Zine Review: Cloud Factory #5
Cloud Factory #5
half letter
Laura Walker
PO Box 8030
Bend OR 97708
Cloud
Factory is a zine created by Laura Walker and Ryan Homsley. If you’ve
read my previous reviews you know that Ryan is a writer and an artist
and currently incarcerated in Oregon. Cloud Factory #5 could be
subtitled “Revelations”. Ryan delves into details surrounding his drug
use and bank robbery which landed him in jail. Laura talks about her
unconventional wedding. They both lift the veil and discuss the
collaboration behind the scenes of the creation of Cloud Factory. Plus
there are Ryan’s intense essays, Ryan’s vivid artwork, and lots of
conversation (on paper) between Ryan and Laura.
This
is probably the first issue in which I felt some sadness – not only for
Ryan’s situation but for the violence that he grew up around, which
would scar and wound the best of us. I also felt some sadness around
both Laura and Ryan’s dire attitudes expressed toward spirituality. But
then I mentally rewind twenty years and held many of those same beliefs
at that point in my life.
I can not recommend Cloud Factory as a zine highly enough. It is on my must read list.
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