Salvos

A glossy painted figurine of a pregnant woman stands face-forward with cross-section of her stomach exposed. The interior of which is lined with yellow grid, like Star Trek’s holodek, and features two smaller sexually-suggestive figures: the first is an adult man kneeling on all fours, and the second is an anthropomorphic squirrel with a large erect penis.

No Sex for You

Lyta Gold

July 2022

Issue No. 64

A 3D rendering of a Rube Goldberg machine constructed of an elaborate, dysfunctional, and confusing system of medical instruments rigged to an undersized hospital bed; a metaphor for the healthcare industry at large.

Care Tactics

Laura Mauldin

July 2022

Issue No. 64

A giant gorilla head hovers over a red tractor trailer, with its eyes are covered with Facebook’s like and heart icons. The scene is set over a backdrop of a rainbow explosion with pixelated gold coins sparkling from the center-out.

Banana Nation

Jasper Craven

July 2022

Issue No. 64

An ominous illustration of eyes and skeletal hands encase a spiral of various cryptocurrency symbols as the cycle of life repeats itself. The word “death” appears in a black circle hovers above the figure.

Tales from the Thrifts

Noah Kulwin

July 2022

Issue No. 64

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The classic Welcome to Las Vegas sign and a photo of hills in the desert are collaged together and arranged on a grid with some blocks missing and others replaced with opaque pink and orange blocks, and with green dots overlaying them in a seemingly random pattern.

Everything’s Great When You’re Downtown

Nicholas Russell

July 2022

Issue No. 64

A graphic illustration in the style of M.C. Escher depicts a series of buildings stacked on top of each other, creating the appearance of a dystopian eye at the center, like a panopticon.

Dystopia for Realists

Lizzie O’Shea

July 2022

Issue No. 64

A colorful illustration in the style of a tapestry features a field of purple and cream-colored flowers surrounded by a border made of spinning box fans that emit eerie green and orange fire.

The California Carbon Rush

Finn West

July 2022

Issue No. 64

Fictions of History

Shamira Ibrahim

July 2022

Issue No. 64

An illustration of multiple snake-like arms emerge from the borders to twist, bend, and grab money from wallets.

Sweet Little Lies

Elias Rodriques, Clinton Williamson

July 2022

Issue No. 64

Two signs that read “WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE*” and “*NOT YOU.”

Redefining the Working Class

Shamira Ibrahim

May 2022

Issue No. 63

Palm leaves, dollar signs and a sense of oil.

Bitter Fruit

Alessandra Bergamin

May 2022

Issue No. 63

Two mouths kissing. Four bicyclists ride up and down the tongues.

A Banana Is Not a Penis

Ilya Gridneff

May 2022

Issue No. 63