BY: ANDREW COLTRIN

I’m really glad that in this respect the collective seems to actually be a thing. It can be hard to figure out what it is or who runs it. All I know is that I send out a lot of emails about the zine and I get the photocopies made, but I feel there’s always room for more. I’d like to see more members and more projects that could carry the Look for Signage name on them. We’ve had at least one addition to the original collective membership: J. Marshall Hart. He’s not only Speedway’s Book Dept. upervisor, he’s an amazing poet (and by amazing I mean accessible and entertaining, as well as profound).  We recently finished a chapbook of his poetry called "Giraffe Fight." We’re hoping it might persuade the admissions board of a major MFA program to grant Marshall a full ride.

There will be other and more amazing Look for Signage projects in the future. Irvin’s got an experimental comic book idea he’s kicking around, and there is another Irvin and Andrew comics project called “New Gibraltar” that we’re furiously working on. Marshall keeps coming up with more poems that need a venue. Dr. Verno, to the best of my knowledge, is engaged in deep cover field research in Croatia. We hope he contacts us soon with new adventures.

We keep looking for signs and making some of our own.

Zines and Zine Resources

The following is a list of zines I like, as well as useful sources of further information for the curious.

Syndicate Product
Clip Tart
Fish With Legs
Hungover Gourmet
tfr Industries
Small World Buttons
Zinester's Guide to Portland
Zine World
Parcel Press Distro
Microcosm Publishing

Andrew Coltrin has several Nigerian pen pals, each of whom need his help in transferring several million dollars out of their country. When not busy with correspondence, he has been known to do some very time consuming things like parent a six-year old child and form an art collective. The child is, of course, a genius. The art collective, Look for Signage, has produced three ingenious issues of the literary journal Bony Landmarks (the latest issue of which can be found at the Speedway Bookmans store). Andrew lives in Tucson with his legally recognized life-partner Jessica.

Irvin Stafford draws, paints, and teaches art classes in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from Tucson, he is a member of the Look for Signage Art Collective.