Summer 2022 Masthead

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

Summer 2022 Featuring:

Cover artist: Scott Grimando with his photographic illustration, “Celestial Temple Stellar Nursery.” Scott also contributed the illustration, “Skull Fairy Secret,” and the poem, “Fragile Things.”
Indigenous to planet Earth, multimedia artist Scott Grimando currently resides in the outer spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. He hopes to relocate soon.

In the meantime he paints pretty pictures, draws fairies, illustrates sci-fi/fantasy book covers, designs Halloween costumes, photographs alternative fashion, and writes dark poetry and short stories.

Back cover artist: Erick Wilson from GreenElf Design created the poster for the film, “The Passion of Joan,” by Brilliant Earth Pictures.

Center spread: Christopher Fahey with three digital paintings, “Dawn Patrol 2”, “On the Horizon 2”, and “Summer Vibes.”
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!

Summer 2022 Contributors:

• Alexa Goldstein contributed a photo and the poems, “Uncover” and “The Next Step.”

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

• Francis Klaess contributed two poems excerpted from The Saga of Sitcom Second Bananas, “Sam the Butcher” and “Floyd Cuts Hair.” (These poems are exclusive to the print version.)
  Francis Klaess is the principle creative of KlaessInk, a NY-based graphic design company.

• Matthew Juvet contributed two photos (photo 1) (photo 2).

• Megan O’Brien contributed the photo, “Hello Little Friend.”

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

• Tobias Ferrari contributed the digital painting, “Ten Motherfuckers.”
  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. Thanks, too, to Monkeyshines Media, Inc.’s treasurer, who patiently waits for donations while our budget goes into the red.

Colophon

• The color scheme is codenamed Whip Inflation Now! and is based on hex-colors #D9C67D and #FF8F0B.

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

• Additionally the magazine used: 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.
• Perfect is the enemy of good.
• Privacy is the default, not the exception.