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Street art, Valencia Spain

Cory — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:12:03 +0000

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Picture Book #4

Cory — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:45:09 +0000

Open publication – Free publishing – More monofonus

Palm: Haiku by Grant Cross

Cory — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:53:45 +0000

Grant Cross writes haiku
to make sense of the madness
He loves swimming best

arrived in Texas
day after his first birthday
born in Illinois

grew up in the burbs
moved to the Northwest, moved back
will die in the sky

writes to stay alive
works only when he has to
wiggles & wiggles

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William Z. Saunders “Bad Jobs”

Cory — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:32:33 +0000

The first installment of William Z. Saunders’ “Bad Jobs” recollects being punk in the rural south and other bad jobs….With illustrations by Mike Aho Bad Job (badge-awb) n.“When I was an itty-bitty baby boy, learning to talk, I needed a word or phrase for describing what came out when I went #2. My folks told me to call it a bad job. I was already calling my ding-dong a winky-tinky, and everybody kept calling me pooh-bear, so no wonder I became a total perv! My sister and I both called it a bad job, like one word. When asked what we were doing in there we would reply…”I was doing a bad job.” What was I gonna do but lose?”

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GayBiGayGay!!!

Ross — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:20:27 +0000

It’s that time of year again: For many, the month of March in Austin means SXSW; for others it means GayBiGayGay. For the past six years, our friend Hazey Fairless has opened up her East Austin backyard to the likes of Erase Errata, Diamond Rings, Big Freedia, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Shunda K from Yo Majesty, Dynasty Handbag, and other big-name queer acts, offering homemade food, cold beer and southern hospitality to a motley throng of queers, queens, dykes, divas, breeders, bois, and anybody else who thinks sitting on a blanket on a sunny Sunday surrounded by nice people listening to free music sounds like a good idea.

Each year the party, which Hazey co-hosts with the performance artist Silky Shoemaker, gets bigger. Last year, the crowd neared 1,000. 2011 marks the first time that GBGG won’t be in Hazey’s yard; instead, the free, all-ages gathering is being relocated to a … well, a larger yard, farther east. And on this, the dawn of the new GayBiGayGay, Monofonus Press has created a document to honor the collaborative spirit we have admired for so long. Featuring photographs by Ben Aqua and Amber Rademacher, GAYBYGAYGAY: Portraits of a Backyard Gaytopia celebrates what makes GayBiGayGay so goddamned special.

Tim Kerr

Ross — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:24:53 +0000

Your Name Here holds Tim Kerr within its covers. These pages are filled with Tim’s bold, creative artwork that contain social commentary with figures from both past and present. Tim tells a story with his loose hand and signature tempura paints. Tim’s compiled work acts as bit of a visual history lesson.” This edition of the book includes a cassette compilation of Tim’s favorite songs from his many musical endeavors. Browse through the book in its entirety above, and order it here.

Andy Rihn

Will — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:11:23 +0000

Andy Rihn’s book, The Tiger’s Last Tooth, mixes his fine-lined black and white drawings with the lonesome Texas absurdity of the writing, to blister the bygone sense of now. The book includes the Secrecy CD!

Through December 31, this book is free if you order Jules Buck Jones’ Everglades.

Jules Buck Jones

Drew — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:36:50 +0000

Conceived of as a continuous drawing spanning 98 pages, Jules Buck Jones’ mind-blowing mixed-media book Everglades chronicles his residency in Everglades National Park in the summer of 2009. During this residency, Jones spent the park’s off-season living alone in a bunker where scorpions and frogs covered the walls and hawks circled the front yard. He passed his days canoeing among alligators, crocodiles, sharks, and 15-foot Burmese pythons and his nights searching for the rare Florida Panther. The work this wildlife inspired combines the illustrative precision of field guides with the expressive nuance of nonrepresentational art.

Each full-color, hardcover edition includes a CD of music Jones wrote in the ‘glades. Everglades is available as a limited edition of 500 copies.

Through December 31, any purchase of Everglades includes free copies of Andy Rihn’s The Tiger’s Last Tooth and Tim Kerr’s Your Name Here.

Jill Pangallo

Will — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:03:28 +0000

Let Me Entertain You book

An assortment of monologues, poetry, creative writing, e-mails, drawings, and miscellanea collected by Jill Pangallo on the occasion of and as inspiration for her show of the same name.

Includes Contributions from:

Mike Albo – Dan Boehl – Eric Bryant – Karen Davidson – Hilary Graham – Josh Kilmer-Purcell – Michelle Marchesseault – Holly McKinley – Ann Stephenson – Diana Welch – Alex P. White