Orlando people: don’t forget tonight. Stephen Elliott reads from his new memoir The Adderall Diaries at 9pm at Stardust. This event is free and open to the public. Come out! I promise you will not want to miss this!

Read the reviews:

San Francisco Chronicle

Bookslut

Time Out New York

Washington Post

Boston Globe

HTMLGIANT

Fanzine

Hats off to the esteemed Jeff Hamada over at Booooooom for giving us some cyber ink over the weekend. Thanks Jeff!

On an unrelated note, apologies for the radio silence for the last couple days. I had some personal, but in no way unfortunate, business to take care of. To make up for it there’s lots of good content on the docket for this week. Keep your peepers pealed!

Designers Ben Pieratt and Eric Jacobsen have taken it upon themselves to archive some of the best book covers of recent memory over at The Book Cover Archive. While most bloggers are satisfied writing pithy reviews of book covers (ahem) BCA simply lets the cover speak for itself, as well as providing useful information as to who actually designed what. Well done fellas. Now go waste your morning at this place.

We’re still pretty darn excited about all the exciting things happening around here lately that we’re going keep the excitement going with the announcement of the exciting roster of writers and imagers for issue five, an issue that we’re a little more than excited about!

FICTION

Everything Is So Goddamn Great
Story by Megan Stielstra
Images by Josh Letchworth

Line of Scrimmage
Story by BJ Hollars
Images by Chase Heavener

Craig was a Retard
Story by Jay Riggio
Images by Bryan Soderlind

What I Love About History
Story by Angi Becker Stevens
Images by Sarah McNeil

Grillz
Story by Laura Owen
Images by Suzanne Walsh

Larry
Story by Jill Summers
Images by Max Kaufman

The King of the Jews
Story by Dan Moreau
Images by Josh Letchworth

Barber vs. Heart Disease
Story by William Walsh
Images by Alexander Martinez

Waste
Story by Amelia Gray
Images by Lauren Nassef

We Will All Get Better and Then We Will Get Worse
Story by Kuzhali Manickavel
Images by Erika Somogyi (above image taken from this story)

NON-FICTION

Mi Madrileno
Essay by Molly Each
Image by Nate Twombly

Reimagining the National Border Patrol Museum
Essay by Anne Elizabeth Moore
Images by Wheat Wurtzburger

PHOTO

Punta Cometa by Jaime Martinez

ART

Dawn of Man by Danny Jones

Holyfuckingshitthisisgoingtobesogoodyoudon’tevenknow!

Issue #3 contributor and all around fantastic artist owleyes has exploded onto the blogosphere in the last few months with andiamonds. Certainly interesting to get a looksee into all the freaky things that influence his work.

Enjoy your freaky Friday and equally freaky weekend!

Surely you didn’t think we were done with business cards after the Kluge. The Mama’s boys hooked me up with bookbinder extrodinaire Monica Holtsclaw of Boombox Bindery to do some gilding for us. How off the sicktor chain is this? Pretty off the sicktor chain. It blows my mind that someone is doing this type of thing in my town. Thanks Monica!

Love him or hate him, he was an interesting person:

SBTCV

Epicly Laterd

Tiny Vices

NY Magazine

Mexico City recording artist Natalia Lafourcade just release her latest album entitled Hu Hu Hu. Dear friend Cara made the masks and the dress Lafourcade wears on the cover. Cara worked really hard on these and I’m very proud of her!

The masks are also featured in the video Azul (dudes won’t let me embed). The video is kinda whack (why are these twentysomethings acting like seven-year-olds?), but I think the masks are cool, they show up at the end. Congrats Cara!

Looks like the HE boys done did it. They said it couldn’t be done but I believed in them the whole time. Congrats dudes.

Did you kick in some cash? Even a dollar? If so you may have gotten some shout outs on their twitter like so:

Guess this means I’ll be stealing peoples bikes and punching them so hard they will fly up in the air. And then Ice Cube will beat me with a brick.

The news came down the pike this afternoon that Al Pacino is playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in an upcoming Showtime movie. The vid in the post showed Kevorkian talking about his artwork at a gallery opening. First off, I had no idea the guy painted. Second off, I had no idea he would be my favorite painter of all time. I would pay a VERY large amount of money to have one of these nightmare-inducing, psyche-scarring masterpieces in my possession. These were the highest res versions I could find. You still get the hellish idea.

I really only knew Kevorkian from the image he held in the media as a silver-haired, murderous, demon doctor. After watching this video, he seems like kind of an awesome guy.