FORGE. Art Magazine

I just finished putting together Issue 24 of the magazine! After a busy summer following the release of the last issue and the Currents gallery shows, I'm so glad to finally share this one with you all! I wrapped up this issue while staying with my friends behind the publisher TXTbooks in Brooklyn and have spent the past week laying out the issue from Logan Fitzpatrick's bedroom while he's been out of town. This issue would not be possible without the patience and generosity of so many people that I've met through doing the magazine, and it's incredible to know that there are friends around the country willing to help. This issue is coming out a little later than I hoped because of a new newspaper project I launched through my job at Danger Collective Records, but I'm still so proud of the end result none the less. So many great pieces were sent in for this issue, and I finally have the opportunity to share some interviews from this year that I've been eager to publish. I had such a pleasure working on this issue, and I hope you get pleasure out of reading through it! I plan on taking another little break before starting the next issue, so keep your eyes peeled for something new later next year! :)

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I just finished putting together Issue 23 of the magazine! After a couple busy months since putting out the last issue, I'm so excited to finally share a new one with you all. Issue 23 is one of the longest yet, featuring 18 submissions, four interviews, three new comics, and a lot of documentation of the CURRENTS 2019 gallery show I organized in May at Mount Analogue in Seattle. A few of the sections have been redesigned and I’m super grateful to have gotten help from Kurt Woerpel of TXTbooks for those updates. There are some interviews in this issue that I've wanted to do for a long time, and there are some that were much more serendipitous, but I couldn't be happier with including all of them in this issue centered around Trust. Some of my best submissions I've ever received made there way into this issue as well, and feels great to showcase such a range of different work across the issue's 400+ pages. I learned so much working on this issue, and I hope you all have a fun time flipping through it! :)

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I just finished putting together Issue 22 of the magazine! Today, just a week before the opening of the third FORGE Currents group show in Seattle, I'm delighted to share with you all a new issue of the magazine! Over the past three months, since putting out Issue 21, I've finally gotten back into a routine with things and I've been slowly gathering everything for this new issue and the gallery show. I feel so excited about everything I've gotten the chance to work on for this year, and it has been an enormous pleasure to work with so many artists for both the issue and the show! This new issue features tons of magnificent submissions by 16 young artists centered around the theme Intimacy, a handful of interviews recorded between last November and this month, and new comics by three of my favorite cartoonists. I hope you all have a fun time flipping through it! :)

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I just finished putting together Issue 21 of the magazine! After taking a three month break from the magazine when I moved to Los Angeles last fall, it brings me great pleasure to finally share a new issue with you all. I'm incredibly happy with how this one turned out and with all of the artists I was lucky enough to include in it. Fortunately because of my job and my move I was able to travel a lot during the making of this issue, and as a result this issue features a wider geographical range of artists than ever before! I'm so thrilled to now be based in Southern California and I'm excited to see how that changes the magazine and what I do with FORGE. This issue of the magazine includes some of my biggest artistic inspirations and several people who I never thought I'd have the chance to interview when I started FORGE. I received a stunning collection of submissions as well, so over all this is one of my favorite issues ever. And its definitely the longest one at 396 pages. After six months of working on it, it's so nice to finish Issue 21 today (on my birthday of all days!) and I would like to thank everyone who helped make this one possible!

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I just finished putting together Issue 20 of the magazine! Six years ago, I couldn't have imagined that this magazine would come as far a long as it has, and it feels incredible to be able to put out the 20th issue of the publication. This issue has involved a lot of juggling of ideas, resources, and time, and at points I thought it would never get done. But luckily I'm now sharing it with you all today! After this issue has been published I'm planning on moving to california, following a job opportunity at a record label and an opportunity to continue to grow and change the magazine. I'm not sure yet what the future holds, but I'm excited about the prospects and proud of the accomplishments in the present. Because I'm moving this fall the next issue will be postponed until the winter. I hope that by doing so I'll have a chance to redesign some of the layout and reassess how I want to keep doing the magazine from LA! This issue of the magazine has more artists and people involved than any issue in the past! I'm so incredibly trilled with all of the work everyone has contributed to this one, and I'm so proud to make the 20th issue such a special one!

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I just finished putting together Issue 19 of the magazine! I've learned so much from the process of working on this issue, and I've met so many new people along the way, so I'm thrill to finally share it with you all. Since putting out issue 18 in the January, I've been working on various projects between New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and slowly piecing together this issue along the way. I feel like recently I've become more and more consumed and involved with the work of the artists I've been able to talk to through FORGE, and it's led to some collaborations that I'm excited to share later on in the year. As I take more opportunities to make personal work or produce work with other artists, I'm excited to see how it'll affect the shape the magazine takes in the future. In a lot of ways this issue gives some foreshadowing to the ways I hope to support more artists in the future and the role the magazine will have in creating a platform for unique projects! Thanks so much to everyone who has committed any time or energy to making this issue possible! I'm so glad I had the chance to include all of the artist that are featured in this one, and I hope you enjoy learning more about their work! It's been a crazy undertaking, and I hope that each of you can take something valuable away from this one!

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I just finished editing together Issue 18! I'm so elated to finally be able to share this new issue with the world today, on a day that happens to be my birthday, no less! More than many of the past issues, I feel like #18 is a fully formed document of the three months it took to put together all 336 of its pages, highlighting many of the incredible people who helped make it possible. Since the release of the last issue in October I co-curated Comic Arts Brooklyn with the incredible Gabe Fowler of Desert Island, hosted a month long gallery show called CURRENTS,  published a few new zines, and moved into a studio with two of my favorite illustrators (Ariel Davis and Leesh Adamerovish). It's been a whirlwind of work and excitement, but with this issue finished, I'm looking forward to slowing down and planning for the next year of the magazine. This issue truly wouldn't have been possible with out the patience and support of so many people (my former intern Lukas, my roommate Zeke, Rachel and Erik from Secret Project Robot, my studio mates Leesh and Ariel, etc...) so I tried to sprinkle them and their influence through out it. I'm so thrilled with all of the stunning submissions I got to include in this issue, and it's been amazing to have the opportunity to interview some of my biggest artistic heroes for it as well! 

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If you’re in New York, this is tonight! 

I'm doing a big BLOWOUT SALE on the FORGE. online store before the CURRENTS gallery show ends next month! Orders of $25 or more will come with a free random zine!! Orders of $40 or more will come with a free T-shirt!!!! Just specify the size or if you have something already in the comments of the order.

The store has been updated with a few new items too, including these shirts designed by Kelsey Wroten and Leesh Adamerovich, so take a look!

I just finished editing together Issue 17! To finish out the year I put together this colossal issue featuring more artists than I think I've ever been able to pack into a magazine! I've been working on this issue in each of the cities I've traveled to for work in the past three months (New York, Toronto, Providence, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) and there are traces of every location strung through out it! I'm so excited with all of the amazing artists I had the opportunity to work with on this one. The theme for this issue felt really relevant when I started working on it just after I decided to leave my full time job at VICE. But I'm glad to have more exciting prospects for the future now three months later, and I'm glad to have this issue off of my chest. 

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FORGE. Art Magazine has teamed up with alternative comics publisher @2dcloud  and psychedelic projectionists Drippy Eye Projections to curate a reading and light show during the CURRENTS gallery show at Secret Project Robot on Sunday November 12th (the day after @comicartsbrooklyn!) The event will feature comic readings by cartoonists Margot Ferrick, Xia Gordon, Laura Lanes, Jack Reese, Tommi Parrish, and Kyung Me. After the readings Drippy Eye will host a Record Club where they'll select two surprise records and invite the audience to listen and watch an improvised light show performed to the music. During both records we ask for there to be no talking so you can fully dive into the audio/visual experience. Suggest a record for Drippy Eye to play during the light show to [email protected]

I’m incredibly thrilled to finally announce the second annual FORGE. gallery show, CURRENTS! This week marks the 5 year anniversary of FORGE, so it feels very fitting to unveil a show that represents everything I’ve been working towards across that half decade. CURRENTS will once again be a month long art show featuring work by 13 young contemporary artists held at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn. The goal with CURRENTS this year will once again be to showcase the community of artists and viewers that FORGE. has created online, in an IRL setting. The show is meant to serve as a capsule of who I think are some of the most amazing contemporary artists from various disciplines working today, and will hopefully reinforce the sense of community among all of them. There are going to be a bunch of events happening at the gallery while the show is up, so stay tuned for about those soon.

RSVP to the show on Facebook here!

CURRENTS this year will include work by…

took a bunch of photos of @kiraasz in the new shirt on our roof before leaving New York! just a reminder, all orders placed while i'm out of town in LA will be shipped after the 20th. so sit tight, and your shirts and zines will be on their way soon! 🚨

i’m so excited to be a part of the 10th annual Zine Dream this weekend in Toronto! on Sunday I’ll be running a FORGE. table at the festival, selling zines, shirts, and prints, a long with a ton of other incredible exhibitors! if you’re in Toronto over the weekend, come hang out and say hi!

thanks so much to @colourcodeprinting, @patrickkyleillustration, and Alicia Nauta for including me in the festival, and making space for artists and zine makers to share their work for the past ten years.

New FORGE. Logo designed by Micheal DeForge now available as a shirt on the webstore! Just $15!

​I just finished editing together Issue 16! This issue is the longest issue to date, stacking up at around 278 pages. I've been at a really crazy point at my life finishing this issue, having just quit my full time job at VICE to pursue more freelance writing for them and a few art direction opportunities that recently came my way. I've lost a lot of sleep and lived like a hermit for the past five days trying to get this one done. But in the process of laboring over each page in the magazine I realized how much this issue truly changed my life. Traveling to LA and talking to Jesse Moynihan and Jacob Rubeck really opened up my eyes to how important patience and sacrifice are in making your best work. Then on the east coast, interviewing Caroline David and Jane Mai & Patrick Crotty of Peow Press helped teach me to take more risks and take my personal work more seriously, no matter what the audience on the other end expects. I would have never had the confidence to make the big changes in my life that I recently have without learning from all of you while making this issue, and I'm so excite to see where the magazine goes from here as I start to focus more of my energy on it. I'm also so so grateful for the beautiful new logo Michael DeForge worked on for the past few months, helping to ring in a new era of the magazine!

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