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Hey Kidz, I hope you all are well. Pretty stoked to get another issue together (hard to believe it's been a year - I do feel bad that a couple of the interviews are a year old). A continuation of our annual Father's Day interview specials (want the book of previous interviews? go here) as well as the guitarist, & touring musician series. So something for everybody. If you've been a regular reader for the past 22 years (or even just a portion of that), you may be thinking, "What is up with how seldom the issues are coming out? I mean this guy literally wrote a book about balancing family & working on artistic endeavors & he doesn't know how to pull it off?" I'd say it's a fair criticism. It's hard to pull off & that I'm trying to do it on a half dozen fronts (music, comics, label, webzine, etc) makes it even harder. It seems like every month a smooth week comes where I think I've finally hit the groove & can balance things & then everybody in the house gets a stomach virus wiping us out for a week & backing up the work to be done to tread water by two weeks or a cat gets sick & needs a few hundred dollars in tests or me or my wife's day job loads us with extra hours pushing creative time away or most recently a stray dog moves into the house & disrupts all the balance of the house. I'm not complaining about any of it. The difficulties generally help the family function better as a unit. Life is hard & that helps me know I'm still alive. The artistic work I do somehow more than breaks even & that there's still some interest in what a middle aged dude like me is doing is great. I'm happy & despite many young people's fears, it doesn't seem to destroy creativity; but realizing you want to live your life & be a decent human being does put a limit on the time you pour into different things. I should've learned this 20 years ago, but better late than never. Anyway, below are the interviews, thanks for your interest & support. Hrt Brian John Mitchell June 2017 Artistic Dad Interviews: Lou Graziani creator of Cy-Boar (May 2017) Jason Lamoreaux of The Corrupting Sea (May 2017) Philip Polk Palmer (May 2017) Zachary Scott Lawrence of Endless Chasm (May 2017) Guitarist Interviews: Loïc Josinski of Koyl (July 2016) Matt Gut of Fullness Off Lack (October 2016) Touring Musician Interviews: Lucio Menegon of Prehistoric Horse (June 2016)
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