We have expanded our operation to include a bookstore and publishing company. Self Definition We are not a business but a union of artists, writers and musicians operating under the […]
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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
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
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.
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
Beginning now, we will feature on the banner images from one artist through all four of the year’s issues. The first of these is Phil Blank, whose Historical Surrealism paintings
The masthead art is again by Meryl Gross, who just will not quit, no matter how much we beg her. But beggars are not losers, this time.
This issue’s masthead image is again from Meryl Gross, # 6 from her Jersey Shore series. It sure is Halloweeny.
On riper reflection, it became clear to us that issuing one’s opinions in an editorial is simply a way of crowing from the top of one’s dung-heap: an understandable but
Beginning our second year of publication, with our program defined and refined in practice, we take this opportunity to express it explicitly. The name of this journal, 96th of October,
The Octobrist Manifesto Read More »