This mini zine is a split–Color Wheel #9.11 is on one side of the piece of paper, and Night Train volume I number 4 is on the other side. The zine consists of one piece of paper, folded. Color Wheel is three poems, and I like each of them. My favorite might be John O’Dell’s… Read More »
I got a stack of durable goods when my friend W sent me those 50 or so zines in the mail. This one was my favorite. It’s a micro-zine, just one piece of paper folded up, and it’s a poetry zine. So short, like blink and you miss it. But I like it that way.… Read More »
This is a chapbook of good poems by Jimmy Besseck. The voice is conversational, and the subjects are everyday. The speaker is grim and gritty, sometimes pithy. One poem called “Stating the Obvious” is about a man that’s been shit on by a bird. It’s very literal and compelling. Then at the end it seems… Read More »
This lo-fi art zine by dystatic is small and full of black & white photocopied photographs. They manage to be very creepy. They give me a creeped out feeling. There are ten photos, so it’s a quick read, but I like it.
A friend sent me a package of about 50 zines a couple weeks ago. It was out of the blue, and I was delighted. I tried to read as many of them as I could–I was trying to work my way through because San Francisco Zine Fest was coming up. I knew there would be… Read More »
I was on We Make Zines and read something about Virginia Is a People Name, loved the title, and contacted Virginia Shields to trade. She agreed, and it arrived today. Being active in the zine community, I have come to learn a little about comics. And I’ve definitely come to enjoy them. These particular comics… Read More »
I first came across Map of Fog when I was writing zine reviews for Zine World. It was one of the best zines I had ever read, a non-fiction zine telling tales of San Francisco, focused on people. Mature and professional, with a strong voice, yet DIY and personable, it was all the things I… Read More »
Appealing and good looking, this is Bettie’s new perzine. Before, Bettie made mental health zine Anatomical Heart, which I loved, and I’m sorry to see it go. But Buy Her Candy #1 covers some important ground: being hairy, things she likes to do with her partner, marriage and how she can’t marry her girlfriend where… Read More »
I know there are a lot of zine review blogs on the internet. But I figured, “Why not?” I read a lot of zines, I have things to say about them, and I have a scanner for covers. So send me any zines you’d like to for review. Except for music zines, that is. Poetry?… Read More »