Doods and doodettes who love Brad Neely will cry like doves when they realize we’re running his Creased Comics in the paper now. Remember when Neely’s Babycakes, Professor Brothers, and music videos about historical celebrities like George Washington were making our pre-recession lives a wee bit more joyful? Well, we never forgot those days and […]
Scrappers
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This Week’s Cover
This week’s cover artist Sean Morris is my favorite Australian (aside from Mad Max).The work he’s made for recent shows like Magic Weirdos Never Die, Return to Doom Lagoon, and Be Sweet Deadbeat are of pure human wilderness. See more wild people art after the jump.
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This Week’s Mercury Cover
Did’ja know this week’s cover art by Zach Johnsen was painted with smoke bombs? Did’ja also know you can see Johnsen’s new art show The House of Uncommons at Hellion Gallery this month? Did’ja? Now you do!
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This Week’s Cover
“Nice Beaver!” Those are the only words I’ve heard about this week’s cover.Come on, people! Do you really think we’d put a beaver on the cover, just to boost our pick-up rate (yes we did)? If you like looking at beavers and stuff by Jeremy Fish you should go to this print art show he […]
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This Week’s Cover
Like a hardy womp in the face, this week’s Mercury cover is knocking folks off their feet. Here’s what readers are saying on the street;“Oh, yeah I saw that.”“It’s pretty cool.”“Is that guy ripping off the Mastodon album cover art?”“Can you help me buy some weed?”“What, no nipples? Why would I pick that up—it doesn’t […]
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This Week’s Cover
Martin Ontiveros is famous for a lot of things: Illustrator for Ricky Ricotta Mighty Robot, painting a label for Gigantic Brewing, making heavy metal posters, designing collectible toys, and making the cover of the Mercury look awesome. Hours after sending us this week’s Mummy Issue cover art, he took a bike ride and got hit […]
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Little Wall Bangers
Two Art Shows for Shredders
Getting sweaty with two Portland skateboard art shows.
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NSFW (the W is for Wussies)
Tuesday’s at the Mercury SUUUUUUCK! I just type and click, type and click, type and click, fart on Erik the film editor’s mouse when he’s not looking, type and click, all day until the paper is sent to the printer and I finally get to go home and pet my kitty (knowhattamean?). Sometimes I just […]
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Bikes are the New Harlem Shake
For the first time ever I’m going to ride in the World Naked Bike Ride—not just because my family jewels are the shiniest you’ve ever seen, but because I want in on this whole bike craze before it goes the way of the Harlem Shake video. So mark your calendars for a couple Pedalpalooza rides […]
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A Tale of Two Hales
Over the three day weekend I took some acid, burned my clothes, covered my face with the blood of a menstrual alley cat, and sent one too many emails. One of these too many emails was to illustrator Joseph Harmon. I accidentally sent Harmon an illustration request that I had previously sent to a different […]
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Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together!
Manwolfs and fluoride: Two great tastes that taste great together! Everyone has already said what can be said about fluoride in the comment section of this week’s cover story (I hope!), but did anyone say anything about the cover art? Did you think that yellow-toothed screaming monster had anything to do with the story? It […]
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This Week’s Cover
Some of you might be wondering why we have the sexiest man alive on the cover this week? The words I would use to explain the reason are limp in comparison to the video below and the epic NSFW photos after the jump.