Limited Edit[ION] #2 Featuring Michael DeForge

Here it is! Limited Edit[ION] #2. For the next few issues we’ll be producing a shirt collaboration with an artist we’ve profiled in the magazine. Our second release features the artwork of Michael DeForge. Check it out…

Featured on the shirt is a psychedelic drawing of a Manananggal from Filipino folklore. What the hell is a Manananggal? Let’s hear it Wikipedia!

A manananggal is described as being an older, beautiful woman capable of severing its upper torso in order to fly into the night with huge bat-like wings to prey on unsuspecting, pregnant women in their homes; using an elongated proboscis-like tongue, it sucks the hearts of fetuses or blood of an unsuspecting, sleeping victim. The severed lower torso is left standing and it is said to be the more vulnerable of the two halves. Sprinkling salt or smearing crushed garlic or ash on top of the standing torso is fatal to the creature. The upper torso then would not be able to rejoin and will die at daybreak. The name of the creature originates from an expression used for a severed torso: manananggal comes from the Tagalog, tanggal (cognate of Malay tanggal) which means to remove or to separate. Manananggal then means the one who separates itself (in this case, separates itself from its lower body).

We’re only printing 100 of these bad boys so better get on it. You can peruse the wares at the ION online store here.