Ethan's zine has some amazing aesthetics to compliment his amazing stories. The zines are actually packaged inside a corked bottle that you must BREAK to read the zine (as if it was found at sea). Genius. I'm going to give away the title because it?s not in the zine. It is about the two dogs that live at Ethan?s home. One is a chihuahua and the other is a pitbull. They play together and it is super cute. Chihuahua and pitbull is also more than just the neat bottle packaging. Ethan is a great writer (and performer if you get a chance to see him) telling stories from the compass points about going to a boarding school on the gulf coast as a budding punk rocker and hoping for a hurricane to destroy the old establishment, a comic about a trip to Atlantic city, and teenaged girl motivated hitchhiking trip across the country and more!

Ethan is one of my new favorite writers and storytellers. As of last week, this has been my favorite zine. This issue focuses on "An Iowa City Tale" which is about one man's crusade to prevent a road from being built through a park and Ethan's amusement over the whole situation while Ralph Nader's supporters meet all jacked up on caffeine and alcohol only to watch George Bush jr. become President. Ack. The next story is about Ethan getting caught by Skinhead thugs after having an ongoing bathroom grafiti fued with them that culminates in them cornering him in a bar and beating him up only to explain that they are "religious". It's a strange tale and great amusement. The final story is about Fred Ratke, the "grey ghost" of New Orleans who paints over grafiti with a grey stroke of paint. I can't recommend this zine enough. Mucho entertainment value!

Ethan is one of my new favorite writers and storytellers. As of last week, this has been my favorite zine. #3 is about selling fireworks in a town where anything remotely dangerous or exciting is illegal, working at a hot dog cart in Iowa City and dealing with ridiculous customers, and working as a freakshow performer in a funhouse owned by Pantera eating and laying on sharp things. Mucho entertainment value!

Ethan's new book is a really engrossing read. He lives the life of any traveling punk kid you've ever met, hitchhiking, bike delivery, all that good stuff. What makes this stand out is the way he tells his tales. It's got that friend telling you a story quality that i really enjoy in a memoir. It's not over-romanticized, it doesn't have 15 different versions of the same story about scamming a bus, and most of all it's told with humor. Also, it's pretty gutsy to write a memoir when you're 24. Ethan's a talented writer, who's previous work includes the zine Chihuahua and Pitbull, the book Stories Care Forgot, and his co-collaboration on the soon to be released Chainbreaker book!

Ethan (Chihuahua + Pitbull zine) created this little guide on how to true your bike wheels (i.e. straighten and re-align them.) It contains many helpful illustrations and instructions for how to true your own bike wheels instead of having it done by a professional.

An anthology of zines from and about New Orleans. For years the Crescent City's thriving punk and zine community has produced beautifully rendered volumes of writing and artwork. Authors have poured their hearts out, sharing their thoughts and opinions on music, politics, bikes, gentrification, gender, class and, of course, the city itself. Selections from Chainbreaker, Nosedive, Crude Noise, Rocket Queen, Emergency, I Hate This Part of Texas, and Chihuahua and Pitbull. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many of the originals of these zines have been lost or destroyed. This book serves not only as a preservation, but also, by donating author proceeds towards grassroots New Orleans organizations, as a step towards rebuilding that city that inspired and shaped the body of this work.