February 2015 UPDATE:   After receiving his contributor copies of Mineshaft #30, our 15th Anniversary Issue, Robert Crumb wrote to the editors in March, 2014: "Congrats on another excellent issue of Mineshaft. 'The best magazine in America,' as Jay Lynch says." Mineshaft has around 175 wonderful subscribers around the world. The little magazine is printed on offset press in North Carolina in the U.S.A. Mineshaft has no barcode, by choice, and very little distribution. We rarely advertise. The best place to find rare back issues and to subscribe, or order the new issue, is right here at the Mineshaft website.   COMING UP in MINESHAFT #31 this winter: Beautiful front cover art by Jay Lynch and back cover by Robert Crumb! Plus... Excerpts from R. Crumb's Dream Diary and Crumb's "Helicopter Girl", an excerpt from Kim Deitch's new graphic novel "Plot Robot!, an excerpt from "The Ward Porter", a novella in progress by Billy Childish with woodblock prints of the Oakwood Mental Hospital, new sketchbook drawings by Art Spiegelman, William Crook Jr. reviews Crumb's Taschen Sketchbooks, "Random Memories" new comics from Bill Grifith's ZIPPY, plus new work by Christoph Mueller, Justin Green, Nina Bunjevac, Rika Deryckere, Aleksandar Todorovic, David Collier, Pat Moriarity & Tony O'Neill, Aaron Lange, & MORE!   Back issues are still available!   Click here for more info and to order TODAY!!!