Back Issues of Mothers News
after many requests, we have decided to make the back issues of the paper available for sale. each issue is $3 each when you order it direct from us, that's $3 postpaid in the USA (worldwide please write for price- mn@mothersnews.net). Volume 3 is the current issue- subscriptions are still available for at least $23 (paying more is optional). subscriptions will run through August 2013 and include available volume 3 back issues, running back to july 2012.
a few issues are sold out / gone. sorry! there are a few issues that we only have a few copies left of, and when they're gone they're gone so act now! Volumes 2 & 3 are 8 pages long (a few are 12 pages). Each issue of Volume 1 is just 2 pages long, except for 1 issue that's 4 pages.
BLIND ASSORTMENT! 5 assorted issues, $10. if you just want a smattering of issues and don't care particularly which ones, or you want to not choose, or if you're addicted to bargains (or to some degree, gambling), this is your option.
Volume 3 - each issue is 8 or 12 pages, each issue $3
AUGUST 2013 - not out yet
FEBRUARY 2013 - 8 pages. Wolves, Lupercalis, year of the snake, biography: Zeppo Marx, tips and tricks, centerspread: wolfman, sketchbook: animals most teachers would like / animals few teachers would like, scene report: Bach marathon, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira.
JANUARY 2013 - 8 pages. Doorways, the future, time/time travel, Janus, Ask Tomato Bread: Kryptonite & circle pits, centerspread: newspaper rock, sketchbook: old hats, scene report: Publix parking lot by Mike Taylor, shoutouts, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira.
DECEMBER 2012 - 8 pages. Window, 30th issue, select reprints from our 2010 - 2011, centerspread: rhinocerous, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira.
NOVEMBER 2012 - no issue, for no reason.
OCTOBER 2012 - 8 pages. monster's news, the threshold people, horrible stuff, language lab: monster alphabet, how to care for your venus flytrap, centerspread: picture of dorian grey (post-portrait), city sketchbook: space, scene report: rich people food, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira.
SEPTEMBER 2012 - 8 pages. the wheel, football shape, intersections, ufo morphology of the past 2000 years, school, fashion, kathryn at camp, RIP Johnny Pesky, tips & tricks: rubber bands, centerspread: UFO picture, scene report: Sukhbaatar square by Matt Zaccarino, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira. non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton
AUGUST 2012 - 12 pages. photo issue / coloring book, kathryn at camp, water wit, centerspread: pussy riot, sketchbook: olneyville door, Mothers News Literary Quarterly (edited by Kate Schapira and Tom Bubul, featuring writing by Miranda Mellis, Ana Moschovakis, Christie Ann Reynolds, and Agnes Martin), Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira. non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
SOLD OUT!
JULY 2012 - SOLD OUT! 8 pages. Dog days, the Dogon, wabi sabi, cut off shorts, atomic age, UFOs, point counter-point: food of the lowlands (by Jenine Bressner & Cybele Collins), kathryn at camp, Dear Tomato Bread: the tower of Babel (still) and advice about publishing, centerspread: a complete Gamera comic, city sketchbook by Jackie H Curtiss, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, and Sakiko Mori, with non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
JUNE 2012 - interim period, no issue.
Volume 2 - each issue is 8 or 12 pages, $3 an issue
MAY 2012 - 8 pages. the number 5, the tower, May day, law day, Templeton holiday, alligator vacation, scene report: trash alley, language lab: Cupertino effect, real talk, centerspread: Hanatarash, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
APRIL 2012 - 12 pages. Easter, asparagus, language lab: non-English tongue twisters, Ask Tomato Bread: Springsteen / buildings, Houdini non-clarification, centerspread: Anpanman, scene report: Western Digital circuit manfacture by Jessica Rylan, Mothers New biannual report, Mothers News Literary Quarterly (edited by Kate Schapira and Tom Bubul, featuring Evelyn Hampton, Ish Klein, Joe Aguilar, Susy Jones, and Yi Sang), Hex-Inverting Schmidt Trigger, Information strategies: Clue, city sketchbook by James McShane, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, and non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
MARCH 2012 - 8 pages. 3 colors (black white and pink), March(ing), Borges' sex joke (subtle), spring news, Xipe Totec "the flayed one" AKA "the night drinker", Chris Veader roughed up by cops as a ritual act (threshing of wheat / mortification of the flesh), Pluto Planet Day, language lab: minced oaths, biography: Houdini, centerspread: art is a crime, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, Jackie H Curtiss, and non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
SOLD OUT!
FEBRUARY 2012 - 8 pages. SOLD OUT!!! lists issue featuring contributions from Abby Banks, Scott Reber, Mickey Zacchilli, Dan Nadel, Angela Zammerelli, and Greg Harvester, centerspread by Cybele Collins, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, a nice picture of Mike Watt, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, and non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
JANUARY 2012 - 8 pages. infra-mince, root beer, Burns night, scene report: Alaskan library by Tatyana Yanishevsky, a kind of weird picture of Mike Watt (with Jandek), Ask Tomato Bread: shoplifting / freaked out, centerspread: variant of St Elmo's fire, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, and non-exclusive comics from Jimmy Swinnerton and FM Howarth.
DECEMBER 2011 - 12 pages. facts about December, the number 12, baker's dozen, Christmas & Halloween, Language Lab: punctuation, Biograpy: the four-eyed man of Cricklade, centerspread: a huge bell, product review: Casio WL-7 wristwatch, notes on batman, a picture of the knife I will stab you with for sending in poetry submissions, Mothers News Literary Quarterly (edited by Kate Schapira and Tom Bubul, featuring Grace Krilanovich, Nate Pritts, j/j hastain, Zelda Alpern, and Terri Kapsalis, city sketchbook by James McShane, Gossip section that's just a picture of the book "Neuromancer" by William Gibson (Josephine Mendes on vacation), Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Melissa Mendes, Kate Schapira, and non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
SOLD OUT!
NOVEMBER 2011 - 8 pages. SOLD OUT!!! Zig zag zig, Qabbalah, the number 11, "Earth becomes Heaven under wind", parallel lines, "Black Flag minute", Armistace / Veterans Day, Language Lab: Polari, biography: Paracelsus, centerspread by Joshua Vrysen, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, Michael Deforge, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, Melissa Mendes, Jackie H Curtiss.
OCTOBER 2011 - 8 pages. Monsters News, Pale Inconsistant & Cold, scene report: night, what's that sound?, list of non-canonical scary movies by Dan Cashman, Language Lab: Sumerian, Message to Human Children, Message to Human Adults, Halloween 2011- What Can You Do About It by Mike Taylor, centerspread: Preying Mantis attack, monstruous city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, Melissa Mendes, and non-exclusive comic from Jim Drain.
SEPTEMBER 2011 - 8 pages. longing, the number 9, fashion news, scene report: midcoast maine by Dan Beckman, Language Lab: gesture drift, Dear Tomato Bread: negative zero, centerspread: EXECUTIVE REALNESS, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, Melissa Mendes, Matthew Thurber.
AUGUST 2011 - 8 pages. too hot, the number 8, Ramadan, scene report: Rustic Drive-In by Kate Schapira, Language Lab: Huilliche, Tips & Tricks: Yelling at people from a car / napping / getting stung by a jellyfish, Dear Tomato Bread: guest writer- Seneca, centerspread: a picture of a nice rug that is also a completely functional rug, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Melissa Mendes, Matthew Thurber, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira.
JULY 2011 - 8 pages. almost (?) hit by a meteor, the number 7, a lot about rainbows, world snake day, information, Langauge Lab: Esperanto, Scene Report: International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology by Sophie Tintori, biography: DJ Screw, centerspread: Katrina Silander Clark, city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Brian Chippendale, Mike Taylor, Melissa Mendes, Matthew Thurber, Charlotte deSedouy, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, and non-exclusive comic from George Herriman.
JUNE 2011 - 8 pages. Half Year's Eve, Hera (aka Juno), planks / planking, month of the unicorn, summer food, Language Lab: Cherokee, biography: Liz Taylor, Scene Report: Oxford Breakfast, centerspread: Hera (aka Juno), city sketchbook by James McShane, gossip section by Josephine Mendes, Tinto's invertebrate of the month, exclusive comics by Mickey Zacchilli, CF, Katrina Silander Clark, Melissa Mendes, Matthew Thurber, Charles Forsman, Kate Schapira, and non-exclusive comic from Jimmy Swinnerton.
Volume 1 - each issue is 2 or 4 pages, $3 per issue
MAY 2011 - 2 pages, offset in green and purple on saffron paper. dream issue, this issue is insane and nothing makes sense and the ads are misspelled and/or insulting. this is like something you try to read in a dream that keeps shifting and changing and when you really look the words aren't words at all, just shapes, and the shapes are inconsistent from moment to moment.
APRIL 2011 - 4 pages, first issue printed on newsprint, april news, catholic pastry season, scene report: pinball in providence by Diego Perez, centerspread: Bruce Nauman / crypt keeper, biography: Gordon Cooper, Language Lab: Catholic swear words (Quebecois edition), Mothers Top Ten, gossip section by Josephine Mendes.
MARCH 2011 - 2 pages, offest in navy blue on sort of white paper. wind, mardi gras / lent / st patrick's day, fashion news, Scene Report: international DJ breakfasts by DJ /rupture, biography: Florence Foster Jenkins, Mothers Top Ten, Tips n Tricks: Pockets / Birthdays (punch the cake), gossip section by Josephine Mendes.
SOLD OUT!
FEBRUARY 2011 - SOLD OUT! 2 pages, offset in brown on nice greyish paper. groundhog day, Lupercalis (1st draft), scene report: vacation by Dan Cashman, biography: Amelia Earhart, Language Lab: Japanese, Tips n Tricks: being nice, Mothers Top Ten, More Poems, gossip section by Josephine Mendes.
JANUARY 2011 - 2 pages, offset in YKB (blue) on nice white paper. new year's eve, space news, Uranus, biography: Yves Klien, Scene Report: Kennedy Plaza bus stop by Kate Schapira, More Poems by MW, Mothers Top Ten.
DECEMBER 2010 - 2 pages, offset in purple on grey paper. aperiodic gift giving, Krampus, food news, More Poems by MW, Scene Report: Rotting In Iowa by Vinnie Vickroy, Biography: Muhammad Ali, LanguageLab: Latin, Reviews, Mothers Top Ten, Gossip Section by Josephine Mendes.
NOVEMBER 2010 - 2 pages, offset in navy blue on boys blue. "shifting sands of time", animal news, Poetry Angle by MW, Financial Forecast, biography: Louise Bourgeois, Scene Report: teenagers by Katrina, Some Reviews, Tips n Tricks, Mothers Top Ten, Gossip Section by Josephine Mendes.
OCTOBER 2010 - 2 pages, offset in dried blood (color) on weird good paper. Monsters News, pretty horrible (as in horror), the color orange, A Message For Kids, More Poems by MW, a weird stain where this issue was charged by a witch, biography: you, scene report: the Bridgewater triangle, Mothers Top Ten, list of movies about Halloween by Dan Cashman, gossip section by Josephine Mendes.
SOLD OUT!
SEPTEMBER 2010 - SOLD OUT!!! 2 pages, offset in dark blue on light blue. animal news about horse in hospital and horse head-butt restores sight and jumping goats, tiny town pants poem by MW, ambrose bierce word jumble, louise bourgeois bio, scene report: teenagers by Katrina, book reviews: don quixote and killer in drag, tips and tricks: alligator eye distance equal to length of body, top ten, gossip section
AUGUST 2010 - 2 pages, offset in ash on butter. the cambrian explosion, Joan of Arc festival, scene report: rooms in the house by Sean Pleasant, Poetry by MW, biography: RAMMELLZEE, movie news, Mothers Top Ten, gossip section by Josephine Mendes
JULY 2010 - 2 pages, offset in forest green on smooth grey paper. Julyoween, Trinity Day, Lemonade, counterfeit money, biography: Maryanne Amacher, scene report: CB radio by Count Zero, Some Reviews, Julyoweentines cards to cut out and use, Mothers Top Ten, gossip section by Josephine Mendes. First good issue.
JUNE 2010 - 2 pages, offset in brown on very light grey. Rhododendrons, Fireworks, Scene Report: a bunch of coffee cups by Brian Ptarmigan, biography: Derek Bailey, Abstract Expressionism, lost hat, Mothers Top Ten, gossip section by Josephine Mendes. no one believed the thing i wrote about Derek Bailey saying ODB's "36 chambers" was one of his top ten albums of the year, but it's totally true. weird issue tho.
MAY 2010 - 2 pages, offest in purple on white. really weird issue. redacted intro, ghostbusters theme song, scene report: bird feeder, Anthony's Nose, biography: Hedy Lamarr, bugs on the tips of your eyelashes, movie reviews (relating to Christopher Lee only), Mothers Top Ten, gossip section by Josephine Mendes. like i said, really weird issue, but there's some cool parts.
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