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Peter Friel Young Zine

Peter Friel Zine, $2


Freakmaster Flex Peter Friel delivers this mini-exhibition catalog from his show @ the Golden Age window. This short but sweet publication truly comes with a cherry on top, click the image to the left to see what I mean.

Animalya Weimar

Weimar, Animalya, $8

Animalaya is far away country where amazing creatures live.

Patrick Dewitt Help Yourself Help Yourself

Patrick DeWitt, Help Yourself Help Yourself, $8


'The way Help Yourself Help Yourself animates the formal strategies and psych-outs employed by your average advice-giver with news and language too deep, restless, far ranging, cool, and beautiful to reach completion inside such strict assignments results in something truly fresh, something that gave me a reading experience as shivery and enlivening as I've had in a long time.' -Dennis Cooper

Sede no 2

Sede no 2, $5

Content from:
Saken, interview to editors from swedish magazine while in Buenos Aires
Synesthesis, to perceive a color or shape when hearing a sound
La Pobre Choli, small-town narration from the 50' cable tv
Liner notes from film showings of the month Julian Gatto.
Notes: translations and drawings.

Contributors: Emanuel Almborg, Nicolas Cohen, Julian Gatto, Oskar Karlin, Juan Moralejo, Laura Palacios, Guillermo Ueno.

Sede No 3

Sede 3, $5

Content from:
Mark Borthwick, photographer, musician, poet, cook. interview in new york
The Moss Garden, chocolate and ginger cake recipe
Internet Two, free content participation
Conversations, random dialogues
Lucio v. Mansilla, causerie from 1894 where he tells his beginnings as a journalist

Contributors: Guillermina baiguera, Mark Borthwick, Nicolas Cohen, Julian Gatto, Juan Moralejo

Sede no 4

Sede 4, $5

Content includes:
Italo-Argentine, pictures taken between 1950- 60
Pasta recipe
Mono-kultur, interview-based magazine from berlin,
Interview with the editor exercises in style
R eview of the book Raymond que-neau written in 1947
Vicente Grondona, interview with painter and sculptor
Tan Breve Musica, traveler notes from meda-nos, Bahia Blanca and Buratovich

Contributors: Ana Armendariz, Nicolas Dominguez, Melina Dorfman, Juan Moralejo, Coty Pace, Kai Von Rabenau, Guillermo Ueno, Italo Viale

Sede no 5

Sede no. 5, $5

Content from:
Maximo Pedraza, Artist From Tucuman
Random Breakfast: Sandwich, Croissant Or Toast
Fantastic Man & Butt, Interview With Gert Jonkers
In Buenos AiresTourist, Vacation Photos From Northern Argentina
Cats Notes, Various Historical Facts About Cats

Contributors: Melina Dorfman, Julian Gatto, Gert Jonkers, Juan Moralejo, Amalia Sato, Maximo Tuja

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Glaciers of Nice Speak Your Own Language

Speak Your Own Language, Glaciers of Nice , $14

Special re-stock on this rad book and 7". It's a total freakfest that this book AND 7" is sold at $14! Deal City population you! Edition of 500.

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Mikie Poland Pizza Zine

Mikie Poland , Pizza Zine, $10

Mikie Poland of gooddrawers.com recently dropped off this book full of drawings of people barfing, tempting situations, skateboarding, the devil, camping, witchcraft, and most of the other things that people find interesting and/or wild. Xerox pages with a hand sewn cover made from a pizza box. Pardon the stains it was a delicious read! ;)

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Robin Cameron, a Monument to Not Thinking

Robin Cameron, The Monument for Not Thinking, $5

Color/bw photocopy zine about never ending cycles, obtaining power through dreams, astrology and dominant themes in art history. There are some very nice drawings inside.

RobinCameronthenevermind

Robin Cameron, The Never Mind, $10

Book with drawing, writing and transcribed conversations. Come in an envelope with b/w foldout poster, click book for detail. first edition of 250.



Robin Cameron The Blown Mind

Robin Cameron, The Blown Mind, $20

There's a lot of love in this book. It's a substantial progression of transcribed interactions, drawings, collage style mashers, still life drawings, venn diagrams and polygons with legs.

 

 

Won Magazine Volume 1 Issue 2


Won Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2, Autumn 2008, $8

Featuring: Daniel Wang, Will Sweeney, Aaron Rose, Ken Werner, Mårten Lange, The Changes, Nienke Klunder, Robert Cook, Thobias Fäldt, Amanda Maxwell, Linus Bill, Jeremie Egry, Andrew Long, Thomas Baldischwyler, Ben Barretto, Hoger Czukay, Vernon Treweeke, Deanna Templeton, Matt Wolf, Rosemary Scanlon, Sarah Larnarch, Martin Bell. 27cm X 38cm. 92 pages. Full colour.

Won Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1

Won Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1. December 2007, $8

Featuring: World Food, Dylan Martorell, Nathan Gray, Hamburger Eyes, Mimmo Cozzolino, Per Englund, Jesse Marlow, Amanda Maxwell, Thomas Stavnes, Tristan Ceddia, Conor O’Brien, Christopher Day, Stefan Marx, Black Dice, MaterialByProduct, Corey Arnold, Vladmaster, Alex Vivian, Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez, Danielle Freakley, Jon Bauer. 27cm X 38cm. 80 pages. Full colour.

 

 

Luke Fischbeck Totally #4

Totally #4, Luke Fischbeck, $8

Issue four of "totally" ingenerating by Luke Fischbeck (lucky dragons, sumi ink club) is now available! cyan and magenta on yellow paper... first edition limited to 100 copies...

 

 

Show them to me in the Sunlight, Sarah Rara, $7

the latest zine from sarah rara (birds of prey / sumi ink club)... page after page of fantasy tunic designs, with a fold-out pattern-universe poster!

 

 

 Körner Union/Samuel Nyholm

Kö>Mix Sany>Mix, $8

Korner Union (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Samuel Nyholm / Reala (Sockholm, Sweden)

This Comic/Erotic/Poet zine is a collaboration between Körner Union and Reala. It features the comics Mickey Has a Gun, Factorius and Cornel + the pictorial sequence Érotisme de Mal. Körner Union is a swiss team, working mostly with illustration, photography and art. Samuel Nyholm is part of the swedish design collective Reala. All are teachers at ECAL in Lausanne and founding members of the New Thing movement.

 

 

Frederic Fleury Obnivorious

Obnivorious, Frédéric Fleury, $8

Frédéric Fleury lives and works in Dunkerque, France. He runs with Emmanuelle Pidoux a publishing house called editions of 57, and is one of the founding members of the famous Frederic Magazine drawing collective. This artist takes a new look at the common perception of drawing, questioning this medium continuously.

This new zine, Obnivorious, has somehow the structure of a short comic book. The recognizable themes deal with creation, old myths and subterranean worlds.

 

 

Ryan Foerster Rats in the Hallway

Ryan Foerster, Rats in the Hallway Zine, $3

Photos of rats, in a hallway, taken with a digital surveillance camera, along with video stills from (punk) rock shows that took place in 1999. You could say one aspect of the zine is more metaphorical, and the other aspect, is not.

 

 

Ryan Foerster Black and Blue

Ryan Foerster, SI Zine (Black and Blue from Show at Swiss Institute), $3

Zine from Foerster's show at the Swiss Institute. NOW available at Golden Age and as always, high quality and limited quantity.

 

 

Marius Engh Figureheads

Figureheads, Marius Engh, $20

New book from Torpedo Press. 28 page monograph of Marius Engh's work. Edition of 200.

 

 

Cro Mag from Marius Engh and Anders Smebye

Cro-Mag, Marius Engh and Anders Smebye, $10

A tender publication from Norwegian Mega-Artists Marius Engh and Anders Smebye detailing the evolution of humanity from Pre-History to now. Engh and Smebye use the word Cro-Mag as a starting point for research about music, (The band CRO-MAGs) bikers, (there are a lot of people on motorcycles with loincloths) and the lifestyle of people slightly older than 50.

 

 

Capricious Number 8

Capricious 8, $19,

Capricious is an international fine art photography publication for emerging artists. The subject of this huge sized unbound photo publication is Animals! The loose unbound pages of this issue turn into posters that fold out to be put on the wall of your tavern, apartment, house or mobile home!

Contributing artists are Olaf Breuning, Elspeth Diederix, Charlotte Dumas, Todd Fisher, Oran Hoffmann, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström, and others..

 

 

Asher Penn The Heart Wants

Asher Penn, The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants, $5

Large Photo newsprint publication from Asher Penn.

 

 

Asher Penn, The Philadelphia Drawings

Asher Penn, The Philadelphia Drawings, $5,

Asher Penn's drawings from a time spent in Philadelphia.

 

 

Asher Penn Before and After

Asher Penn , Before & After, $5,

Series of altered fashion photos from the NYC based artist.

 

 

Wikipedia Reader, Various Artists, $30,

For this project the publisher asked artists with varying interests to create a thread of linking Wikipedia articles starting with something they found interest in, and continuing to other topics from links within the page. The results are a group of similar or dissimilar topics that are all linked together linearly. This is a really fresh, tasteful book. Edition of 100!

Contributions by:
Uta Barth, Ginny Cook, Krysten Cunningham, Ken Ehrlich, Luke Fischbeck & Sarah Ra Ra, Brendan Fowler, Emilie Halpern, Lindsay Ljungkull, Guthrie Lonergan, Laurel Nakadate and John Sisley.

 

 

Spring Break, Noah Furman, Free with any order over $25

Sprink Break is a super-duper cool newsprint publication curated byRobert Snowden. Each issue showcases a different artist and is distributed in the city of the artist's choosing. We're totally hyped for this issue! Chicago based Noah Furman! Woooooo!

FREE!

 

 

Love Explosion, Alex Da Corte and Jack Sloss, $5

Exhibition catalogue from Alex Da Corte and Jack Sloss' show @ Fleisher-Ollman Gallery entitled Love Expolsion. Essays from William Pym, KRS-ONE and others. Includes the most powerful email in the world.

 

 

Ola Vasiljeva Zine, $8,

First solo zine from The Kingsboro Press, 18 page, full color drawings by amsterdam-based artist Ola Vasiljeva. hand numbered in an edition of 100.

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Bernard Fuchs, Streets and Trail, $20

The fourth publication from Hassla, Streets and Trails by Bernhard Fuchs. This is Bernhard Fuchs' third monograph.

 

 

Kingsboro #3, $12

64 pages of riso printed glory and features interviews and work with artists like Inka Jarvinen, C.W. Winter, Kim Hiorthoy, Karma International, plus writing from KBoro regulars like Alex Gartenfeld, Yan Yan, and Jonathan Basile.

 

 

All Of Us Together Broken Hearted, Geoff McFetridge, $8


Published on occasion of the Nieves Library at Ooga Booga in Los Angeles March 7th – April 3rd, 2008.

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Lady in Dark, Mari Eastman, $8

Published on occasion of the Nieves Library at Ooga Booga in Los Angeles March 7th – April 3rd, 2008.

 

 

Cosmic Wonder Free Press #1, $18

The new unconventional periodical publication Cosmic Wonder Free Press was produced to lay out the three projects with visuals. It is the first in a series of special collaborations between Cosmic Wonder and Nieves. Cosmic Wonder Free Press will be published with free pace and free format as its title suggests.

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Daddy IV, $15

Launched by Javier Peres in February 2007, published quarterly by Peres Projects Holdings Ltd, Andorra in limited editions of only 2000 copies made just for YOU! Guest edited by Franz West, softcover, 186 pages.

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Bend the Void, Geoff McFetridge, $14

From poetry to animation, from graphics to 3D work, from textile and wallpaper to paintings, graphic artist Geoff McFetridge has complete control over these widely divergent disciplines. In the past ten years, Los Angeles-based McFetridge has created in his free work and in his commissions a unique imagery, which is detailed and abstract at the same time.

 

 

Textfield V, $15

Fifth issue of Jonathan Maghen's L.A.-based conceptual design and arts magazine. Contributors include Stuart Bailey, Nakako Hayashi, Eduardo Sarabia, Amy Yao, Manuel Raeder, Emily Mast, Oumi, Slobodan Milosevic, and more. Softcover, black & white, 6.5" x 9.5", 128 pages, 2006.

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Rabbit and Turtle, Yukari Miyagi, $20

Tokyo based Yukari Miyagi (1965) is a prolific and talented freelance illustrator, with a very elegant and distinctive, almost child-like style. In the last few years Miyagi's dreamy illustrations became a constant presence in Japanese magazines, books as well as international publications.

 

 

Illnesstrations, Mike Taylor, $5.50

Screen-printed zine about celebrity dietary restrictions, slow film, skateboarding, feminisms, hip hop, police love, pregnancy, and punk as social control, relatives (and how to treat them), fantastic desserts, Philip K. Dick, the Internet, wars over water, gardening, class issues, casual poetry, finance, pretending to be poor, and pretending to be nice. Printed January 2008 in Providence, RI.

 

 

Night Mewves, Beau LaBute, $8

The work of Beau LaBute (Welland, Canada. 1977) is about repetition, layering, obscuring, recombining. This becomes increasingly more evident in the pages of Night Mewves, through which pages the artist takes us for a ride into some of his newer, darker and looser drawings.

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Keegan McHargue Zine, $8

Emerging San Francisco based artist Keegan McHargue (Portland, 1982) has been depicted as “a magnificent maker of intense, busily illustrated drawings and paintings that warp perspective and combine imagery more as if in a dream than in reality.

 

 

Architecture, Ari Marcopolous, $8

Zine made to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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Foolproof Guide to Cooking a Steak, Mamiko Otsubo, $17

This exhibition catalog is two books mashed into each other. Which makes this book very affordable. The first book is a 60 page visual catalog and essay by Jennifer Gross. The other is a descriptive artist's statement on how to cook a steak in a foolproof manner, which edges in at regular intervals.

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Orcas Zine, Lori D, $10

Illustrated 108 page story by Lori D(amiano) telling the humorous and action-packed tale of her epic motorcycle adventure from Vancouver B.C. to Orcas Island.


Mystic Mayhem, collected and produced by Robin Newman, $4

Super duper mystic. 26 page B&W beautifully printed glossy.
Featuring: Actually Huizenga, Aurel Schmidt, Brent Wadden (MOSTGHOST),
CROSSOVER, Derek Corns, Devon Varmega, Kari Altmann (BLACKMOTH), Kitty Clark
Matt Lock, Mehdi Hedberg/ShoboShobo, Robin Newman and Terence Koh.


Yucca Town Meeting #1, Sarah Ra Ra, $2

Line drawing cascade with powercutout cover.

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Paperback, $20

Brand new London-based art magazine that emphasizes visual content by printing all explanatory text and credits in a separate "text" section at the end of the magazine. The result is that drawings, paintings, collages, and photographs are allowed to flow from one idea to another and from one artist to another without the distraction of an editorial voice. Contributing artists include Nina Jan Beier, Marie Jan Lund, Susan Cianciolo, Yamataka EYE, Harrell Fletcher, Brendan Fowler, Chikara Iwai, Chris Johanson, Miranda July, Jirí Kovanda, Nicola Pecoraro, Tal R, and Ben Sansbury. Contributing photographers include Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Mark Borthwick, Benjamin Deberdt, Ooki Jingu, Tuukka Kaila, Masayuki Shinoda, and Chikashi Suzuki. With writings by Shinji Chiba, Francesca Gavin, Kaoko Higashi, Kris Latocha, Paul Pieroni, Kei Sato, Simon Rigsbi-Taffelau, and Oliver Watson.

Sucking in the 70's, Jeremy Blake, $30

Jeremy Blake’s 'script' (series of scripted drawings) Sucking In the Seventies was exhibited at Recent Works, May 14th to July 1st 1999, Copenhagen. Sucking In the Seventies consists of 21 drawings.

Dedicated to the memory of Jeremy Blake and Theresa L. Duncan

What is Authority?, Henrik Olesen, $50

The writing of history, politics and culture have in the past concentrated on the male heterosexual subject. That is who we learn about in schools, history books and what we experience in the art museums and on TV. That is who has been chosen to represent our shared history. But what about all the others – where are they in the cultural landscape?
My projects have ranged over an area between art and politics, and have examined the representation of minorities within the democratic societal structure: how does legislation characterize certain social groupings and what are the consequences of these heterosexual, normalizing power structures? I have focused on identity as a mechanism of exclusion in modern histories of culture and art and for example I have analysed the representation of minorities in the archiving of art in the museums of art, and investigated the presentation of minorities in the media. These art projects have been an attempt to question the art-historical structures within the institution of culture." Henrik Olesen, January 2002.

Content and texts by:

Sabeth Buchmann: How to do Art with Information?
Bill Arning: Chris Burden’s Seedy Allure, (or how I learned to love conceptual art)Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset in conversation with Henrik Olesen: Somehow I feel that strengthening homosexual culture is more urgent than using my energy to persuade some homophobic psychopaths to be nicer, more understanding guys.Lars Erik Frank: Marginal note - The exclusion of gays and lesbians in gay-marital Denmark
Zygmunt Bauman: After the Nation-state - What?
Florian Waldvogel: Zollverein Coking Plant

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16 Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel, Danielle Aubert, $50.

Danielle Aubert creates beautiful drawings using the limitations of Microsoft Excel. Hardcover, white cloth with gold foil in an edition of 350.




A Social Event Archive # 3, Curated By David Robbins, Project by Paul Druecke, $15.

In this volume, artist/critic David Robbins curates a selection of Paul Druecke's archive of over 700 family/event photos. Edition of 500.


Appendix Appendix, Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey, $50

A proposal for a TV series by Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey. A Christoph Keller edition, published by JRP Ringier.

Blue Kitten Photos # 3, Deanna Templeton, $20

Deanna Templeton's third small, self-published book of photographs gleaned from her travels around the world with inside views of the skateboarding and gallery scenes, as well as the whole panoply of the human condition. Hyper limited-edition.


Death Disco, Paul Harper and Andrea Heller, $14

For Death Disco a clairvoyant was employed to contact 10 dead rock stars to find out each of their current top ten songs or pieces of music. The information received from the clairvoyant forms the content of this book.

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Detroit, IE Infastructure, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, $6

Excerpt from the editor's introduction:
"Proliferation is precisely what was on the table last spring, when a group of Detroit-based artists, writers, and architects, decided to assemble and publish a cultural arts journal, reflecting things in Detroit and around the world that interested us."

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Dot Dot Dot 13, Dexter Sinister, $15

Bi-annual independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature. Issue 13 includes contributions from Sven Augustijnen, Gerard Byrne, G.K. Chesteron, Heman Chong, Chris Evans, Benjamin Franklin, George Maciunas, and Emily Pethick among others.

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Dot Dot Dot 14, Dexter Sinister, $16.95

Bi-annual independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature. Issue 14 includes contributions from David Reinfurt, Dmitri Siegel, Robin Kinross, Stuart Bailey, Graham Meyer, and Ryan Gander among others.

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Jacking Operations, Just Let Me Find Out, This Difficult Stage and Can it Be/Act Like You Know by Ethan Swan $1 each.

If music makes you lose control THESE ZINES ARE FOR YOU!!

Please Select a Title

Also check his blog.


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Video zine, by Ingo Giezendanner aka GRRR, $1.

A literary infomerical about the frustration caused by household electronics.


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High Horse # 9, Edited by Emma Jackson and Isabel Waidner, $4

The High Horse is an independent quarterly newspaper journal.

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I Want to Know the Habits of Other Girls, Dewayne Slightweight, $10

Cd + oversized comic. Beautifully dense drawings and operatic electronic music.

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In the Westlands, Dan Gleason, $3

A wistful tale of the wanderings within Mr.Gleason's mental meta-desert.

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Betty Smocker Memorial Cookbook, The Lauren Anderson Society, $15

This book was independently pulished by The Lauren Anderson Society in memoriam Betty Smocker.

Mexican Love Story, Holly Stevenson, $14

Monograph from New York based Artist Holly Stevenson. Pulished by Nieves in conjunction with her July 2006 Show at the Riviera Gallery entitled Haunted Hallway.

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Modus, concept Marina Leuenberger, $15

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Neue Kust Halle St. Gallen curated by globe trotting hottie, Gianni Jetzer.

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The New Administration of Aesthetics, edited by Tone Hansen and Trude Iversen. $35

This publication is a continuation of the different contributions presented at the conference The New Administration of Aesthetics held in Olso in April 2006, it is an anthology that poses questions about the recent changes in the art institution.

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Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back, Ed Templeton, $20

Ed Templeton's new book. Ed and some of the guys from Emerica went on a motorcycle tour from Denver to Chicago. Pretty excellent yeah.

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Partially Built Woodshed - On Robert Smithson,$5

A Scandanavian homage to Smithson, published by Torpedo on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name.

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FOERSTER zine, Ryan Foerster, $3

"Juan is Columbian-Canadian. We were having a nude jumping jack contest. He did over 300 and then he moved to P.E.I."

the colonial

The Colonial Issue 1, $8

Punk rock journal featuring contributions from Rick Potts, Richard Prince, Terence Koh and others.

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treasury of american birds
A Little Treasury of American Birds, Sarah Anderson, $5

A beautifully assembled little field guide to our local birds...

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Your Logo Here, Deanna Templeton, $20

The photographs in the book explore the phenomenon of young boys and girls getting company logos sprayed on their skin. It is from her ongoing series, "Body Logos".

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Kingsboro Press Fall 2007, Co-Edited by cohorts Megan Plunkett and Daniel Wagner, $3

The second issue of The Kingsboro Press includes contributions from Alex Gartenfeld, Milano Chow, and others with a insert poster (yeah!) and new work from Scott Barry.

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