Abe's Penny: A Micro-Magazine

Five years after conceiving the idea of Abe's Penny, we launched the "micro" publication in March of 2009. We saw a challenge in adding more art and writing to an overstimulated and harried world, so we knew we wanted to keep our publication short and accessible. A postcard offers what is essentially a boiled down magazine: image and text. We like that it's so fast and that our readers can finish a card in the time it takes to walk from their mailbox to their front door.

Then, there's the, "neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night," history of mail delivery: the Post Office, the mailman, your mailbox. We wrote lots of letters as kids, but after email it seemed like no one was writing letters any more. When we started Abe's Penny, we found that mail has a huge support system, almost a cult following. We're happy to be a part of it.

Huge thanks to our past interns:

Jane Tuss
Manuela Garcia

Anyone interested in interning should email score (at) abespenny (dot) com.