Summer 2026: The Five Year Plan
This issue’s banner is a detail from Derek Owens’ Nightmare Fishes at the Robot Hotel. We began publishing 96th of October in the winter of 2020. It was then our […]
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Spring 2026
Derek Owens, The Natural World The banners for 2026 will be from the work of Derek Owens, whose magic-realist fiction and AI work, in both image and animation, have been
Winter 2025
The banner of this issue concludes Meryl Gross’ year at the helm. In 2026 Derek Owens will be our artistic helmsman. This year we have been pleased to include more
Spring 2025
With this issue we begin a year of banners created by Meryl Gross, who has mastered the art of composing A-I-kus (the haikus of the modern world) to bamboozle image
Winter 2024: 96th of October Editions
We have expanded our operation to include a bookstore and publishing company. These should be a functioning part of the site by January 1, 2025.
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Autumn 2024
Jim Cheff has created the vista of pumpkins on this issue’s banner. We’ve now been publishing for five years: the first issue appeared in the Autumn of 2020. We figured
Winter 2023
This concludes the Year of Phil Blank, master of the psychedelic sketchbook, who has provided our banner art for the four 2023 issues. This image is a detail from the
Autumn 2023
We continue our tour of Phil Blank’s sketchbooks, choosing from among the wealth of images those that hit the gnostic, spooky note appropriate to the season.
Summer 2023
We now begin a tour of the notebooks of Phil Blank, which will continue through the end of this calendar year. See Phil’s Creator Page to learn more about him