Clamor #31 / $4.50 / 1:00 / 80M / http://www.clamormagazine.org / Clamor is a zine that tries to model itself after the higher-print run zines like The Progressive. They succeed with this, and with a fairly light entry into this issue (the first actual article comes a full seven pages into the zine) individuals might wonder where’s the beef (or soy/tofu as the case may be). This feeling will soon…
Clamor #23 / $4.50 / Full-Sized / 68 Pages / PO Box 20128, Toledo, OH 43610 / http://www.clamormagazine.org / My first experience with Clamor was really a mixed bag. While all of the pictures and layout look decent, with the layout seeming a little sterile but workable, some of the pieces collected in this issue really seem diffuse or lacking in any sense of cohesion. Take, for example, the interview…
While this is another zine that has had issues made after the first, I feel as if I still need to go and do a review of it because it just is so fabulous . This is the second time that I’ve reviewed this magazine, as this was yet another magazine about who I lost the review to. We see everything through Kannan’s view, including issues about weight and about…
The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #2 / $1 / 5 x 5 / 32 Pages / http://www.microcosmpublishing.com / PO Box 14332, Portland OR 97293 /Â This time around, we have the history of the AIDS virus completely broken open in a way that is both informative and well-documented. Using sources like the storied C.I. Aids and What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong, this issue…
Christian * New Age Quarterly: Volume 16, Number 2 / $3.50 / :30 / 20M / [email protected] / http://www.christiannewage.com / Wow, the premise of this zine is very positive – Christian and New Age individuals getting together to positively enact change and have dialogue. However, when one actually gets into the zine proper, pieces like Catherine Groves’ “A Tale of Two Lenses†rapidly lose readers as the focus changes from…
Choking Hazard #12 ($1 , No Address – [email protected]) (For Jersey Beat) A line that finally strikes on almost all cylinders. From the front cover, which has an extraordinarily-well reproduced picture of a hair guy with Slayer on his chest, to the top 24 CDs that are essential to live by (which has lists by six or seven people, Choking Hazard is a fun zine to read. But, before I…
ChinMusic! #7 / $4 / 1:15 / 60M / ChinMusic! Magazine, PO Box 225029, San Francisco, CA 94122 / http://www.chinmusic.net /Â Coming out of the last issue, perhaps I was hoping for too much out of ChiMusic. This go, a number of topics are driven into the ground, with both Dock Ellis (the pitcher that threw a no hitter while tripping) and the Minutemen (you know, the important band off…
ChicMusique #8 – ½ size – 40 Pages – First, I just have to say that this is the 2nd issue I’ve received from Persygrrl, but this is the first one I’ve got around to reviewing. This is the best resource for music that is created by females, a genre in itself that is ignored by and large by the music industry. This is due to the fact that they…
Chinmusic #6 / $4 / Full Size / 52 Pages / http://www.chinmusic.net / PO Box 225029, San Francisco, CA 94122 / Reviewed 22 February 2004 Baseball baseball baseball punk talking about baseball. That is what Chinmusic is (obviously) about, and it really is a challenge for someone to fill up over fifty full-sized pages of material that pretty much stays on topic. Chinmusic’s editors go a little far in this…
Dildo #2 / $2 or trade / :20 / 24M / [email protected] / PO Box 4803, Baltimore, MD 21211 / Dildo is one of the first new zines I’ve received to review in a while. I had never heard of it, but I’m glad I received it. Nadja’s style is something that is descriptive and poetic without being too condescending or unapproachable. There are a number of different foci in…
Cashiers du Cinemart #14 / 1:30 / $5.00 / 92L / PO Box 2401, Riverview MI 48192 / http://www.cahsiersducinemart.com / I’ve heard of CdC for quite a few years, and I was quite enjoyed when I got a copy of this issue to review. Obviously, the topic fueling this magazine is cinema, and a large section of this focus involves reviewing or otherwise enlightening the general public above movies that…
Dig This Real #9 / $3.50 / :20 / 44M / http://www.digthisreal.com / 244 Fifth Ave, Suite 29037, New York, NY 10001-7604 / Dig This Real is a zine that has a lot of things going for it. The reviews are actually given enough space to give a reader the sense of the spirit surrounding a particular item. Edie is completely smart when it comes to the pictures regarding these…
Carnel #20 / $5 / Half-Sized / 40 Pages / R. Rees, TFF, 22 Victoria Square, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4ES, England / [email protected] / http://carnel.sdf-eu.org/carnel/index.html / No clue where I got this zine at, but the cover comes as a transparency, with the cover sprayed over with red paint. This issue focuses pretty heavily on role-playing, Kosovo, and the British reaction to the war in Afghanistan. I guess I had…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do #1 / 1/4th Size / 24 Pages / Kelly, 3017 11th St, NW , Washington DC 20001 / [email protected] Another of the quality zines being put out by one of zinedom’s first couple : Kelly and Jamez. This time, Kelly picks up the pen and goes at it for her first go at making a zine. The only think I have to…
Carbon 14 #26 / $6 / 1:15 / 124M / http://www.c14.com / [email protected] /Â Carbon 14 is always such a strong zine because its focus is not on the bands that are being relentlessly promoted by PR firms, or topics that have become famous in the internet community (Homestar Runner, Emo Game, etc). Rather, Carbon 14 has a certain dirty luster to it that allows the zine to talk about…
Carbon 14 #25 / $6 / 1:20 / 124M / PO Box 29247, Phila., PA 925 / http://www.c4.com / Carbon 14 is probably the only magazine on the face of this earth that I would willingly pay $6 for, and this issue is no different. In fact, this may be their strongest outing yet, in which The Fleshtones are interviewed, two pages are given to one of Mexico’s longest-running movie…
D.I.Y. Comix One-Shot D.I.Y. Comix One-Shot / Free / Fourth-Sized / 20 Pages / [email protected] / This is the little cousin to Stolen Sharpie Revolution, but still has as much information in it as does its older sibling. The best thing about this mini-zine is the fact that it is free, and has a dummy-proof set of instructions on how to do various small projects in the process of creating…
Carbon 14 #23($6, PO Box 29247, Phila. PA 19125) 120 pages that will have you at the magazine for at least six hours. Carbon 14 straddles the line between film and music coverage, with reviews of both film (Adult, Independent, and larger market movies) and music (Mainly much older bands – the editors of this magazine are husband/wife, and are considerably older than many of their readers). The pieces in…
This magazine was yet another one that I lost the review for during the moving of the website back to its original server. I have had actually two chances to read this magazine, so I feel myself a little bit better versed to write this review than I might have been if I had simply started reviewing during the firs read of it. Jazz does her zine like the style…
The Calvin and Hobbes Guide to Daily Life / :15 / 20M / [email protected] / Crimethinc, 2695 Rangewood Dr, Atlanta, GA 30345 / This guide is more of a perversion of Calvin and Hobbes to ultra-left propaganda or a paper for college than a normal zine. In fact, this zine is rife with the same type of knee-jerk leftism that really gives the movement a black eye. I understand if…