The Fiction Issue 2010
Charles Burns
Charles Burns is the author and artist behind uncannily creepy comic books like Black Hole, Big Baby, and Skin Deep. In his work, he’s created a world that feels like an eerie parallel to those
Seven Andy Capp Variations
Images courtesy of the artist, STANDARD (OSLO), and Air de Paris. Watch for a book of Torbjørn’s Andy Capps coming this winter from Hassla Books
Janus
“Well, that wasn’t too bad,” David West muttered as he put the car in gear and pulled out onto the high seacoast road. He was speaking, more or less, to his wife, Vivian, beside him, concerning the ease with which they had just passed...
Master WLTM Slave
Andy is the landlord of a pub. It’s a young people’s place, and if I’m with him, those who recognise him look at me respectfully, but if I’m in there by myself, I feel as inconspicuous as an old man in a school as an old man in...
Hey Rube!
There were some people with Cameron’s Circus whom the corrosion of years could not rob of fine qualities. But the greater number were thieves, liars and embryo eggs. Desperadoes known as “cannons,” “dips” and “guns...
Bryan Garner
Bryan Garner—author of Garner’s Modern American Usage, editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary, and a contributor to