Marc Fischer
@marc-fischer.bsky.social
Artist publisher living in Chicago with Public Collectors, Half Letter Press, Temporary Services. Finds cultural voids; fills them. He/him www.publiccollectors.org, https://halfletterpress.com, www.temporaryservices.org, https://hardcorearchitecture.blog
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After a full year of work, this book is out! Cooking in Maximum Security, compiled by Matteo Guidi, is our latest Half Letter Press book and it's beautiful. How do people in Italian prisons cook? This book will show you their recipes and tools used to make them. halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
Does anyone remember the Chicago-based art journal Proximity? I just remembered that we still have copies of issue #6 in our webstore. Lots of great writers in this. Same old price of $12.00.
Proximity Number Six: (An)Other Art Worlds
Proximity is going strong with this issue looking at the diversity of artist practice and the worlds they construct.
halfletterpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Does anyone remember the Chicago-based art journal Proximity? I just remembered that we still have copies of issue #6 in our webstore. Lots of great writers in this. Same old price of $12.00.
You like newsletters? I bet you do! Here's the latest one from Half Letter Press, which details the new book we just published and much more.
Cooking in Maximum Security, a new book compiled by Matteo Guidi
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
You like newsletters? I bet you do! Here's the latest one from Half Letter Press, which details the new book we just published and much more.
Chicago just skipped Fall and went straight to full Winter. Today I'm looking forward to seeing how ICE handles SNOW.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Chicago just skipped Fall and went straight to full Winter. Today I'm looking forward to seeing how ICE handles SNOW.
CPD doing what they do: protecting the gestapo instead of the people they are kidnapping.
Chicago police officers securing an exit path for Border Patrol vehicles in Little Village.
Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.
Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.
November 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
CPD doing what they do: protecting the gestapo instead of the people they are kidnapping.
After a full year of work, this book is out! Cooking in Maximum Security, compiled by Matteo Guidi, is our latest Half Letter Press book and it's beautiful. How do people in Italian prisons cook? This book will show you their recipes and tools used to make them. halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
After a full year of work, this book is out! Cooking in Maximum Security, compiled by Matteo Guidi, is our latest Half Letter Press book and it's beautiful. How do people in Italian prisons cook? This book will show you their recipes and tools used to make them. halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
Another new zine from Public Collectors: WEALTH COACH BODIES CONTEST (a word salad). 28 pages. $7.00 from www.halfletterpress.com
A small edition booklet that shares a single epic 6,500 word found social media post. I’m calling this a word salad, but perhaps it’s more of a word smorgasbord? Intense!
A small edition booklet that shares a single epic 6,500 word found social media post. I’m calling this a word salad, but perhaps it’s more of a word smorgasbord? Intense!
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Another new zine from Public Collectors: WEALTH COACH BODIES CONTEST (a word salad). 28 pages. $7.00 from www.halfletterpress.com
A small edition booklet that shares a single epic 6,500 word found social media post. I’m calling this a word salad, but perhaps it’s more of a word smorgasbord? Intense!
A small edition booklet that shares a single epic 6,500 word found social media post. I’m calling this a word salad, but perhaps it’s more of a word smorgasbord? Intense!
Give it up for drummer/beat beast Jonathan Giralt tearing it up at the Empty Bottle last night with Stress Positions.
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Give it up for drummer/beat beast Jonathan Giralt tearing it up at the Empty Bottle last night with Stress Positions.
We'll make a proper announcement soon but yesterday this happened: the delivery of 1,649 copies of the newest 144 page book that Half Letter Press has published. The delivery guy and I had a great conversation and I gave him the first book. I inscribed it to him, by request. www.halfletterpress.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We'll make a proper announcement soon but yesterday this happened: the delivery of 1,649 copies of the newest 144 page book that Half Letter Press has published. The delivery guy and I had a great conversation and I gave him the first book. I inscribed it to him, by request. www.halfletterpress.com
Something I've thought about for ICE watching: Is anyone using binoculars? I've thought about starting to wear a pair, along with my whistle for spotting cars/plates/drivers in the distance as they approach, or after they pass.
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Something I've thought about for ICE watching: Is anyone using binoculars? I've thought about starting to wear a pair, along with my whistle for spotting cars/plates/drivers in the distance as they approach, or after they pass.
"How to Explain ICE to Children." Does this book exist yet? If not, there must be authors, illustrators, and children's book publishers who could strike the right tone and make this happen. It seems urgently needed - something that occurred to me while doing ICE watch around a school near my house.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"How to Explain ICE to Children." Does this book exist yet? If not, there must be authors, illustrators, and children's book publishers who could strike the right tone and make this happen. It seems urgently needed - something that occurred to me while doing ICE watch around a school near my house.
Another Century of Chemical Warfare
Since the moment I found the WWI era photos in this booklet in a digital archive and figured out how I would use them to write about what is happening in Chicago now, and what ICE is doing with chemical warfare, this booklet felt like it made itself.
Since the moment I found the WWI era photos in this booklet in a digital archive and figured out how I would use them to write about what is happening in Chicago now, and what ICE is doing with chemical warfare, this booklet felt like it made itself.
Another Century of Chemical Warfare
This booklet was created during ICE's occupation of Chicago where they are regularly deploying tear gas and other forms of chemical warfare in our neighborhoods. Another Century of Chemical Warfare re...
halfletterpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Another Century of Chemical Warfare
Since the moment I found the WWI era photos in this booklet in a digital archive and figured out how I would use them to write about what is happening in Chicago now, and what ICE is doing with chemical warfare, this booklet felt like it made itself.
Since the moment I found the WWI era photos in this booklet in a digital archive and figured out how I would use them to write about what is happening in Chicago now, and what ICE is doing with chemical warfare, this booklet felt like it made itself.
Reposted by Marc Fischer
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
Has Chick-fil-A lowered their flags to half staff for Dick Cheney yet?
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Has Chick-fil-A lowered their flags to half staff for Dick Cheney yet?
I think I've seen Yob live four times and I have a couple of their albums but I did not have "Catharsis" until now. I'm sure I'll listen to side B at some point but today I keep repeating side A over and over again. What a massive record. youtu.be/E8C0B8FSS6o
Aeons
YouTube video by YOB - Topic
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I think I've seen Yob live four times and I have a couple of their albums but I did not have "Catharsis" until now. I'm sure I'll listen to side B at some point but today I keep repeating side A over and over again. What a massive record. youtu.be/E8C0B8FSS6o
Today, the day after my birthday, I'm doing a bonkers thing I do sometimes where I make a new zine, start to finish, in one day. The text is someone else's nearly 6,500 word Facebook post that a group quickly deleted. It will be a 28 page booklet. Almost finished with the design and then I'll print.
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Today, the day after my birthday, I'm doing a bonkers thing I do sometimes where I make a new zine, start to finish, in one day. The text is someone else's nearly 6,500 word Facebook post that a group quickly deleted. It will be a 28 page booklet. Almost finished with the design and then I'll print.
I hope that romance novels will be written about people who meet each other on neighborhood ICE monitoring patrols. They will see each other regularly on the streets, be drawn to each other by the visible whistles around their necks, get to know one another, fall in love, and end fascism.
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I hope that romance novels will be written about people who meet each other on neighborhood ICE monitoring patrols. They will see each other regularly on the streets, be drawn to each other by the visible whistles around their necks, get to know one another, fall in love, and end fascism.
Reposted by Marc Fischer
We are mitigating the damage, as much as we can. Every neighborhood has chats and alerts, and rushes out to meet them before they snatch and flee.
But make no mistake- they are here to hurt the city, and they are doing damage.
But make no mistake- they are here to hurt the city, and they are doing damage.
October 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We are mitigating the damage, as much as we can. Every neighborhood has chats and alerts, and rushes out to meet them before they snatch and flee.
But make no mistake- they are here to hurt the city, and they are doing damage.
But make no mistake- they are here to hurt the city, and they are doing damage.
Earth playing their entire album Hex last night at Sleeping Village was about as perfect as live music gets. They sounded so incredible I almost cried a few times.
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Earth playing their entire album Hex last night at Sleeping Village was about as perfect as live music gets. They sounded so incredible I almost cried a few times.
I’m choosing to believe that the trick or treaters that weren’t in costume last night were dressed as rapid responders.
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I’m choosing to believe that the trick or treaters that weren’t in costume last night were dressed as rapid responders.
Reposted by Marc Fischer
Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Halloween
This morning I joined a group of volunteers that monitors the elementary school by my house. There are over 25 people in this group who take turns watching for ICE at the start and end of each school day. I started in the morning and then returned for a bit at the close of school to give kids candy.
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This morning I joined a group of volunteers that monitors the elementary school by my house. There are over 25 people in this group who take turns watching for ICE at the start and end of each school day. I started in the morning and then returned for a bit at the close of school to give kids candy.
This Orcutt Shelley Miller set on KEXP just rips—as expected, and it's expertly recorded, also as expected.
youtu.be/c3b5ZOZ0WfI
youtu.be/c3b5ZOZ0WfI
Orcutt Shelley Miller - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This Orcutt Shelley Miller set on KEXP just rips—as expected, and it's expertly recorded, also as expected.
youtu.be/c3b5ZOZ0WfI
youtu.be/c3b5ZOZ0WfI
Almost every day my Chicago neighborhood seems to have some kind of anti-ICE, pro-immigrant event. I took my mom (visiting from Philly) to one last night that was packed with people putting together ICE alert whistle kits. Neighbors are pulling together like I've never seen. It's very encouraging.
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Almost every day my Chicago neighborhood seems to have some kind of anti-ICE, pro-immigrant event. I took my mom (visiting from Philly) to one last night that was packed with people putting together ICE alert whistle kits. Neighbors are pulling together like I've never seen. It's very encouraging.
Lately I’m finding it harder to avoid going off on friends of friends that think ICE is justified in doing what they are doing. This only happens on Facebook and I need to not be doing that–not because these people aren’t wrong as fuck, but because I can feel it spiking my blood pressure.
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Lately I’m finding it harder to avoid going off on friends of friends that think ICE is justified in doing what they are doing. This only happens on Facebook and I need to not be doing that–not because these people aren’t wrong as fuck, but because I can feel it spiking my blood pressure.