Steven Barrie

Hey, check this out http://www.americanseamonsters.blogspot.com/.  Thanks Steven!

Now Available Rabbit Catastrophe Review Issue #3

 Maybe the cold, winter months of its compilation seeped onto the pages. Maybe we’re suffering from seasonal affective disorder. Whatever the reason, RCR#3 has become a dark and brooding thing, full of abandoned cities and restless characters.  Lost children in Russell Jaffe’s “A Rainbow as Otherwise Noted” give way to wandering adults in Jennifer Denrow’s “Inside What Is Ours,” city dwellers unsure how to handle the assumed nostalgia of farmland.  But it's not all sad.  Even as a storm brews in Daniel Carter’s “I Want to Live Both/In,” eagles circle above in Mark DeCarteret’s “My Portrait Sitting,” forcing us to look up toward a possible blue crease in the otherwise gray, oily skies of Ted Jean’s paintings.  And at the zenith of hope, G.M. Holder asks, Do we deserve to see the sun?  Have we earned it yet? The issue is full of more quiet loneliness and clanging violence, making sad so beautiful, we’ll take it over joy.

A special thanks to all of our issue #3 contributors:

Daniel Carter
Mark DeCarteret
Jennifer Denrow
G.M. Holder
Russell Jaffe
Ted Jean
Tom Oristaglio


Gem City/Fountain City was our first publication as Rabbit Catastrophe Press.  It has gone through two editions since it's initial publication in 2008.  It went out of print today after three years.  Thanks to Phil Estes for allowing us to publish his work as a start up press and for continuing to sell it at readings. 

Currently we are working on putting out Phil's second book entitled Children of Reagan.  It will be the first in a series of chapbooks we call ScrapChaps.  All of these books will be made from scrap we generate while making Rabbit Catastrophe Review.  Expect to see Children of Reagan in the next few months.  In the meantime, we still have copies of RCR #1 and #2 available on this site, and RCR #3 will be available in January. 

Thanks to everyone who has supported us the past three years.

Portland's Black Panthers


Last January Robin and I donated to this organization called IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) who offers a Zine of the Month Club.  For the past year we have been receiving these zines monthly and just putting them on the shelf, but yesterday we got one called Portland's Black Panthers.  It is a comic book put out by writer Sarah Mirk to benefit the Dill Pickle Club which aims to educate people about Portland's history.  Sarah writes these zines and asks different artists to participate in each new issue.  The one we got in the mail is Issue #4 of 10 and features artist Khris Soden.  The quality of this little book is astonishing when you consider how most zines are made.  The book is 34 pages (17 front and back) it is informative, well written, and the illustrations are solid.  Sarah and Khris tackle the subject of Portland's black Panthers, re-telling the story from the early 1960's until 2010 in a clear and thoughtful manner.  It is bound with a single staple, but it was clearly made with care... a thing that seems to be lost on most makers of zines.  Sarah Mirk accomplishes a lot more in this little book than one would expect out of a zine.  Great work Sarah and Khris your book looks fantastic and I look forward to reading more.  For more information about the Dill Pickle Club and IPRC click on the links above and donate.  You don't have to live in Portland to appreciate what IPRC is doing.  And you can get a zine a month for a year.  If you are lucky, you will get ones like the one we received in the mail yesterday.