Not Art #28: Haiku I'm Thinking of Finishing One Day

I’ve got a bunch of Haiku started, but I just can’t seem to finish anything. Nonetheless, I’ve decided to publish!

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Not Art: Issue 27

Apparently the next chapter in the Fire Trilogy of Not Art issues. This month’s issue, already mailed out to my faithful and fearless subscribers, is a branching narrative, a choose-your-own-path kind of story.

I’ve wanted to do an issue like this for a while, and it’s based on some very old notes for what I thought might become a short game written in Inform.

If you’d like a copy for yourself, well, you might find one at the Clubhouse theater in Los Angeles, but other than that your best bet is to sign up and have me mail you one.

Not Art: Issue 26

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If you were a subscriber, you’d already have this issue in your real life actual mailbox! Sign up before issue 27 comes out and you’ll get this one right away.

In issue 26 we meet the Company Town Fire Marshall. I think I originally intended to print this in issue 16 or 17, and for some reason never quite felt like I had the story nailed down.

Not Art: Issue 23

Now available on newsstands and to subscribers, issue 23 of Not Art. I fully expect an all-new continuity to rear its head in 2020, after months of experimental sizes and formats, but this month readers are taking another foray into Company Town. I couldn’t have predicted that, but not everyone knows what their psychic gift is.

Also not very available right now is the Not Art Annual 2020, these will not be available in the online shop or the lobby of your local comedy theater, because they’re a giveaway item for the LA Zine Fest. So I hope that Not Art is selected to appear in the fest this year. If it’s not, well, I’ll have to find somewhere else to get rid of them. Of course, beloved subscribers will be receiving a copy in the mail this month. I can’t mail them enough things.

If you need something good in your mailbox for a while, why not subscribe today? I still have a couple of sets left that allow you to start from the beginning, and get these issues two years from now!

Now Shipping: Not Art Issue #22

A new zine for the masses. This one kind of reworks an old story I never found a use for, and although I think maybe it gets away from me a little bit I wouldn’t say that out loud, I would say it’s the best one yet and you need a copy to feel good about yourself this holiday season! The best way to do that is to subscribe today, because then you won’t miss out on the cool stuff subscribers will be getting in their mailboxes in the new year!

Also, if there were such things as devoted Not Art readers, I would point out that this one somehow exists in the smallest, most central bubble of overlap between the different settings we’ve seen so far.