Our contributors: R. Crumb, Mary Fleener, Jay Lynch, 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, Henry Denander, Mark Terrill, Peter Poplaski, Jorin Ostroska, Art Spiegelman, Phoebe Gloeckner, Diane di Prima, Skip Williamson, Pat Moriarity, Dennis Eichhorn, Harvey Pekar, the Brutalists (Adelle Stripe, Ben Myers, & Tony O'Neill), James G. Mundie, Joseph Remnant, Noah Van Sciver, David Collier...
Müzik
Dominique Cravic and Les Primitifs du Futur "Trop de Routes, Trop de Trains", "World Musette" and "Tribal 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, Fiddlin' Ian McCamy and his Celtic Reelers' "The Drunken Landlady", East River String Band, 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)...
Filmler
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 Clandestina" 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" and "How To Frame a Figg", "Mahanagar" and "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...
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Televizyon
Kitaplar
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 and Simon 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", Crumb's 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" 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, Andrei Tarkovsky's "Sculpting in Time", "Dori Stories" by Dori Seda...
Mineshaft is an independently published comics and literary magazine bringing you exciting art from some of the world's greatest artists like R. Crumb, who designed our logos and is a regular contributor. Other amazing recent contributors include Kim Deitch, Mary Fleener, Billy Childish, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Andrei Codrescu, Robert Armstrong, Jay Lynch, Ed Piskor, Sophie Crumb, Frank Stack, Bruce Simon, Spain Rodriguez, Aaron Lange, William Crook Jr., Christoph Mueller, Simon Deitch, Pat Moriarity, Bill Griffith, David Collier, Dennis Eichhorn, Nina Bunjevac, and many others! It was started in 1999, is published twice a year, and is printed on offset press. Submissions are welcome. Mineshaft is edited and published by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri.
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Mineshaft #24 front cover by Mary Fleener!
Mineshaft #23 front cover from the mind and pen of the incredible Jay Lynch!
‘Mediocre crime fiction it ain’t. If the prose was any more hard-boiled, demolition companies would be buying up copies of this book and using them as wrecking balls. I’m not kidding when I say this book should be huge. The question is, is the world ready for it?’ – Christopher Nosnibor
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noir, bars, women & cars - from vegas to dago, the brothels of germany to doha, kuwait: a wild & gritty collection of 17 cuts: pomes & prose, plus 3 excerpts from the novel, ‘the ants, thirsty,’ all from the former editor/columnist of 86…the man who put "hard fic" on the streets…the hardcore referee/translator/negotiator you’d hire when sitting bookended in a bar between nick tosches & chuck palahniuk.
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