Loculus is a hand-made Art Zine that features a visual essay on a theme. The ideas inside are wide-ranging, provocative, and intended to inspire thought and action. Each copy is collaged with a unique art paper, hand-printed from a linoleum block, and folded with an inside pocket that contains a mini-comic. Loculus is sold at Art Coop in Urbana, Bobzbay Books in Bloomington, Illinois; Quimby’s bookstore in Chicago; Downtown Books and News in Asheville; Atomic Books in Baltimore; Gosh Comics in London and Risma Bookshop in Rome.
To purchase a copy directly send $15 + $3 for shipping inside the US. Contact me first to arrange any international mail costs.
Venmo: @Robert-Petersen-13
Paypal: rspetersen@eiu.edu
Loculus #3, Being Blocked, provides advice on how to overcome being blocked from writing and making art. This issue includes guides to meditation, organizing your workspace and maintaining a bullet journal. The mini-comic insert is Two Clowns in Hole, episode 1, “How’s the Weather.” Recently revised and reprinted.
Loculus #1, The Illusion of Significant Results (iOSR), explores the problems that come with becoming dependent on digital tools in Art making. This issue includes advice on how to recognize and avoid iOSR and how to draw inside an Art museum. The mini-comic insert is Two Clowns in Hole, episode 2, “Vitamin Time.” A few copies left.
Loculus #4, Life is a Dream, is an exploration of way dream experiences that can be both disorienting and liberating. This issue includes how to overcome reverse culture shock and experience lucid dreaming. The mini-comic insert is Two Clowns in Hole, episode 3, “Monster Mayhem.” Recently revised and reprinted.
With this ever present reminder of what we neglect and ignore, LOCULUS #15, In Praise of Dust, examines the ways dust gives us a valuable insight into our selves and the environment. This issue includes instructions on how to make a dust mask. The mini-comic insert is Two Clowns in Hole, episode 4, “A Little Deeper.” A few copies left.
Reflecting on this central organ in our bodies Loculus #9, By Heart, explores how we experience the world and the memories we form from those experiences. This issue includes advice on how to retain and recall memories, and how to forget. The mini-comic insert is Two Clowns in Hole, episode 5, “The Message.”
Loculus #2, Fish Watching, delves into the experience of watching fish and how their underwater existence opens us up to profoundly different ways of seeing the world. This issue includes advice on how to watch fish in the wild and how to set up an aquarium as well as the “Flat Earth Manifesto.” The mini-comic insert is Two Clowns in Hole, episode 6, “Breaking News.”
