Yuck City!

Original Art By Lizz Ramos

noreply@blogger.com (Yuck City! Magazine) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:14:00 +0000

Some incredible art by Lizz Ramos:

This will probably be one of the last posts for the next couple of days, as we'll all be on spring break. BUT on the aforementioned break, we will be working hard to get the first issue out!

So, I apologize to all of you who submitted excellent work that has not been posted, but I assure you it will be up here in due time. Hopefully in the next week we'll have some, if not all of the layout done, and can post WHOLE PAGES as PDFs. I'm excited, I hope you are too!

-P

Send us your margins!

noreply@blogger.com (Yuck City! Magazine) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:58:00 +0000

You know those doodles you scrawl in the margins of your notes while struggling to pay attention during a boring class? Put them to good use! Yuck City! is currently collecting your margins, and we will include whatever we get in both the print and online versions of the magazine. Scan your margins, comrades, and send them to yuckcity@gmail.com!

Some More Photography, To (Hopefully) Peak Your Interest

noreply@blogger.com (Yuck City! Magazine) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Some more stuff from Justin Orr and Paul Knechtges (respectively)

We'll get some submitted photography (from Chris) up in a little while, after it's grey scaled.

Submitted Art and Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Yuck City! Magazine) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Some art and photography for y'all folks:

Photography by Paul Knechtges and Justin Orr, art by Mairead McKinney.

More to come!

Cover: Issue #1

noreply@blogger.com (Yuck City! Magazine) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:36:00 +0000

This is the FANTASTIC cover that William "Buddy" Boor submitted. We had this before we even started collecting submissions, which certainly gave us the indication that we were off to a great start!

Cool Cal

noreply@blogger.com (Yuck City! Magazine) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:47:00 +0000

Just a little somethin' for all you kats n' kittens out there in the 'blogosphere' (...such a dumb term), our greatest and most silent president, Mr. Calvin Coolidge.

I'll leave you with this:

Unusual for a prominent politician, Coolidge was a man of few words, earning him the nickname "Silent Cal." It is said that a White House dinner guest once made a bet with her friends that she could get the president to say at least three words during the course of the meal. Upon telling Coolidge of her wager, he replied simply with the words "You lose."

Anti-Manifesto

noreply@blogger.com (Yuck City! Magazine) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:39:00 +0000

Yuck City! is a lot of things to a lot of people. That’s probably a lie, but it has the potential to be, I guess. It's an “arts-n-culture zine” to the people who sit in cafés and listen to the Mountain Goats. It is a nuisance to the environment, as the vast majority of the issues will end up spread throughout the garbage bins of East Lansing. It is a Dadaist anti-manifesto to all of the editors, which really just gives us a blank check say and do whatever we want without any concern for relevance or sensibility. In the end though, we just want YC! to be a magazine and community that encourages creativity, promotes DIY ethics, and is simply something fun and unpretentious that anyone can enjoy.

If you are reading this inaugural issue, then we should already be thanking you, but being the inconsiderate bastards we are, we will instead ask you for a favor. Even though you might not think you have creative ability, you do. If you’re reading this and you like what you see, we ask only that you contribute something of your own to help, be it a story, poem, piece of art or a delicious recipe. There are no requirements for admission aside from this: if it is something that deserves to be seen, we’ll publish it.

That’s it. Go on and get reading. If you like what you see, send us an email at yuckcity@gmail.com to let us know that somebody looked through this before throwing it away, and visit our blog at yuckcitymag.blogspot.com. The more people who contribute to as well as read and enjoy this the more we can do with it and the more we can publish.

Enjoy!
-The Management