Wok! Paf! Kabong! Action-packed is an understatement when it comes to blows in the Renaissance!

Suzy V reviews Yesiyu Zhao's show "Journey to the West” at David Castillo Gallery in Miami.

Del O’Brien reviews Gala Porras-Kim's show "Correspondences towards the living object” at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

An execution is nothing without decorum. However, in S.C. Rooge’s case, Zuggy and Kathy are willing to make an exception!

In a drinking contest one is expected to drink…right? As time speeds up and then stands still, Gluck faces down a retinue of Spaniards. They soon learn it is never wise to cross a fool!

Gabriel Almeida reviews Salman Toor's show "No Ordinary Love" at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

No time to repent: good conquers evil in the most brutal ways possible! Shock follows shock in this build-up to a truly electrifying conclusion!

Gluck finds himself at odds with the Spanish occupiers of his native Netherlands, and that can only mean one thing…a drinking contest! Will Gluck be able to drink more than seven men? We hope so!

A fairground fun, a circus troupe in the moments of repose on the dusty road from one town to the next – clowns and jugglers, carnies and freaks. What we are given to read is a pastime from one show to another. What happens on the margins, in the backrooms, during the show? In the Footnotes?... Well, you know what happens. We do.

“But what they do experience, artists will share. If the means of their art set limits, they will seek to move those limits.”

Life isn’t fair…or is it? Wrenching justice from the jaws of a turkey, Zuggy and Kathy have some bad news for S.C. Rooge!

After his rousing autobiography, Gluck heads to the local tavern to stew and mull over some things. There’s no such thing as a night off for a jester: mayhem ensues!

As the end seems to loom nearer and nearer, things paradoxically are looking up for our heroes. Who said the apocalypse wouldn’t be enjoyable?

Gluck finishes the story of his life to much fanfare. But enough about his past! What does his future hold?

Fezziwig was renowned for how much fun he was…and even though he’s a giant demonic bird, he keeps up that reputation! What’s in store for him and his ol’ pal Zuggy is anyone’s guess!

Victor Cova introduces a 1941 exchange between Claude Lévi-Strauss and André Breton.

Ever wonder how Gluck came to be? In this, the first of two parts, learn the lurid details of Gluck’s birth and upbringing, told by the fool himself in iambic pentameter!

Neither a borrower nor a lender be…unless it can prevent the apocalypse! Zuggy makes payment of unimaginable importance…but will it be enough to save the world?

Excerpt from Ann Quin’s novel Tripticks, introduced by Austin Carder.

Gluck isn’t one to hold a grudge, but what he does hold he grips with an iron fist! Five people fighting against Gluck isn’t fair: he outnumbers anyone all by himself!