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Mildred Pierce: Issue Four: Comedy and the Grotesque
This issue features cover art by Edie Fake, inside cover art by Eamon Espey; its 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, illustration and art by Noel Freibert, Carrie Fucile, Zach Hazard, Gerry Mak, Sarah Magida, Jason Miles, and Ed Choy Moorman
and more!
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, illustration and art by Noel Freibert, Carrie Fucile, Zach Hazard, Gerry Mak, Sarah Magida, Jason Miles, and Ed Choy Moorman
and more!
80 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 2011
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February 4, 2014
This zine investigates the overlapping and interplay between comedy and the grotesque, often from a perspective of mild social deviance. If you doubt the relationship between comedy and the grotesque, go meditate on the Gremlins franchise. Or watch some Evil Dead.
But this out-of-print zine is well worth tracking down for Megan Milks's essay Barf Transitive, on eating disorders and feminist literary theory—specifically the intersection of bulimia and logorrhea. Interesting that she notes that women are more often accepted upon exhibiting "anorexic" prose stylings; she notes Gertrude Stein and Clarice Lispector among others. She does note a few exceptions—Marguerite Young— but also that the phallocentric literary establishment has effectively buried such femme maximalists. For shame.
Maybe Barf Transitive will be republished sometime? As a point of reference, the essay dissects a blog post (which later became a chapbook) by Kate Zambreno who wrote about the zine Barf Manifesto which was about a screed by Eileen Myles called "Everyday Barf".
There is a lot I could say about this particular essay but I will state simply that as a reader, I can identify.
Other worthwhile stuff in this particular zine includes a series of interviews with the musician / performance artist Sabrina Chap.
The cartoon by Ed Choy Moorman is hilarious—kids find mom's dildo and play menagerie.
There is an interview with the artist Pippi Zornoza, who does intricate lattice-like illustrations that sometimes involve her own menstrual blood.
James Tadd Acox's short piece "The Deathful Hand of Fu-Manchu" is the sole piece of found/constrained writing herein. Each line of the story is a sentence which isolates the sentences of Sax Rohmer's novel The Insidious Fu-Manchu which make mention of Fu-Manchu. What kind of fiend was this Dr. Fu-Manchu? In truth and in justice I am compelled to say that Fu-Manchu was absolutely fearless.
But this out-of-print zine is well worth tracking down for Megan Milks's essay Barf Transitive, on eating disorders and feminist literary theory—specifically the intersection of bulimia and logorrhea. Interesting that she notes that women are more often accepted upon exhibiting "anorexic" prose stylings; she notes Gertrude Stein and Clarice Lispector among others. She does note a few exceptions—Marguerite Young— but also that the phallocentric literary establishment has effectively buried such femme maximalists. For shame.
Maybe Barf Transitive will be republished sometime? As a point of reference, the essay dissects a blog post (which later became a chapbook) by Kate Zambreno who wrote about the zine Barf Manifesto which was about a screed by Eileen Myles called "Everyday Barf".
There is a lot I could say about this particular essay but I will state simply that as a reader, I can identify.
Other worthwhile stuff in this particular zine includes a series of interviews with the musician / performance artist Sabrina Chap.
The cartoon by Ed Choy Moorman is hilarious—kids find mom's dildo and play menagerie.
There is an interview with the artist Pippi Zornoza, who does intricate lattice-like illustrations that sometimes involve her own menstrual blood.
James Tadd Acox's short piece "The Deathful Hand of Fu-Manchu" is the sole piece of found/constrained writing herein. Each line of the story is a sentence which isolates the sentences of Sax Rohmer's novel The Insidious Fu-Manchu which make mention of Fu-Manchu. What kind of fiend was this Dr. Fu-Manchu? In truth and in justice I am compelled to say that Fu-Manchu was absolutely fearless.
March 15, 2014
Oh hey, Mildred Pierce found its way onto Goodreads! This is my favorite issue. I still have a couple if anyone wants one.
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