The East Village Inky

The East Village Inky started back in 1998, when I was living in a 340 sq. ft. apartment on East 9th St. I had a one-year-old baby and an increasingly urgent need to regain some semblance of a creative identity that had thrived Off-Off-Broadway. A handwritten, hand-illustrated, autobiographical mini-zine seemed like the most manageable option.

Two and a half decades later, the format remains the same, and the content has evolved from anecdotes of hectored maternity to thematic explorations of whatever captures my attention: Mail, NYC museums, Kurt Vonnegut, sports from the POV of someone who was chronically picked last for gym …

Each issue is 40 jam-packed quarter-sized pages. I keep things cheap because I like a bargain and try to live by the Golden Rule.

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Kick it old skool by sending a personal check, payable to Theater of the Apes, Inc., by pony express. Tell me what you’re ordering, rack up what you owe, and send to the following address. Happy to enclose a gift message, if it’s a gift—let me know!

  • Current issue: $3.65

  • Back issues: $3.65

  • Domestic subscription: $12

  • International subscription: $16*

    *Outside the US? Please toss in an extra buck per zine (a subscription = 4 zines)


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Brick N’ Mortar Bookstores

Perhaps you are lucky enough to live in a city where some foolish, independent bookseller has agreed to stock The East Village Inky for your shopping convenience. They support me! Please support them.

San Francisco, CA:
City Lights

Portland, OR:
Microcosm Store

Seattle, WA:
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery

Melbourne, Australia:
The Sticky Institute

Online Distributors

These fine folks sell the East Village Inky and plenty of other fine zines besides! They may even be able to rustle up some back issues we’re sold out of here at HQ. Supporting them = supporting me!


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