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Author: Futuristika
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No Future: Punk and the Underground Graphic Novel
Punk visual culture was immediate, ephemeral and transitory, defying claims to longevity and to seriousness. It would be no surprise then that this visual culture would draw on the comic strip – the almost archetypal instance of a transitory and debased form for the usual arbiters of culture.
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Psychonaut & Sâver – Emerald
PSYCHONAUT and SÂVER are akin in many ways: both artists embody and explore corporal, physical heaviness in their sound as much as spirituality and philosophy, both artists often stretch their compositions close to the 20 minutes mark, and both artists redefine the concept of the classic power trio within a context of genre-bending, modern heavy music: where SÂVER…
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria
Now that Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film Memoria has been announced in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Fireflies Press reveals a gorgeous art book that chronicles the film’s genesis and creation.
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Words from a Wider World: Julián Fuks
Julián Fuks, one of Brazil’s rising literary talents, has won or been nominated for a clutch of prestigious prizes and seen his work translated into more than 10 languages. His novel, Resistance, is an examination of family, identity, belonging and different forms of exile.
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Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly…
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Interview with a world wondered full: Really, really, really small things to hold on to
Interview with “a world wondered full” from Thailand. About holding each other, to see the hope in small things, to share a common history together.
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Those who not die: As an anarchist and dedicated publisher Stuart Christie
Stuart Christie, founder of the Anarchist Black Cross and Cienfuegos Press, co-author of The Behind the Scenes of Anarchy, died in August 2020 peacefully after a battle with lung cancer.
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A new publishing house: Fireflies Press
Some good news from beloved Fireflies magazine, after six years of making it, they’ve founded the independent publishing house Fireflies Press.
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[ICE] The Ice Age
In 1970, the band recorded 10 original songs at 8-Track Studios in Chicago, only to break up shortly thereafter. Two of the tracks were eventually released as a 45 in 1972, but confusingly under a different band name, Zukus! The A-side of that single was featured on Brown Acid: The Ninth Trip, which led RidingEasy Records to…