Arts & Culture

Strange Photography Comic Magazine, Hausfrau, Is Now a Ridgewood Thing

All material courtesy of Hausfrau Magazine Back in 2009 Stephen Kosloff used to do event photography for Gawker. And as he was trying to come up with funny captions for his photographs, an idea was born: he would do a fully photographed comic and publish it as a magazine! The first issue of Hausfrau, now […]

By Katarina Hybenova

April 27, 2015 · 2 min read

Arts & Culture

Strange Photography Comic Magazine, Hausfrau, Is Now a Ridgewood Thing

Katarina Hybenova April 27, 2015Apr 27, 2015 · 2 min read

All material courtesy of Hausfrau Magazine

Back in 2009 Stephen Kosloff used to do event photography for Gawker. And as he was trying to come up with funny captions for his photographs, an idea was born: he would do a fully photographed comic and publish it as a magazine!

The first issue of Hausfrau, now a bi-monthly print publication, launched out of his East Williamsburg apartment in July 2014. “It’s like a funny comic, but with large photos and horrific outfits instead of illustrations,” told us Stephen.

Hausfrau features serialized photo-comic, The Pharmacologists, which “details the travails of Dagger, who peddles pharmaceutical drugs on the hard, gritty streets of New York;” fine art and other journalism. And…