Our cover story has been in the works since we first started in on the magazine last year, which feels kind of fitting for a first-issue-of-the-second-year, right? Between the two of them, JD Samson and Emily Roysdon have released critically and commercially acclaimed records and publications, performed for sold out international audiences and exhibited art in some of the world’s most prestigious institutions. But they are also both major creators, and instigational/organizational rabble-rousers in the contemporary queer/genderqueer/transgender/and-everything-in-between art underground that exists globally in 2006. As best friends their love for discourse has long been an inspiration to all who know them and so we asked them to have a talk just for us. They obliged and even took some new self-portraits. Now that right there is really enough to make this thing worth saving, but we didn’t stop there. Brendan Fowler sat down with the super multi-talented artist, designer, all around creative uber-warrior Geoff Mcfetridge on the occasion of his recent solo show in Los Angeles to talk about growing up, school, underground vs. overground, his process and how over the last decade it all came together to create an incredibly prolific body of work. Legendary skate/music photographer O has been shooting photos of the underground scenes for almost twenty years. For this issue he’s given us a choice selection of his amazing skate photos, many of which have not been seen since they were originally published back in the day. We’ve also included for your perusal an overview of the super cool, independent zine publishing house, Nieves; Ashley Thayer tells us how she turned her vintage 1980s diesel Mercedes Benz into a vegetable oil powered kettle corn-mobile and Andrew Jeffrey Wright made us a crazy comic called Graffiti School. To wrap it up we’ve got articles on a sign shop in San Francisco that’s keeping the long tradition of sign craft alive, a witchcraft donut shop in Portland where you can get cursed or married, an amazing revolutionary women’s sneaker company from Los Angeles called Keep, and family of inspiring independent Arizona businesses and the mastermind behind them. Whew!?