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28 pages of personal collection of poetry and prose.

Hand-numbered edition of 50

Printed May 2009

Handsome mixed media assemblage depicting the sorry shadowed face of nowhere suburbia and all its naked rotting inhabitants. - Mark McCoy

32 pages & silk screened card stock cover. Hand-numbered edition of 50

Printed July 2009

 

CALICO GROUNDS #01
Been Kept For Days - Joshua Bosarge
  CALICO GROUNDS #02
Kissing Hands - Stephen Ashley
 

Full color zine compiling a collection of hideous human beings and their beautiful masses. 

Edition of 40

Printed March 2012

Heavy cardstock print selection from Kissing Hands.

Hand-numbered edition of 50. Sealed in a bag with Wet Cats

Printed September 2009

CALICO GROUNDS #03
Benign - Brice Baum

  CALICO GROUNDS #05
Wormwood - Stephen Ashley
 

Black pro-printed cassette from Houston listless outlet HORDERS.

Edition of 100

Printed March 2010

Photocopied zine with art, photographs, drawings and prose.

1st edition of 50
2nd edition of 30

1st edition sealed in a bag with Wormwood

Printed September 2009/October 2011

CALICO GROUNDS #06
Horders - "S/T" Cassette
  CALICO GROUNDS #07
Wet Cats - Joshua Bosarge
 

Perversions and delusions in 17 syllables. 

Edition of 200

Printed November 2009

A staggering collection of illustrations and photos. 40 pages. 

Edition of 50

Printed September 2010

CALICO GROUNDS #08
IIOII - Jamie Stewart
  CALICO GROUNDS #09
All My Best Friends Are Thieves - Juan Gabe
 
Total Abuse at their most honest and wrong. Prison Sweat makes you trudge through the unbridled, slatternly scum that Total Abuse has created.

Edition of 50

Printed March 2012

18 new fascinations from Connecticut based writer Luc Rioual. Comes with a hand typed biography card.

Edition of 87

Printed in February 2010

CALICO GROUNDS #10
Total Abuse - "Prison Sweat" Cassette

  CALICO GROUNDS #11
A Snarl From The Knaves, A Push From The Plagues - Luc Rioual
 

The first printed work from the young fruit of California gloom.

Edition of 50

Printed January 2011

A study in isolation and distress. 17" X 22" museum grade print with archival inks on matte stock. Sealed in a poly bag, and includes a 5" X 7" signed & numbered card of authenticity.

Edition of 33

Printed February 2011

CALICO GROUNDS #12
Mother Long Legs - Tom Ogden
  CALICO GROUNDS #13
Anonymous: 2046 N Albany Chicago, IL 60647 USA - Ryan Lowry
 

32 pages of frantic musings and artwork from Rusty Kelley, with a 2 piece stock/vellum cover.

Edition of 75

Printed May 2011

Strong new collection of written work by the best of the Bay Area

Hand-numbered edition of 66

Printed November 2011

CALICO GROUNDS #14
This Is What Your Father Would Have Wanted - Rusty Kelley
  CALICO GROUNDS #15
Steady Don't Cross - Sammy Winston
 
Total Abuse from their last show taking place on March 19th, 2011. Pro-printed cassette in clear book on tape case.

Edition of 100.

Printed June 2011.

First selection of new collage work from John Jansen of Zeitgeists Publishing. Digital print on 12" X 18" fine art stock.

Edition of 25

Printed June 2011

CALICO GROUNDS #16
Total Abuse - "Last Show:3/19/11" Cassette
  CALICO GROUNDS #17
Change Of Scenery:Vol. 1 - John Jansen
 

A proud collection from the "Godfather of American Avant-Garde Cinema". Jonas's letters to friends and loved ones, touching many subjects, including the turn of the century, music, mortality, and the illness of Stanley Brakhage.

Edition of 100

Printed May 2012

New stories of rage and trauma by the immeasurable Aaron Aspinwall. Includes transparency inserts.

Edition of 100
Chaos In Tejas edition of 40

Printed May 2012

CALICO GROUNDS #18
Letters, Etc. - Jonas Mekas
  CALICO GROUNDS #19
People At War With Themselves - Aaron Aspinwall
 

"A restless, brilliant young psychic explorer."

This zine is a collection of 16 short musings. The blight of radiance. A short run edition of 80, with hand-embossed cover stock.

Printed April 2012

18" X 24" Xerox selection from the previously published "Pretty, But Not Edible". Linda Manz from Out Of The Blue

Edition of 25

Printed May 2012
CALICO GROUNDS #21
Mating Season For Goons - William Cody Watson
  CALICO GROUNDS #22
Linda - Rusty Kelley & Mikaylah Bowman
 

Xerox manipulated photography of sorrow and shadow abroad.

Edition Of 50

Printed June 2012

Sophomore releases on Calico Grounds from California's finest. A split literary zine featuring new work by Sammy Winston and Tom Ogden.

Edition Of 100

Printed March 2013


CALICO GROUNDS #23
Facts u.Ä. - Tuomas Korpijaakko
  CALICO GROUNDS #24
I Will Do Right By You & What I Learned At Los Coyotes Diagonals - Sammy Winston & Tom Ogden
 

July 18, 2012

Screening of Dennis Hopper's Out Of The Blue

Domy Books Houston

Accompanying pamphlet with short essay by Jesco Aurelius

12 tracks of stripped down, heavy headed dream pop from Juergen Gleue, also known as JG39, one half of the incredibly underrated 39 Clocks. Phantom Payn has many monikers (Daze/Days/Seance/Act) but all have the touch of JG's hand dipped dreamily into the wade pool.

98-99 bedroom recordings 

Edition of 100

Printed January 2013

CALICO GROUNDS #25
An Evening Out Of The Blue

  CALICO GROUNDS #26
Phantom Payn Future - "From Dormant Years" Cassette

 

"The bleakest thing to imagine is the tooth of the carpet remnants your mother purchased from RiteRug in 1991 that were designed to camouflage stains in a swirl of dark and mid and light browns. It's not the externalizations of pain, not in HellHouse, it's what you cover it with - Xerox and bleach, alternations of silence and speech." -James Payne

Edition of 40

Printed October 2012

   
CALICO GROUNDS #27
Hellhouse - Elijah Funk