From the publisher:

This beautiful & packed 52 page issue of Mineshaft has a FANTASTIC front cover by Robert Armstrong and the backcover art is by R. Crumb! All 3 Deitch Brothers are together in one issue with, "The Golem: a tale of the Dark Ages" written by Seth Deitch with illustations by Simon Deitch, and a beautiful Kim Deitch centerfold! There's a fascinating 6 page illustrated letter from R. Crumb, "View from Sauve" (with 3 pages of sketchbook drawings), & another insightful letter by Crumb in which he writes about artistic freedom-underground comix-&-Harvey Kurtzman in the letters pages! Travel to Vancouver, B.C. with "Zippy" creator Bill Griffith... and then to Varanasi India with Gioia...! Five amazing comics by Twisted Sister Penny Van Horn! "Dinosaur Girl" sketches & "Son of the Phanty" comic (continued from last issue) by Frank Stack! Comics by Justin Green & B.N. Duncan, "Love Note to New Orleans" by Andrei Codrescu, fiction, photos, and more letters (including Ace Backwords, & Robert Armstrong!) from around the globe and more, more, more!! First printing. 52 pages with beautiful French Paper Company DUR-O-TONE Butcher Blue cover paper. 1,500 copies printed in November, 2005.

"Mineshaft is the best magazine in America. It's the only thing I read anymore." -Jay Lynch

"What you are doing, which is so important, is using QUALITY art. Mineshaft is like a quiet little beacon of laser creativity that continues to burn with a purpose." -Mary Fleener

"Recently I've spent time going back and reading old issues of MINESHAFT. Man, it holds up well over time, very high quality content, mercifully free of the usual commercial crap or pretentious arty-farty nonsense that pervades 99.9 percent of all print media. Mineshaft is anti-propaganda, anti-public relations. It is a modest little package speaking honest truths in words and pictures, thanks to you and Gioia's sharp editorial judgement." -Robert Crumb in a letter, January 1, 2014

"...a breath of fresh air from some universe next door." -Art Spiegelman