hostetter, and Leeyanne Moore
- interviews with musician/writer Sabrina Chap and artists Edie Fake and Pippi Zornoza
- comics and art by Noel Freibert, Carrie Fucile, Zach Hazard, Gerry Mak, Joy Meyer, Jason Miles, and Ed Choy Moorman
- and more!
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ISSUE THREE: THE WHITE ISSUE
Issue Three was published in April 2009.
This one sees MP expanding substantially with interviews with experimental writers Davis Schneiderman and Sandra Newman, comics genius Ted May, Man Man‘s Honus Honus, experimental filmmaker Meghan Eckman, and translation journal Calque‘s Steve Dolph and Brandon Holmquest.
AND: a roundtable on Sofia Coppola Feminism, English translations of Nadaist Manifestos, the Gospel of Lungfish, and Other Good Stuff.
Also, our FIRST-EVER FULL-COLOR PULL-OUT ART INSERT!
Huzzah and brrrrrap and etc!
Contact us at mildredpiercezine@gmail.com or order one here.
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ISSUE TWO: THE MEDUSA ISSUE [OUT OF PRINT]
MP2: The Medusa Issue was published in July 2006 and features…………….
++ John Bylander’s Against Style 2: In Defense of Style
++ Megan Milks on the internationally traveling BodyWorlds exhibit
++ Kevin Bostic on rightwing messageboards
++ Kathryn Stolzenbach taking on Anthropologie
++ Andrea Lawlor and Bernadine Mills of Pocket Myths
++ Brandon Holmquest on Afterlife capitalism and James Frey
++ Steve Dolph on those born and bred assholes everyone hates
++ An interview with Greg Wells of Complete Control
and holy cannoli so much more.
OUT OF PRINT (please check back, we may have more available soon!)
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ISSUE ONE: DEBUT [OUT OF PRINT]
MP1 was published in late October 2005 and includes such brain jams as:
++John Bylander’s Against Style: The First Installment
++ Megslist.org : Online Dating for Feminists by Megan Milks
++ Zhenya’s Kunstcamera: a graphic novel excerpt
++ Xiu Xiu‘s “Muppet Face”: a music video storyboard by Chris Cruse
++ Southern Freaks tour: First Stop>> Richmond, VA by John Bylander
++ Leeyanne Moore‘s Fabulous Fabulist Manifesto
and that’s just the beginning….
OUT OF PRINT
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