1/2 size – 24 pages. This zine is completely different from most others that I’ve seen since it deals exclusively with mix tapes. All the magazine is is mainly lists and different descriptions of each of the mixtapes, which seems like a pretty bland topic for a zine, but Joolie makes it interesting by adding some amazing personal flares to this zine. This includes hand-scribbling various backgrounds and the like…
Scheming Tekkies #3 / http://www.livejournal.com/users/newforfall/ / [email protected] / This is a more typical style of perzine that I haven’t seen much of in the last few months. Specifically focusing on the love life of Emily, the zine starts off with a very interesting prose rambling about the earliest days of what I can only assume to be Emily’s life, in which ey is given a blanket to counter the desires…
Satan’s Panties #6 / $1 / 24 Pages / Half-Sized / Trade / [email protected] Alli / P.O. Box 761 / Mountain View, CA This zine has some of the most hard to read and light font’s that I have ever seen. That doesn’t stop it from being a very humourous and well-written magazine that forced me through its twenty-four pages just as a cashier forces customers through a line. #6…
R.O.N. #5 / :15 / 28M / [email protected] / What I first was freaked out about this zine is that the editor, who is never named, connected to me directly when ey mentioned 8 Bark, one of the first punk bands that I picked up. To this day, I still don’t think I’ve ever listened to that disc, but nonetheless, it was a weird opening to this zine. It is…
This zine’s review will also be a very short one, as I have already did a review for this zine that was eaten by the move back to the first server and also because of the fact that is a completely music-related magazine. This zine reads like Rhythm and Booze but with less of a scene-specific styling, focusing on more of the English music scene, pretty much constantly bashing the…
Rocks and Blows #2 / $1 / :20 / 36M / [email protected] /Â Some of my best friends are drug addicts, but they never have gotten as deep into their lives and their addictions as David does in this issue of Rocks and Blows. Before getting into a rehab program using Methadone, David was a heroin addict. This issue shows the feelings of withdrawal and exactly how far an individual…
Rock Candy #3 / $2 / :10 / 20M / [email protected] / Just looking at the cover of this ‘zine, I was expecting an incredibly boring section based on some of the most overrated bands of the current era (Beck and The Flaming Lips). Instead, this issue of Rock Candy is a comic that follows on the Scooby Doo style of mystery solving. Aside from the format, the style of…
Robot Vomit Comics / $? / :30 / 28M / http://www.ocpnetwork.com / http://www.myspace.com/duckycluckbuckeson / I was able to pick up a copy of this over at the ECC in Kent, Ohio, and after the review is done, I’ll make sure that someone else (or hopefully, a number of someone elses) will be able to read it. This issue tells the story about a fairy, and while the panels are compressed…
Road Trip: Wheel in the Sky / Half-Sized / 12 Pages / http://www.archetypalimages.com /Â This is one of the many comic zines that I have picked up in my journeys that are just little gateways that have been given out for new readers to be hooked into buying subsequent issues of the zine. However, I have yet to see a comic snippet that has made me purchase a comic zine…
Riverwurst Comics #3 / :15 / $3 / Full-Sized / 40 Pages / [email protected] / PO Box 511553, Milwaukee, WI 53203 / A collection of comics, there are a broad range of styles and stories in this issue, which limits each writer to a page or two in the comic. Some of the pieces don’t really make much in the way of sense, which I am assuming to be due…
Ride On #7 / $2 / 64 Pages / Half-Sized / [email protected] / 2112 Rose Ave, Richmond VA 23222 / A personal zine that actually has some ties to the outside world, Ride On discusses three main points in Jim’s life, whether it be in high school, Mexico, or Richmond. Jim goes into detail about eir’s surroundings, being informative as well as emotive. Covering topics as wide as the history…
Rick Of Ages #1 / 12 Pages / Free / Rick, 2158 Jacocks Ln., Fort Worth TX 76115 / Released March 2003 / Well, in my short time reviewing comics, I’ve gotten a lot of shit and a very few decent comics. Even though Rick would like you to think that this is the worst comic you’ve ever read, I really have to say that this comic isn’t half-bad. Imagine…
Keep in mind during this interview that this is a fanzine, and being a fanzine, it has to have a specific topic. This fanzine’s topic is about the local music scene in Worchester, England, as saying that, it does have some interesting interviews and reviews of a bunch of bands that I’ve never heard of. If one was to live around the area, I would highly suggest getting this zine…
Revolution (with a catch phrase): Collected Edition / $2 / :20 / [email protected] / I missed out on Revolution (with a catch phrase) when the first issues came out. This collected edition is essential for anyone who wishes to get an idea of what the comic zine had to offer. RWACP has a fairly simplistic style which has interactions with reality (much like the pasting of celebrities’ heads on stock…
Revolutionthrash #1 / :25 / $1 or trade / 36 Pages / [email protected] / Revolution Thrash, 100 Beach Street Room A-716, Boston MA 02116 /Â The first zine done by Ryan is actually a hit. Crammed full of information, Revolutionthrash is still clean, clear, and concise. Not really comfortable fitting into any one genre of music or zine, Ryan goes a little interview heavy for this issue. Instead of having…
Signal / $1 / Anne Flor – Stagnato / 24 Pages / Fourth-Sized / [email protected] Signal is a mini-zine about the very difficult period that Anne has had in her life, and how ey tries to deal with everything. For being such a small zine, Anne has really filled each page with a ton of emotion and a blind sort of energy, searching around for something that ey cannot find.…
Recluse Zine #7 – Issue by issue, this zine has gotten better and better. The pieces all mesh together with the proper mix of personality and politics. Highlights of this issue include the detailing of the 2002 incarnation of the Underground Publishing Conference, as well as enlightening the masses about the atrocities committed in the name of entertainment at the circus. Jill and Chris are even talent enough to do…
Rebel In Magenta #14 / Half Sized / 24 Pages / Trade/ $1 / [email protected] / http://www.gurlpages.com/poppie-love / Melanie, 6270 St Rt 113 , Bellevue, OH 44811 This zine is almost completely laid out with computer-based programs (Word, etc), and it walks the thin line between cleanliness and needless sterility. Melanie goes and puts the text all out and does not allow for the variable handwritten text. This issue of…
Read #23 / $3 / Full-Sized / 100 Pages / POB 3437, Astoria, NY 11103 / [email protected] / http://www.readmag.com / Another great issue. That is all I should say about it. With high points coming with two of the members of Reno 911 as well as an off-kilter interview with Lagwagon (ending with “Why did you interview me? Do you even like any of my bands.â€), Read continues the high…
Read #22 ($4, READ, PO Box 3437, Astoria, NY 11103) While I have been a huge fan of the other READ issues I’ve received, I would have to say that #22, subtitled “The Work Issueâ€, is probably about my favourite of the entire run. Incorporating pretty much any work-related material from prior issues of READ and the archives at www.readmag.com, “The Work Issue†reads like a sitcom, with typically funny,…