Catch up on the latest MANDEM news with this abbreviated list of recent press, shows, publications, and releases.

Academics
» Maize has now earned her Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities, while simultaneously completing a graduate-level certificate program in Publishing. What's next? We're shedding our long-term Self-Taught Artist identity! Maize is now part of the Studio Art MFA program at Florida State University. (more)

Awards
» Skin Horse, one of two works by MANDEM in the Creative Tallahassee 2013 exhibit, won an Honorable Mention award.
» The Steampunk Chronicles once again nominated MANDEM for Artist of the Year in their Reader's Choice Awards (2012 & 2013).
» With This Ring, a book of poetry by Allie Marini Batts featuring cover art by MANDEM, was a Quarter Finalist for the 2012 Mary Ballard Prize from Casey Shay Press.
» The list of Airship Pirates awards keeps growing, including multiple nominations for best art.
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Fermentation Lounge Art Show Flyer Interviews
» Carpe Nocturne Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 2013)
» The Weekenders Magazine, Issue 3 (November, 2012)
» Penduline Press, Issue 5 (Spring, 2012)
» Airship Pirates: Behind the Scenes, Irregular Magazine (January, 2012)
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Art Shows
» June '13: Working Method Contemporary Gallery (Tallahassee, FL)
» July '13: Right On! Gallery (Tallahassee, FL)
» Sept '13: Dragon*Con 2013 Art Show (Atlanta, GA)
» Sept '13: Three-Artist Show with Carrie Ann Baade and Jim Mazza at City Hall Art Gallery (Tallahassee, FL)
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Journal Publications
» Lunch Ticket (December, 2012)
» The Weekenders (November, 2012)
» Red Fez, Issue 45 (May, 2012)
» Subliminal Interiors (April, 2012)
» Euphemism Literary Journal, V.7 Issue 2 (Spring, 2012)
» The Fine Line, Issue 4 (Spring, 2012)
» Penduline Press, Issue 5 (Spring, 2012)
» The Stone Hobo (Spring, 2012)
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Recent Releases
» Board Game: Terror of the Skies, The Airship Pirates Board Game (Card Artwork)
» Book: You Might Curse Before You Bless by Allie Marini Batts (Cover Art)
» Book: Underneath the Lamplight by Andrew Peregrine (Interior Art)
» Book: Postscripts to Darkness 3 from editors S. Moreland & A. Ahmad (Interior Art)
» Magazine: eHorror Literary Magazine, Vol. 01 No. 06 (Cover Art)
» Magazine: eSteampunk Literary Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 5 & No. 5 (Cover Art)
» Magazine: eHorror Literary Magazine, Vol. 01 No. 05 (Cover Art)
» Magazine: eSteampunk Literary Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 3 & No. 5 (Cover Art)
» Book: The Lyrics of Abney Park (Interior Art)
» Book: Telemachus and Homer (Cover Art)
» Dragon-Con: Horror/Dark Fantasy Track (Official Artwork)
» Magazine: Irregular Magazine, Issue #12 ("Heroes & Villains" Cover Art)
» CD: Home by Michael Shulman (Cover Art & Layout)
» CD: A Light in the Distance by Eternal Essence (Cover Art)
» Book: Turning Night by Nico Murray (Cover Art)
» Book: Abney Park's Airship Pirates by Cakebread & Walton (Interior Art)
» Book: Ruined Empires by Cakebread & Walton (Cover & Interior Art)
» CD: Ethernaut [Remastered Edition] by The Crüxshadows (Cover Art)
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MANDEM is a symbiotic pair of transdigital -punk artists, Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman, working in both digital art and traditional art mediums such as oil painting, mische technique, mixed media, and acrylics. Our themes include: mythpunk and mythology; steampunk and alternative history; cyberpunk and human-animal-machine hybrids; gothic, horror, and dark fantasy; monsters and chimeras; and queer feminist art. Important visual influences include German Expressionism; influential sci-fi fantasy artists such as Brom and Giger, and traditional painters such as Maxfield Parrish, John Atkins Grimshaw, and the surrealist and visionary movements. Other influences include James Barrie (Peter Pan), Lewis Carroll, Lovecraft and other Gothic Victorian writers; Bertolt Brecht and epic theater (also theater of cruelty and theater of the absurd); Robert Graves, Mircea Eliade, and the great mythographers of the Gilded Age; Jungian philosophy; the ancient Greek and Roman poets — especially Euripides and Ovid; and epic modern myth-makers such as Tolkein, Clive Barker, Guillermo del Toro, George Romero, and Neil Gaiman. Our work has appeared in gallery shows and we have designed album or book art for the Cruxshadows ("Dreamcypher" and "Ethernaut"), Michael Schulman ("Home"), Abney Park ("Airship Pirates" RPG), and we designed the promotional art for the Dragon*Con 2012 Horror/Dark Fantasy Track.