Issue Six


​-Acknowledgements-

Nat. Brut would like to acknowledge the following people and organizations for their gracious assistance and support in putting Issue Six together: Whitney Taylor, Chris Young from The Prolific Group, and the US National Archives.  All uncredited images are from the public domain. 

All of Them Witches was printed in Austin, TX by Rough House Comics.  Kayla E. would like to thank Alex Webb, Brendan Kiefer, and Gillian Rhodes for all of their help. RL Goldberg would like to thank Bree Newsome and Jéne Gutierrez.

Image above by Daniela Yohannes.


-Contributors-

JAYSON MUSSON

Jayson Musson is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn, NY. 

-INTERVIEW-

DANIELA YOHANNES

Daniela Yohannes is a Paris-based artist of Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage whose work explores the often unseen dimensions of life that bring us together as human kind. 

-VISUAL ART-

AFABWAJE KURIAN

Afabwaje Kurian is a Nigerian- American writer. She resides with her husband in the D.C. metro area. 

-FICTION-

ADAM FITZGERALD

Adam Fitzgerald is the author of The Late Parade, his debut collection of poems. An adjunct professor in creative writing at Rutgers University and NYU, he also directs The Home School. 

-POETRY-

NIKYATU JUSU

Sierra Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyatu's short films have played at festivals nationally and internationally, garnering her NYU’s prestigious Spike Lee Fellowship Award, the Princess Grace Foundation Narrative film grant, and Director’s Guild of America Honorable Mentions, to name a few. Nikyatu studied narrative filmmaking at New York University’s MFA film program and lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY.

-FILM-

RACHEL MACLEAN

Rachel Maclean (Born 1987, Edinburgh, lives and works in Glasgow). Maclean graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and has exhibited across
the UK and internationally. 

-FILM-

RL GOLDBERG

RL is thrilled to be one of Nat. Brut's Contributing Editors. RL recently completed an MFA at the University of Florida and is now a doctoral candidate at Princeton. Recent work has been published in the Chicago Quarterly Review, Bodega, and Prairie Schooner. 

-ALL OF THEM WITCHES-

WHITNEY TAYLOR

Whit Taylor is a cartoonist, writer, and editor from New Jersey. She won a Glyph Award in 2012 for her minicomic Watermelon and was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2013 for her series Madtown High. In addition to self-publishing, her comics have been published by Ninth Art Press, Sparkplug Books, Darling Sleeper, and The Nib. She has written for The Comics Journal, Panel Patter, The Tiny Report, and Comics Workbook Magazine. whittaylorcomics.com

-EARLY EDITION-

DANIELLE CHENETTE

Danielle Chenette is an illustrator, print maker, and animator originally from Millbury, Massachusetts who is currently living and working in Chicago IL. More of her work can be found at daniellechenette.tumblr.com

-EARLY EDITION-

MAREN KARLSON

Maren Karlson is an illustrator working and living in Berlin, Germany whose interests include girls, jokes, ugliness, premium breakfast, negative feelings. 

-EARLY EDITION-

LALE WESTVIND

Lale Westvind makes comics, animations and paintings in New York City. 

-EARLY EDITION-

SARA LAUTMAN

Sara Lautman is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and editor. She is a comics columnist at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the comics magazine Darling Sleeper. Her next book, a collaborative illustrated poem called The Humble Simple Thing, is coming out in August of this year from Electric Literature.  saralautman.com

-EARLY EDITION-

LEE BAXTER DAVIS

Lee Baxter Davis was born in Bryan, Texas in 1939. He’s ordained to the Permanent Order of Catholic deacons and resides with his wife near Greenville, Texas. 

-VISUAL ART-

KAMEELAH RASHEED

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a research-based artist-archivist working across installation, sound, photography, publishing, prose and public programming to explore the relationship between personal and social histories.

-PHOTO BOX-

ELISE LIU

Elise Liu is a Chinese-American global nomad based in Dubai. She doesn’t like borders. Her recent work appears in Rattle, The Newer York, Ember, and the Found Poetry Review. 

-FICTION-

TALIA LAVIN

Talia Lavin is a longtime poet and less-time journalist currently working as a fact checker at the New Yorker. 

-POETRY-

KANSAS JOE MCCOY

Kansas Joe Mccoy (b. 1905; d. 1950) was an American musician and songwriter. During the early 1930s, he was married to influential blues musician Memphis Minnie, and the two were a staple of the Chicago blues scene.

-A/V CORNER-


MEGHAN LAMB

Meghan Lamb lives and writes with her partner in St. Louis. Her work can be found on Birds of Lace, Solar Luxuriance, Artifice, The Collagist, Pank, wigleaf, Alice Blue, and other places. 

-ALL OF THEM WITCHES-

SARAH FERRICK

Sarah Ferrick was born on Long Island in 1988 but now lives in Chicago.

-EARLY EDITION-

EMMA LOUTHAN

Emma Louthan is a Philadelphia-based illustrator and textile designer whose latest project can be found at  bestcelebritylooks.tumblr.com.

-EARLY EDITION-

VALENTINE GALLARDO

Valentine Gallardo is a Ghent-based comic artist who writes and draws about friendship, love, dreams, and the occult.

-EARLY EDITION-

KATIE PARRISH

Katie is a queer person who makes comics. They also work as the art editor at The Lifted Brow.

-EARLY EDITION-

MEGHAN TURBITT

Meghan Turbitt was left as a baby on the doorstep of a monastery in a happy meal box. Buy her comics so she can get rich: MeghanTurbitt.storenvy.com

-EARLY EDITION-

YUMI SAKUGAWA

YUMI SAKUGAWA is an Ignatz Awards nominated comic book artist and the author of I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU and YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE. Her comics have also appeared in The Believer, Bitch, the Best American Non­Required Reading 2014, The Rumpus, Folio, Fjords Review, and other publications. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she lives in Los Angeles.

-EARLY EDITION-

CRISTINA DE MIDDEL

Cristina de Middel is a photographer whose work investigates photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth. She lives and works in Mexico. 

-VISUAL ART-

ABBY SUN

Abby, who originally hails from Columbia, MO, is a photographer, filmmaker, sound recordist, and lover of road trips. She periodically roams the country, but currently lives and works in New Orleans. 

-DOCUMERICA-

DAVID RICE

David Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA. His stories have appeared in Black Clock, The Rumpus, The New Haven Review, and elsewhere. 

-FICTION-

JUSTIN WYMER

Justin Wymer is a writer, translator, and educator from West Virginia. 

-POETRY-

GEORGES MÉLIÉS

Georges Méliés (b. 1861; d. 1938) was a French illusionist and filmmaker during the earliest days of cinema. He was a prolific innovator of visual and special effects, and made over 500 films between 1896 and 1912, only about 200 of which remain extant.

-A/V CORNER-

ASHLEY KEYSER

Ashley Keyser is from Chicago. Her poems are forthcoming in Pleiades, Passages North, The Cincinnati Review, and The Journal.

-ALL OF THEM WITCHES-

AMANDA BAEZA

Amanda Baeza is a graphic artist born in 1990. You can see her wandering in beautiful forests like Kuš!, Chili Com Carne and Komikaze with lots of comics between her fingers.

-EARLY EDITION-

NICOLE GINELLI

Nicole Ginelli is a graphic/ multimedia artist living in Chicago. 

-EARLY EDITION-

SAM WESNER

Sam Wesner lives and works in Somerville, MA.

-EARLY EDITION-

CLARA BESS

Clara Bessijelle Johansson is a cartoonist born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work is usually about odd characters who spend their time in richly illustrated environments. Clara has published comics and has been anthologized in both European and American publications such as The Believer, Allt för Konsten, C'est Bon, Komikaze and more.  Clara was published by Domino Books with the comic `Face Man' and got nominated for The Ignatz Awards as Promising New Talent 2012. 

-EARLY EDITION-

KATIE FRICAS

Katie Fricas is the author of Blabbermouth and Terry + Terry. When she isn't cartooning she spends her days working in a Library.

-EARLY EDITION-

ANNIE MOK

Annie Mok is an author-illustrator, Rookie Mag staff, actress, musician, co-creator of Swim Thru Fire with Sophia Foster-Dimino, co-star in the upcoming feature film Phaesporia, and the frontwoman for See-Through Girls. heyanniemok.com.  Photo credit: Thom Carroll / PhillyVoice.

-EARLY EDITION-

CHITRA GANESH

Chitra Ganesh is a Brooklyn based visual artist recognized for her experimental use of comic and large-scale narrative forms to communicate submerged histories and alternate articulations of femininity to a broader public. 

-VISUAL ART-

MORGAN JERKINS

Morgan Jerkins is a writer and nap enthusiast NYC transplant by way of New Jersey. 

-FICTION-

MARGARITA DELCHEVA

Margarita Delcheva’s poems have appeared in Sixth Finch, Fugue, and others. She resides in Brooklyn. 

-POETRY-

ELENOR KOPKA

Elenor Kopka aka Elrondeluxe is a German illustrator and animator, known for stories such as „The woman who got married to a cactus“, „One day I woke up and my eyebrows were gone“ and scary animated films about ghosts and turnip people.

-ANIMATION-

SIPPIE WALLACE

Sippie Wallace (b. 1898; d. 1986) was an American singer-songwriter who ranked among the top blues vocalists of the 1920s. In 1929, she abandoned show business to become a church organist and singer in Detroit before returning to her career in the mid-sixties.

-A/V CORNER-

KAYLA E.

Kayla E. is editor-in-chief of Nat. Brut and works as a freelance designer, cartoonist, and multimedia artist based in Dallas. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Comics Journal, Black Eye, Rough House, and The Newer York, among other publications. Her work as editor of Nat. Brut has been profiled on Feministing.com, The Harvard Advocate blog, and the Huffington Post.

-ALL OF THEM WITCHES-

STINE AN

Stine An is a Korean-American writer, comedian, and artist based in Cambridge, Mass. who sometimes creates projects under the alias Gregor Spamsa. She performs anti-folk ukulele anthems with her band Fat Robin. You can check out her work upcoming events, and more at gregorspamsa.com.

-ALL OF THEM WITCHES-

ÉMILIE GLEASON

Émilie Gleason eats a lot of quesadillas while studying illustration in Strasbourg, France. She really wants to be a truckdriver in the future. 

-EARLY EDITION-

KRISTEN LIU-WONG

Kristen Liu-Wong is a Brooklyn-based artist from San Francisco who studied Illustration at Pratt Institute.

-EARLY EDITION-

LAURA KNETZGER

Laura Knetzger is a cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Seattle and makes comics about feelings.

-EARLY EDITION-

SOPHIE YANOW

Sophie Yanow is the author of the Ignatz-nominated graphic novel War of Streets and Houses, a chronicle of her experience during the Quebec student strike of 2012 and an examination of the policing and development of urban space. She was the 2014-2015 Fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies and continues to reside in Vermont.

-EARLY EDITION-

TYLER COHEN

Tyler Cohen is a cartoonist who works with multiple voices: surrealism (the Primazons), true vignettes (MamaPants), and exploratory bits about language--all braided into a series called Primahood.

-EARLY EDITION-