First off, this zine tries to look like something that is way beyond its means. This is accomplished by trying to use the same formulas (picture on front with text detailing the pieces in the zine on the cover), but ending up with a really pixelated front cover. After the cover, the zine immediately goes into text on blank paper, broken up with more pixelated pictures. Getting to the content,…
This magazine is a skinhead/rac publication that has a lot of space, with a large font to comfortably read the text unlike in my mag. Interviews with H8machine, Bully Boys, Agressive Force and Hang em High Records provide a good base for the magazine, which is further fleshed out with a Editorial, 2 show reviews, a fiction story, and cool music reviews. Another interesting thing the Y&P does that I…
Christoph is the editor of the very successful and (always) fun Twenty-Eight Pages Lovingly Bound With Twine. This is a marked departure from this zine, for a structural and stylistic reason. First off, the orientation of the zine is different (the pages are landscape) and are bound with staples, while the style is that of a comic, instead of the text-heavy precursor zine. “An Unfortunate Mouse†is just a sampling…
Even with plain layout, this magazine never fails to amuse. The editor of the magazine is one hell of a artist, as evidenced by the numerous little pieces throughout these pages. Right now, this magazine is the only good thing to happen to me in the Newsgroup alt.zines. The guys seems pretty cool, as his magazine is a veritable smorgasbord of his interests, including Dungeons and Dragons, Dumpster Diving and…
Under the Volcano was always a zine I wanted to buy, as I had heard that it had an extremely long period of publication, and that it was always in the Vital Music Mailorder catalog, as one of about 10 zines that you could buy. Where Lollipop magazine was practically all reviews, Under the Volcano is practically all interviews. This issue, which only has 52 pages, has 5 interviews (Sleater-Kinney,…
This issue of Underground Screams is completely focused on poetry. I suspect that this is not because US is a poetry ‘zine, but rather this is all that Eli received by the deadline for the issue. I typically don’t like poetry zines because they lack a certain depth, usually evidenced by the lack of any context for the words within – rather, most the time they are words on a…
It only took two issues, but Ugly Planet has actually created issue that is from start to finish a tour de force. This time, there is no pretense about what is being covered; this is all politics, all the time. Pieces feature Lydia Lunch, Jello Biafra, and Le Tigre while also featuring (as of now) up and comers like Zion-I, Miscellaneous Flux and Cordero. There is little derivation from the…
Ugly Planet has improved their lot considerably for their Sophomore issue. Whether it is through having extended interviews with Noam Chomsky and Fly (the artist behind the Zero Content comics that find themselves in Slug & Lettuce) or longish reviews that fully cover the album in question, the simple fact is that Ugly Planet has not sat on their laurels. Another of Ugly Planet’s strong suits is that they do…
Interview, interview, interview, and reviews. That’s what Ugly Planet focuses all of its content around, and really tends to keep the interest level up throughout this, their first issue. Ugly Planet, even with the glossy cover and cut-up art of old pulp magazines, is strictly a non-nonsense, politically-themed ‘zine. This issue, they’ve got some pretty large acts to talk with them, including S.T.U.N., Ricanstruction, Ministry, and Anti-Flag. I must admit,…
This comic, which I believe I got from a SPA chat (for info go to http://www.obscurityunlimited.com), is interesting, to say the least. While I am not the best reviewer in comics (my sister does that job), I feel that I can cover this issue. The style of this comic, which I can only call a mixture of JohnK, Crumb, and new-school Mad Magazine, really is more caricaturistic than anything, fits…
Christoph has never been one to sit on eir’s laurels. Every time I see ey, ey has two or three new issues of 28PLBwT. While this issue is not dealing with one major issue, like in previous issues (for example, going to a Buddhist retreat), Christoph’s writing is still top notch and hard-hitting. This time, we are treated to interesting prose poetry, one of which (Converted) is a shaped poem…
After not hearing anything about 28PLBWT for quite a few months, I got a package in the mail from Christoph, which included this issue of the zine. Overall, I would have to say that #8 really even tops #7, in the quality and interest level of the pieces that were in this issue. One thing that really shocks me though it’s the excellent handwriting of Christoph – the entire table…
I don’t know whether or not this review should be silly, since Christoph didn’t really even review me in Xeroxgraphy Debt, but this issue is just too good to screw around on. Beginning with the screenprinted cover of a person in the lotus position, issue 7 details in excruciatingly good narrative about the retreat that Christoph goes on. It is absolutely crazy about what is noteworthy in Christoph’s life, making…
– After a long absence from the rolls of the zine reviews, I finally have an update with a zine done by Joolie, of former Scorpi-Oh fame. The zine is very small, meaning that it is automatically cute, and it contains snippets from a number of different songs. Most of the bands are the usual suspects that you would assume would be heavily played by the typical zinester : Sleater-Kinner,…
The cover on this fiction anthology zine is odd – there is what is presumably a large tick diving into a trunk, whihch really makes sense when one considers the odd fare that one can find in this issue. Trunk Stories begins with a re-telling of the Medea myth by Kirsten Kaschock (Any Oher Name). The story re-tells the Medea myth but is slightly heavy-handing in the nomenclature – the…
Another comic zine, this time chock-full of information where a mixed zine like Incredulous was not. The comic is personal, but really tends to go off on weird observations and tangents, similar to Al Burian’s work in that aspect. The style of the art is a mixture of Mike Judge’s, Brendan Small’s [Home Movies] and Futurama, which needless to say, reining in the art of caricature to the degree where…
Wow. This is by far the most informative zine I’ve ever read about tampons, and it is a eighth sized, 16 page read. So it is very short. The writers of this zine make sure to put the pros and cons associated with tampons, pads, and the natural and organic alternatives. This zine is incredibly short, but it contains such a wealth of information. While it does contain a lot…
It’s been an exciting few months for Brooklyn-via-Boulder three-piece Chairlift. With their full-length debut, Does You Inspire You, on the horizon via Kanine Records, the band’s song “Bruises” is now featured in the new iPod Nano commercial, airing worldwide Sept. 14! It can be viewed here: http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/gallery/ads/large.html
This zine, from New Zealand, is about the best resource for making a zine in the smallest amount of pages that I have ever seen. Sure, some other zines have more content and ideas on how to make magazines, but for the cost (free) and the page count (16 eighth pages) the value is just immeasurable. In fact, one entire side is devoted to lists, including a listing of the…
Kelly’s previous zine, Do As I Say, Not As I Do, was one of the most memorable zines that I had the pleasure to read. This time, Kelly moves away from the personal and creates a resource for all transgendered individuals and people that are interested in the subject. Even though it was taken largely from the Gender Terminology List of T. Aaron Hands, the opening subject defining different terms…