This beautiful & packed 52 page issue of Mineshaft has a FANTASTIC front cover by Robert Armstrong and the backcover art is by R. Crumb! All 3 Deitch Brothers are together in one issue with, "The Golem: a tale of the Dark Ages" written by Seth Deitch with illustations by Simon Deitch, and a beautiful Kim Deitch centerfold! There's a fascinating 6 page illustrated letter from R. Crumb, "View from Sauve" (with 3 pages of sketchbook drawings), & another insightful letter by Crumb in which he writes about artistic freedom-underground comix-&-Harvey Kurtzman in the letters pages! Travel to Vancouver, B.C. with "Zippy" creator Bill Griffith... and then to Varanasi India with Gioia...! Five amazing comics by Twisted Sister Penny Van Horn! "Dinosaur Girl" sketches & "Son of the Phanty" comic (continued from last issue) by Frank Stack! Comics by Justin Green & B.N. Duncan, "Love Note to New Orleans" by Andrei Codrescu, fiction, photos, and more letters (including Ace Backwords, & Robert Armstrong!) from around the globe and more, more, more!!
52 page black and white digest with DUR-O-TONE Butcher Blue cover paper Mineshaft, Fall 2005
