Kiss Machine's gossip issue (#17) explores one of the most pervasive elements of our celebrity obsessed society. Features a collaboration on the cover by Sonja Ahlers and Lisa Smolkin, and 40 pages of material by artists and writers.

Click on the thumbnail below to see an enlarged version of Lisa and Sonja's cover:

Kiss Machine's fifteenth issue is now on sale!

Goodbyes are funny things. Sometimes we can’t wait to get someone or something out of our lives, and other times we keep holding on when we really need to let go.

The pieces in this issue show the array of feelings the word “goodbye� can elicit and the range of situations it can be applied to, such as getting kicked out of your apartment, leaving your boyfriend, aborting a fetus, or deciding to live a different kind of life. Enjoy!

We’re pleased to announce the release of our activity issue! We were wondering what activities our contributors find themselves returning to when they take a little "me time."

Responses to our call for submissions form the current issue. Some people (okay, us) really do enjoy—or dream up, in the case of fictional work—unusual activities.

Kiss Machine's lucky thirteenth "nature or nurture" issue is now on sale!

Welcome to the great debate! Is nature or nurture more important in shaping humans? Perhaps the discussion itself is more important than the answer. Within the pages of Kiss Machine, our contributors pitch in their two cents. Perhaps the debate itself is more important than the answer...

Revolution means different things to different people. It’s been romanticized and mythologized for eons.

Lately, though, it seems that with all Che Guevara T-shirts, Comandante Marcos balaclavas, and Mao hats, capitalist interests have... well... capitalized on revolutionary heroes and turned them into another means to make a buck.

We at Kiss Machine still cling to our fantasies, so we set out to discover how the community of people who contribute to our magazine still “fight the good fight� and what they consider revolutionary acts.

Why devote Kiss Machine's eleventh issue to shame? Because we are all flawed. We all have moments we wish we could take back. Shame keeps us in check, makes us humble, fuels our nightmares and spurs us to creative heights. It shapes the most fascinating parts of us. Normally, we only reveal our shame to trusted soul-mates. In KM#11, contributors expose and sometimes even laugh at it.