Welcome to The Toad
The Joplin Toad is an intergalactic Joplin Missouri publication. It is made by and for the strange and creative people of a little city in the center of the United States. It contains humor, history, art, and story.
We hope you enjoy it.
The Holiday Issue
In this issue
Holiday Activities and Haikus
Community Activities
Enjoy this special holiday edition toad mad lib- fill it out on your computer or print and share with your family or buddies for a laugh!
Want some serious winter vibes, carefully selected by some premiere Joplin musicians? Check out our Spotify playlist!
We’ll just say these are for your kids. Print them out and decompress with some crayons, Toadlee the Christmas toad and Clint the fruitcake!
No fireplace? Play this video on your laptop or pull up the youtube link on your tv and enjoy our hour of cozy Yule log (w/musical interludes)
Winter Visual Art
Short Stories/INterviews
We sat down with the cover artist for Issue 4 and asked him some of our favorite questions about art and Nicholas Cage.
We wanted to spend some getting to better know regular toad contributor Veronica Carr. So…we did.
Miscellaneous
This is probably the cutest feature of this issue. Meet and fall in love with toadlee, a new character from Cody Martin!
Highlighting local videographer Ashton Edwards, with some very inspiring quick videos for all you creatives out there.
interview with a real life cat lawyer, the incorrigible Winston. The first in our new “pet profiles of Joplin” series.