This comic comes from the combined efforts of Dan Moynihan, tying together both Microblast, his old comic, and Mreow, which is a blanket epithet for all of his new work. Starting at the beginning of the comic, we have some interesting pieces, including a “Caption:Caption” game, which is where one person only sees the one step that came before as they draw their contribution?. This game is intended to be…
Morning Star #3 / :25 / 56L / $3 / Angelica M. Busque, 4832 N. Wolcott, Apt. 1NW, Chicago, IL 60640 / [email protected] / Angelica is the most moving artists that I’ve ever had the chance with which to be familiar. When I took a lunch away from work and actually had the chance to read this issue of Morning Star, I was so close to crying that it was…
Little Grandpa I am just going to preface the review of this comic by saying that the review itself will be very short, as the comic really just is a poem with accompanying pictures. This does not mean one should immediately dismiss it or anything, but should pick up this heart-warming comic and be enthralled by the fun little poem and drawings inside. The whole idea is the loss of…
Morning Star #2 / $1 / 5.25 by 7 / 24 Pages / [email protected] / 4832 N. Wolcott, Apt 1NW, Chicago, IL 60632 / Coming from the Art Institute of Chicago, I should have expected as much, but Morning Star is a completely cutely drawn magazine that is a mixture of comic and perzine. With the cover being a sketch of Angelica and a bunny, all encompassed with a glitter-encrusted…
Linoleum Roses #3 I have the weirdest relationship ever with Sarah. I think, right now, that I am currently on her ignore list. She’s probably forgotten that I was even on the list, and is wondering why I am never on anymore. I think this last time we argued about the usefulness of reviews. Oh well. Her zine is still interesting, even if it does show a gradual movement towards…
More Themes For Dyslexics #3 / :20 / $1 / Half-Sized / 56 Pages / [email protected] / This zine is a toned down, shorter and smaller version of Maximum Rock’n’Roll. Whether it be the few columns or ample interviews or reviews, the only thing missing from More Themes For Dyslexics are the high amount of advertisements, and I think that is where the zine is better than the newsprint or…
linoleum roses #2 This was another zine that I reviewed and didn’t have the foresight to go and get the review off they other server before it shut down. With this issue, Sarah catches the spontaneity of such great zines as Mecaroni and Fleas and Ozzy Rocks, with her pieces about various different trips, to Los Angeles/Hollywood and Chicago specifically. She lets her feelings be known about the hatred of…
More Said in Silence #3 / Half-Sized/ 16 Pages / [email protected] / Another interesting romp by Teresa, who in this issue mainly focuses on life in present. A minor intrusion into ey’s soul is the listing of ey’s purse, which has zines (like a good zinester), lip gloss, and deodorant. Moving onto a very odd story about an aspiring artist at KFC who, unbeknownst to Teresa, has painted eir’s portrait.…
Limited Delivery Area #3 / 20 Pages / Half-Sized / [email protected] / 111 W Archer Pl., Denver, CO 80223 / This zine is pretty much the only one that I can come up with that details with the editor’s job at Domino’s. Where there has been some material on why to not support Domino’s in other magazines, this is still the only place to go if you want to understand…
This is such an emotion-inducing magazine. I am practically left speechless and almost in tears. I have no clue why. I am not the person that has had this rough life. Teresa, the editor of the zine, writes about her experiences in the last few years of her life, starting out when she is kicked out of her parents’ house for having her head shaved, and her exploits with her…
Limited Delivery Area #1 ($1, Vermicious Knid, PO Box 543, Accokeek MD 20607) For those in the know, Limited Delivery Area (the term) deals with the delivery mainly of pizzas. Well, Vermicious here is a pizza delivery guy for dominos, and this zine is one of the first to detail the much-maligned life of a pizza guy. While the zine is short (half-sized, 16 pages), and the text really big,…
Moonlight Chronicles #36 / :40 / 104S / $5US/$6 Can/ $7 World / Dan Price, Box 109, Joseph OR 97846 / All handwritten, this zine is tops in having Atom and His Package-like drawings and the perfect pen to capture all the events that happens to one Dan. 36 issues is always an incredible amount to complete, and this zine is still fresh, still a fun read. While I do…
This zine reminded me a lot of Ker-bloom, without all the overblown papers and stamps and everything. Detailing her early life, the zine talks about the first American address that she had (she’s from Canada), and the emotionality of her early years, culminating in a move after her brother died. The narrative hops in years from when she moves to America to when she moves to the second California address…
Mirror-Mirror / :10 / 8L / [email protected] / 83 Charlotte St, Akron Ohio 44303 / I do not know where I have seen this style before: Mirror-Mirror is a collection of comic strips by Chrid Pelrine, and manage to tell a snippet of a story even considering the fact that they are contained on one page. The style in which Chris captures eir subjects is interesting to say they least:…
Life In A Glass House #2 / 52 Pages / Fourth-Sized / $3 / Madison Eliza, PO Box 261, Westerville, OH 43086-0261 / http://www.andwedrown.com / Madison is a shy individual who typically has a problem talking to random people. Now, ey really gets a kick out of putting out this zine, which obviously goes to a number of different stranger. And ey really doesn’t mind, saying that “when I do…
Melt Volume 2 Issue 5 / Free / :15 / 48S / http://www.meltmag.com / I really don’t know what to feel about these various city-related magazines. They are (almost) always free, but to be honest, the amount of interesting content is seriously lacking. This issue seems pretty much dictated by the advertisers and what is famous; there are pieces about Gwen Stefani, King Kong, and Kottonmouth Kings. Of course, the…
This zine was giving me tons of weird vibes. The creator of this magazine is so far removed from the politics of the scene that it is really interesting and refreshing to get this view on culture. Even if the zinester is somewhat older than the average zinester, she still portrays a number of traits common in the zinester world, including desires to thrift, an attractions towards older things. I…
Media Whore #5 / $2 / 36M / :20 / http://www.mediawhorezine.com / Media Whore is one of the few feminist zines that I’ve had the chance to ready latly. The only other ‘zine that I could compare Media Whore to is the B.L.O.O.D. manifesto, which admittedly is a few steps to the revolutionary side farther than Media Whore. Still, there is an informative (instead of purely anger/emotion-drive) approach to revolution;…
Before I start this review, I will do a mini-rant about the subject matter of this magazine. I’m sure you all know the reformed junkie that has found God in some form or another. Has anyone thought about the fact that their conversion to Christianity is just a crutch, just another thing to be addicted to? The fact that they spout religious quotes at random and follow the religion blindly,…
Mediageek #2 / $3 / :25 / 40M / PO Box 2102, Champaign, IL 61825-2102 / [email protected] / Attempting successfully to do what I had tried to do with the DIY pieces in the previous issues of NeuFutur, Paul and the crew at Mediageek cover all sorts of media and inform their readers about how to use it to their advantage, cheat it, or just about the goings on in…