No More Coffee #2 (revised)
32 pages, digest
$2 / trades / free to prisoners
Definitely above average for self-published fiction. There is nothing profound in these four vignettes, but the writing is refreshing; believability and consistency of voice, tone, point of view, etc; very little to nit-pick over; somewhat moody, mildly compelling. More please.
Jack Cheiky / quazipseudo
Invincible Summer Anthology Vol 2
192 pages, half legal, paperback
$12.00 from Microcosm
Autobiographical comics by a Portland vegan feminist punk lesbian illustrator / educator. Its okay, but I’m not interested enough to read the whole thing. I’m giving it to my grand-niece to read. Dogs, cats, animal rights, beer, music, drama, etc.
Jack Cheiky / quazipseudo
Here’s what others had to say about it:
Xerography Dept - "Nicole does it again… diary comics filled with the love of animals, band antics, dating, everyday occurrences, minor traumas and some of my favorite drawings ever. It’s not all straight diary comics… Nicole throws in “Advice for Fat Girls who Thrift Shop’, an ‘Ask Nicole’ sassy advice column, a recipe for pumpkin cheesecake, a description of ‘The Points Game’ and more fun than you can shake a stick at. By the end of this pretty pink-covered book you will be bowing down to the gal with the finest beehive hairdo around."
Lipstikindie.com - As with Volume I, these are books to be cherished by women of all ages. Both speak volumes about how using our voice, whether it be verbal, written or artistic, can make a difference. nicole has a continuous solid message reminding us to be kind to animals and to do what we can to stop unnecessary abuse.
Read Yourself Raw - For years, Nicole J Georges has recorded her thoughts and adventures in illustrated journal entries and published them in her zine Invincible Summer. Now, #9-14 of this publication are collected in one book.
Feminist Review - Georges is as self-aware as she is talented... The best anecdotes in this collection are the ones linked to the smallest of moments: a night spent with a friend, a recipe, an image, and short illustrated synopsis of a day. To this author, the details of drawing or moment are as important as its big events. This collection exudes an electric feeling of discovery. Life, as depicted in this book, seems open with possibility. In short, it seems invincible.
A Really True Story #2
6 pages, digest
Price ???
Lisa sent me issue #2 of her mini comic, but no ordering info. You can email her for that. These are quirky and weird in the best sense of the word. I liked it a lot.
Jack Cheiky / quazipseudo
Musetopia
by J. Homersham
Self-published.
There's really not that much I can say about Musetopia. Not because it isn't good, merely because it's a very simple, very visual 14 page mini comic. And when those 14 pages have just one panel gags on each page there just isn't that much to be said (unless you really want to get ridiculously silly and start really over-analysing something that's just meant to be simple fun).
Each page has a pun.
Each pun involves inanimate objects or fish.
Each pun, when you think about it, seems to involves some intimacy or relationship issues.
And each pun, every single damn one of them will make you smile.
Nicely drawn and funny. Now see for yourself:
Musetopia is available from here.
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A selection of artwork from both Mail Me Art projects will be on view as part of a mini exhibition and book-signing event at Borders book store in Leicester, UK.
Included will be work from Jon Burgerman, Dan May and Junichi Tsuenoka, along with many others. There will also be a preview of a small number of the current Mail Me Art 2 submissions.
The book Going Postal with the World's Best Illustrators and Designers will be available to buy, with Darren on hand to talk about the projects and sign books.
Borders is at Fosse Park, located at the M1/M69 interchange (junction 21) in the East Midlands. It offers a huge selection of books, music, film and gifts – plus a Starbucks. If you're in the area, come along and pay us a visit! You will find us on the first floor of the store.
Date: Sunday 15th November 2009
Time: 12 noon – 3pm
The address is:
Borders
Grove Farm Triangle
Fosse Park
Leicester LE19 1WT
Department of Art Now Available! $6
How was your work day? Did you explore the office at all? Have you ever? This comic takes some preconceived notions of working and office life and makes them do back flips. This comic starts with a seemingly average office worker, hard at it in his cubicle (which is inside of an extensive maze), who is soon interrupted to make sure that he is working hard enough at his art. Hey, at least he gets to make art all day. Along the way he tries to avoid the usual distractions, then eventually has to make his way to the break room. After a brief conversation he takes a smoke break, using an air vent to get some privacy. Once he's in the air vent he decides to go exploring, and that's where the fun really starts. This is probably about as misleading of a review as I've done, as for all you know from that description this is all about Dilbert. Dunja makes this comic all about the visuals, and the claustrophobic sense of being constantly trapped is palpable. The main character seems to mostly be trying to get by, not particularly looking for adventure, which doesn't prevent him from getting stuck in awkward situations. This is one of those comics that has to be seen and not so much talked about, and at least this is one of those cases where the website has plenty of various comics to help you make up your mind. $6
Just in time for Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertes & Im Kheperu:
Absent Cause #3: Death, Dying, Undeath
NOW AVAILABLE
$4 plus shipping
Available at http://redguard.etsy.com
For trades contact: redguard@gmail.com
The new 72-page issue features:
Wraparound cover by BRANDI LEE
Interviews with feminist artist PUSSY POWER
and Black / Doom Metal band WOODS OF YPRES
Full-color art centerfold
Essays, photography, artwork, fiction, poetry from
LESLIE FEINBERG
EMAN RIMAWI
JAIMIE HASHEY
gabiMONSTROSITY
JAMES RUSH
QUINN COLLARD
and many more!
PLUS:
FREE bonus 60-page Literary Supplement featuring more fiction, poetry and artwork devoted to everyone's favorite subject, death.
Explore the dark side with Absent Cause
Underground cultures, hidden histories, feminist and queer sexualities, size-acceptance, chosen families and radical politics; vampirism, the gothic, horror and the macabre; surviving abuse, coping with mental illness/dangerous gifts, self-harm and suicide.
Everybody dies. But in our underground and radical communities we often have very different ways of coping with death than the dominant culture.
What does the prospect of death mean to someone who's lived through violent abuse? Discrimination? Mental illness?
How does a revolutionary or artist contemplate what their contribution may mean after their death?
How do we express our fears, celebration, anger, and/or desire for death? Can death be sexy?
Order from http://redguard.etsy.com
Yes, the rumours are true. Tell your friends, dance in the street, Flaneur is back!
The latest edition of Wales' cultural zine is now available for only £2 including UK p&p from www.flaneur.me.uk.
The latest issue of Flaneur magazine is now available online at www.flaneur.me.uk. Flaneur is an independent Welsh zine that publishes new fiction, art, reviews and humor. 'We are an eclectic mix of artists and writers who contribute ideas and images,' said the editor. 'We make a magazine in Pembrokeshire that we like and hope that readers will too.'
Flaneur has been published intermittently since the last century, but has recently become a quarterly zine. It now has its own website at www.flaneur.me.uk where readers can buy their own copy. The website system now allows people from all around the world to easily pay for the correct postage, so the magazine is available world-wide.
'The internet has really helped us distribute the magazine,' the editor said. 'Even though it is a printed, paper magazine, the reach of the net has been amazing in helping us reach both readers and contributors.'
Flaneur is a real-world, 20 page, A5 quarterly zine published in the UK but with contributions from around the world. It combines articles, poetry, and new fiction with images, reviews, humor and satire.
'We like to think Flaneur achieves a near perfect combination of images and text,' claimed the editor, 'And if anyone disagrees, send a contribution in to change the balance!'
Skrik Ut [= 'Shout!' or 'Scream out!'] was a pleasant fanzine from Gävle, Sweden. Editor Patrik Söderberg (known from Dross) worked hard and managed to make three issues in one year (if there were more issues I don't know). I have had really happy time leafing through these zines and even if the interviews and reviews usually did prick my interest, I have also had just as much joy reading old adverts from various punk-firms such as Really Fast, Skvaller, Eugen, CBR and Slam Records.
Skrik Ut #1 (1985, #2 (1985), #3 (1986) contains interviews with a lot of bands including: Chaos, DNA, Kurt i Kuvös, Mob 47, DTAL, The Fast Ones, Injektion, S.O.D., Vomit, Svart Parad, Fear of war, Raped Teenagers, Akutt Innleggelse, Dr Anti-Skval, Rövsvett, Force Majeure, Los Bohemos, Slam, Pöbel Möbel plus reviews etc.
