Mineshaft #48

"...a breath of fresh air from some universe next door." -Art Spiegelman Featuring a portrait of Chris Ware by Drew Friedman! From the publisher: Mining the depths for unpredictable visual and literary ore! Featuring a wrap-around cover by Simone Baumann! Plus... new work by Drew Friedman, Aaron Horkey, Kim Deitch, Mary Fleener, Christoph Mueller, Sophie Crumb, David Collier, Paul Karasik, Thomas Ott, Nathalie Tierce, Max Clotfelter, Tony O'Neill, Billy Childish, Frank Stack. Special Feature: INK AGASSIZ - Minnesota's Illustrated Underground (starring Aaron Horkey, Todd Bratrud, Jessica Seamans, Brandon Holt, Zak Sally, Malena Handeen, Mike Sutfin, Teagan White, and Dan Black)! Letters from Around the World (including R. Crumb on the Middle Ages) & MORE!!! First printing. GIANT 68 page Issue! 1,450 copies printed on offset Press, with sewn binding, in Denmark in the Summer, 2026. Cover printed on Swedish Munken Pure Rough 300 gram Cover paper with Munken Lynx Rough interior pages. "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