a new publication from editor and publisher Mike Luoma, based in the creative hub of Burlington, Vermont. Featuring fiction, non-fiction, comics, illustrations, poems and more, this first issue features Luoma’s work almost exclusively, as a writer, illustrator and comic book creator. This issue also includes Ethan Slayton and Mike Seller’s cover and Juan Carlos Quattordio’s illustrations for Panthea Obscura Issue One, as the comic book is reprinted here (in grayscale). Also featuring an excerpt from Luoma’s science fiction novel “Vatican Assassin”, the comic book short “Holy Shit: The Second Coming” and the first collected print edition of Luoma’s online column “Mike Luoma’s Making It Up!” from CosmicBookNews.com.

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The Mainichi Daily News is the online English edition of Japan’s highly respected and trusted Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, which has a history of 137 years and a daily circulation of 4 million copies for its morning edition, and 1.5 million for its evening edition. The Mainichi was the first of Japan’s major newspapers to produce an English edition, starting in 1922. The online English edition’s popular content includes Mainichi Shimbun editorials and opinion articles, news, features, haiku in English, and photo specials. The Mainichi has an extensive news-gathering network with more than 360 domestic outlets and 26 overseas bureaus, and has won numerous prestigious journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and a record 23 Japan Newspaper Publisher and Editors Association Awards — the Pulitzer Prize of Japan. The Kindle Edition of Mainichi contains most articles found in the web edition. For your convenience, issues are automatically delivered wirel (more…)

This file includes: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Sylvie and Bruno, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, The Game of Logic, and The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood). And active/linked table of contents helps you got quickly to the book you want. According to Wikipedia: “Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”, all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His facility at word play, logic, and fantasy has delighted audiences ranging from children to the literary elite, and beyond this his work has become embedded deeply in modern culture, directly influencing many artists.”

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“Excerpt from the book…”The purpose of this book is to instruct the prospective newspaperreporter in the way to write those stories which his future paper willcall upon him to write, and to help the young cub reporter and thestruggling correspondent past the perils of the copyreader’s pencil bytelling them how to write clean copy that requires a minimum of editing.

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