Fun Time Comix #3 / $? / :10 / 24M / [email protected] /Â Okay, this issue of Fun Time Comix has a few different pieces to it, but these diverse stories (well, at least the first two comics of this issue) have two major things in common: a very-visible cartoonist, and an immediate entrance by the character into a bar. Interestingly enough, after the first two pieces the comic does…
From the Diane Files : Volume One : The Doghaired Infants / Fourth-Sized / 48 Pages / Love Bunni Press, 2622 Princeton Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 As the title may begin to indicate, the people at Love Bunni Press put together an advertisement in Maximum Rock’N’Roll about “Dianeâ€, someone who was “Lonely 18 year old female into violent beauty, chaos as freedom, grotesque dark nite flighting and subjection through…
This is another zine that I was given as a trade for some issues of my magazine at a distro. This zine is very short, only being a total of 4 A5 pages. However, small texts and a definite focus to the magazine really eliminates the problems encountered by zines this short. However, the editor of the magazine, who does not give a name, even says that this issue is…
Free Advice #1 / :15 / Trade / 28M / [email protected] /Â Going on a tour all this summer, Christa is collecting submissions and reading from this zine. With a pretty self-explanatory title, this issue is six questions with an average of ten responses from individuals ranging from 8 to 80, with jobs as diverse as professor and graphic designer. Written verbatim from the interviews that Christa collected throughout the…
I have absolutely no clue where I got this zine, but it is really informative for its small size. Apparently, this zine came from a website of about the same name (www.foulinc.com). Getting the short amount of book-keeping out of the way with the first page, it really gets hot and heavy into the issues that are of the utmost importance to anyone that calls themselves involved in politics. Specifically,…
Filter Mini #13 / Free / :20 / 32S / http://www.filtermini.com / Another month, another issue of Filter Mini. I really wish NeuFutur would look like this. The zine is glossy, with a lot of information stuck throughout even though there is a considerable advertisement presence in this issue. After getting through the minefield of advertisements that start out this issue, individuals will be able to read some interesting piece,s…
This zine was another one in which I picked up from a record store in Columbus, and while this issue makes a little more sense than Stranger, it is by no means a coherent read. Mainly a lot of blurry images and sloppily drawn comics, this zine tries to construct a story, I’m guessing. I would even go as far to say that the editor of this magazine may actually…
The Fool #3 / Half Sized / 16 Pages / Free? / [email protected] A small zine, which still remarkably tells me a lot about the author, The Fool #3 shows someone that is still working everything out in eir’s life. While ey is against uses of gay and retarded to describe things (showing a somewhat enlightened outlook), ey still uses the terms good and bad guy. While individuals may say…
Filter Mini #12 / Free / :20 / 36S / http://www.filtermini.com / Reviewed 10 August 2006 Filter Mini is amazingly enough a miniature version of the larger Filter magazine. I am so happy that Filter has moved away from covering the bands that it publicity arm were focusing their energies on at the time. This issue sees features with a number of British acts that are tearing up the charts…
Voices From The Fictionary / $5 + $1 / 24M / :30 / [email protected] / I received this zine without any provocation (and I like that); David Moscovich is a writer in the “flash fiction†school, which I must admit I’m not too familiar with. “Voices From The Fictionary†is a collection of a number of pieces of prose. These pieces tell a story in an incredibly short period of…
Wonkavision #39 / $3.95 / 84M / 1:15 / http://www.wonkavision.com / It has been a while since we have had a chance to review Wonkavision Magazine. If I recall correctly, the last time we reviewed an issue of Wonkavision, NeuFutur thought the magazine lost its way. However, with #39, I personally feel that Wonkavision has created its strongest issue ever. Individuals that are fans of fiction or other non-music stories…
Filter Mini #7 / Free / 32M / :15 / http://www.filter-mag.com / http://www.filtermini.com / This zine is rendered in beautiful color, and the layout is as professional as one can get, even rivaling Rolling Stone in that department. The pieces are informative, but seem to really focus disproportionately on those bands which Filter’s PR firm deals with (Nada Surf, Silversun Pickups, Sigur Ros). However, the entire zine is not a…
Filter #18 / $4.95 / 1:30 / 116M / http://www.filter-mag.com /Â Filter always has the best layout and indepth content of any of the magazines I have the chance to read. It seems as if the advertisements in this issue are actually less in number than in previous issues, and some of them are ingeniously placed (the car advertisement that is hidden away in the fold-out part of the cover.…
Filter #17 / $4.95 / 116M / 1:30 / http://www.filter-mag.com / Filter has all the visual things going for it. Their graphical designer(s) should be snapped up for ArtForum in a second, mixing vibrant colors with strongly-contrasting text to make the zine a visual orgasm even to those who are illiterate. While there are a few things that are a little suspect (for example, the zine takes a full fourteen…
Fifth Estate Volume 38, #4 / 1:10 / 64M / $3 / PO Bodx 201016, Ferndale, MI 48229 / Where most of the anarchist zines that I’ve read really degenerate into unreadable theory after a few pages, Fifth Esatate is written in such a way that the pieces are actually grounded in real life experience and fact instead of the intangibilities of theory. This issue’s cover section is by far…
Filler #3 / :10 / 16M / PO Box 614, New City, NY 10956 / http://www.fillmeup.net / [email protected] /Â Just like the previous issue of Filler, this issue has a preponderance of poetry, but is unlike many other poetry and poetry-themed zines in the sense that the poetry does not fit in the same genre or literary style. While the vast majority of pieces in this issue of Filler are…
Filler #1 ? Finally, a magazine that really lives up to this title. The “Filler” in the eponymous zine really is of the highest quality, specifically “A Burning Question?” which details a worker from the Lipton Tea Factory?s descent into madness, which was triggered by drinking the enemy, coffee. A piece from the editor, Faith Holland, is chock full of the same sentiment that you would find in something like…
The Female Species #5 / :20 / Free / 28M / 2692 Madison Rd Ste N1, PMB 220, Cincinnati, OH 45209 / http://www.geocities.com/yoshomon / [email protected] / I got this zine over at AMC from presumably the editor, who was incredibly nice and talked to me at great length, more so than when I received issue three from eir off of the livejournal zine_scene community. This time though, even though ey…
The Female Species #3 / Free / Half-Sized / 20 Pages / [email protected] /Â An anarchist zine with the outside look of a perzine, The Female Species is a much longer read than the 20 pages would have individuals think. A lot of pieces in this issue are no longer than one or two pages, but their respective writers are talented enough to make brevity a strength. This issue contains…
Man, does this zine blather on or what? Haha! Its like how Amish Drive-By used to be. There are a lot of these types of these fanzines on the east coast, and I really have no clue why they are so large. Specifically, this zine is racist, sexist, classics, and generally whatever -ist you can come up with. I’m not writing this review to condemn anyone. Specifically, this magazine just…