66 Thousands Miles Per Hour #0 / :14 / 36M / $5.50 / PO Box 974, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 / http://www.66thousandmilesperhour.com /Â Very professionally done comic, almost at the level of production say of Gloomcookie or some of the Marvel titles. The style is bordering on cartoon rather than the graphic comic style of say The Dark Knight Returns or Sandman. Looking at times like something that would come…
Sister Friend #4 / Half-Sized / 16 Pages / JJ + Leslie, PO Box 4539, Fairview Hgts, IL 62208 / http://sisterfriend3.tripod.com / Picked up this zine from Loop Distro at AMC 2003, from the owner who was then in a Bunny Suit. Fun times. And Sister Friend fits in perfectly with the bunny suit – this zine is slightly off-beat, weird, and incredibly enjoyable to read. While I know in…
Silence is Death #2 / Half Sized / 16 Pages / Trade / $1 / [email protected] Amanda, 762 Snediker Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207 Amanda is another friend who was nice enough to send me both issues of ey’s zine, and this issue is unnaturally long for the content that is contained within. This issue can be unofficially dubbed the insanity issue, as for some reason many of the pieces within…
Silence is Death #1 / Half-Sized / 16 Pages / Amanda Hernandez, 762 Snediker Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207 / [email protected] / I know that this zine is already incredibly old, but I feel that I should review it more as a beginning and as a good focus point for all of Amanda’s zines that have since followed. Starting out with a fitting poem by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Amanda moves onto a…
Sideshow #2 / $1 / :10 / 32S / http://www.drunkingham.com / 5460 Entrance Dr, Soquel, CA 95073 /Â Sideshow is a zine that does not worry about the conventions f PC culture, and this freedom really opens up the things that editor Steve can conceivably write about in eir zine. Memorable pieces include a cut-out from a random newspaper that extols the virtues of the 32 oz Miller High Life,…
Alas, this is the last issue of this fabulous all-submission magazine, although the editor of the magazine is currently in the creation process of another zine. I will try not to be biased in my review of this issue, as it is one that contained my DIY pieces “Guerrila Copy Editing”. But, I would have to say that the best piece in this issue would be “Daredevil joe” by Erica,…
Even though I received not one, but two copies of this magazine months before I received #31, here I am still doing the reviews in a reversed order. For those who do not know what [sic] was, it was this excellent little zine that collected all sorts of writings, poetry, interviews, reviews, pictures, art, anything, and put it together. So, you get this mishmash of different styles and topics, and…
After the stellar “Beer Issue†the last time out, it seems like this issue of Slug has some big shoes to fill. The eclectic nature of this issue creates a nice contrast to what was a very coherent outing last time. Of particular note during this issue has to be their coverage of different music genres. Drone/doom/whatever rock is covered with Gavin Hoffman’s interview of Japanese act Boris, while the…
Shuttle Bus Vol. 2, #1 / $1 / 16L / Hoendous Failure Studios, PO Box 7504, Ann Arbor MI 48107 / I’ve heard about the first run of this zine in the past, but was never able to go and really locate for myself a copy. Now, Dustin has started the zine back up, and well, I’m not sure exactly why this zine was so lauded. I’m not necessarily saying…
Shredding Paper #15 ($3.95, PO Box 2271, San Rafael, CA 94912) This zine is another zine that is really on the edge of being considered a full-blown magazine. However, Shredding Paper does not have enough in the way of content to truly be considered a magazine, as only about 22 pages of the 116 total are non-reviews. The pieces that are not reviews in this issue are actually fairly well-written,…
Short, Fast + Loud #14 / $1.50? / 72M / [email protected] / Short, Fast + Loud is the best magazine that covers punk, thrash, grind, metal, and crust music since HeartattaCk shut its doors a few months ago. However, when the two magazines were going head to head, I don’t think the quality between the two ‘zines varied much, if at all. The zine moves back and forth through very…
Shortandqueer #3 / :20 / 20M / [email protected] / This is a novel premise for a ‘zine, with Kelly showing the best things that happened during 101 of eir days. Where the zine itself is not the most interesting of layouts (pretty much just a normal font with pictures interspersed in random intervals, the material inside provides all the interest that one needs. In fact, the different days really begin…
Sheer Immanence: Ethical Affirmation and the Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt / :10 / 16M / [email protected] / In our second piece dealing with animation as the purveyor of philosophy, Gregg Jashnani’s piece about “Mystery of the Human Thunderboltâ€, a piece from the Secret Origins #2 Annual is very deep, almost unreadable to the layperson of philosophy. The piece (which does not have a good explanation given to it by…
It has been a while since we have had the chance to review an issue of Slug Mag. This time out, the entire issue is about beer. As individuals may know, Slug is the magazine that deals with anything having to do with Salt Lake City, Utah and the surrounding areas. Saying that, I thought that the beer in Utah was limited to the 3.2% cap. The number of pieces…
Sex, Death, and Ronald McDonald Volume 3, Issue 22 (Fall 2002) / $1 / Full-Sized / 12 Pages / Vermicious Knid, Lupine Ladies Press, PO Box 543 / Accokeek, MD 20607 Yet another issue of SDRM by my buddy, Vermicious Knid! This issue, the focus has completely shifted from the number of other SDRM issues that I have read, to what VK called flash fiction – what I assume is…
Sex, Death & Ronald MacDonald – Vol 3., Issue 21. This magazine, from the impressive sounding volume and issue numbers, seems to have been around for a long period of time. This is a poetry review for those who are into things as DIY as they could possibly be. This is another zine that is put out by the extremely cool Vermicious Knid/ Jamez who is also the editor of…
Seeking Some Connection / :15 / 24 Pages / Fourth-Sized / 2 Stamps / 111 Archer Pl, Denver, CO 80223 / [email protected] / Vermicious Knid is back with this zine, a longer version of what would be found in eir’s other ‘zine, Sex, Death, and Ronald McDonald. This time, Seeking Some Connection is the story of Jonah, and the connections that ey has with a cultist dad, a string of…
This magazine is just too short to do a proper reviewing of. However, I will try my best to properly review it. First off, it has as a cover one of the cutest little girls that I’ve ever seen. There can be said to be about 3 articles in this magazine. These articles are an interview, a story about the death of Dee Dee Ramone, and some tips for a…
Sebrakakku! #1 / :10 / 16 S / Free or Trade / [email protected] / http://www.beetfarm.org/tunazine / Starting the inaugural issue of Sebrakakku with an editor’s note about how ey doesn’t subscribe to the “this will suck†mantra, but about the fear that ey might not cover everything that ey wants to cover. Touching upon the self-esteem issue is incredibly important, because practically all the zinesters that I know are crippled…
Scorpi-Oh #4/28 Pages. Another fabulous zine by the equally fabulous Joolie. This time, the theme (if you can call it that) of the zine is the Ladyfest, an event about which I was totally unaware. Well, at least I can say I know a little bit about what it entails, even if I cannot ever go to it. There are lyrics about in this magazine, and by far the best…