A look at the history of Mutual Aid and interviews with artists and activists engaging in Mutual Aid strategies in their work and everyday life.

Lumpen Comics Issue 2022: This issue contains work by an local and international cast of artists, illustrators and comics artists.

“I would like to think of each one of the articles in this issue of Lumpen as a shock wave bouncing back to Chicago from the Haymarket Affair. “ - Brian Mier

"This edition of Lumpen magazine marks our first research foray into better understanding these places where people don’t wear masks, the places that supposedly vote for Trump. Forgotten places, “the rural”. It’s an attempt at understanding. It’s the beginning of a conversation we need to have if we want to stave the growing tide of authoritarian impulses here in the US."

Lumpen 137 details Artist-run culture in Chicago and was made in collaboration with Hyde Park Art Center and Sixty Inches from Center

Lumpen 135: Togetherism examines creative experiments with horizontal, collective art-making and organizing.

Our first ever perfect bound Comics Issue!

Lumpen Magazine has been continuous conversation between friends about the kind of world we want to see and create. This issue is dedicated to all of our buddies that make that world happen.

They say: time is a circle, history repeats itself. Fifty years later, we reflect on the past and our present, and how the future can be defined. Once again, the government lacks morality and we, the people, are FED UP. Again, we are angry and must stand up to create change.

The 2018 Comics issue was edited by Joe Tallarico and designed by Jeremiah Chiu of Studio Chew.

This movement of movements has sprung up after decades of work done by progressive activists and people looking for alternatives to Top Down governing and the effects of globalization. Their first victory took place in the city of Barcelona, Spain. This movement went Super Local. And their strategy is to take over city governments one at a time. And they did it. And its working. And we think something like Municipalism can work here.

We did a call for work after the 2016 election and asked our community to respond to the Billionaire Gang’s plans for the Trumpocalypse.

It’s hard to believe we have been doing Lumpen Magazine for 25 years.

Lumpen #125 takes a look at the issues of gentrification, development and revitalization in our communities. Using the lenses of Placemaking and Placetaking we hope to provide advice to those of you working towards building healthy neighborhoods and spaces.

The Field Guide to Chicago Jagoffs