published on March 4, 2010 under zine reviews. 2 Comments
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 zine downloads. 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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published on February 20, 2010 under zine downloads. No Comments
This is a collection of the zines that were posted online this week. All the credit and thanks goes to the people who scanned and uploaded them, so leave a comment to thank them!
New zines at the Digital Fanzine Preservation Society:
New zines at Punks is hippies:
- BLOWN TO BITS 1,2,3,4,5 – Merseyside 1983/4
- BRAINS THINKING 1,2 – Leicester 1984
- CHEMICAL WARFARE 1 – Leicester 1987
- FIGHT BACK 1 – Blackburn 1984
- FIGHT BACK ZINE – Lowton 1985
- FINAL CURTAIN 6
- HAVE A GOOD LAUGH 7 – Newcastle 1984
- HIT RANKING 16 – Surrey – 83 / 84 ?
- HUDDERSFIELD SUCKS 4 – Huddersfield 1983
- PAID IN FULL – 1,2 – Leamington Spa 1983/4
- PROBLEM CHILD 1,2 – Hayes, 1984/5
- SCROBE 5, plus poem booklet – Cumbria 1984
- SKINHEAD HAVOC 1,2 – Edinburgh 1984
- TESTAMENT OF REALITY 8,9 – Darlington 1983/4
New zines at the The Queer Zine Archive Project:
New zines at the zinelibrary.info:
As we found out from a post at the Digital Fanzine Preservation Society, Richard Johnson has scanned and uploaded all the issues of his fanzine, Disposable Underground. Follow the link to download them.
Did I miss any zines? Let me know.
Happy reading!
*update*
Here’s another one: PUNK ZINE, released two years ago, focused mainly on the punk scene in Columbus, Ohio.
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published on February 6, 2010 under zine reviews. No Comments
Strangely enough this is a punk zine about religion. More surprising it’s not a religion bashing zine, on the contrary actually. Don’t worry, no one will try to proselytize you to follow religion in this zine. It is only the personal accounts of the author, Dave Fried (also known as Dave Taco and Dave Pulps), a Jew for life as he is says, in a big auto-biographical story.
He writes about growing up in a Jewish family. He shares how as a teen punk he stopped practicing religion and how he started again years later. How he’s trying to balance between tradition and his personal believes. He goes shortly into politics (Israel, Palestine, Gaza strip etc) and more into the oppression of women and LGBT people in traditional Judaism (and Christianity and Islam). However as he explains, things have started to change. He writes about Jewish feminists and LGBT activists who are trying to make a difference and how more Jews see their point and support with simple acts such as adding an orange on the Seder Plates.
Although I’m not keen on religion, I thought this was a good read and I got to know a lot about Judaism. Don’t get put off by me saying that this is a religious issue. This is personal writing about religion. It is old fashioned cut and paste and if you want to download a copy and print it or read it on the screen, the Queer Zine Archive Project has it online: download Black Carrot #12.
You can listen to an interview that Dave did with FeastofFun.com and check his band Bromance.
To contact the author and/or order a hard copy:
Dave Fried’s profile in We Make Zines
black carrot
box 830
chicago il 60690 / usa
disdoom@gmail.com
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published on January 30, 2010 under zine reviews. No Comments
Doris is one of the zines that I remember seeing in distros ever since I’ve started looking around for zines. Nevertheless, for some weird reason I never got my hands on an issue before. When I picked up this issue and started reading it, I just couldn’t put it down.
Cindy writes an ongoing encyclopedia and in each issue a few letters are featured. From these letters she rights a mixture of personal stories, politics and punk. In this issue it is R, S and T and you can read the following articles:
- Robin: It is about social change, people changing themselves and the world around them. Is it possible? It is also about having a difference of opinion then a person very close to you.
- Shy: A comic that recounts the story of Cindy’s first dealing with the punk rock scene. A shy girl that wants to be herself in a scene where people are so much different than her. How she managed to fit in and find people like her.
- Social Ecology: An introduction and personal view of the political theory that Murray Bookchin introduced.
- Truth: The way we remember and tell stories. How much truth is in them, and how much is left out to make it easier to remember, tell and understand.
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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. 
