Zack Rhodes is a cartoonist based in Sonoma County. Find him on Instagram @solditfor50

and in attempts to spread their spirituality, robots, left to their own devices for half the current definition of eternity, are in the process of uploading the last reels of humanity to their brains. to check the algorithm, and because most dinosaurs are green, the robots start with the olive branch of green-haired...

Once or twice, when I was a kid, I ran away from a T-Rex. I got inside just in time to press a double-hung door closed with my back. The ground shook with each step the dinosaur took towards me, but it became even scarier when the world fell silent. I woke up from the nightmare each time (apologies for the...

]media guideTrying something new this month and shifting the media guide to monthly. We will still cover all the releases for the month, but the format will be a bit different, and more of it will be exclusive to our paying subscribers including a new TV Guide that you can download and print out to follow along all...

(CAMERA zooms in on Earth, on North America, on the state of Illinois, on the city of Chicago, onto a crowded street on which The Top Hat Tavern is located.)(VOICE OVER begins:) On Earth, there exists a most extraordinary species. With its intricate social behaviors and bizarre mating rituals, the magnificent...

—Ellie Black

Surely cursed, they carried him, tiny, yowling, still wet from birth, and left him near the time-rift, the death-sentence destiny for all misshapen things. Who could love a three-eyed cat? The hungry time-rift void, that’s who. Hunched against the cold, they didn’t look back, lest his helpless, wriggling form defile...

We are here to recognize this Lady Author, who joins a prestigious list of exceptionally decent male writers who earned this Very Distinguished Award. She’s the first lady writer who managed to write something good enough to impress our selection committee. But tonight is not about her. Tonight is about all the men...

Read Never Quit Your Post now!Do you have any cats?Do I ever! I have four, three Maine Coons and one feral trash cat adoptee. It’s roughly eighty pounds of cat. Their names are Fergie, Fiona, Fidget, and Phoebe. I thought it would be cute to give them all F-names, but all it did was ensure that I would call them all...

I sit on my couch with the pistol hidden between the cushions. Rufus is at his usual spot, staring out the big window in the middle of the front door. He doesn’t move much. The occasional flick of an ear, that lickfacebrush thing cats do with their paws. Other than that, he’s an attentive soldier at his post, wary...

Three to be exact. They are following me now, taking great enjoyment from tripping me up, shoving me over the one who’s snuck behind, snickering on all fours as I topple backward.People think I’m clumsy or drunk. In the café, they swap the sugar for salt, collapse into fits when I spit out my tea. I christen my...

The Foofs (2025) anthology is here! It features all of the award-winning stories published by other mags in 2025, plus many, many more! You can pre-order direct from us now to get 15%, otherwise it'll be available everywhere books are sold online on September 1st!Paid subscribers get a free digital copy and Patron's...