Wobby #40 – Critter Tales is the fourth issue with a guest curator, this time in collaboration with Enter Press, an Italian artist collective and riso print studio. This issue shows a view of diverse and fantastic worlds in which everything can transform into something else, populated by critters (small and crawling beings, creatures or animals), where objects can talk and natural elements and landscapes come to life and live together; a world without hierarchies or dichotomies.

“If we could listen to the stories of all the living beings—those walking and those moved by the currents, those still and those crawling, the fast ones and those too slow to even be noticed, words from any speaking creatures and from those just mumbling some sounds, those with a quick-witted tongue, the shy ones, and even those lurking unnoticed—what would those tales be? Here are some glimpses of arboreal and underground memories, dreams of cockroaches, the guilty feelings of a forgetful winged insect, festive parties with pea pods and horned dudes, boring guests and those too big to fit in the house, nutritional tips by a wise egg, obnoxious philosophy books, a down-to-earth vegetable soup, and a chatty primordial one. A small peek into biiiiig and tiiiiiny worlds to bring you to a place where everything can transform into anything else, where everything is alive and coexisting, without hierarchies or strict dichotomies, short stories that want to celebrate the power of imagination to warm you up in the sharp and cold nights of this winter.” Enter Press

Artists of Wobby #40 - Critter Tales
Adriana Marineo (IT), Alice Fiorelli & Pier Mauro Tamburini (IT), Anto Metzger (FR), Cory Feder (US), Disa Wallander (SE), Hanne Jatho (DE), Maria Ramos (ES), Violette Le Gendre (FR), Zhao Zilan (CN)

Cover by Samuel Bas (FR) (also available as a limited edition art print)

Centrefold by Antoine Marchalot (FR) (also available as a limited edition art print)

-dimensions: 17 x 25 cm
-pages: 40
-language: English
-Risograph printed
-edition: 550