I Suppose #2 / Half-Sized / 28 Pages / [email protected] /Â This zine is a fairly quick read, with a number of pictures obscured from the method of printing in this issue. Starting off with some poems or song lyrics (one is not sure due to the lack of attribution), the zine incorporates a story stolen directly from the local town newspaper. All and all, this block of poetry and…
Invasion of the Bee Girls #1 / .50 / 28 Pages / Half-Sized / [email protected] / PO Box 13126, Gainesville, FL 32604 / Even if Melanie’s opening is true, that ey mainly does a fiction zine, Invasion of the Bee Girls details real-life events in such a masterful way that I can honestly put myself in the stranger-than-life circumstances that ey details. First going into detail about a Willard-level infestation…
In the Tradition of Random Thoughts #11 / $2 / :5 / 4M / PO Box 441429, Somerville, MA 02144 / I have never seen a postcard zine. Well, now I have as this “issue†of In the Tradition of Random Thoughts is contained by an envelope and features David McNamara’s photography. There is no discussion of the monument that ey has taken a picture of beyond informing the viewers…
In These Times (May 9, 2005) / $2.95 / :35 / 44M / http://www.inthesetimes.com / 308 E. Hitt St, Mt. Morris, IL 61054 /Â Most people are familiar with In These Times, have seen it around their libraries or at the free pile at shows. How many have actually picked a copy up and read through it? Before this issue, I had picked up a few issues but only glanced…
All that I can start out this review with is a big “Wow!”. This zine is just one of a very few that can do what is called a perzine properly. The emotion contained in this issue, the heavy sense of loss that permeates this issue, all the letters and the characters and bits of ink that are used to make this zine are infused with this. Most of this…
This is another of the zines that I grabbed off the free table at last year’s UPC, and while this zine is one of the most clean I’ve seen, I take interest, almost offense, at some of the content contained within. For example, he was able to land an interview with perennial Christian ska’ers Five Iron Frenzy. He asks a harmless question in “Explain the song “Fahrenheit””, to which one…
Indy Unleashed #11 – Half sized, 12 pages. Unlike Issue 30 of The Ten Page News, which I reviewed in my last outing, Indy Unleashed has a pseudo-narrative that all of the zine reviews fall into. This is his attendance at the UPC Zine convention and the SPACE convention, and he seems to pick out some excellent zines and comics to feature reviews on. I know I?m doing a lot…
Indigo #15 / :25 / $3 or trade / Half-Sized / Michelle Aiello, PO Box 180143, Chicago, IL 60618 / [email protected] / Aah! A zine that refers pretty heavily to the previous issue, which I don’t have! Anyways, Indigo is an amazingly cleanly-laid out zine that is dense as hell, yet incredibly informative and fun to read. The different approaches and topics that Mich puts in the magazine makes it…
Incredulous #8 / :25 / $2.00 / 32S / Incredulous, 00730 Clute Rd, Boyne City, MI 49712 / http://incredulous.tripod.com / This issue seems a little more coherent than the previous one, but the humor is still fairly blunt and tangential at times. The Family Circus parodies just need to stop. All possible avenues of humor have been traversed umpteen times about a decade before by the Dysfunctional Family Circus, and…
Incredulous #5 / :10 / $1 ($2.00 overseas) / Odd-Sized / 32 Pages / Matt Rasch, 00730 Clute Rd, Boyne City, MI 49712 / [email protected]”/ Incredulous is a mixture between random topics and cartoons, with the level of the material in this issue being a small bit on the Spartan side. The interview that is touted as the focal point of the issue, Phillips, has short responses to only a…
Full size/64 pages-$2 in mail/free in real life This is 64 pages of pure gold in the bohemian version of the Progressive and the bastard poverty stricken version of Contrascience, this mag is what shows like 20/20 and magazines like Newsweek and Time should strive to be. Aside from the letters and editors note, the magazine starts up the leftist machine to make a very interesting yet too short discussion…
Dec-Jan 2001.Normal Size $2 by mail, typical layout. Editor’s response, letters. Tons of ads are in this magazine, as 3 of the first 6 pages are nothing but them. The magazine has the layout of a magazine with 10 times the readership. Tons of white space are found on every page, but the whiteness is broken up expertly, and doesn’t detract from the overall reading experience. “A Big Government Scam 
I Hate this Part of Texas # 5 / $3 / :45 / 44M / http://www.microcosmpublishing.com /Â This magazine seems to follow from the Journalsong type of overly emotional and verbose writing. However, unlike Journalsong, what John et al do with this issue of the zine is make their exploits into a narrative that is compelling and interesting, to say the least. The magazine is not just text, as it…
Ideas in Pictures #3 / :10 / $1 / Half-Sized / 28 Pages / [email protected] / N4409 Duck Creek Rd , Helenville WI 53135 / Colin, the editor, sat next to me during AMC 2003. Pretty cool, ey was pandering various pieces of art and showing individuals eir’s recreation of a calf’s feeding box. Colin’s sketchy style permeates this issue, with only a minor amount of handwritten or typewritten text…
I Don’t Like Mondays #1 ($?,Becky, PO Box 1105, Roslyn, PA 19001) By far, this zine is about the problems that the editor, Becky, has with her school. Pretty much every single piece is about an issue, and every single piece is in the same font, same block cut out, with only the interesting backgrounds to really break up the tedium put on us, the reader, by Becky. This is…
Huzzah #2 / $1 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / PO Box 1778, North Riverside, IL 60546 / http://www.nerfect.com / Released November 2002 / With a style that is a mixture of Scud the Disposable Assassin and The Assassin and the Whiner, Britton creates this sketch-comedy type of comic, with stories typically only lasting a few pages. While the main story of this issue would have to be “A Lesson…
Mamacita #1 / $2 / 28M / :30 / bluebirdie.etsy.com / This is the first zine that Miss Fay has written in a few years. It is nice to see that there is not the slightest bit on eir writing skills. Miss Fay comes forth with a style that blends together DIY projects and personal pieces. Where the two crowds are distinct at some points, the personal pieces that are…
Hush Up #1 / Free / :20 / 32M / http://www.hush-up-music.com / First issues are always a little hard to perfect. There will undoubtedly be some trifling errors that are mortifying when found, but Hush Up does a good job in (ahem) hushing up these errors. While the inclusion of color to the zine is nice, the layout is somewhat lacking, owing much to the fact that most of the…
The Hungover Gourmet #7 / :25 / $2 / 36M / Dan Taylor, PO Box 5531, Lutherville, MD 21094-5531 / Well written zine that primarily covers anything to do with food. A large section of this issue is filled with music-like reviews of a bevy of restaurants and taverns, which tend to go on much too long, but I would think that has a great deal to do with my…
How I Learned to Love Myself, and Occasionally Other Men #1 / :15 / $.50 / Trade / 24S / http://www.beetfarm.org/tunazine / Grilled Tuna Zines / 1357 West Augusta #1 / Chicago, Illinois / This zine is probably the most hard-hitting and intensely personal of zines that I have ever read. Dealing with the realization of the editor about ey’s queerness, ey uses vivid metaphors and interesting animations to make…