Twenty-Eight Pages Lovingly Bound With Twine #12

Twenty-Eight Pages Lovingly Bound With Twine #12 / $2 / 28M / :30 / Christoph Meyer, Post Office Box 106, Danville, OH 43014

Christoph and I have known each other for a few years. I think we first met at the AMC, and traded quite a few issues. Both of us have taken long times to review the other’s zines, and I think I have taken the cake for “length between review and reception”. Regardless, I write on. TEPLBwT is a quick read and has a high amount of replay value in the sense that the pieces are well-written and there is an overarching them present in practically all of the issues of the magazine. This time, for example, Christoph has each of the non-title pages represent a specific letter. There is some form of writing about a topic related to each letter, typically broken up with some piece of art or method of printing (gocco, linoleum). There is a large “found” component to this issue, in that a few of the pages were made with items that Christoph found in eir travails (a note, an old sorority picture). The home-made component to this zine is furthered by the inclusion of the title thread, which links together all twenty-eight of these pages. A fun read, TEPLBwT is a zine that can sit in a high-traffic area of the house or apartment and read until the pages become dog-earned and worn. I do not know if Christoph is continuing with this zine, but I sincerely hope ey is. Give Christoph some cash and I’m sure ey will send zines over or the money back; TEPLBwT is one of the best longer-running zines out there.

Rating: 7.5/10

Sargeant

John Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since 1998. With over 25 years of continuous digital publishing experience, he has written thousands of hands-on game and record reviews, conducted in-depth hardware field testing, and analyzed digital media monetization trends. His work prioritizes first-hand evaluation and long-term product testing.

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