We just posted Action, Yes 10, and it’s a good one. We try to keep changing and offer something new with every issue, and I think this one is our most diverse yet. The abstract comics section, curated by Andrei Molotiu and Tim Gaze, is particularly exciting for me – I was completely unaware of a vast majority of this work. It’s blown my own mind wide open in the way I’ve been approaching my own comics pages recently. Our section features a preview of the anthology Abstract Comics which Molotiu edited and will be published by Fantagraphics next fall. I also selected several other image-text pieces to create a conversation with the abstract comics, including Chris Major and Nico Vassilakis’s visual poems, Brandon Downing’s collage poems, and even a work by Robert Grenier with a critical essay by Tim Wood (and Grenier’s annotated response).

Another must-read in the new issue: “Dances of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy”: A special section devoted to the poetry and art of the scandalous cabarets performed by Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste in Weimar Germany.

Also included:
Translation of  writers Agrafiotis, Dragincescu, Froger, Lamat, Rubinstein, Sacré.
Per Bäckström’s essay ” “Crush the Aassholetters Between the Teeth”:
Språkgrotesk in Henri MIchaux and Gunnar Ekelöf.”
“Dead Can Dance,” Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle’s ruminations on Decadence.
As well as poetry and prose from Lundwall,  Yankelevich,  Schapira and others.

In the next few issues we’ll be featuring the fruits of our first open submissions period.