Sentence fragment structure embellished by the same spot-on graphic design and quality we've come to expect from Lew Houston. A good window into Lew's view of the rock and roll lifestyle. There's a lot of drinking and touring involved, but also heartbreak and wandering. He's a romantic. He walks around aimlessly, hangs out in diners, knows people wherever he goes, and explores the neglected parts of town. Lew knows how to throw a few good literary devices into each paragraph and make the most mundane and painful experiences into stories worth telling. The gut wrenching moments of this issue are accidentally decapitating a bird as a small child, running out of beer at his going away party, and discovering that discount herbals can't help you remember forgotten memories. This is some microcosmic shit!
A really great biographical zine about Sarah's time spent working in a Chicago book bindery. From the get-go, she dispels any of our illusions of book-making fantasy, "It's a glorified Kinko's.." and gives us a guided tour of her work and co-workers. It's pretty funny, especially the snippets of dialog, and it's full of remarkably legible photos of the bindery. At times, the humor is at the expense of her co-workers, or revolves around inaccurate stereotypes, but if you like stories about how quirky employees interact, or stories about killing time on the clock, then this zine is for you.
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This zine is wacky...And just what it says it is. It's 50 hand-drawn pictures of 1989's Bowling Stars. This is hard to explain because if you saw it, I don't care who you are, you'd start laughing. Is it ironic? We don't know, but it doesn't matter. It's a knee-slapper regardless. Weird, but funny.
BFF: Brainfag Forever! collects nearly a decade of Nate Beaty's self-published comics. Brainfag is a medical term for "brain fatigue," culled from a turn-of-the-century Grape-Nuts ad. Nate uses comics to explore self-expression, love and love lost, urban existence versus living off the grid, balancing art and coding on the computer, and generally maintaining sanity in a world gone mad. Featuring extensive new material explaining each issue, including the first 25 years of his life in five pages! Climb inside the head of a cartoonist using comics as cheap therapy.
Punks vs. Zombies! Straight-edge kids being devoured left and right! The police, the military, homeland security, and the media are all infiltrated by zombies! Has there ever been a more informative or relevant zine? Not one I've seen! Buy it, so you can learn how to defend yourselves from the zombie hoard!!! Increased body count from the first issue!
An excellent pamphlet from the intoxicated wing of Food Not Bombs. Includes tips on (of course) homebrewing, together with recipies for various alcoholic beverages, the history of beer, together with an explanation of the philosophy, politics and activism behind the noble art. Fundraising for anarchist organizations through brewing and selling your own beer as opposed to corporate swill.
Coming to you from Toronto, Canada, since 1995, Broken Pencil is a magazine devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. A mix of the Utne Reader, an underground Reader’s Digest, and Factsheet5, Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos, and artworks from the underground and reprints favorite articles from the alternative press. Also, ground breaking interviews, original fiction, and commentary on all aspects of the independent arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention.
Liz of Quimby's Queerstore fame writes this perzine about dealing with chronic pain. She recounts her tales of unsympathetic doctors and inconclusive medical tests. She spent a year trying to solve the riddle of her pain and was eventually diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a real and often misunderstood condition. This is the story of an energetic hard-working woman who was forced to come to terms with her limitations until the answer could be found, many allergy tests and sleep studies later. Herbal remedies, acupuncture, and conventional medications for fibromyalgia are discussed as well as the author's unfaltering love of karaoke.
First full length English translation of Mikhail Bakunin's criticism of the capitalist system and its exploitation of society.
Crafty and absurdist in nature, Kerry Ann Lee brings us a zine in the old style of the classics of yesteryear, like Murder Can Be Fun, Thrift Score, or Temp Slave. A smorgasboard of mock-pop culture with things like surfing the Ouija-net, Rorschach Time, weird foods and ads, a dream diary and dictionary, Italio Calvino's fantasy story, an interview with a man who builds horror movie props and makes films, and more. Graphically fun and gripping, this is a bit of entertainment including some fun Halloween themed crafts (the howly bag! and shrunken apple head!). So funny it'll have you pissing your pants!
I'm going to restrain myself from using the "czech it out "pun just long enough to tell you all about this issue of carbusters! This issue focuses a lot on city planning and has lots of Andy Singer comics, plenty about the hard choices and politics of gasoline and driving, Critical Mass in Belarus, The World Naked Bike Ride, Carfree housing in the UK, city planning not based around cars, designing streets for pedestrian and cyclist use, overheard conversations on public transit, Zagreb, Croatia takes a move away from car-culture, studies and reports about driving, advice for people looking to curb car use, and book reviews. Handy for those who want to keep up with the "road less traveled..."
In this issue of Carbusters, the same thorough updates on car culture and bike culture we've come to expect. Carfree places is a new regular feature, this time focusing on Prince's Islands, Turkey. Also a write-up on Time's Up, and an awesome feature article on the places where ecology and religion intersect. Four religions, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism, are briefly introduced and then expounded upon, each by a practicing member of that religion. Pretty interesting and often unexplored territory.
Carbusters is the magazine for anyone who's tired of the dominate car culture! In this issue, check out the winners of a city street redesign contest. They've taken an unused median and fashioned it into a thriving hang out spot. Sure to change the way you think about public space. Plus, how to deal with inconsiderate parking that's not quite an infraction, like being part way in the bike lane, or taking up two spaces with one car. There's plenty of tidbits, from a San Francisco company who plans Bike to Work Days asking it's employees not to bike to work for safety reasons, to the new "green" marketing of car companies. Here's a nice bundle of information that otherwise gets lost in the mainstream news.
Somewhere around ten years ago Damien (of Shutdown/End of a Perfect Day zines) worked at a carwash in Portland. He put together this zine about his time there and it covers all the essentials - asshole customers, stealing change and trinkets out of people's cars, character profiles of management, how to scam a car wash, and, of course, the racist carwash of Seaside, OR. Damien maintains a good sense of humor, distaste for management, and brains to create beneficial schemes throughout this teenage zine.
Heron is an herbalist. In this zine she shares his love of plants through personal stories, drawings, and introductions to some of her favorites. Cat's Claw Herbal also includes easy to understand DIY instructions on how to make your own herbal salves. This zine is great for people who are already into plants or those who are newly interested.
Here’s a hand-illustrated and accesible introduction to the world of bike repair! Through working at both Plan B Bike Project and French Quarter Bicycles in New Orleans, our co-authors have gathered a wealth of experience to share with would-be mechanics. The first half of this book is a complete repair manual to get you started on choosing, fixing, and riding your bike. The second half reprints all four issues of Chainbreaker zine, whose originals were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.
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A 10 Year Menstrual Chart to help you go with the flow, plus a decade's worth of interviews, articles, facts and resources.
Let's face it - sometimes patterns are too big to spot without a little extra help. In this zine, Chella Quint encourages women to chart their cycle for ten years in order to become more in tune with their natural rhythms and quell most period-related worries themselves. Chart Your Cycle challenges readers to empower themselves to take responsibility, take ownership, and take action every month. Chella interviews family and friends about cycle-charting habits and familiarity with reusable menstrual products. Also included are pages of resources for buying reusables or finding out more. The last part of the zine is the ten-year cycle chart, with advice and encouragement to keep the working document going until it's time to make another one.
Fully illustrated with cartoons, sketches and an anatomical centerfold, this zine combines humour, facts, myths and concerns about those months when you're feeling 'out of kilter'. Chella and her partner Sarah recently took this zine on tour from the UK to the northeast US with the Chart Your Cycle Roadshow.
Joshua Ploeg is a touring post-punk vegan chef and these are his harried tales of travelling the greyhound with sex crazed teenagers, shaving cactus with dull knives, being drugged by his hosts, eating at shitty restaurants, cooking for "artists", bad sexual experiences, a fellow bus passenger that stole a gatorade and delayed the whole bus, and much more. Joshua deals with the most unpredictable of circumstances in his touring - navigating new towns, acquiring groceries, unknown kitchen appliances and utensils, and unpromoted shows. Far more wide reaching variables than any other kind of touring apparatus that I can think of.
This zine, brought to you by the makers of Dwelling Portably, details how to choose or create piano/guitar chords for almost any song. It goes on to describe chord combinations, fingerings, lyrics, and some sample songs to learn in an effort to increase your ability. This is a new and expanded 3 zine version of the original with more songs, chords, and ways to test your mettle!
It would require a very smart, dedicated man with a lot of time on his hands to produce a series like this - but J. Gerlach decided to do just that. A series of zines about history the way textbooks never told it; but should have. Unabridged history not edited to be appropriate for the classroom. This issue tackles Christopher Columbus and his "discovery" of America. While there is a lot to tell and the difficulty of a project like this is making sure people don't feel like they are back in a boring classroom, J. does a good job of mixing it up by including increasingly funnier comics from Cindy Crabb along the way that illustrate the story! What were Columbus' true motives? Was he really a lost idiot? How did he treat the people living already in North America? Is it incredibly racist to say that Columbus discovered a land where people already lived? Find out the answers to these and more by reading up on all the things you missed out on the first time around!
Chunk 666 is a bicycle gang from Portland, OR who partake in activities like building choppers and tall bikes, fireworks, and creating theatrics on their bicycles as well as other antics that you'll have to read these pages to go into. Some people call it a cult, some people call it a lifestyle, and some just stand there with their mouth open. This zine is the documentation of that thing it is that they do that no one can really describe in words.
New, updated version with TONS of new information including the trial of 2000 where James Earl Ray was found innocent! Abner wrote this booklet/zine about the involvement of the CIA and FBI in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. It also talks about tons of disregarded evidence, discredited witnesses, and the dismissal of any testimony that disagrees with the official one - that James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King alone. Artwork by Keith Rosson and Sarah Oleksyk. Dosen't it resemble a Jack Chic pamphlet? Photocopyable version available as well at request; Copyleft. You can also download the text. Read an Interview with William Pepper about MLK's assassination.
New updated edition with new information for 2007! This zine explains the history of US chemical biological testing and development, how the HIV virus cannot scientifically be related to AIDS, CIA and military documents requesting the creation of a virus with the clinical description of AIDS, and how AIDS death statistics have been inflated for the last 20 years when the supposed "miracle cure" drugs kill the patients even faster than AIDS. Copyleft. Read it online.
A look at the way the PATRIOT act and post 9/11 security measures infected our civil liberties and infringed upon basic American rights and freedoms. We are proud to present a document that everyone needs to be reading and getting upset about! Abner traded off his zine duting for this issue for the text to be written by Gena Mason and Illustrations by Keith Rosson. Note resemblance to airplane safety manual. Now updated and expanded for 2007 with better printing! (now larger & legible!)
Friday, September 23, 2005 - The FBI fired over 120 bullets into the home of Puerto Rican independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios. Autopsy reports show that he bled to death from a gunshot wound to his shoulder. The FBI considered Ojeda Rios the head of a domestic terrorist group - the militant Puerto Rican independence group "Los Macheteros" and he was their most wanted man until 9/11. But in Puerto Rico he has long been viewed as a hero and now many Puerto Ricans of all political stripes have questioned the FBI's actions, especially because the shooting took place on the anniversary of an 1868 uprising against imposed Spanish rule. Puerto Rico is an illegal occupation of the US and under international law, the actions of the US are terrorism and the Puerto Ricans are freedom fighters.
Amnesty International said that the killing should be considered an extra-judicial execution if the FBI deliberately killed Ojeda Rios or deliberately left him to die, when they could have arrested him. Why didn't we hear about any of this on the nightly news? If agencies of the US government are still carrying out vigilante justice like they did in the 1960s, has anything changed?
Artwork by Keith Rosson.
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