published on March 17, 2010 under zine reviews. No Comments
This is the second issue of the mini-comic. As you might remember from the review of the first issue, it is written from within the prison by a young guy who’s serving a 6 year sentence.
This issue deals with the authors relationship with his cell mates and the other prisoners. How they pass the time and how they have a small “party” and get drunk with diy-wine. It also mentions how hard it is for foreign prisoners who don’t speak the language and how difficult it is to get out of prison and not return. In the end of the comic, the author describes how he applied and got a job in the prison to fight boredom and to lessen his sentence. His adventures as a cook in prison will be topic of the next issue.
Again, there is no printed version and no contact info. You can download this issue from the link below.
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published on March 14, 2010 under news. 1 Comment
It’s Sunday already, so time for this week’s zine roundup. For those of you that haven’t seen any of these posts before, every Sunday I make a list of zines (new or old) that where uploaded during the week and put the links on a single post. This way you can easily find new zines to download and print/read. So keep coming back every Sunday for the new list of zines.
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So let’s cut to the chase, the week’s zines to download:
From essential ephemera:
From the Digital Fanzine Preservation Society:
New zines at the The Queer Zine Archive Project:
Various zines I’ve found around the web:
Finally, from the zinelibrary.info:
Did I miss any? Let me know. Did you upload or planning to upload a zine? Let me know. Do you know someone who uploads zines? Let me know…
Come back next week for more! Happy reading!
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published on March 7, 2010 under news. 2 Comments
Ok boys and gals, here’s a new list of zines to download for the past week. This week two new zine-download blogs were started: essential ephemera and You’re a Disease (70s Punk Fanzines blog) and I’m really excited about it.
Let’s start with the new ones…
From essential ephemera:
From You’re a Disease (70s Punk Fanzines blog):
From the Digital Fanzine Preservation Society:
From Punks is hippies:
I also found:
Once again, shitloads of zines, pamphlets, political publications at the zinelibrary.info:
Finally from this site words and stuff:
Did I miss any? Let me know. Did you upload or planning to upload a zine? Let me know. Do you know someone who uploads zines? Let me know…
Happy reading!
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published on March 4, 2010 under zine reviews. 1 Comment
I don’t usually review zines that I don’t have a physical copy on my hands because without the physical copy it is hard to get a better understanding of the zine and its author. However I’ll do an exception for this particular one since the creator doesn’t have the luxury to go xerox and mail it. As you might have already figured out from the title of the zine, the author is in prison, serving a 6 year sentence. So the only distribution it gets is in the digital form, online.
This is an autobiographic mini-comic. The writer recounts his first days in prison, starting from the judge ruling against him. He presents the absolute absurdness of the life in prison. He describes his days, how he bears with the guards and their snitches, the fear of solitary and how boredom turns into depression.
Despite the horrible conditions that this comic was written under, the author manages to maintain a sense of humor and an optimistic attitude, which I can only imagine how important it must be when you are locked up.
Unfortunately there is no contact info to provide. You can download it from the link below.
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published on February 27, 2010 under news. No Comments
The weekend is here again, time to roundup all (?) the zines that were uploaded in various websites this week. Download, print or read on screen and when you’re done, send your thoughts to the creator(s). So here we go…
New zines from Punks is hippies:
New zine from the Digital Fanzine Preservation Society:
Here’s a bunch more from various sources:
As usual, there are tons of new zines, pamphlets, political publications at the zinelibrary.info:
Not a zine but here’s the Microcosm Publishing’s 2010 Catalog in PDF.
Did I miss any? Let me know.
Happy reading everybody!
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This is the second issue of the mini-comic. As you might remember from the review of the first issue, it is written from within the prison by a young guy who’s serving a 6 year sentence. 
