Mineshaft #25

From the publisher: This Special issue has amazing front cover art & logo by Sophie Crumb with front cover layout, lettering, & red overlay by R. Crumb! Also incredible stories from R. Crumb's Dream Diary (dreams include: "Dream that I was Czar Nicholas II, & dream that I fell asleep during a play," "Dream of my father on a bicycle looking for catfood," "Dream about the big library," "Dream I'm angry about houses being built in the Mer des Rochers," and "Dream of going aboard a flying saucer")! Also... CRUMB sketchbbok drawings, and a beautiful R. Crumb centerfold!!! Plus Kim Deitch reviews R. Crumb's "Genesis"! "Change You Can Believe In" by Pat Moriarity! A letter from Peter Bagge on the relationship between HIV & AIDS! Back cover art & "The Procedure" by Nina Bunjevac! "Egg Whites & Nehi" by Jay Lynch! "The Devil's Chicken" by Simon Deitch! "Dark Grounds" comic by Elizabeth Koenig! Mind bending artwork by Jim Blanchard, William Crook, Jr., Sophie Crumb, and Art Spiegelman! Bruce Simon's hilarious "The Yock Stops Here"! "Miami Nice" by Carol Tyler! Ace Backwords remembers B.N. Duncan & More!!! First printing. 52 pages. 1,100 copies printed in March, 2010. "Mineshaft is the best magazine in America. It's the only thing I read anymore." -Jay Lynch "What you are doing, which is so important, is using QUALITY art. Mineshaft is like a quiet little beacon of laser creativity that continues to burn with a purpose." -Mary Fleener "Recently I've spent time going back and reading old issues of MINESHAFT. Man, it holds up well over time, very high quality content, mercifully free of the usual commercial crap or pretentious arty-farty nonsense that pervades 99.9 percent of all print media. Mineshaft is anti-propaganda, anti-public relations. It is a modest little package speaking honest truths in words and pictures, thanks to you and Gioia's sharp editorial judgement." -Robert Crumb in a letter, January 1, 2014 "...a breath of fresh air from some universe next door." -Art Spiegelman