Hippie Casual #1 / Half-Sized / 16 Pages / $1/2 stamps / [email protected] / Andrew, 104 Harrington Point, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Note: this issue is over ten months old, and Andrew might have gotten some other issues out, but this is yet another zine that reaches out on random tangents, not easily fitting into a political or perzine design. Actually, if one would get rid of the food content…
The Hilt Issue #4, Vol. 2 / Free / :25 / 16M / [email protected] / Reviewed 14 June 2006 The Hilt is an anarchist publication. There are just a few pieces during this issue, and they are based on trying to give individuals a true idea what anarchist is and why it is separate from ideologies like communism and socialism. At one point, the pieces do not seem as strong…
For longtime visitors of my site, you may remember that a review of this zine was up for about a week. This is because the person that was giving me the free webspace couldn’t maintain the upkeep, and was forced to drop the domain. Anyway, this zine really hits home for me, as the main topic of the magazine, as one can imagine, is living alongside some of the worst…
High Maintenance #2 ($3, PO Box 63022, Philadelphia, PA 19114-0822) Another of the glossy zines that I always tend to get for review, this one is actually not that bad. Interspersing heavy musical content with different approaches, High Maintenance makes it easy for the average reader to get through the magazine in just under an hour, and without stopping to put the zine. Highlights of this issue include the listing…
Hermana, Resist #2 / Half-Sized / $3 / 44 Pages / Noemi Martinez, PO Box 809, La Blanca, TX 78558 / [email protected] / Before receiving this zine, I really heard some great stuff about Hermana, Resist and Noemi. I even went as far to do a link exchange with Noemi and eir’s website, CS-Tiendita. However, when I actually read through the zine I was shocked about how intensely personal Noemi…
Here’s What I’ve Hidden Under My Tongue #1 / $1 / :10 / 28S / D.J.T., 108 Route 30, Newfane, VT 05345 / DJT’s zines are always some of the most emotionally affecting that I have the chance to read, and this time deals with eir dealings with diet, both before and after hormonal therapy. In the inaugural issue of this zine, the societal construct of what it is to…
Herbin’ Guerrila #2 / :10 / $1 / 20M / [email protected] / This zine is one of the first that I have read that actually paints recreational drug use (at least with pot) as something that is not totally antithetical to anarchism/other movements. Throughout the few zines I’ve read on the topic there seems to be either an ignorance of the fun one can have with weed or an outright…
Fakelife #6 / $2 + Shipping / 40M / 1:00 / http://www.pxsdistro.com / This issue of Fakelife is about the trials and tribulations that individuals have to deal with around the period of Valentine’s Day. The first story in this issue is “Young Loveâ€, a story that is written in a very idiosyncratic style. What I take from the story may not be what the author wishes individuals to take;…
HeartattaCk #50 / .50 / 1:00 / 80M / http://www.ebullition.com / This is the last issue ever of HeartattaCk. Some of the writers from the zine are starting a new zine called “Give Me Backâ€, so keep an eye on that. But, nothing new in the way of issues of HeartattaCk will ever be released. So is this issue any good? Well, there is a lot of columns present here…
HeartattaCk #49 / .50 / 1:30 / PO Box 848, Goleta, CA 93116 / This is the penultimate issue of HeartattaCk. That’s right, with issue #50, HeartattaCk will be no more. Needless to say, I was pretty depressed when I actually read this issue. There are some good features during this issue; interviews with Iron Lung and I Object, to be sure. The columns even bust out some relevant and…
Heartattack #45 / .50 / 64M / 1:00 / PO Box 848, Goleta, CA 93116 / Heartattack has the best value for the amount of content for practically any zine that I’ve ever laid my hands on, and they have some of the best bands interviewed with each and every issue. #43 has a one-two assault with Bloomington, Indiana’s own Ghost Mice and DC favorites 1905. Everything is laid out…
Health and Safety at Militant Actions / :15 / Free / 16M / [email protected] / http://www.action-medical.net / Health and Safety at Militant Actions is a great introduction to the world of protests and the proper way to maintain one’s safety while at events. While the version I have is old (March of 2001), the information is of a general enough nature to still be valid. What seemed most informative to…
HBKX #2 / $1 / 7.5 by 6 / 32 Pages / Trade / [email protected] This zine simply has a lot of reading. If HBKX was $3 dollars, I would still have to classify it as a hell of a deal just because the fonts in the magazine are so small, the pages so big, and the amount of pages so astonishing that it makes reading this magazine feel like…
Hobson’s Choice #4 / $2 / :35 / 32M / http://www.hobsonschoicezine.com / Hobson’s Choice is a very philosophically-oriented magazine. While it runs for about 32 pages, the effective content of the magazine is much more than that. There are pictures and other breaks from the text, but the vast majority of articles in this issue of Hobson’s Choice are without anything more than white backgrounds with black text placed over…
Hanging Like a Hex #17 ($3.95, 201 Maple Ln., N. Syracuse, NY 13212) First off, this zine is absolutely packed with all sorts of information, whether it be interviews with bloodlet, ted leo, milemaker (isn’t this like the third zine this issue to interview them?), the timeline about the 9-11 events, or the absolutely crazy amount of reviews that Ryan puts in this issue. Looking at the cover of this…
Lazy Boy / $2.00 / 36S / :20 / [email protected] / I reviewed Dorothea #1 a few months back. Luckily Mike, the author of Dorothea, found the review and sent me “Lazy Boyâ€, a zine about Mike’s experience with sex, masturbation, and self-doubt. The original aim of Lazy Boy, as described in the one-sheet stapled to the back cover, was to “be a gay men’s magazineâ€. I personally like the…
Guff #2 / $2.99 / :25 / 28M / [email protected] / The style in which Jeff draws eir comics is interesting, to say the least. For me, I think that it seems that Jeff’s pages are too small for the amount of material that ey put in the issue. Everything is very detailed, and as a result, individuals have to strain their eyes to pick up all the nuances of…
Grrrl: A Novel / $13.95 / 260M / 2:00 / Grrrl has a pull quote from the magazine of the publishing company with which it is affiliated. That is a conflict of interest. However, it is meaningless in regards to an interview. Whiteford, the author, did a zine called Matilda for a few years. This book is the story of Marlie, a 10th-grade student (at the time) that jots journal…
Greenzine #14 / :45 / 64M / http://www.croadcore.org / Greenzine, c/o Cristy C. Road, P.O. Box 42868, Philadelphia PA 19101 /Â This issue of Greenzine is a tremendous read. Couple that with very realistic drawings (also done by Cristy) and this issue of Greenzine is tremendous. The format is of a perzine, but there is politics throughout, most likely an extension of the very political life of Cristy eirself. What…
Greenzine #12 Greenzine #12 – I’ve heard a lot about this zine, but I have never had the chance to read it before this review. This issue recounts Cristy’s trip across the United States and back, recounting the journey in a number of styles and expressions, from ultra-swanky prose to punk-as-hell comics. One, regardless if they have been on road trips or not, will find a common spirit with Cristy…