Spring 2022 Masthead

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

Spring 2022 Featuring:

Cover artist: Corey Houlihan is Spacewoman. She draws and designs constantly — compulsively. She enjoys the process of solving visual communication, the translation of the intended messaging into illustration and design. Her favorite medium of design and art is the t-shirt.

Center spread: 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. In She, Her, Hers he explores gender fluidity, and in January 6, he captures the anger, chaos and uncertainty surrounding our capitol on that fateful day. Bio courtesy of Patchogue Art Council

Spring 2022 Contributors:

Amie Colosa contributed the illustration, “Clean Air.” Aime is a hybrid designer and web dev; otherwise, referred to as a unicorn 🦄.
Christopher Fahey contributed the digitally altered photo, “Red Hook.”
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!
Estelle Clark contributed the first part of the serialized short story, “Moonlit Redemption.”
Jennifer Rasmussen contributed the photographic triptych, “Past,” “Present,” and “Future.”
Keith Quinn contributed four character designs from his webcomic Local Heroes. Born in New York, Keith currently lives in Texas with his pets. He sometimes creates comics (and appears at conventions) in his spare time.
Maria Robado contributed the poem “The Attic” and the photo of a sunflower.
NeoVenom contributed the illustration “In Memory of Indy and Jinx.”
Exclusive to Monkeyshines, our very own Druid, Painted Birch, contributed the Spring Animal Oracle.
Patricia Russell contributed the photo, “Morning Before Nemo.”
Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2015–2017, Robert Savino, contributed the poems “black-hearted soul” & “Vertical Man.”
Robert is a native Long Island poet, born on Whitman’s Paumanok and still fishes there, for words. Robert began writing poetry in 1965, and takes inspiration from Blake, Whitman, Rimbaud, Rexroth, Hamill, Baudelaire, Verlaine… and observations from everyday life. But it was reading Blake in high school when it began. Blake’s book of poetry became his guide as “the road to excess led to the palace of wisdom.” Everything became not as ordinary as it appeared, and he began a life sentence in a metaphoric mind.

His poems have been published widely, in print, from the Long Island Quarterly to The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, as well as online.
Tom Mattson contributed the poem “winter.”
Tommy Step contributed two poems “Tone” & “Someday.”

Thank you

This issue was difficult to put to bed, but not because of our fabulous contributors. We were deeply honored to publish their works, and when a Poet Laureate sent us a submission unsolicited, we were so pleased to see that our small publication was reaching a wider audience with each issue. Personal and environmental troubles, however, caused a great deal of friction that delayed this issue and the next. With the help of Katherine and the support of the other directors on the Board, the delays never reached a crisis point.

In better news, this issue was almost fully funded by our supporters! We cannot thank them enough. And we want to thank Hannah, Chris, and Melissa for getting copies of our zine into readers’ hands.

Colophon

The color scheme is codenamed Wilson’s Kitchen and is based on hex-colors #B05F8C and #7D4F17.
The typefaces used in both the magazine and web site are: Crimson Pro, Coolvetica, and Lumiera.
Additionally the magazine used: Zilla Slab, Times New Roman, Mali, and Powell Antique.
We had some miscellaneous typefaces in the magazine: Notulen Display, Oceanside Typewriter, and Strangeways.
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.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Humility is helpful.
Privacy is the default, not the exception.