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Behold, Tone Madison’s December 2024 print edition

We made a zine to commemorate our 10th anniversary.

By Scott Gordon

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December 6, 2024

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Illustration by Kay Reynolds.

We made a zine to commemorate our 10th anniversary.

That’s right—Tone Madison is experimenting with print! You might have come here via the QR code in our first-ever edition, which we introduced during our 10th anniversary party on December 6 at Gamma Ray Bar. Madison-based designer and artist Kay Reynolds masterminded this as a short but meaningful commemoration—and an introduction to new readers. Below you’ll find more information and links to all the stories we mentioned in the zine.

We’re hoping to do more things in print in the future. What that will look like is a bit up in the air, but consider this a first building block.

In the meantime, you can help support our work by making a donation, and join our email list to keep up with our work.

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Thanks for reading!

—Scott Gordon, Publisher

Credits

Edition design, conception, and illustrations: Kay Reynolds

Egg illustration and Tone Madison logo design: Shelby Floyd

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Editing and coordination: Christina Lieffring

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Special thanks to:

Jeremy Klaszus of The Sprawl in Calgary, Canada, for much-needed print inspiration

Gamma Ray Bar for hosting our 10th anniversary party!

Holly And The Nice Lions, Fred Really, Avoidancepolicy, carisa, DJ Evan Woodward, and DJ Mu for playing our 10th anniversary party.

Stories we mentioned in this edition

A monumental voting booth casts a shadow of hope for a brighter (and blue) future centered around community care and progress. A dark red background surrounds that blue space with a lone individualist voter holding a sign that reads "I don't care."

Will we bow to the GOP, or fight for our community?

An illustration shows a scratchy line drawing of two single-family houses sitting atop a flat line. Underneath the houses, inverted, is a more rugged and uneven surface from which apartment buildings appear to hang downward. One of the buildings is falling down away from the inverted ground, as is a sign that reads “for rent.”

Who will really pay the cost of Madison’s budget referendum?

What the federal antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster could mean for Madison

Wonderporium's Tom Curry plays tuba at Giant Jones Brewing Company for the release show of "Two Impromptus." He's wearing a muted army-green jacket, glasses, and holding his tuba close to his face. The image is a hard close-up, with the instrument cutting out of the frame on the left side of the image. Curry appears to be in a state of deep focus.

As night comes quicker, Madison musicians skew darker

A simple image collage that features a sidewalk view of the Four Star Video Rental storefront on West Gilman Street in Madison. The neon "OPEN" sign is illuminated. To its right, co-owner Lewis Peterson writes the next title on the list for his "DIY Horror" daily theme on a whiteboard. At the bottom left, employee C Nelson-Lifson adds a title to their list of "From Beyond The Grave" to that same whiteboard the following week. The bottom right image features a wider view of the store's main counter area, and a television that is playing the movie "Born Of Fire."

Personalized variations on a theme

Against a golden-orange CGI city backdrop, two actors stand atop a platform in dark formal attire. The man on the left peers through a spyglass at a hexagon-shaped slide in his other hand. The woman, behind him, looks over at him with intrigue.

What will the future of cinema look like?

In front of a movie theater screen and wooden panels below it, two people sit and look at each other in conversation. David Bordwell, left, wears a red and white plaid shirt, turning towards Kris Johnson-Salazar in a black and white cardigan, who holds the microphone. Both smile.

A small tribute to the titanic David Bordwell, “a real cinephile”

The author, Sara Batkie, stands with her back of the camera in front of a slate-grey wall. She turns her head to the side, pointing with her thumbs to the green and black floral design on the back of her 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival volunteer tee shirt.

From the lens of a film festival volunteer

Multisensory moviegoing: the art of pairing film and food in Madison

A pair of hands flip through a small box of photographs resting in bright-green grass. One of the 4x6 photo prints lays face up on the grass. Its faded colors show a woman holding a child on her lap.

Gabriella Cisneros’ “Impermanence” creates a lasting cinematic impression

Leslie Damaso's band performs at Olbrich Botanical Gardens. From left to right: Saxophonist Luke Busch, drummer Mike Koszweski, vocalist and kulintang player Leslie Damaso, and bassist Ben Ferris. All four are in the midst of a performance in a botanical garden. In the upper left of the image, a small group is shown in extremely soft focus looking out at the performance. Everyone pictured is in casual wedding attire.

Leslie Damaso’s sprawling “SIRENA” is an intoxicating tapestry

A photo shows two informational postcards pinned to a bulletin board, each one inviting the recipient to a "lunch and learn" session about funeral planning options.

Death forever, sandwich now

An illustration shows two snails sitting in chairs in front of a bar.

From the archives: Snails at midnight

Alder Myadze is seated on a City bus wearing a baseball cap that says "District 18 Alder."

“Sustained” or not, a City report doesn’t discredit Charles Myadze’s accusers

Author

Scott Gordon co-founded Tone Madison in 2014 has covered culture and politics in Madison since 2006 for publications including The A.V. Club, Dane101, and Isthmus, and has also covered policy, environmental issues, and public health for WisContext.

Profile pic by Rachal Duggan.