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= Opium Magazine =

Opium is the journal of literary humor for the deliriously captivated. Founded by Todd Zuniga, Opium Magazine first appeared online in 2001 and in print in 2005. Opium Magazine features many notible writers and artists including Etgar Keret, Aimee Bender, Jack Handey, Tao Lin, and Art Spiegelman.

Opium hosts the Literary Death Match, a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four readers in an edge-of-your-seat read-off, all critiqued by three all-star judges. Opium Europe features all-new content written solely by Europeans, in both French and English, both online and off. Opium Studio, scheduled to open in Spring 2009, is a virtual art gallery that showcases everything from wit-inspired cartoons to paintings to collage to sculpture. Opium Live is an electrifying interview series that features interviews with today's most innovative and exciting authors and artists.