Cloud Factory #2
Cloud Factory feels unique among zines – both meandering and
sharply focused at the same time. Ryan Homsley is a prisoner and Laura is a
zine creator and Cloud Factory is their mutual creation born from
correspondence between them.. In this issue Ryan and Laura discuss what the
title Cloud Factory means and Laura’s financial, physical, and mental
challenges in publishing and editing the zine. They also discuss historical
moments that had impacts upon their lives, authors who have influenced them,
and more. Ryan is a powerful writer who navigates his interior world and opens
glimpses, then vistas, for us, the readers. Playing
In Hurricanes is one of the finest pieces of writing I’ve encountered so
far this year. Ryan’s artwork is striking and sometimes surreal bordering on
disturbing at times – it’s an unfiltered gaze into his creative psyche. A
sequence called “Cell Ten” was both incisive and harrowing. Cloud Factory is a
zine that speaks truth on every page and brings us to places of darkness,
light, and humanity.
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