The American Bystander | Issue #31 Digital

Coming September 30, 2025: The American Bystander Issue #31 – digital edition. This Fall 2025 release features a cover by the inimitable Tom Toro, who captures the national mood with a moon landing and a flag at half-mast. It's beautiful. It's bleak. It's funny. In other words: it’s Bystander.

Inside: 70+ pages of original cartoons, essays, and satire, formatted as a beautiful PDF. You’ll find work by our usual suspects—some of the best humorists, cartoonists, and cultural thinkers working today—laid out in a print-style spread you can download instantly on release day.

Perfect for your laptop, tablet, or e-reader. Or print it out and pretend you're in a better decade.

Available September 30, 2025
Pre-order now and the full-resolution PDF will be delivered to your inbox the moment we go live.

What’s Inside:

Exclusive Fall 2025 cover by Tom Toro

70+ pages of humor, cartoons, and sharp writing

Fully formatted, high-res PDF download

Instant delivery on release day

No algorithms. No tracking. No apologies.

Why Readers Love It:

Smart, weird, and beautifully typeset—just like our readers

Portable enough for subway commutes, waiting rooms, and exile on a remote island.

Printing it out makes you look like you read more than you doomscroll

Helps fund independent satire, which is somehow still legal

How It Works:
Pre-order now and receive a secure download link to the full PDF on September 30, 2025. You’ll own it forever—or at least until the grid collapses.

Click “Add to Cart” and be among the first to receive the digital issue the moment it drops.