Mark Maynard

The Untold History of Zines… Sean Tejaratchi on Crap Hound

By Mark | March 17, 2019

When I first started my “History of Zines” oral history project back in 2013, one of the first people I reached out to was Sean Tejaratchi, the man behind the incredibly ambitious clip art zine Crap Hound. [As someone with OCD, the obsessiveness of Crap Hound really resonated with me, and I wanted to find […]

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The Untold History of Zines…. Scott Huffines and Sarah Boonstoppel of Atomic Books

By Mark | February 3, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp, tiny sliver of it that worked its way through the protective layer of gristle surrounding my heart 20-some years ago, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of the zine folks that I knew during the golden […]

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Tying to make sense of last night’s mass murder in Colorado

By Mark | July 20, 2012

I should be spending my evening thinking about just what in the hell I’m going to do at tomorrow’s Shadow Art Fair, but I can’t stop reading about last night’s horrific events in Colorado. Predictably, a lot of people, like our friend Roger Ebert, are taking the opportunity to argue that more meaningful gun control […]

Posted in Other, Shadow Art Fair | Also tagged AceRock, Batman, Christians under attack, Colorado, Gabrielle Giffords, gun control, gun violence, How The Mind Works, insanity, killing, Louie Gohmert, Malay, Marilyn Manson, mass murder, mental illness, National Institutes of Mental Health, Papua New Guinea, Roger Ebert, Steven Pinker | 17 Comments

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