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winter2018

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BLACK CROWN HQ Shelly Bond, Editor • Chris Ryall, drinks Guinness • Chase Marotz, Editorial Assistant • Aditya Bidikar, Letterer Arlene Lo, Proofreader • Kahlil Schweitzer, Marketing Maestro • Steven Scott, Publicity Philip Bond, logo, publication design and general dogs-body • Greg Goldstein, President & Publisher BLACK CROWN is a fully functioning curation operation based in Los Angeles by way of IDW Publishing.

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BLACK CROWN QUARTERLY #2. JANUARY 2018. FIRST PRINTING. Kid Lobotomy © & ™ Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler. Assassinistas © & ™ Tini Howard and Gilbert Hernandez. Punks Not Dead © & ™ David Barnett and Martin Simmonds. Cud: Rich And Strange © & ™ Will Potter, Carl Puttnam and Philip Bond. Bandtwits © & ™ Jamie Coe. House Amok © & ™ Christopher Sebela and Shawn McManus © 2018 Idea and Design Works, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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CONTENTS TALES FROM THE BLACK CROWN PUB • A SISTER’S TALE

by Rob Davis ............................................................ pages 3 - 12 FOUR CHAMBERS with Rob Davis ............................... page 13 SWELL MAPS • GLASGOW

by Cathi Unsworth + Cara McGee ....................... pages 14 - 15 CUD: RICH AND STRANGE • TRACK 2

by Will Potter, Carl Puttnam + Philip Bond .......... pages 16 - 20 BEAT SURRENDER

by Martin Simmonds ...................................................... page 21 PUNKS NOT DEAD • OPINE ANARCHIC!

by Sid, Fergie + Dorothy ........................................ pages 22 - 25 PULL-OUT POSTER • SIDE A by Bill Sienkiewicz SIDE B by Martin Simmonds ................................... dead center CANONBALL COMICS • Introducing HOUSE AMOK

by Christopher Sebela + Shawn McManus .......... pages 26 - 32 FEBRILE MINDS • A SUMPTUOUS FEAST interview with KID LOBOTOMY’s Milligan + Fowler ........ page 35 GRIDLOCK! Barroom brawl or Blitz?

Creatives lash out + it’s not pretty by various nouns of Casa Black Crown ............... pages 36 - 39 BANDTWITS

by Jamie Coe ......................................................... pages 40 - 45 LAST SHOUT! LETTERS PAGES .................................................... pages 46 - 47 HEY, AMATEUR! HOW TO BE A BADASS GOTH IN 9 PANELS

by Leah Moore + Nanna Venter .................................... page 48

Will the shit get real or what?

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