This is done by the editor of quixotic potential, Vera, and it really does a lot to dispel some of the myths that surround what exactly an organic farmer is. While I don’t get the whole “548 vs. 724” thing that is on the front cover, this zine is incredibly easy to understand and is full of cute drawings that break up the whiteness left on each page. This zine…
Meatsheet #6 ($1, no address listed) This zine is black and white interview-oriented, but still has the feel of being a small-market zine. All the reviews/interviews/ writing is done by one John Meat, and I can only assume that he does the background set-ups for the magazine. If so, the magazine looks pretty professional while still having that totally DIY feel to it. I feel like I am missing something…
Letter of Resignation #2 / Forth-Sized / 28 Pages / Kyle Folson, 301 Colonial Dr. #9, Ipswich, MA 01938 / [email protected] / This zine is the sometimes confusing diatribe about two people crossing the United States, starting from Massachusetts, going to New Mexico, California, and the like, and the experiences that they’ve had. The intensely personal beginning of the zine, discussing the desire to help the DIY ethos, moves seamlessly…
July 2000, $3. There are tons of pages to this rag. What is really excellent is that this magazine has top tens for everything they do- I love top ten lists! Most of the bands I’ve never heard of are on these lists, which is always a good thing. After the beginning few pages of typical stuff, 6 pages of uninterrupted ads follow, with 5 pages of letters following that!…
Left of the Dial #6 / Summer 2003 / Full Sized / 84 Pages / $3.95 / 1438 W. Alabama #4, Houston, TX 77006 / Interview after interview. The people at Left of the Dial really can’t get enough of them, even if I can. My first read through, I stopped at the Editor’s Intro, got into three interviews (Andrew W.K., Avail, and The Bellrays), and had to try almost…
Mauled! True Tales of Tragedy At Sea #3 / $4.50 / :15 / 64M / http://www.manualcomics.com / [email protected] / This is a compilation zine that has a bevy of comics, as one can probably guess, about tragedies at sea. A number of them feel as if the artists just went and grabbed something for the AP newswire and then just put pen to paper – specifically “One More Reason to…
Leapfrog Bike Zine #7 / $1 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / Leapfrog Bike Zine, 6163 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 / [email protected] /Â As with the previous issue of the magazine, I can honestly say that Leapfrog can make a topic that I had little information or desire to know more about into something that I just have to study more! This time around, Scott interviews the bikearchists R.A.M.B.O.,…
Matter #2 / $1 / Half Sized / 56 Pages / [email protected] / Matter, 1415 NE 87th Ave , Kansas City , MO 64155 Okay, so this zine is does by a kid who I believe to be in High School. This zine is just pretty much a mishmash of whatever ey could find and well, the zine stumbles through its 56 pages without completely becoming tedious. Some of the…
Leapfrog Bike Zine #6 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / Leapfrog Bike Zine, 6163 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 / [email protected] / While I had picked this up last time I went to Boxcar Books in Bloomington, Indiana , I hadn’t really had anything in the way of time to flip through it. I almost regret that it took me so long to get a chance to read Leapfrog, because…
Mass Movement #15 / $6 USD / A5 / 80 Pages / 12 West Street, Aberkenfig, Bridgend, CF32 9BB, South Wales, UK / [email protected] / http://wakeup.to/massmovement / While most of the zines from the UK that I’ve had a chance to read have mainly been straightforward and actually just more like listings for up and coming shows, Mass Movement is definitely an all-encompassing zine. With a focus on some of…
Law of Inertia #11 / Full-Sized / $4.95 / 172 Pages / http://www.lawofinertia.com / [email protected] / Reviewed 24 December 2003 Law of Inertia is another zine that mainly focuses on interviews, this time going with bands as diverse as The Aeffect, Princess Superstar, and Strife, and I can honestly say that I don’t have the problem that I typically do with these interview-focused ‘zines : boredom. Law of Inertia has…
Maggot-Zine #2 / Half-Sized / 104 Pages / $2.50 ($5.00 by Mail) / 23 Veteran’s Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3A 4C4 Canada / Even after I got the less-than-stellar review by Broken Pencil a few months ago in their publications, I still got a trade in the mail by Candace, from Maggot-Zine. Now, my exposure to intelligently written ‘zines, or even zines that are done outside the United States are usually…
[mag] – #9 Full Size, Newsprint, Free, 64 Pages. This is a super huge zine that has some of the same problems with it as does Maximum Rock?n?Roll and Punk Planet. The sheer number of ads is amazing, sometimexs taking up 3 or 4 pages. That trespass is a minor one compared to some of the others in this zine. About 12 different interviews scatter themselves through the zine, with…
. First off, the title is wrong. This is not a zine about La Lucha, this is a zine that should be called La Gimoteo. What was meant as a good liberal magazine has turned into a whiny echo of liberalism and an assault on the average person. The only lucky thing here is that this was the last issue of this rag. In the scheme of DePauw zines, this…
This zine is one of the ones that has been out for an absurd amount of time, but hasn’t really caught on to the masses of people. The people that have read this zine are in love with it, as it is a very fun read. The only problem that I could potentially see with it was the incredibly short narrative story in this issue. Honestly, this issue of the…
That’s it, I’m officially a heartless bastard. I don’t like Journalsong. I’ve voiced my feelings on this issue to many of my zinemaking friends, and they try and try to show be the magical goodness of Journalsong, and I just don’t see it. This zine is really just like one long, and I do mean long, emo song. The topic simply just doesn’t change, as all of these pieces deal…
J5 Zine #5.5 / :10 / 24S / [email protected] / http://www.dumedia.tk / Reviewed 19 September 2004 A mini-zine that includes whatever presumably that the editors could dig up, whether it be some beautiful pictures (which are slightly hard to see being shrunk to such a small size and poorly printed), or some often-humorous poetry. The poetry is by and large just some pseudo-prose, never fitting into a rhyme scheme but…
Jersey Beat #74 / Full-Sized / 152 Pages / Jim Testa, 418 Gregory Avenue, Weehauken, NJ 07086 / Reviewed 27 November 2003 While this may be Jim’s largest issue to date, #74 was the issue I literally flew through, as it contains a slew of excellent reviews, interviews, and other materials to provide for a decent amount of reading material. By far, the most shining example of the killer writing…
$3 / No Trade / Full Size / 124 Pages / [email protected] / http://www.jerseybeat.com Jersey Beat, 418 Gregory Avenue, Weehawken NJ 07086 . (201) 864-9054 Jersey Beat was one of the first magazines I was lucky enough to get my hands on back in the halcyon days of 1999, and I was lucky enough to receive this copy. For some reason, the magic that I felt that I was holding…
It’s Raining Outside / 1 stamp / Eighth-Sized / 36 Pages / Melanie, 6270 ST Rt 113, Bellevue, OH 44811 / Reviewed 01 February 2004 In what is probably the most honest title for a zine, “It’s Raining Outside†is a very stream-of-consciousness rant about the titular event and the separation of the zine writer and eir significant other. While the even is physically very small, there is simply a…