Autumn 2022 Masthead

Published by: Monkeyshines Media, Inc.
Edited by: Jonathan Russell & Michele Wilson
Designed by: MacPhoenix Design

Autumn 2022 Featuring:

Cover artist: Christopher Fahey gives us the digital painting “Smudge.”
Chris’s company, Crucial Designs, creates positive images, posters, and clothing that brings smiles to people faces and brings us together. He loves to create and share his work with you. Chris was recently featured in this story on ABC News about some of his art projects!

Autumn 2022 Contributors:

• Corey Gene Monaco contributed the prologue, “The Shrouded Lands,” to his epic story Coterminous.

• Estelle Clark contributed the third part of the serialized short story, “Moonlit Redemption.”

• Monkeyshines editor, Jonathan, contributed a photograph he titled, “Wudda Night.”

• Megan O’Brien contributed the set of haiku, “Haiku in Three Seasons.”
  Megan has been writing poetry since age eight and has always loved reading, writing, and language. She has studied ASL and Spanish and is fascinated by the intricacies and subtleties of language, especially English. She keeps a journal of her favorite quotes, phrases and poems.

• Exclusive to Monkeyshines, our very own Druid, Painted Birch, contributed the Autumn Animal Oracle.

• Snafu77 contributed the painting, “The Year of Copper.”
  Evan Campanella, known as the artist Snafu77, paints in the vernacular that is street art. Through image and symbol he vamps through many of current societal issues. Bio courtesy of Patchogue Art Council.

• Tobias Ferrari contributed both the digital painting, “Hello, World,” and the drawing, “Moving Through the World.”
  Tobias Ferrari works in Medium/Low-Fi tech art. His hand-drawn works inspire and are also inspired by the music of his alter ego, Dudley Ghost. All are connected. Auto-da-fé.

Thank you

We’re extremely grateful to Cool Beans in Sayville and übergeek Brewing in Riverhead for taking in some copies of our zine so their customers can enjoy a nice oddity with their beverages, and thank you to Hannah, Corey, and Rob for helping out with that.

There were some behind-the-scenes troubles that delayed part of the website update, and so we want to give an extra thanks to our contributor, Megan O’Brien, who we failed to credit on the site for a couple of months! You’ve been very patient, Megan, and your contributions mean a lot to us.

Colophon

• The color scheme is codenamed Pale Horse and is based on hex-colors #a8270a and #eee9f4. We used a complementary color, #bedfbd, as the background of the website, which provided a good contrast to the rusty red color and the black of our text.

• The typefaces used in both the magazine and web site are: Crimson Pro, Coolvetica, and Lumiera.

• Additionally the magazine uses: Zilla Slab, Mali, and Powell Antique.

• The Monkeyshines text logo is set in Amoba.

• The zine was designed using Affinity Publisher and Designer. Photo manipulation was done with Pixelmator Pro. The website was designed and coded using Panic Nova and Jekyll. All this and more done on my trusty iMac.

Principles

• We believe in the Oxford comma and single spaces after a period.
• Ragged right is easier to read.
• Privacy is the default, not the exception.
• Free is free from conditionals.