By Michelle Cheung
Abe's Penny 1.2.1 featuring Melanie Flood and Sam Witt
A hopeless lover of letters and quaint chapbooks delivered by my romantic vision of a postman, I have secretly lost faith in the survival of print and snail mail. But my recent discovery of Abe’s Penny, a weekly art and literary micro-magazine printed in postcard format, has revived my hope. Abe’s Penny is a new and refreshing addition to this clonal world of publishing. Barely one year old, it has already garnered great excitement from artists, mail enthusiasts, and magazine lovers. Not to mention, their recent appearance in the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair at Art Basel was well received, with many attendees finding the magazine’s concise image and text format a unique perspective. This was exactly the intention of Anna and Tess Knoebel, the co-founders of Abe’s Penny, when they started the weekly publication. “We saw a challenge in adding more art and writing to an overstimulated and harried world,” the sisters explained, “so we knew we wanted to keep it short and accessible.”
