zine, [zeen] noun. 1. abbr. of fanzine; 2. any amateurly-published periodical. Oxford Reference

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Two New Zines from Hannah

Two New Zines!

I'm happy to (finally!) announce that I have two new zines completed!


Not Lonely #6

This issue of Not Lonely is largely concerned with a recent trip I made to Holland. I write about getting there (despite a fear of flying), exploring Rotterdam and Amsterdam and going to a fairytale-themed amusement park, the Efteling. I talk about differences between British and Dutch culture and wonder if I'd like to move over there. There is also an (unrelated) item about books I loved as a child, as well as the "usual" handwritten introduction. The zine was made cut-and-paste style with lots of different layouts, collages and photos from my Holland excursion.

A6 (quarter-sized), 40 pages, pretty text-heavy.

Some pictures from inside the zine:





























*****


The Malcontents' Book Club #1

The Malcontents' Book Club is like a book blog, only in zine form. Within it I review (often scathingly) 10 books, including fiction, memoirs and nonfiction. If you enjoyed the book article in Not Lonely #4 then you'll love this! The zine is made cut and paste style with lots of different collages and layouts.

A6 (quarter sized), 40 pages, pretty text-heavy.

Some pictures from inside the zine:





























You can buy both zines from my new etsy shop, or email me (not_lonely_zineATyahoo.co.uk) about trades.


Aloha from Hawaii #1

Aloha from Hawaii #1
digest, 20 pages, $2/trade
Presented in P5!’s characteristic cut-n-paste style, this zine is a great introduction to Hawaii from a Hawaiian resident. P5! (of Pussy zine) begins the zine by explaining that aside from meaning “hello” and “good-bye,” aloha can also mean “having love, patience, presence, kindness, and mindfulness in everything we do” – a description and mindset that is threaded throughout the content of this zine. Much of the writing is lifted from un-cited sources, but it is interesting and insightful nonetheless. One piece discusses the importance of indigenous cultures and the indispensible wisdom that they can offer modern cultures. In another piece a grandmother laments the wasteful and shortsighted ways of younger generations and compares it to her frugal and self-sufficient upbringing and lifestyle. The versatility of the coconut is also discussed, and P5! offers several coconut recipes in addition to revealing some personal thoughts about this invaluable and important plant. Thrift store finds and classified ads are also included in these pages. Overall, this is a great little zine from an intriguing individual.
P5!
HC 1 Box 1030
Kaunakakai HI
96748
USA

Monday, August 29, 2011

Animal Antics #1

  
32 pages, digest size, $4.00 by Dexter Cockburn >>> thecomixcompany.ecrater.com
Here's a collection of Dexter's strips from other comix he's made, including Goofy Funnies #2, #4 and #5 except for 'Juggs Bunny' which is previously unpublished. But this is a perfect excuse to assemble all his 'furry' comix, which means a bear (Bosco Bear, that is!) getting it on with (human) Ranger Betty, wolf (Wacky Wolf) with bunny (Juggs Bunny), Bosco Bear with Boopsy (a lamb) then Ranger Becky, then a skunk girl (unnamed). It's wild and relentless.
Man, furries would love this. I love this! and don't consider myself a furry... maybe I'm being converted? It's pretty hot anyway. Adults only for sure, it's explicit to the MAX. "It's all happening!" would be another way to put it. Heh heh. And Dexter's drawings are awesome, same with his panel layouts. Fucking cool and hot. (Does that defy the laws of physics?)

Radvocate (Zine Promo)

The Radvocate is a cost-free, unsponsored zine that showcases the writing, art, opinion, and interests of it's readers. We believe that everybody has a story to tell, and that a lot of great work is going unseen because of a lack of outlets in mainstream publishing. Economic downturn? Lack of connections? No interest in print? The internet? The reasons for it are as numerous as they are bullshit. Anybody who would like to contribute a submission or recieve a copy for free can send an e-mail to theradvocatemag at gmail or mail to 3245 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92104. Those addresses can also be contacted for a complete listing of storefronts that carry The Radvocate in limited quantities. Get rad!
 
Matt Lewis, Editor


Saturday, August 27, 2011

Lil bit of spice

Lil bit of spice

Lil bit of spice is a zine brought to us by Leslie Abelard, a Texan who lives in France. She describes the purpose of her zine as being to develop herself as an artist and to entertain – two pretty worthwhile reasons to create a zine I think.
Lil bit of spiceLil bit of spice

The zine is a mix of things including music and zine reviews, descriptions of places she’s been, poetic interludes through to general musings/rants. It even includes a mini-zine called Delicious in which she prints a favourite recipe. Also it’s a nice touch that rather than just print coloured pictures in her zine, she has chosen to ‘stick in’ actual photographs. Makes an interesting change in texture from plain paper to glossy pic .
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I found this a fun zine due to the whimsical nature created by Leslie through a mix of child-like elements such as extras like a handmade card for Valentines’ Day in the first issue and Mother’s Day post-it-notes in issue two.  Both issues also have a Fortune fairy and a mysterious sealed envelope on the final page titled Goodies which is most intriguing.  I would love to open these two sealed items but it seems almost sacrilegious to spoil the zine by doing so! View the catalogue record I created for it

Friday, August 26, 2011

Grunted Warnings #12

Grunted Warnings #12
12 pages, digest

This one is from our friend and fellow reviewer, Stratu, (Blackguard, Sick Puppy, Atomiser.) Old school cut and paste zine comprised of odd news clippings and images. This is my third issue, and I have not detected any theme, other than being generally off beat. Some are funny, some sick, some sad, but most are mildly engaging. I liked this issue more than the previous two. I'm not sure why. Maybe the nice review Stratu gave my own recent zine softened me up. But Stratu reprints one of his bad reviews (by Elle X.) right on the back cover. So if you want a second opinion you can buy the zine and read that one.


Riding the Rails... Zine turns Pod Cast

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Dudes Magazine #17 - Spring 2011

Dudes Magazine #17 - Spring 2011

  
98 pages, magazine size, $5.00, edited by Nighthawk, Dudes Magazine World Headquarters, 3872-A Connecticut Street, Saint Louis MO 63116, USA + www.dudesmag.com + dudesmagazine[at]gmail.com

[Apology! to Nighthawk for the Australia Post fuck-up that lost the first Dudes Mag #17 he sent to my old Paddo PO box where I was supposed to have a redirection, but it turns out that they been returning some mail items to sender. Nighthawk was cool enough to send another copy to my new Marrickville address - no small thing on account of international postage costing a fuckton these days. So thanks Nighthawk!]

Pretty damn cool production values here (compared to most zines) but you sure as shit won't find a copy in any newsagent.
You got the regulars in this issue, like 'Dudes News', 'Dudes Picks', where the contributors (and there's 18 of 'em) list their favourite Bad Jam O' The Month, Flick' O' The Month, and Food O' The Month. I fucking love lists so I look forward to this page every issue.
Another regular is 'What's Bitch This Issue' ('Bitch' being Dude slang for 'Awesome').
 
J-Man contributes a hilarious piece, 'The Sport of Hunting'. He's got an unorthodox deer-hunting style for sure, no rifles or bows & arrows for him. Rather, he sneaks up on 'em, jumps out and says something like, "Hey man, I'm lost and out of gas. I'm just tryin' to get home. Could you possibly spare some change at all? Look, I don't normally do things like this but..." See, that makes them drop their guard and he's got 'em right where he wants 'em. A smack in the ear, followed by a rapid succession including a hook to the nose to water their eyes, and if the deer is tuff and still has his shit together, he might give it a good kick in the knee.
 
Professor Butz writes an expose on 'America's Latest Snake Oil Salesman Glenn Beck' - who I'd never heard of, but has a show on Fox News, and seems to me just another obnoxious loudmouth hatemonger like that other blowhard douchebag, whatsisname? Bill O'Reilly? Yeah that's him. [Check out Bill O'Reilly's M.O. here but making the mistake of taking on Jon Stewart. Haw!]
 
L. Vis went on tour with his band bunnygrunt but rather than the usual tour diary, he wrote up a cool piece, 'Dine N' Dash: Gnashin' & Thrashin' On The Road', covering all the burrito joints he made a point of visiting at each town they hit, including St Louis, Kansas, Denver, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Barbara ("SUCKED - no burritos."), San Jose ("Best burrito of tour"), San Diego, Phoenix, and Tejas.
 
Next up, Nighthawk with his 'Fest 9 Recap'. This was pretty damn great reading too since some of the shit Nighthawk went through was fucked up. Getting lost, almost freezing to death, puking on his favourite t-shirt, losing his bag, shit stolen, on and on. When he arrived home and a mate picked him up, he said, "You travel light." There's also a double-page spread of photos.
Right after that, an interview by Nighthawk with The Dopamines. His drunken interviews have become another highlight of Dudes Magazine, and this one is even stranger (in a way) than the Shred Savage interview from DM#16 since Big Daddy Waffs had to transcribe it, so there's a lot of 'question ends there', '(????)', '(abruptly cut off)' etc. but my favourite exchange is this one:

Nighthawk: Nice, ok onto the next question. I don't even know why I wrote this, not the whole interview but the question, how, how, uh how's.
Weiner: How's it going?
(question ends there)


Fucking hell man, this review is going on and on and I'm not even halfway through the zine. So let's SPEED IT UP >>> There's also an interview with Tony Weinbender (press wrangler & organiser of The Fest); Big Al interviews Josh Vanek of Total Fest; Nighthawk interviews Holy Shit! and In Defence; Nighthawk's 'Ten Days Of Pizza'; service industry veteran Co' Slaw rips the shit out of the pisspoor bartenders at a place called Lemmon's in St. Louis; ... holy shit there's so many more cool articles in here, plus some zine reviews (even one whole page dedicated to Blackguard #3 and Grunted Warning #1 & #2 by J-Man, wow! Thanks!); plus obituaries for Jack LaLanne [1914-2011] and Leslie Nielsen [1926-2010]; Uncle Benny's 'Tips For Living' (a guide to avoid being abducted by aliens); some cool gag strips, ultra-raw comix; and more more more!

A fucking awesome zine with hours worth of reading.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

New zines to doris distro

New zines to doris distro
Encyclopedia of Doris: stories, essays, interviews
Issues 19-27 of Doris zine plus a bunch of stuff that was printed in other zines and a bunch of new writing! It will be coming out in the beginning of August!

The Papas
this zine by Spoonboy goes with the record of his band The Papas, but I got some zines separately because they are really good and important. It has a really good story/essay about cultural myths - the way masculinity is portraid and taught us; captialism, suicide, queerness and fighting back. also some ways to challenge patriarchy and reprints of really great articles "Masculinity and Homophobia, by Michael Kimmel; I Want a 24 Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape by Andrea Dworkin; and excerpts from The Will to Change by bell hooks

Eleven Months
written by Paul who wrote the Don't be A Dick zine, Eleven Months is a zine about their "experience teaching in the jail in downtown Seattle. It is a mix of experiences, dreams, analysis, rumors, reflections...an attempt to condense a magnificent, traumatic, grueling experience into something to share with others"

Without Words + Without Kneeling: the first six issues

Written by Tom of Rad Dad zine. This zine is a way to explore books about Anarchism from different viewpoints. I really love it. It's fiction - and the story is about an anarchist study group. Each charater is nicely developed and comes from different perspectives - all of which are really relatable. They discuss the books, but mostly the different ideas and viewpoints come out in their lives and realtionships with eachother. Hard to explain but cool. Books discussed include Crimethinc, Anarchism and it's Aspirations by Cindy Milstein, Pacifism as Pathology by Churchill, The Philosophy of Punk and more.

Virgin #1
This zine is about being a virgin, being ok with it, and how the rest of the world does not seem to think it's ok. It's about being queer, NOT asexual, crushes she's had, assumptions people make, and more.

Virgin #2
Contributor issue: stories and articles dealing with disability, asexuality, rape, the marketing of virginity, self-image, etc

When the Crash Meets Something Solid #008: Something Very Ugly

another installment of Gabrielles zine about time she spent in the sex industry in Minneapolis, her herion/drug addiction and recovery.


reading tour dates

Upcoming Reading Tour:
August 11: Asheville NC, Malaprops Bookstore
September 23: Baltimore MD, Anarchist book fair; 6:00
September 24: Philadelpia PA, Wooden Shoe Bookstore; 7:00
September 25: NYC, Bluestockings Bookstore
September 26: Brooklyn, Bookthug Nation
September 27: North Hampton, MA, Food For Thought
September 28: may be somewhere in Vermont
September 29-30: Montreal
October 1-2:
October 3: Toronto
October 4: Pittsburgh

Monday, August 22, 2011

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Lil bit of spice

Lil bit of spice

Lil bit of spice is a zine brought to us by Leslie Abelard, a Texan who lives in France. She describes the purpose of her zine as being to develop herself as an artist and to entertain – two pretty worthwhile reasons to create a zine I think.
Lil bit of spiceLil bit of spice

The zine is a mix of things including music and zine reviews, descriptions of places she’s been, poetic interludes through to general musings/rants. It even includes a mini-zine called Delicious in which she prints a favourite recipe. Also it’s a nice touch that rather than just print coloured pictures in her zine, she has chosen to ‘stick in’ actual photographs. Makes an interesting change in texture from plain paper to glossy pic .
Lil bit of spice zineLil bit of spice zine
I found this a fun zine due to the whimsical nature created by Leslie through a mix of child-like elements such as extras like a handmade card for Valentines’ Day in the first issue and Mother’s Day post-it-notes in issue two.  Both issues also have a Fortune fairy and a mysterious sealed envelope on the final page titled Goodies which is most intriguing.  I would love to open these two sealed items but it seems almost sacrilegious to spoil the zine by doing so! View the catalogue record I created for it

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Hot Dog Dayz

Hot Dog Dayz


Hot Dog Dayz
suggested donation of $5
thee.n.o.b@gmail.com
www.hotdogdayz.com

Hot Dog Dayz is a collage, photography, and art zine with a heavy emphasis on pictures of James Franco and bullet belts. It’s fun to look at. If you are into this type of zine, you would probably dig it. It’s a non-profit zine and the proceeds are donated to various charitable causes (it doesn’t state specifically which ones).

Callout for Contributions to JUGGLING THE RAINBOW # 2 – non-monogamous relationships

Zinester Interview: Heather

Zinester Interview: Heather

from Hannah Reads Zines

Friday, August 19, 2011

Upcoming Encyclopedia of Doris readings

Upcoming Encyclopedia of Doris readings

My book is coming out next week!
Upcoming Reading Tours:
August 11: Asheville NC, Malaprops Bookstore 7:00
September 23: Baltimore MD, Anarchist book fair; 6:00
September 24: Philadelpia PA, Wooden Shoe Bookstore; 7:00
September 25: NYC, Bluestockings Bookstore
September 26: Brooklyn, Bookthug Nation
September 27: North Hampton, MA, Food For Thought
September 28: may be somewhere in Vermont
September 29-30: Montreal
October 1-2:
October 3: Toronto
October 4: Pittsburgh

Sowing and Dawning #4

Sowing and Dawning #4
128 Pages, Digest
$4

This is an impressive piece of work by Rick Visser. 128 pages split into two volumes and nestled in a fancy pouch, all of which are stamped with prints and stitched on a sewing machine, (one of the volumes has started to come unstitched.) Inside is old school cut and past prose that goes on forever, peppered with odd, random bits of pages from magazines, textbooks, maps, sheet music, some homemade paper, and there are several illustrations drawn on velum making interesting visual effects.

The content is primarily personal reflection. The prose is verbose and flowery, which normally I'm impatient with and end up skimming over. Here it's just interesting enough to make me slow down from my hurried mindset and want to give it the time and attention it demands. For this reason, I'm only able to read small amounts at a time. I have not finished it yet. So far it is mostly about Rick's experience moving around, (Portland, Connecticut, New York,) and the changing landscape both without and within.


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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Green Woman

Green Woman, Summer/Fall 2011
68 pages, full size
US $8.50, Canada $10.50

The long-awaited, premiere issue of Greenwoman Magazine is finally out! After a few delays, numerous headaches, and some minor miracles (you can read all about it on the blog), Sandra finally has an issue of her new magazine completed and ready for dissemination. And it's fantastic! The first thing I noticed was just how packed with writing it is. This isn't your typical mainstream magazine all bogged down with ads and filler. There is real content in this thing. Stuff you'd actually want to read. There are several columnists (myself included) covering a variety of topics including the praying mantis, book reviews, growing poppies, and what it really means to go green. Some of the main articles discuss things like eating organic food, raising chickens, and the politics of seeds and seed saving. Also included is an interview with fiction writer, Carleen Brice, and a biography of Indian plant guru, Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose. And even that's not it! Several more pages are filled with art, comics, poetry, short fiction, etc. I haven't actually read the whole thing yet, but so far my favorite is a short piece about one woman's obsession with "stealing" native plants and seeds. There is great talent all throughout this magazine thanks to Sandra's keen eyes and ears and her refusal to settle for mediocrity, which leads me to believe that it will be a big hit, especially among the crowd that is not satisfied gushing over the usual pap. To learn more about Greenwoman Magazine visit http://www.greenwomanmagazine.com/ To order a single issue or buy a subscription, go here. Sandra also offers an online version - the "green" version of Greenwoman Magazine - for a reasonable price.
 ~ Dan Murphy


Very nice editing job. I enjoyed it even though 68 pages on gardening struck me as gratuitous at best. Good collection of topics from a diverse bunch of (white) people. I especially liked the fiction. There's also a short piece by our own Dan Murphy. Also... going completely organic for one month, Praying Mantis Fu, the commercialization of the seed industry, the grass roots movement to reclaim seeds for the people, chickens, marijuana, the many achievements and struggles of Indian plant guru, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, art, poetry and more. Two green thumbs up!
~ Jack Cheiky

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Paridolia

Paridolia

   

28 pages, digest size, $3.00US, $4.00 Can/Mex, $5.00 World, Select Trades - Enquire First >>> Jack Cheiky, 1496 Elmwood, Lakewood OH 44107, USA + www.etsy.com/shop/quazipseudo + quazipseudo[at]gmail.com

[Full disclosure! Jack is the kingpin behind Syndicated Zine Reviews and since I'm one of the staff writers, he's my boss. OK. Better give this one a super ultra mega glowing review, right? Wrong, man. If I know the ziner, in whatever capacity, I go into the review as though the zine is from a complete stranger I owe nothing to except honesty.]

'Paridolia ~ from the Greek; para (faulty connection) + eidolon (phantom image) ~ A psychological phenomenon involving the misperception of patterns, images, or meaning in things ambiguous or random; such as seeing shapes in clouds.' In his introduction, Jack writes that this has always been part of his life - seeing faces in inanimate objects. In fact it's not unusual for him to see 10 or 20 faces a day, and sometimes that many in one sitting. So that's a big part of the art he makes, examples of which are scattered throughout.

There's a lot of personal stuff in here, one of the highlights being Jack's story of how he yanked out one of his own teeth that had gone bad (a fucking molar!) using a string over a door hinge. He really gets into the logistics too. He ends it with a haiku:

tooth aches, must come out
no numb stuff, must work fast, breathe
fuck me! so much blood

Another section details his mental and physical health problems, then there's a comic by Amira, Jack's daughter(?). Next up, quitting Facebook (it seems they don't make it easy...) I've heard a lot recently about people quitting Facebook, that it became too much of an addiction, and it sure is insidious, gets its hooks into you with the social element. I don't know, man. I'm on it, but never got addicted to it where I'm constantly checking it out, but the opposite - I'm too slack and don't comment on my 'Freinds' comments. Goddamn shit, modern life is not fucking easy! *Blub!* Ahem.. Back to the review!
There's more personal rants and views by Jack on various other subjects, like marijuana reform (and Facebook pops back up here - they banned images of pot in political ads), hypocrisy, then Reality TV I Would Watch (Example: 'The Peoples Court with colourful guest judges: winos, paranoid schizophrenics, four year olds, strippers, old people with bad hearing, inmates serving hard time, celebrities in rehab, dominatrixes, TV evangelists, Boston cab drivers, English as a second language students, etc.' 
The final piece is another very personal one - courageous to be so brutal and honest about oneself, and not easy to do without coming across as lame, but he pulls it off. And right through, on almost every page, images of Jack's cool art. And it's all in colour and printed on real nice matt, off-white paper. Easy to recommend this one. A keeper.

Call for submissions: Hoax #6

Call for submissions: Hoax #6

the topic will be feminisms & COMMUNICATION!

Thank You #2

Thank You #2
Spring/Summer
32 pages, digest
$1 or trade

From the streets of Casper WY... old school cut and paste. Kinda light on content for 32 pages, but what's there is good reading. Dead pan wry commentary hidden inside a no nonsense style makes it easy for me to like. Didn't care for the small print, even with glasses it was hard to read. Many pages of old ads from 70s skateboard mags, etc. Does NOT take itself too seriously. The table of contents says it all.....

  

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