Art. Lit. Comics. Music.
Art taps into the unconscious mind, and maybe, depending on how deep we’re into this day-drinking, we could even argue that we’re tapping into the COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS.
Art by David Edward Johnson
Wild West Art Cover is Gemini Motel
AND Wild West Fashion Cover is Islu Ishii
- Cowgirls Are ForeverA sturdy rope or chaps or a pair of boots, one exchanged for the other, seems more certain, more concrete.
- Blame It On My Big DickAll of it.
- Hard SleepFeatured Artist Michael Pajon and writer Glenn Ingersoll pair up for a small but unsettling poem.
- Spiders in the DaffodilsStephan Trask didn’t mean to throw the sheriff through the front of the saloon window. It just happened to work out that way.
The Masked Man
CSC: Luis, you’re a garage rocker and spaniard, but you didn’t seem surprised when we told ya we wanted to feature you in Wild West. You seemed to think it was a natural fit.
Wild West not only ‘happened’ in the US but in México and other countries and it spoke Spanish also. Anyway, it is always the same history. Invaders destroy and annihilate until they take everything. Europeans did it in Africa & America and you Americans did it also within yourselves and to other countries. Endless history.
CSC: In the movies, a cowboy is motivated by love or vengeance. How ’bout you?
Both. I’ve recently discovered that I’ve got a superpower: I can create vengeance songs. Do not piss me off.
CSC: Are you a white hat or a black hat?
Always black….not always white.
Amarillo
Making miracles outta melted grains of sand.
Poem by Cream Scene’s Jake Price
Art by Wild West featured illustrator Motel Gemini
Coming Out Of The Outhouse
The veiled traveler retains something of her last world and perceives the next.
Sunday AM Punk Rock Gospel(ish) by Dia VanGunten
Art by Caya Crum, a featured artist for Wild West
How to Make Love to a Saguaro Cactus
Once you have purged yourself of self-hatred, which, dear partner, is not our job to tell you how to do, just that you must do it, you can begin.
Prose Poetry Hybrid by Spencer Nitkey
Art by Thomas Plets
