BrickJournal #40 (84 full-color pages, $8.95), the magazine for LEGO enthusiasts, returns to mechas and giant robots with builder BENJAMIN CHEH MING HANN, and shows you how to build mechs with builder KELVIN LOW! Then, SETH HIGGINS shows us his amazing transforming LEGO robots! Even cyborgs will love our regular features on Minifigure Customization by JARED K. BURKS, AFOLs by cartoonist GREG HYLAND, step-by-step You Can Build It instructions by CHRISTOPHER DECK, DIY Fan Art by BrickNerd TOMMY WILLIAMSON, MINDSTORMS robotics lessons, and more! Edited by Joe Meno.
Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award, the Great Lakes Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Society of Midland Author's Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the author of seven novels and two short story collections. He is also the editor of Chicago Noir: The Classics. A long-time contributor to the seminal culture magazine, Punk Planet, his other non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times and Chicago magazine. He is a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.