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INTERVIEW WITH CARTOONIST ERIC REYNOLDS by Sean McGahey Cartoonist/occasional hack Eric Reynolds’s illustrations have appeared in The Stranger, The Comics Journal, The New York Times, The New York Press, and elsewhere. He occasionally ‘inks’ Peter Bagge’s work and draws comics once in awhile. He edits the Complete Crumb Comics, Angry Youth Comics and Dirty Stories, among others, for Fantagraphics Books read

NEWS FROM THE EDITOR Retort finally returns. Thanks for your patience. It was just going on 6 months since the site collapsed. It was very encouraging to see the consistent 20,000 + readers from 97 different countries returning every month, thanks for that :D read

PHOTOGRAPHY by Samantha Casolari 'Once Upon A Time', is an abstract and timeless narrative, about dead people and dead places, human beings and things that are no more, but that continue to convey spirit and magic and ambiguity view

RETORT MAGAZINE TOP 20 the 20 most popular features at Retort Magazine since the 1st Issue in April 2001. I did not ammend the list, therefor it contains 1 missing text, which was extremely popluar while online read

A BRIEF STATEMENT ON THE AGE OF IRREVERENCE by John Hospodka Let’s do tons of cocaine tonight. We could close down a 2 a.m. bar like we used to –trading off ever-shortening stints of paranoiac snorts in the john, and then afterwards read

DOG DAYS by Robert Levin I wanted to be invisible. Out of nowhere, with, I swear, nothing in my history to predict it, I'd done something people regard as sick and disgusting and I wanted to disappear ... What's more - -when you call your dog "Maureen" you're asking for trouble...  read Reader Review - this is positively the funniest but most fucked up shit i ever read!

JAGGED EDGES by Marc Lowe She sat on the bed and watched. She watched them through a narrow chink in the wall. The boy had his arm around the girl. He was whispering something into her ear read

POETRY by Kent MacCarter We clang inside the attractive hours of night – that space we bring and blow smokes in each other’s face. Our hair lets drop a towel for a shower... read

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