Description

Images above © Antoine Monmarché (Monch)

Grim 18 Dark Art Zine Spring / Summer 2020 Edition

Grim is a not-for-profit (cost only) retro grunge styled, hand-made, xeroxed dark art zine. Grim 18 is 56 pages of dark art and features both visual artists and writers from several continents, some of whom include:

A brilliant ‘mood-setting’ front cover image from Antoine Monmarché, 6 superbly dark photographs from artist Mikel Balerdi (he’s Grim’s feature artist in this edition!), 3 weird and creepy collages from Françoise Duvivier, excellent painting from Matt Brown and Perfidious Crow. That’s not all. there is work from Peter and David Heaton, Robert Johnson, Robert Kerber. Grim 18 writers include Dean M. Drinkel with a super 6 page piece titled ‘St Valantine and the tree of flesh’, A. J. Spencer with ‘Perception’, Joseph Simons with ‘Noodles’ and of course other textual content kindly supplied by The Suicidal Rabbit. Grim 18 really has developed into something more than just page after page of images and has become, thanks to its diverse content and very kind contributors, something much, much more engaging.

So, Edition 18 is a 56 page zine (more like a book!) packed with all-things-dark! 🙂

Grim Contributors – Thank you all so much for sending in your work, I really appreciate it and your work really does make a difference to the darkness within Grims’ pages.

Credits & Contributors in this edition:

Models

skycladpixie, sira, martine, electric nymph, rascal, em, jack, polina,

Photographs, Illustrations, Collage and Other Compositions

All images by myself except the following:

Front Cover Antoine Monmarché (Monch),
Mikel Balerdi (8 – 13) ,
darkness.grimsoul (18),
Peter Heaton (20-21),
Matt Brown (23),
thegirlcalledlola (25),
Robert Johnson (27),
Robert Kerber (28-29),
ozjunkieshooter (32),
Françoise Duvivier (45-48),
perfidious_crow (52-53),
clm.gagnon_ (55)
Rear Cover (emanueledionisio)
(Colab image with me. Original image can be found on his IG)

Texts

‘Perception’ A. J. Spencer (4-6),
David Heaton (21),
The Suicidal rabbit (22, 19, 23),
Mikel Balerdi Feature Artist Interview (14-16),
‘Ivory Doll’ Kyzyl Khun  18),
Dean M. Drinkel ‘St. Valentine and the Tree of Flesh’ (33-38) (www.deanmdrinkel.com),
she_who_walks_among_shadows (44),
‘Noodles’ Joseph Simons (49 – 51),

Links

IG unless stated otherwise:

Françoise Duvivier (FB) (http://damagedcorpse.com/)
Robert Kerber (FB)
Dean M Drinkel (FB)

emanueledionisio
mikel_balerdi_torres
rob.johnson.art
mattbrownartwork
josephsimons.co.uk
thegirlcalledlola
she_who_walks_among_shadows
ozjunkieshooter
clm.gagnon_
artyj15
emanueledionisio
perfidious_crow
darkness.grimsoul
prawncoktail

Thank you all!