Eat It

A zine about absolutely nothing and absolutely everything.

Starting 2009, I created Eat It as an image-only zine based around a single theme that was mailed out to recipients (inspired by pop artist Ray Johnson). Themes ranged from instruction manuals to maps, the end of famous novels or Western Union telegrams. After several years of designing, printing, and mailing these out myself I decided to take a break.

In the spring of 2019 I revived Eat It and began mailing out new issues. The themes expanded to nature, sports, found art, and photography but I’ve stayed true to the format of a single theme per issue.  To join the mailing list, email me by clicking CONTACT at the bottom of the page. Staying true to form, there is no digital version.

*You can eat while you read Eat It, but do not eat Eat It. It is not food based and contains no nutrition.

  • Art is better understood in context and therefore explanation is needed. Manifestos are outdated and tiresome, but a necessary diatribe to compliment things that are not watered down and sugar coated for the masses.

    Butterflies to airliners, things need to escape and be seen in a visual sense. The quickest and least marketable, yet commonly recognizable format would be a book of some sort: the small dots of color combining to realign in your head and convey the message.

    So let us be realistic and demand the impossible by doing it ourselves and making thoughts two-dimensional. But how many boring zines already exist with inane, endless commentary? Yada, yada, yada. (I want Dada, Dada, Dada)

    It makes me wonder: who reads this shit? Maybe only the editors, contributors, and hopeful contributors.

    There is no overriding message here.

    There is no overriding message here.

    There is no political agenda.

    There is no literary function.

    Print is dead.

    This is not Print.

    This is Print(ed).

    We are in an ‘information age’ in which everything is verging on instant(coffee)taneous and the need/want for ready fast visual stimuli is apparent. So one may call this a visual reappraisal of the world around us, images reorganized in a manner more suited to not cause headaches.

    A promise is made not to bore you. If you are bored, then the promise has been broken.