{"id":7999,"date":"2025-07-10T10:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:28:18","slug":"lumpen-comics-143-release-party-at-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/10\/lumpen-comics-143-release-party-at-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumpen Comics #143 Release Party at 100 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday July 19th from 6-8pm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.100million.space\/\">100 Million<\/a>, a new art space in KC, will host a release party for <i>Lumpen Comics<\/i> Issue #143, an all-comics magazine that I co-edited and contributed to! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2025-07-10_Lumpen-143-front-cover.png\"><br \/>\nFront cover by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodbyepress.com\/\">Ben Marcus<\/a>. Photo taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lumpenmagazine\">the Lumpen mag IG<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>100 Million is in my home neighb of Waldo, in an alley between 222 and 332 W. 75th St., Kansas City, MO. Here are two photos I took of the approach: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2025-07-10_100-Million-entry1.png\" alt=\"Photo of an alley with a brick wall on the left and blue sky with a few clouds above. There's a wooden staircase towards the end.\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2025-07-10_100-Million-entry2.png\" alt=\"Photo of a wooden staircase leading to a glass door in a brick alley. The door says 100 million in loopy red numbers.\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s the back cover of <i>Lumpen Comics<\/i> Issue #143, which shows all the contributors: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2025-07-10_Lumpen-143-back-cover.png\"><br \/>\nBack cover also by Ben Marcus. Photo again stolen from the Lumpen mag IG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ed Lumpen has been publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lumpenmagazine.org\/\"><i>Lumpen<\/i> magazine<\/a> out of Chicago since 1991. Ed saw <i>Read the Room<\/i>, the show <a href=\"https:\/\/timbrown.website\/\">Tim Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/redshortsbindery\/\">Thayer N G Bray<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jason_lips\/\">Jason Lips<\/a>, and I co-curated at Charlotte Street Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/2024-in-review\/\">last year<\/a>, and invited us to collaborate with him and <a href=\"https:\/\/jeanalbanogallery.com\/artists\/joe-tallarico\/\">Joe Tallarico<\/a> on editing this all-comics issue of <i>Lumpen<\/i> that brings together KC and Chicago cartoonists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday July 19th from 6-8pm, 100 Million, a new art space in KC, will host a release party for Lumpen Comics Issue #143, an all-comics magazine that I co-edited and contributed to! Front cover by Ben Marcus. Photo taken from the Lumpen mag IG. 100 Million is in my home neighb of Waldo, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[746,408],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-release-parties","tag-100-million","tag-lumpen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}