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The Joplin Toad
An intergalactic Joplin Missouri publication.
archive 2025 1st quarter, 2024 3rd quarter, 2023 1st quarter, 2023 4th quarter, 2022 3rd quarter, 2022 4th quarter 2021 3rd quarter 2021 2nd quarter 2021 1st quarter 2021 2020: #4 2020: #3 2020: #2 2020: #1 2019: #4 (christmas) 2019: #3.5 (halloween) 2019: #3 2019: #2 2019: #1
Robot applications
Robot applications

Read our found records of real robot A. Joplin Tod and his desperate search for a job. [satire]

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Mark NeuenschwanderSeptember 24, 2021A. Joplin tod, joplin toad, robot job applications, joplin missouri, AI, satire
WE HAVE A PATREON (+ more news!)
WE HAVE A PATREON (+ more news!)

Our updates moving into fall 2021: PATREON launch, issue 3 release, and local events we’ll be a part of.

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Mark NeuenschwanderSeptember 15, 2021joplin toad, patreon, indie magazine, local art, literature, joplin missouri, southwest mo, culture
(PODCAST): featured artist interview with Lori Marble!
(PODCAST): featured artist interview with Lori Marble!

In this episode, our host Mark N. interviews abstract painter, Lori Marble- about overcoming brain surgery, trauma, imposter syndrome, and everything else that can get in the way of putting your art into the world.

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Mark NeuenschwanderAugust 27, 2021lori marble, painter, Joplin missouri, artist, toad, podcast, interview, brain surgery, trauma, creative
Comedy full of laughs – for a time when we wanted to cry (guest editorial)
Comedy full of laughs – for a time when we wanted to cry (guest editorial)

Check out this new guest editorial from Rebecca Haines! In it, Rebecca explores the production of the play “Force of Nature” in Carthage, Missouri- and how art can surprise us when it entwines both expression and healing.

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Mark NeuenschwanderAugust 18, 2021stone's throw dinner theater, joplin missouri, Carthage mo, editorial, joplin toad, Taylor jones, tom jones, Force of nature, play, Taylor Jones
Raymonds Reviews: The Joplin Globe
Raymonds Reviews: The Joplin Globe

In our newest installment of “Raymonds’ Reviews”, Raymond Walter Harold Melvin reads (actual) reviews written about Joplins’ premiere newspaper- The Joplin Globe.

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Mark NeuenschwanderAugust 16, 2021Raymonds reviews, joplin missouri, joplin globe, real reviews, actual comments
Ope! Issue 3 is ready for pre-order....
Ope! Issue 3 is ready for pre-order....

Issue 3 is almost here. Find out more about pre-ordering for a discount!

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Mark NeuenschwanderAugust 6, 2021joplin missouri, joplin toad, indie magazine, arts mag, artists, writer, publication, fine arts, humor
Joplin: the Snyder cut
Joplin: the Snyder cut

COMEDY VIDEO: Enjoy this random slow motion video of some of Joplin’s finest (for a film that will never actually exist).


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Mark NeuenschwanderJuly 20, 2021joplin missouri, snyder cut, Adam francis, hershewe billboard, Luke sheafer, satire video, joplin toad, city manager
A New Hershewe in Town?
A New Hershewe in Town?

[satire]: Is there a new Hershewe in town? insurance agent Joy Long has entered the picture as a competitor to Hershewe’s legendary double-billboard marketing strategy.

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Mark NeuenschwanderJuly 3, 2021hershewe billboards, joplin toad, joplin missouri, joy long, advertising, water bottles
Featured artist: Dace Youngblood
Featured artist: Dace Youngblood

In this exclusive Joplin Toad interview, we talk with multimedia portrait artist Dace Youngblood- on her journey from Latvia to Joplin Missouri, her process, and her inspirations. Interview originally featured in issue 2 of our printed magazine.

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Mark NeuenschwanderJuly 3, 2021joplin missouri, artist, multimedia portrait, latvia, interview
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