Featuring beautiful burlesque cover art by Drew Friedman, lettering & co-design by Christoph Mueller, and back cover by R. Crumb! PLUS exciting new work from Drew Friedman, R. Crumb, Noah Van Sciver, Aline & Sophie Crumb, Christoph Mueller, Henry Denander, Fabio Vermelho, Robert Armstrong, Max Clotfelter, Glenn Head, Nathalie Tierce, David Collier, Hurricane Ivan & More! Letters from Around the World! First printing. 60 pages. 1,200 copies printed on offset press in the late Fall, 2022. Cover printed on French Paper Company Construction White 100 pound Cover Paper.

Review by George Hunka:

This issue, the 43rd, is as usual an excellent exhumation and examination of various features of the American landscape, and they've really outdone themselves this time. The late Aline Crumb and Sophie Crumb trade mother/daughter stories of their experiences with abortion; editor Everett Rand describes the challenges of zine publication in these fraught times; Christoph Mueller explores the environs of 1970s and 2020s New York in the company of Françoise Mouly, founder and editor with Art Spiegelman of the groundbreaking Raw; R. Crumb provides a few meditative landscapes; and there's so much more behind that fine cover image from Drew Friedman (with lettering by Mueller).

Mineshaft is a magazine that should be read from cover to cover, straight through; Rand and consulting editor Gioia Palmieri create a unique journey through American culture with each issue, beautifully paced and befitting a magazine which, perhaps more than any other, is a contemplation of a passing American scene. Its lucid perspective (like those of its contributors) transcends nostalgia without neglecting a sense of loss; its surreality is the result of the past as seen through the prism of an angst-ridden present. And not just in America: In this issue, the final cartoon by the Italian Ivan Manuppelli, one of Mineshaft‘s new finds, speaks to me, and if it speaks to me, it speaks to others as well; Mineshaft is the antidote to this despair.