Jan-ken-pon: Tomio’s Want List – Hi-Fructose

Bottom line (starting off with the bottom line) anybody who simply just even likes art needs to check out this magazine. I just want to take a sec and point some people to this publication. I ran into it because I collect James Jean related material, and he was interviewed in one of their issues.

This magazine feature work by people everyone knows like Jim Woodring, Chris Ware, Junko Mizuno, Jeff Soto and frankly people I’ve never head of, but need to know about – which is why Hi-Fructose is on the Tomio Want List.

Issue#5

    
Hi-Fructose describes themselves as:

Hi-Fructose “Under the Counter Culture” quarterly magazine was founded by artists, Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005 and is published by Ouchfactory Yumclub Publishing. Hi-Fructose transcends genre and trend, assuring our readers thorough coverage and content that is relevant, informative and original. We showcase a mix of underground artists, emerging and rediscovered counter cultures and awe inspiring spectacles from around the world.

Each beautifully designed, full color issue goes beyond the comfort zone of the “alternative” norm to deliver a diverse cross section of the most influential, genre bending and defining subversive art of our time as well as breaking new and amazing talents world wide.

    
I’ve since went back and bought each issue I could get my hands on, and you can’t possibly be disappointed in the quality of product and the content (to even a laymen). It’s simply a well crafted product. I have a lot of hobbies and interests but this is the only (current – I buy ’20′s-’30′s pulps all the time) magazine I buy as it’s really the only one that offers me something I can’t get online.

Hi-Fructose #11

    
_{Jan-ken-pon is the time traveling, force-walking, multiverse crossing column of Jay Tomio, owner of 1/3 of everything you see currently on screen, and the editor of Heliotrope. He’s still pissed he can’t find the James Jean Prada catalog. Some call him the Bodhisattva.}