Best Zine Ever #2 / Free / :45 / PO Box 12409, Portland, OR 97212 / This is not an egotistical zinester trying to show the world that eir magazine is the hottest shit to ever be excreted from the arse of society but rather a collection of all the favorite zines that the review crew had of 20034. You may have seen some of these zine reviews in other…
Bleeding Heart #8 ($1, Amanda Shank, 9111 Jordan Rd, Fairplay, MD 21733) A very personal zine, put together in a cut and paste style. The zine is all about Amanda, with the recurring issue of her OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) flavouring every single piece in the magazine. The format, full sized pages, and the layout (cut and paste with cute images inserted), reminds me of Mecaroni and Fleas, but something much…
Big Wheel January 2006 / Free / :30 / 76M / Big Wheel Magazine, PO Box 520, Van Nyus, CA 91401 /Â This is another of the area-specific scene zines, like those that can be found in any major city. However, this zine has a lot more in the way of material than any of the other scene zines, having features on The Briggs, The Briefs, Dead Kennedys, and Three…
The Big Takeover #59 / $5.99 / 3:00 / 228M / http://www.bigtakeover.com / $6 is always a lot of money to drop on an issue of any magazine, and The Big Takeover has the unfortunate task of putting together so much content and trying to have the cost at a point that it will pay for most of their costs without turning too many individuals off from purchasing this issue.…
A Beat Of Our Own #2 / $2 / 40M / Jared, A Beat of Our Own, 123 B Park Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27605 / A Beat Of Our Own is a decent magazine. There are interviews with members of The Avengers, APPLE, Social Unrest, and Thought Crime, among others. This is pretty much the only thing that is in this issue of the magazine. For those individuals that are…
A Beat Of Our Own #1 / $1 / :20 / 32M / [email protected] / This is the introductory issue of A Beat of Our Own, and it is pretty evident. Jared’s opening to the zzine says that ey has done zines in the past, but this issue just does not seem to have much in the way of hooks to catch onto readers. The collage style of this magazine…
I realize that this issue is old, and that Anne has a new issue out, but I felt that I should write another review of this zine to rteplace the one that was eaten when the host that I was placed on went down permanently. This zine is an excellent one, mainly related to body image and other feminist issues, and it just really is interesting to see how someone…
The Bacterial Mad-Scientist / :5 / 8S / PO Box 24894, Detroit, MI 48224 / Throughout my time reviewing zines, I have gotten my fair share of small, poorly-drawn comics. Not to say that all of them are necessarily bad, and The Bacterial Mad Scientist is one of those examples in which the style can be childish, using stick figures and hand-written thought balloons to convey the story, but it…
Away With All Cars / $2 / :30 / 32M / B.M. Jed, London, WC1N 3XX / The first thing that is striking about the cover of “Away With All Cars†is that it has absolutely nothing to do with the content that Mr. Social Control writes about. I suppose one could stretch it into a commentary on the fetishization of automobiles in society, but like I said, it is…
Atrophy Zine #11 : Toystore Handcuffs (PO Box C-11, New Rochelle, NY 10804) One of the few personal zines in the pile to review for this time, Atrophy #11 is Colin’s look back at the earliest days of his love life. Starting off at the tender young age of 14, Colin goes point by point through all of his romances, and all of the journal entries that accompanied those times.…
/ :10 / $.50 / Trade / 24S / http://www.beetfarm.org/tunazine / Grilled Tuna Zines / 1357 West Augusta #1 / Chicago, Illinois / Even though Dave shrinks all of these pieces of notebook paper to an acceptable size to ft in the small format of the zine, the fact is that with just a few illustrations, a great deal of information is conveyed. The style is by no means at…
First off, no. The title is such a misnomer that it’s not funny. The writers of this magazine do not practice what they preach. And lordy, do they ever preach up a storm with this magazine. First off, this seems like your average zine, with an intro piece and a piece about going vegetarian, but bam bam bam, you have pieces about going up to people to convert them to…
This was a zine that was traded for issues of my zine, and now I feel bad, as if my zine is not one, much less a page of this amazing zine. Think of Ideosyncratic Girl, the comic that the audience sees but does not get to read in Mallrats. The inner content of the comic, I imagine, would read a lot like this comic. And, I can honestly say…
Are We on Mars Yet? / :7 / 12S / Trade / Free (All) / Yul Tolbert, P.O. Box 02222, Detroit, MI 48202-9998 / [email protected] / Okay, its Daria and Jane, very weakly reprising their roles from the Daria cartoon. Gone are the extremely witty comments on mundane society, and we see Daria and Jane as absolute shills for Yul’s magnificent ideas, ideas which it seems ey just stole from…
ARC #2 / $4 / :45 / 108M /http://www.artrevcult.com / 4996 Broadway, Suite 4L, New York NY 10034-1669 / When I first picked up this issue, I really wondered where the “Revolution†part of the title was. I noticed a number of music (culture pieces), and some art (the architecture of Rafi Segal), but the political leanings of this zine really missed me until I had a better chance to…
An Ode to No One / (7 by 6?) / 28 Pages / Trade / $1 / [email protected] / http://www.basementfreaksdistro.cjb.net / Ashley Lambert , PO Box 1417, Revelstoke, BC, VOE 2S0, Canada / This is probably about the first true fanzine that I’ve ever read, and I can’t think of many better bands to lavish attention on besides the Smashing Pumpkins. Ashley does this fanzine in an interesting paper size,…
I picked up this zine a long time ago at an infoshop in Lansing, Michigan (this would mean probably March of 2002). I finally read through it now, and the zine is okay, pretty much standard for a submission based magazine. Tons of poetry litter this publication, almost a 60/40 distribution, which makes this zine pretty hard to go through without getting tired with it. What really helps this magazine…
An Australian Bike Dream Zine #1 / Free / Half-Sized / 44 Pages / [email protected] / Whenever I go down to Boxcar Books, I seem to pick up more than my fair share of biking and bike-related ‘zines. Not a bad thing, but an interesting phenomenon nonetheless. As the title may indicate, An Australian Bike Dream Zine is about one individual’s trek to and through a great amount of Australia.…
Anarchism and Violence: Selections From Anarchist Writings, 1896-1925 / :30 / Free / ICC, PO Box 712191, Los Angeles, CA 90071 / I really hate philosophy. However, I like the free reproduction of ideas, and especially from anarchist scholars that I’ve never previously even heard of (except from other zinesters copping Malatesta’s name. To be honest, the writing style of Malatesta is much more accessible than most philosophers, and there…
American Dream: Free Enterprise / :10 / 28M / http://www.prisonerlife.com / Seth M. Ferranti, 18205-083 Box 420 B-left, FCI Fairton NJ 08640 / This is an very interesting way of telling a story. Where one starts off the piece as Seth sets up eir own story, the action jumps back and forth between what had happened in the events leading up to eir arrest and the real life of Seth’s…