By Patrick Lohier
He put out the second issue by himself the next spring. “It was basically a flop. I put it together in one or two nights during finals. The two issues had come out fairly quickly, and while they weren’t good, they weren’t bad.”
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When O’Leary graduated in 1993 he came to Chicago, and for two years he worked for Morningstar entering data. Last fall he worked briefly as a landscaper, and he still toys with the idea of graduate school. But the two brothers have continued to publish one issue of LVNG a year, each one drawing more contributors and more readers.
“For now we’re just trying to distribute LVNG to a lot of places so a lot of people have access,” says O’Leary. “We’ve really improved on the production of the art, and I think people notice that. The whole idea of this is about opening an audience, getting a wider audience.”
