No. 5

This is a handmade zine produced and published in 2022 by Push Pull Press (it me)

It's a collection of works from creative folks from all over, and as the name implies an ode to graphite based mark making. I didn't have a theme or set many limitations on contributors, it simply had to be graphite based and my plan was to keep them all to scale as originally drawn. From there folks were invited to submit drawings, sketches, doodles, rants, poems, grocery lists etc. People then mailed originals or sent scans and from there I took over. Managing the entire project from top to bottom, concept to completion.

You can read more about the project in the ABOUT section here, and much of the process and shenanigans is documented on my Instagram account linked at bottom of the page.

- edition of 120ish
- 5 1/4" x 8 1/4"
- 32 pages of creative content from 28 contributors
- Covers were letterpess printed on 65 lb cover stock with metallic ink
- Interior pages were photocopied on 60 lb text weight paper
- Saddle stapled with 3/8" corners cut

Issue No. 5 features (in order of appearance):

ryan bubnis
dillon mcguire
eggs mcmanus
mary joy scott
array reduce
stephen espo powers
bernard austin
mark fos foster
phil morgan
porous walker
russ pope
sergej vutuc
thomas dupere
chris gural
john herndon
brian lotti
ezra brown
jeremy fish
tj kelley
ezra brown
oliver wilson
jason curran
tj kelley
justin mcniff
dillon mcguire
oilwils
eggs eggain
derek laplante
lisa sussman
brian lutz
omar gonzales

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