Winter 2022 Masthead

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

Winter 2022 Cover Artists:

Cover artist: PLUGO, Krampus painting.
New York born, PLUGO has now spent half his life making a living in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing illustration & design work for comics, kid’s lit, magazines, text-books, album covers, and countless t-shirts. Some of his work is available on Redbubble.

PLUGO has a new graphic novel on the horizon, A Tiger’s Tale, and we’re celebrating it in this issue of Monkeyshines! Go to Kickstart.aTigersTale.com to learn more!

Back cover artist: pthelo, The Doorway, digital painting using AI software, Zoetrope 5.5, by ai_curio.

Winter 2022 Contributors:

Alan Semerdjian contributed the poem “The Astronaut.”
Alan Semerdjian is an award-winning writer, musician, and public school educator for the past 25 years. He lives in New Hyde Park, NY with his partner and son and teaches at Herricks High School.
Alexa Goldstein contributed the photo “The Eye of the Storm” and the poem “Free Yourself.”
Brian Ferrari contributed the poem “The Circle.”
Catherine Baker contributed the 100-word short story “Poisoned Souls.”
Christopher Fahey contributed the painting, “Matter.”
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!
Dan Love contributed the photo “A Bug.”
Estelle Clark contributed part three of the serialized short story, “Darkness Rising.”
Painted Birch contributed the Winter Animal Oracle.
Scott Grimando contributed the poem “The Road’s a Good Time Too” and the drawing “In the Deep.”
Thomas Becker contributed the essay “Freedom?”
Thomas Benincase contributed the illustration “Yield 37.”
Thomas is part of the Urban Suburbanites show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Patchogue, January 15–February 27, 2022. Closing Reception February 26, 5pm–7pm
Tobias Hobbes contributed the drawing, “Hot and Fresh and Undead.”
Tobias Hobbes 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

Every contributor honors us with their work. We can’t thank them enough. Thank you to the Board of Directors for MMI who voluntarily give their time to get these issues out the door. We thank our current readers and the soon-to-be readers who ask us for a copy of the zine. There is no zine without your support. Thank you to Jimi for starting our first fundraiser on Facebook, which raised $232! Special shout out to Matty J — you kept the lights on for this issue!

Colophon

The color scheme is codenamed Cash Money and is no longer based on Pantone colors. This time the green is purely hex (#2C8152) and the complementing color is either gray (#cccccc) or black (#333333). Originally on our print version the green was #4DB37C (69c 5m 69y 0k), but there was not enough contrast for site accessibility, so we darkened the green a bit on the website.
The typefaces used in both the magazine and web site are: Coolvetica, Andale Mono, and Lumiera.
Additionally the magazine uses: Zilla Slab, Urania Czech, Mali, and Powell Antique.
We’re moving away from Crimson Text, which was used in the magazine, to Crimson Pro, currently on the website for body text. If you’re interested in why, boy do we have a type nerd for you to connect with.
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.
Right ragged is easier to read.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Humility is helpful.