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Mineshaft is an independent international art, literature, and comics magazine regularly publishing R. Crumb, who designed our logos, Kim Deitch, Mary Fleener, Billy Childish, Andrei Codrescu, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Simon, Jay Lynch, Ed Piskor, Aaron Lange, Christoph Mueller, Simon Deitch, J.R. Helton, Bill Griffith, and many other amazing artists. It was started in 1999, is published three times year, and is printed on offset press. Submissions are welcome. Mineshaft is published, edited, and owned by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri.
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â€œKeep that MINESHAFT coming. I enjoy it." -R. Crumb
"Reading Mineshaft, I am conscious of its authenticity. I imagine that in future issues there may be ads for futons and hookahs; someday there may even be an online version. In the meantime it's one of the few true print vehicles around that carries the smokey torch of the disavowed, disenfranchised, lapsed, subsumed and beat to shit Counter Culture." -Justin Green
"Got the box o' MINESHAFTS - Thanks so much!!! Another great issue and you've made your mark as the king of zines!" -Mary Fleener
"As you probably know, there's a quiet dignity to self publishing. You produce a fine publication with real eclectic appeal to the discerning few." -Robert Armstrong
"In our society where everyone it seems can't wait for the latest 'i-pod' feature it's great to see MINESHAFT taking the long view, exploring with ink on paper how the artistic culture is surviving in the hidden corners of America and the world. MINESHAFT artists are able to look within to find that elusive spark of truth/magic known to mystics, shamans, zen hermit monks, and alienated graffiti artists. For me MINESHAFT contains a message of personal healing, a feeling of belonging to a community of artists who express their feelings about life with love, honesty, humility, and humor." -William Crook, Jr.
"Thanks again for sending the terrific new â€œMineshaftâ€. Itâ€™s truly tonic to see my grizzly contemps still beating the drums and, more importantly, calling it the way they see it." -Andrei Codrescu
Fantastic Mineshaft #21 Robert Crumb Front Cover!
HOT OFF THE PRESS!!
Mineshaft #21:&nbsp Front cover hand lettered and designed by R. Crumb, plus five wonderful pages of sketchbook drawings by Crumb inside! Back cover by Christoph Mueller, "My Angel of Sin"! The life of famous Beat underground poet, Diane di Prima, drawn and written by Mary Fleener! Poetry by Diane di Prima! "Pat & Corky" fiction by J.R. Helton! Zippy the Pinhead and how Bill Griffith got his start! New artwork by Christoph Mueller (with special guest Joe Coleman)! William Crook, Jr.! Jay Lynch & Ed Piskor's story about Lynch and Crumb going to visit Chester Gould! "In Praise of Goth Beauticians" by Andrei Codrescu and illustrated by Aaron Lange! Plus the continuation to the Green Star by editor Everett Rand! Also Frank Stack, Bruce Simon, Henry Denander, Aaron Lange, letters from around the globe and more!! First printing. 48 pages. Cover printed on beautiful French Paper Co. Speckletone Starch White. Printed in February, 2008.

My Interests

Our contributors: R. Crumb, Mary Fleener, Kim Deitch, Billy Childish, Robert Armstrong, Andrei Codrescu, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith, Sophie Crumb, Charles Bukowski, Frank Stack, Jay Kinney, Ace Backwords, Bruce Simon, Penny Van Horn, William Crook Jr., Fly, Aaron Lange, Simon Deitch, Christoph Mueller, Irving Stettner, B.N. Duncan, Carol Tyler, Peter Bagge, Justin Green, Orrin J. Heller, Gioia Palmieri, Joe Coleman, Tommy Trantino, J.R. Helton, Ed Piskor, Jay Lynch, Henry Denander, Mark Terrill, Peter Poplaski, Jorin Ostroska, Art Spiegelman, Phoebe Gloeckner, Diane di Prima, Mark Zingarelli...

Music:

.. Dominique Cravic and Les Primitifs du Futur "Trop de Routes, Trop de Trains" and "World Musette", Billy Childish, Ukulele Club de Paris, Robert Armstrong's bands The Barking Spiders and the Joy Buzzards, R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Mary Fleener and the Wigbillies, Fiddlin' Ian McCamy and his Celtic Reelers' "The Drunken Landlady", East River String Band, Raul Barboza, King Bennie Nawahi (Hawaiian String Virtuoso), Andy Iona's "Hawaiians in Hollywood: Smooth, Sweet and Swinging", Lightin' Hopkins (recorded at 2803 Hadley Street, Houston, Texas January 16, 1959 by Samuel Charters)...

Movies:

Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita, "8 and 1/2", "La Strada", and "Nights of Cabiria", Marcello Mastroianni, Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane", "The Trial", "Chimes of Midnight" and "Touch of Evil", Orson Welles in "The Third Man", Ruth Gordon in "Harold and Maude", Todd Browning's "FREAKS", Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" and "Limelight", Michele Yeoh, Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante", Edward G. Robinson in "Brother Orchid", Andrey Tarkovsky's "Stalker", Sophia Loren, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Cushing and Hammer Horror films, Jorge Sanjines' "La Nacion Clendestina" and "Ukamau", Terry Zwigoff's "Crumb", Akira Kurosawa's "Roshomon", "Dersu Uzala", "High and Low", and "Ikiru", Lina Wertmuller's "Seven Beauties", The Three Stooges, Don Knotts in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", "Mahanagar" & "Nayak" by Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes From A Marriage" (5 hour TV version), "To Joy", "Smiles of A Summer Night", "Through a Glass Darkly", "Wild Strawberries", and "The Seventh Seal", Robert Altman's "MASH", Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce in the old 1940's Sherlock Holmes films... ..

Books:

Robert Crumb's books and comic books, Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", The House of the Dead", and "The Brothers Karamazov", Blaise Cendrars' "Lice", "Dan Yack", "Prose of the Transsiberian and of Little Jeanne of France" (found in "Selected Writings" published by New Directions with a preface by Henry Miller), and "The Astonished Man"... Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums" and "Lonesome Traveller"... "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Kim Deitch, Tolstoy's "War and Peace", "WINCH" by Paul Winchell, Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", "The Pickwick Papers", and "Nicholas Nickleby" (all with original illustrations)..., Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" and "The Soul of Lilith", Albert Cossery's "Proud Beggars", "The House of Certain Death", "The Lazy Ones" and "Men God Forgot", Frank Stack's "Naked Glory", WEIRDO magazine, Max Brand's Westerns, "Below the Line" by J.R. Helton, Paul Bowles' "The Sheltering Sky", his translations of Mohammed Mrabet and other Moroccan story tellers, "Conversations with Paul Bowles", and his letters "In Touch", Emma Goldman's autobiography "Living My Life", Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer", and "From Your Capricorn Friend", Earl Derr Biggers' "The House Without A Key", "Earl Derr Biggers Tells Ten Stories" and all his Charlie Chan books, A. Conan Doyle's "The Memoires of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with original illustrations by Sidney Padget, H.G. Wells' "The Outline of History", Bill Griffith's "ZIPPY" Annuals, Aline Kominsky Crumb's "Need More Love", Krishnamurti's "Freedom From the Known", Van Gogh's Letters, Charles Bukowski's "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame", "Factotum", "Screams From the Balcony", "You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense"... E.D.E.N. Southworth's "The Hidden Hand" and "The Deserted Wife", Franz Kafka's "The Castle", B.N. Duncan's TELE TIMES magazine, Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" (translated by Michael Glenny), "Traversing the Great Himalaya" and "One Night's Shelter" by Yogavacara Rahula, Celine's "Journey To the End of the Night", "The Sketchbook Adventures of Peter Poplaski" by Peter Poplaski, Irving Stettner's STROKER magazine and Stettner's "Adventures of a 2nd Avenue Patroller", "Beggars in Paradise" and "Thumbing Down to the Riviera", Billy Childish's "Poems of Laughter and Violence", Robert Williams' "Zombie Mystery Paintings" and "Visual Addiction", "Tommy Trantino's "Lock the Lock", "I'd Rather Be The Devil" a biography of Skip James by Stephen Calt, "Our Lady of the Flowers" and "The Thief's Journal" by Jean Genet, Evergreen Review, "Last of the Moccasins" by Charles Plymell, Andrei Tarkovsky's "Sculpting in Time", "Dori Stories" by Dori Seda.....

My Blog

Mineshaft 21 is HOT OFF PRESS!!

Mineshaft 21 IS HOT OFF THE PRESS!!! Subcriber copies are in the mail!! This is an incredible issue! Take a look below at the fabulous Robert Crumb front cover and see Ch...
Posted by Mineshaft on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:28:00 PST

R. Crumb front cover for Mineshaft 21 getting ready to go to press!!

We're working on finalizing the proofs to Mineshaft 21 and going to press soon. I can't wait, it's going to be a fantastic issue, check out the R. Crumb front cover on our MySpace! I appreciate all of...
Posted by Mineshaft on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:15:00 PST

How it all Began... Mineshaft!

How it all began... Mineshaft! by Gioia Palmieri I asked Everett where he first had the idea for starting a magazine. ...
Posted by Mineshaft on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:15:00 PST