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The Community of the Future is a not so tongue-in-cheek reference to the burgeoning cultural scene in Bridgeport. Over the past few years a number of galleries, cultural spaces, restaurants and bars have quietly opened and are creating an enticing south side neighborhood to work, live and play in. Check it out yourself. Stop by Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar at 960 W 31st Street and ask your bartender for directions and tips on where to go. Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar, 960 West 31st Street, Chicago IL 60608 community-bar.com PHONE: 773.890.0588 WEB: communitybar.wordpress.com STORE: 11AM to 2 A M Sun. – Fri. AND 11A M – 3 A M Sat. BAR: 4 P M to 2 A M Sun. – Fri. AND 4P M – 3 A M Sat.
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Andy Burkholder was born in Fort Worth, Texas but spent his early life in Alameda, California. He grew up on the south side of Chicago where he currently lives and works. His two cats Houdini & Malcolm are a continual inspiration to his work. entphs.tumblr.com
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Jessica Campbell is a Canadian enthusiast of jokes, painting and comics. She was raised on an island that, according to the since-abandoned pentecostal church of her youth, also happens to be the witchcraft capital of North America. Her comics are published by Oily Comics. jessicacampbellpainting.tumblr.com
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Mar ieke McClendon is an illust rator and graphic designer who lives in Chicago. Her d rawings and comics have been published in The Chicagoan, Linework Comics Anthology, and New City. whatifitlookedlikethis.tumblr.com
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Eric B. Rivera (b. 1984) is a displaced Hoosier making comics & art in Chicago, IL. He’s worked & lived in Northampton, U.K., N.Y.C., & an incorporated section of farmland in northwest Indiana. More works to be seen at ericbrivera.com
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Ms. Carrie Vinarsky has lived in Chicago for over a decade, and has enjoyed and taken part in the underground:” art”/music/screen-printing/ and comics scenes. She finds these scenes to her liking as they are composed of people uniquely dedicated and a little twisted! Carrie loves dogs, ponies, plants, and a few people. She’s done works all over the artistic spectrum and is currently most doggedly pursuing an apprenticeship as a tattooist. On her tomb stone it will read “Lil’ Cee Vee, on the level for life!”
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Onsmith is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Chicago. His comics, prints, and illustrations have appeared in The Chicago Reader, The Portland Mercury, Oxford American Magazine, Hotwire Comics (Fantagraphics Books), Vice Magazine, both volumes of Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories, and more may be viewed at http://www.onsmithcomics.blogspot.com Also, see the collobarative artwork made with fellow artist, Paul Nudd, at
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Sean Hernandez is a southwest artist, whose artworks attempt to depict fictional narratives of the Americana landscape. A majority of his subject matter deals with folkloric allegories, taking place in modern or artificial settings. Sean is a graphic artist, animator and printmaker now living in Chicago. He received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2012).
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Joe Tallarico is an artist/editor/curator mutant hybrid living in Chicago, Illinois. He enjoys studying the histories of both art and comics and how the two are incorporated. His work is shown in Chicago by Jean Albano gallery. Other avocations include gardening, junk collecting, and table tennis.
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In the short time since the last Comics Issue was released I feel like the number of active artists in the comics community in Chicago has tripled, and the quality of work has only gotten better. I’m sure it will be noticeable tomorrow as this is being released on the eve of the 3rd annual Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE); It’s obvious this is something we’ve needed here for a long time. I’m also glad to have our cover feature the work of artist Paul Nudd, whose paintings of microbiotic colonies teem with incessant bacteria; and draws parallels to the many people and their methods working in our community, which I feel are well-represented in this publication. I feel that Paul’s approach to art, whether working in the mediums of painting or comics, is a great example of how to disassociate from the outdated idea that one mode has to be autonomous from the other. I’d like to dedicate this Issue to the memory of Brooks Golden who recently passed away. Brooks was a regular contributor to Lumpen and his work was the first comic featured in the previous comics issue. Brooks was an unrivaled artist and thinker, and was one of the greatest muralists Chicago has ever known. He will be sorely missed.
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the morning after the previous all-comics issue of Lumpen was released, I left for France with bag of clothes and a stack of freshly printed magazines to attend the annual comics festival held in Angoulême. Comics in France and surrounding areas are not relegated as second hand entertainment but are an integral part of culture and its history, and as with any culture that is widely acknowledged you have the experimental weirdos working in secret. I was lucky to meet a bunch of artists at the F.O.FF (Fuck off Festival) which was organized by the collective Le Dernier Cri; A Sludge-Expressionist print collective whose work I had known through several Lumpen exhibitions that they were part of in the past. Their festival featured the work of artists who didn’t fit in to the storybook world of Angoulême; and it was a staggering vault of originality. Included in this issue are some of the artists I met on my trip, and I am glad to get the chance to connect the two worlds and I’d like to thank everyone for contributing to the issue.
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