Julia Wertz's zine Fart Party is now a book! Every review of this zine says basically the same thing. That the reviewer expected immature potty humor, but was surprised to find funny and intelligent comics inside. Chronicling the relationship between Julia and her boyfriend Oliver, the collected Fart Party is at times, soy milk out your nose funny and always spot on. Julia perfectly captures couples banter, without it ever seeming like an inside joke. Covered are topics such as: snacks, bikes, makin' comics, being grumpy, and moms swearing. Get it-get it-get it!
This booklet is quite frightening and quite interesting, successfully playing off humanity's fascination with war. This contains the history of fascism tracing it from Hitler's third reich and ending in America. As the intro says, fascists believe that a large part of the population is disposable for scientific and social advancement. The parallels from Nazi Germany to current American policies are astounding and upsetting. This is the missing link of information that the corporate media would never tell you.
A collection of thoughts, articles, and reprints about America's fat-phobic, sizism, and pointing us toward fat acceptance. This is a beautiful jumping off point for those interested in the subject - articles from Marilyn Wann about embracing yourself and reclaiming the word fat, personal health, some thoughts about the learning (and unlearning) processes of fat acceptance, numerous surprising facts, historical quotes about fatness, as well as an excerpt from Nomy Lamm's "Big Fat Revolution", as well as information about fat women being more likely to enjoy sex even! A fat liberation manifesto! Statistics of fat women based on their class background! There is a true wealth of information on the subject and Crystal promises there is even more on the way! Let us unlearn out media induced responses to fatness!
Want to learn about how body size has little to do with how much you eat and how society fears and loathes fat people; scaring them into unhealthy attempts to lose weight? This issue profiles a number of fat activists including zinester/map maker Stina (Chubbluv), a memorial to Heather McAllister, Kylie Lannigan's attempts to adopt a child, Krissy's own story of becoming a fat activism (dating back to '87!), an interview with anime-tor Sarah Perry! There are additional articles about the myth drug Alli (it makes you poop your pants and leaves a green oily stain wherever you sit and on your clothes!!), "lessons in fat history" (doctors knowing that diets are 95% ineffective but still prescribing them), and profiles of independent stores that sell cool clothes for fat people. Something anyone involved in activism or anti-discrimination should be reading!
Traveling chef Joshua Ploeg (Plague) of Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live/Mukilteo Fairies/Ravenna's Secret Cafe presents 80 new and delicious, gourmet vegan recipes. Joshua is the epitome of the post-punk ethic manifest into his passion; travelling the country on busses and trains he presents gourmet dinner parties for you and your friends presented out of his backpack, circumventing the corporate route of disseminating his food, recipes, and love.
This collection in particular is primarily spicy recipes and beverages (fire and ice, eh?) - blazing tofu, curried pineapple cream cheese, chicken yassa, garlic linguine, pineapple gazpacho with dates, blackeyed pea salsa, curried banana sandwhiches, spicy basil turnip and tofu, iced tea with mango syrup, numerous alcoholic drink recipes, and much much more! A fun little foray into the world of punk rock's gourmet chef!
I felt better as soon as I opened this first issue of Firewood. Reading about "building your own house, growing your own food, making your own music, art culture, life" I was ready to join the revolution before I even got past the intro. Firewood isn't just about talk though. Sine offers serious real-life help in here. There is a large article on how to build your own cabin. With information on how to physically do it, even all by yourself, there is also help on salvaging materials, obtaining cheap materials and building houses of wood, straw-bale, cob, Tipis and Gers. Also, you can read about growing your own Anarchist Victory Garden and get a little lesson on Land Ownership in Scotland. In general, a really inspiring and helpful zine. Can't wait for number two! (Krissy)
Feeling troubled and distraught with the world? This zine is here to help. Without giving away all of the answers, it certainly helps one's frame of mind to understand that the laws of gravity are still at work, human interactions can be positive, our bodies need to stay hydrated, and not thinking about unpleasant things can really be a good start to a great day. Wayne is here to be our little, simple assistant in feeling great!
Flood! is a powerful graphic novel by the socially and politically conscious illustrator Eric Drooker, frequent cover artist for the New Yorker and contributor to World War III Illustrated. This modern novel is written in the ancient language of pictures, and its expressionist graphics hold a film noir edge. Long out of print and now at its tenth anniversary, Flood! conveys all the joys and sadness that intermingle in our large cities ... and gives us a look at a possible future. This edition features a new introduction by historian and poet Luc Sante, a new cover by Drooker, and a complete redesign.
"[FLOOD!] is a complex, dream-charged vision of alienation in the wet, mean streets of New York City, where primal, natural urges are supressed in the lonely isolation of crowds. It's a picture of a soulless civilization headed toward the apocalypse. It's a poetic and lyrical novel - told virtually without words...
"Since images are usually open to broader interpretation than prose, each drawing in the sequence must work not only as a self-centered composition but also as a kind of heiroglyphic picture-writing. The page acts as a curtain to be raised, each page offering up new visual surprises... Mr. Drooker has discovered the magic of pulling light and life out of an inky sea of darkness." (Art Spiegelman, The New York Times Book Review)
MC #76015: The Urban Hermitt is a hip hop artist who hangs out with nightmarish hippies, punks, queers, and blurs the lines separating them. Watch the Hermitt move to Seattle at the age of 18 and react to the big city through a simultaneous process of self discovery. Watch him come out as queer in the midst of LSD-induced-heterosexist-rainbow-gathering love. He writes about the counterculture, with soul. It's a book about queer studies. It's a book about underground perspectives and culture. It's a funny book. It's just a book about a kid growing up. ISBN 0-9726967-0-9
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This is Ali Haimson's personal zine where she spills the beans about the goings on in her life. This issue is quite a bit heavier than previous ones. It's about deliving pizza and getting the notion to open a radical bookstore (and then doing it), a bad breakup and running into her ex at the worst moments, being a good dog mommy, not being able to talk to her family, a new crush on a girl at the bar next to her work, visiting her sister, smoking, and riding the bus. This is wholly entertaining and honest and left me with a smile on my face, though al ittle worried for Ali.
Carrie McNinch and friends tell great stories about food and cooking in this comic anthology. Classy stuff that's all the rave. Recipes for all sorts of fun things as well as people's obsession with food.
In this issue, Indian buffets, potato burritos, and Shawn Granton's tips for cheap eats on the road.
Leah Ryan presents a brilliant selection of interviews, cartoons, photos and stories for and by service workers. From the diary of a dishwasher to the grind of an exotic dancer, For Here or To Go details the human struggle behind America's transformation into a service economy.
Leah Ryan is the Fiction Editor at Punk Planet Magazine. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Through the Kitchen Window, More Monologues By and For Women and Best of Temp Slave, as well as in several small magazines. Her plays have been performed in theaters across the US. She got her first dishwashing job at the age of 16. Currently, she lives in New York City and teaches creative writing.
Focusing largely on issues of global politics and immigration, "Foulweather" picks up where "Coming to America" zine left off; articles in this issue include "First person colonized", an interview with "Immortal technique", "The battle of algiers", "Confessions of a guilty expat", "National something or other", and "Nike vs. Minor Threat". We learn about perspectives on the imperialism and brutalism of stealing America from the native americans in contrast to modern immigration, attitudes in film towards imperalism and terorrism, living in Wales vs Bahrain vs Portland, OR, and thoughts on patriotism vs being an expatriate. A thoughtful journal on these topics that will undoubtedly lead you to more thoughts on your own.
Davy Rothbart publishes letters, notes, leaflets and other effluvia gathered from the streets of cities and towns across America. While some might see it as trash, every page provides both humorous and poignant glimpses into the life of strangers in an accidental, random, yet beautiful way. Rothbart and his little brother collected most of the found materials for the first issue of the magazine. The three follow up issues are filled with submissions sent in by strangers from all over the country. Rothbart's recent tours across the country have inspired other enthusiastic scavengers, who now scan the sidewalks in search of found treasures to send in to the magazine.
Found five is more of the best of that which is lost and then found. There are lost love-letters, angry notes, and over-simplified escape plans scribbled onto napkins. Most of the found writing revolves this time around a central theme: crime. The editors state the theme is "prison," but it seems more broad. There are also notes about drunk driving, alternatives to drinking, and the major focus of the issue, the epic tale of Elmer L. Jacobson, told in a found collection of letters. The letters' section is also full of mail sent to Found by readers who are in prison. An equally sad and funny issue, and probably my favorite so far. My mom read it the other day and was cracking up across the room. What more endorsement do you need?
Not just another pro-choice zine; this is an introduction to the history of underground abortion and a call to learn our history and to take matters in our own hands. It includes some information on menstrual extraction and a list of resources to learn more. Reproductive choice is not a "right" to be granted or withdrawn. "To know our history is to begin to see how to take up struggle again." Exceptionally well written and researched. If you are looking for more information about these topics, this is it! Timely and relevant!
A gigantic cookbook from Montreal spilling over with exciting recipes for people without a lot of cash to thrown down. Recipes for food, non-food, and even gift ideas! Some articles have also been thrown in to help you through those winter months when you`re cold and broke! Get some tea, light up the fireplace, and start perusing the tasty treats in this informative zine!
The sequel to the original Holiday Harvest Survival Guide! Features drinks, entrees, soups, desserts, and a jumbo section about celebrating Valentine's Day on the cheap! Write poems, make lip gloss, soaps and bubble baths, watch movies, bake cookies, and more, while avoiding commercialized holidays and doing it yourself.
A another gigantic cookbook for people without a lot to spend. Recipes for food, non-food, and even gift ideas! There's spring cleaning tips, cheap entertainment, making earrings and magnets, yard sales, dandelion wine, and raw foods. Tons and tons of money-saving notions that you can use every day!
From China Martens comes a compilation of The Future Generation zine, started in 1990! The zine is by radical moms, for radical mom's, and has writings on issues like sexism, violence, and resistance. There's even an interview with a mom punk band dressed up as KISS! But the thing that really shines through is China's love of being a mom. This book has so much raw energy and heart, it's kind of incredible. Wait, there's also a story about 5 generations swimming at the same beach, a whole lotta love for Baltimore, and a chapter called, "Welfare Mothers Make Better Lovers." Basically, there's not enough space to list all the cool things about this book!
The reader is met with 3 different versions of a cover, each with a different leading question on a teaser-cover: How do you perform?, When did you first decide you were straight?, and Why is this picture sexy?. Galatea's Naked challenges our views and feelings about sex and sexuality. Topics like questions about gender, orientation, one night stands, homophobia, "sex and the body", and laws and policies surrounding sex. This is a very strong and captivating body of work that reads very nicely as a whole putting the reader to the challenge of thinking about their bodies, their roles, and the world differently.
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