StuartBalcomb  

The TheScreamOnline is heavy on photography, featuring works of many methods including digital, platinum/palladium, ambrotypes, Polaroid alternative techniques, and William Mortensen’s Metalchrome and Pigment processes. 

Art features include painting, etching, sculpture, charcoal drawings, mechanical drawing, digital art, mixed-media, journals, and ceramics. 

Literature has short fiction, non-fiction, essays and commentaries, excerpts from new novels, and poetry.

Other areas of interest are Music, Film, Humor, The Strange & Bizarre, Epiphanies, Technology, Quotations, Books, and a Timeline of events in history (inventions, the Arts, science, births and deaths of famous people) from 1640 to 1900.

History

The name was inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream,” which, according to editor Stuart Vail, "sums-up the horrors of seeking legitimate representation — not to mention getting published — as an artist or writer."

The premier issue appeared in June 2001, with issues following two months apart in August and October. Starting in January 2002 the magazine became quarterly until April 2004. A death in the family delayed the next issue until December 2004, with subsequent issues in June 2005 and April 2007.

Contributing editors

Stuart Vail — Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, Art Editor

Joanne Warfield — Photography Editor, Design Consultant

John Kilgore — Fiction Editor

Sonja Mongar — Non-fiction Editor

John Guzlowski — Poetry Editor

Annette Hillesland — Proofreader

C A T E G O R I E S

Photography

Former chief U.N. photographer John Isaac, Horace Bristol, William Mortensen, Mortensen protegé Robert Balcomb, Edward Burtynsky, Dan Burkholder, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Sean Kernan, Mark Magidson, Rick Sammon, Robin Davis, Gary Auerbach, Luther Gerlach, Joanne Warfield, Al Stewart, Larry Lytle, Carol Nye, Ronny Leva, the Venice Arts Mecca, Women In Photography International, and 14 photographers from the Burning Man festival.

Art

Sergei Bongart, Harry Carmean, Maxine Martell, Ciel Bergman, Mary Balcomb, William Reese, Don Sahli, Robin Larsen, Tim Girvin, Dan Griggs, Huguette Caland, Debra Scolari, Kenn Brown, Dean Eliasen, Cheri Christensen, Danny Kaplan, Suk Ja Kang-Engles, Joe Sorren.

Non Fiction

Robert Grudin, Alexander Woollcott, Claire Braz-Valentine,  Lara St. John, Gail Armstrong, Danusha Goska, John Kilgore, Sonja Mongar, Peter Clothier, Norm Nason, Rob Woutat, Helen Degen Cohen, Michael Corrigan, Hanah Jane Exley, John Guzlowski, David Bell, Dinty Moore, K. Willis Morton, Kay Taylor Parker.

Fiction

Ian MacLeod, Lisa Lenard-Cook, Robert Grudin, Michael Corrigan, James Burns, Edward King, Tracy London, Frank Macchia, Mary Maddox, Marky Thorsness, Bill Feltt, Stephanie Dickinson, Christine Carlson. 

Poetry

Ellen Watson, Phil Cousineau, Def_Poetry|Suheir Hammad, Sara McWorter, Marty Scott, Linda Zacks, M. L. Williams, Bruce Guernsey, Michael Knisely, M. J. Rychlewski, Joe Survant, Jared Carter, Bette Casteel, Lewis Bruser, Shirley Dunn Perry, Stephen Larsen, Charles Fishman, Lola Haskins.

Commentaries

Thom Hartmann, Roger Ebert, Alan Rich, Jesse Walker, Claire-France Perez, Danusha Goska, Ron Roizen, Doug Fulcher.

Music

Pat Metheny, Wayne Johnson, Rocky Maffit, Inanna, Eric Whitacre, Arlo Guthrie, Louis Armstrong, Dean Mora, and the Animusic of Wayne Lytle.

Film

Maurizio Benazzo/Nick Day’s “Short Cut to Nirvana,” Brian Taylor’s “Rustboy,” Gabriel Yared’s score for “Troy,” Stephan Kozak’s “19 Peel Street,” Slawomir Grundberg’s “Chelyabinsk 40,” “Indigo,” Stephen Simon’s Spiritual Cinema Circle, and reviews of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion.”

The Strange & Bizarre

Naked News, House of Cheese, Hats of Meat, Sexy Italian Caskets, Lego Death, Extreme Ironing, Gum Blondes, Wheelbarrow Freestyle, Bizarre Album Covers, and Randy Johnson’s famous pitch called “Bird Meets Ball.”

Accolades

*Netsurfer Digest http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/nsd.08.06.html

*Metafilter http://www.metafilter.com/daily.mefi/04/04/2003

*Midwest Book Review http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/mar_04.htm