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Kevin Budnik is a cartoonist from Chicago. His recent journal comics have been featured in New City Magazine and at Two Cookie Minimum, a live reading series. He frequently posts new comic s and doodles online at kevin-budnik.tumblr.com
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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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Edie Fake is a queer artist and zinemaker living in Chicago. He works as a comics sommelier for Quimby’s Books and was a founding organizer for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE). He was awarded one of Printed Matter’s first Awards for Artists and his book Gaylord Phoenix won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. His most recent publication, Memory Palaces, showcases drawings of brightly reimagined building facades depicting vanished queer and feminist spaces from Chicago’s past as resources for the present.
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Marieke McClendon is an illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Chicago. Her drawings and comics have been published in The Chicagoan, Linework Comics Anthology, and New City.
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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 collabarative artwork made with fellow artist, Paul Nudd, at
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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 competitive Street Fighter.
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to the third annual Lumpen all-comics issue. This issue we are trying something a little different which we initially tested in the “Jag-off” issue by working within an informal theme that is “Radio” to correlate with the launch of Lumpen Radio in Chicago (105.5 WLPN). Lumpen Radio is a brand new non-commercial radio station based out of bridgeport that will showcase underground and innovative programming and feature distinctly curated music from a variety of genres as well as cultural commentary, not unlike the variety of comics and artists that we promote in Lumpen magazine. The artists were asked to make work responding to the theme not necessarily literally, but possibly touching on the concepts of communication, audio waves, broadcasting culture and ideas, and music just to name a few. The artists were also free to disregard the theme as well, so please don’t freak out if “Radio” is not apparent in every piece.
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mickey zacchilli was born in 1983 and lives in providence, ri, usa. mickeyz.org
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Matthew Thurber is an artist and musician living in Brooklyn. He is the author of the graphic novels 1-800-MICE (2011) and INFOMANIACS (2013).
Contributing to this issue are many local artists from Chicago and it’s continually thriving art and comics community, as well as a variety of international artists whose work I see to be in line with what we do in Chicago, or work that I think people locally will honestly enjoy. I’m really flattered when I get feedback from folks who have different interpretation of what defines a comic regarding how bizarrely enjoyable the strips are in Lumpen, that it all unexplicably works as a collection, and I think that it has been an impressive springboard to get this new work in front of people who otherwise wouldn’t seek it out themselves. I know WLPN will similarly broadcast weirdness to the masses, enlightening the often cultureaverse citizens of Chicago to some fresh audio broadcasts. I am also excited to know that some of the Lumpen comics artists in this issue will also be adding shows and musical content to the station and look forward to that as well.
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George Porteus is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Chicago.
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Ian McDuffie is much like Prince— if Prince was a cartoonist, watched Sliders every day of his life, lived in Chicago, and loved Philip Roth and Garfield, equally and passionately.
Grant Reynolds is an artist, writer, and cofounder of the Chicago-based jam-comics group Trubble Club. Currently he’s working on the memoir series Don’t Try To Save Me.
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Leif Goldberg draws in rural obscurity and has dreams about hard enveloping pavement. vimeo.com/leifgoldberg
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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.
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Andrew Holmquist is an artist based in Chicago. He make paintings, comics and videos among other oddities.
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Fiction is the material of choice for JULIACKS who creates narrative universes using the mediums of filmmaking, multimedia performance installations, comics and theater in North America and Europe. Currently completing the transmedia narrative, Architecture of an Atom, this year her comics appear in Lumpen Magazine, a Finnish anthology of autobio comix about immigrating to Finland, the Graphic Canon of Children’s literature, and Insect Bath-a Horror Comix Anthology published by Jason T. Miles. Swell adapted from her graphic novel of the same name will be featured in Brooklyn as part of the Comic Book Theater festival at the Brick Theater. juliacks.com
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Aaron Renier teaches comics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and DePaul University. He belongs to the art collective Trubble Club, and puts out a graphic novel every time the planets become perfectly aligned.
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Lale Westvind makes comics, animations and paintings in Harlem, NYC. Her comic Hot Dog Beach #2 won an Ignatz award for Promising New Talent at SPX 2012. lalewestvind.blogspot.com
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The comics presented here are some of the best we’ve ever received and, in my opinion, make up the most concise and well made collection of comics work that we’ve yet to print. I’m extremely grateful for all of the work that has been submitted by artists whose work I thoroughly admire and feel lucky to get the chance to present it to you here.
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Self-described as “the Carrie Bradshaw of comics,” Gina Wynbrandt is an artist living in Chicago, creating work that deals with boys, pop culture, and personal humiliations. She loves sitcoms, teen pop stars, makeup, the Internet, and being the center of attention. ginawynbrandt.com
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