via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/9/08
Letter of Resignation #2 / Forth-Sized / 28 Pages / Kyle Folson, 301 Colonial Dr. #9, Ipswich, MA 01938 / crushkyledestroy@hotmail.com / This zine is the sometimes confusing diatribe about two people crossing the United States, starting from Massachusetts, going to New Mexico, California, and the like, and the experiences that they've had. The intensely [...]..
Monday, April 21, 2008
DEMON’S REGRET – THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL
via Small Press Newsroom by -AF on 4/8/08
DEMON'S REGRET – THE TITLE SAYS IT ALLA fallen angel seeks redemption that can never be had
Haverhill, MA, April 8, 2008 – When Lucifer decided to wage war on heaven with his third of the host of heaven's angels in tow, the lot of them fell from grace, forever condemned and cast away from the Almighty. Now one of them regrets having followed his new master and tries to make amends the only way he can.
In Demon's Regret, Asmodeus fell with the rest of his brethren and he has carried that guilt throughout time. Unfortunately, his demon status can never be revoked, but that won't stop him from thwarting Satan's plans any which way he can. Taking matters into his own hands, as he has done throughout history, Asmodeus uses the tools he has at his disposal to throw a pitchfork in the plans of the Father of All Lies.
Writer/Creator Mitch Brown tells this classic religious story with a new twist, dictated masterfully by his crisp dialogue and incredible imagination. Joining him for the ride is Comic Book Idol 3 finalist, and current Boom Studios! artist, Wilfredo Torres (Salem: Queen of Thorns) lending his exquisite artistic stylings to breathe life into this supernatural world. Colorist Mike Kilgore and letterer/designer Nate Pride also add their formidable talents and experience to the production of the book.
Providing covers for the book is comic book veteran and artist extraordinaire, Michael Golden. Golden's work can also be seen in recent issues of Iron Man, Exiles and Wonder Woman, and such classics as G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Batman and so much more.
Demon's Regret joins other popular titles from Digital Webbing, including Bloodrayne, Bleeders, Team 14 and Dark 48.
What the critics say:
"Anyone picking up this book will be in for a treat.... a story well worth reading."
Robert Sodaro, Freelanceink.blogspot.com
"4 out of 5 stars"
Richard Vasseur, Jazma Online Forum
"Bullseye. Take a chance and pick up this book."
Bill Gladman, Zonetrooper.com
"Demon's Regret is a taut anti-hero story. Leaves the reader craving the next issue."
Scoop - Mondo Media
Demon's Regret #1 (of 3) is in this month's issue of Previews scheduled for a June, 2008 release date.
For more information on Demon's Regret go to www.digitalwebbing.com.
Mauled! True Tales of Tragedy At Sea #3
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/7/08
Mauled! True Tales of Tragedy At Sea #3 / $4.50 / :15 / 64M / http://www.manualcomics.com / brian@manualcomics.com / This is a compilation zine that has a bevy of comics, as one can probably guess, about tragedies at sea. A number of them feel as if the artists just went and grabbed something for the [...]Maximum Rock n Roll Photozine
via punks is hippies - the blog! by 7inchcrust on 4/8/08
Slobo feels unhappy because of all these slow upadates of Punks is Hippies and i promised him an update in a few days. But i not gonna keep my word and i m updating right now a few minutes after my message in PIH Messageboard.so here's "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries-Maximum Rock N Roll photozine": 76 pages full of black n white pictures:Dickies,Wipers,Crucifix,Vandals(Bliahh!!!these shitheads shouldn't be there),B.G.K.,Die Kreuzen,Black Flag and many many others
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Left of the Dial #6
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/8/08
Left of the Dial #6 / Summer 2003 / Full Sized / 84 Pages / $3.95 / 1438 W. Alabama #4, Houston, TX 77006 / Interview after interview. The people at Left of the Dial really can't get enough of them, even if I can. My first read through, I stopped at the Editor's Intro, [...]Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting: How To Turn Your Home Into A T-Shirt Factory
via Feminist Review by Feminist Review on 4/7/08
By John IsaacsonMicrocosm Publishing
A collection of self-published zines on the art of screenprinting, John Isaacson's Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting is a trusty guide for the patient craftsters. Demonstrated through simple drawings, Isaacson provides a step-by-step guide for turning your own home into a t-shirt factory. I'll admit that the first few pages were a little confusing for me because I had no idea what emulsion was or what the process screenprinting even involves. After 20 pages of descriptions, however, I was able to follow each drawing and instruction, imagining in my head how one would screenprint.
So why didn't I actually try this process on my own to see if Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting is really a handy (if not necessary) guide? Well, from the first few pages I could tell that there was no way that I would ever actually set up my own screenprinting shop. First of all, a garden hose and extra space are required. I live in an apartment building in a large city. I haven't seen a garden hose in two years, let alone have the room in my own living space to use one. While the techniques look simple enough, I believe this guide is meant for someone who lives in a building with a yard, or at least a small patch of outdoor space with access to a garden hose.
Aside from the space issue, I'll admit that DIY screenprinting looks like a lot of work that I'm just not up to doing. My own personal laziness aside, however, Isaacson's guide is very informative, detailed, and even inspirational. Interspersed amongst directions, tips, and drawings are profiles of different creative screenprinters. These profiles offer ideas for projects, and suggestions on how to make screenprinting into a dream job instead of a nightmare.
Isaacson's guide is definitely the guide that I would turn to if I had the desire to try screenprinting on my own. He lists great resources for getting the necessary tools, and throughout the text explains the pros and cons of the numerous approaches to screenprinting. Along with its overflowing fountain of helpful information, Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting represents a wonderful and entertaining culture of DIYers and craftsters alike.
Review by Chelsey Clammer
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Leapfrog Bike Zine #7
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/7/08
Leapfrog Bike Zine #7 / $1 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / Leapfrog Bike Zine, 6163 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 / xpeoplespoetx@hotmail.com / As with the previous issue of the magazine, I can honestly say that Leapfrog can make a topic that I had little information or desire to know more about into something [...]s
Leapfrog Bike Zine #7
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/7/08
Leapfrog Bike Zine #7 / $1 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / Leapfrog Bike Zine, 6163 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 / xpeoplespoetx@hotmail.com / As with the previous issue of the magazine, I can honestly say that Leapfrog can make a topic that I had little information or desire to know more about into something [...]Matter #2
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/6/08
Matter #2 / $1 / Half Sized / 56 Pages / Matterzine@yahoo.com / Matter, 1415 NE 87th Ave , Kansas City , MO 64155 Okay, so this zine is does by a kid who I believe to be in High School. This zine is just pretty much a mishmash of whatever ey could find and [...]Leapfrog Bike Zine #6
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/6/08
Leapfrog Bike Zine #6 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / Leapfrog Bike Zine, 6163 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220 / xpeoplespoetx@hotmail.com / While I had picked this up last time I went to Boxcar Books in Bloomington, Indiana , I hadn't really had anything in the way of time to flip through it. I almost [...]Mass Movement #15
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/5/08
Mass Movement #15 / $6 USD / A5 / 80 Pages / 12 West Street, Aberkenfig, Bridgend, CF32 9BB, South Wales, UK / massmovement@currantbun.com / wakeup.to/massmovement / While most of the zines from the UK that I've had a chance to read have mainly been straightforward and actually just more like listings for up and [...]Law of Inertia #11
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/5/08
Law of Inertia #11 / Full-Sized / $4.95 / 172 Pages / www.lawofinertia.com / info@lawofinertia.com / Reviewed 24 December 2003 Law of Inertia is another zine that mainly focuses on interviews, this time going with bands as diverse as The Aeffect, Princess Superstar, and Strife, and I can honestly say that I don't have [...]Maggot-Zine #2
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/4/08
Maggot-Zine #2 / Half-Sized / 104 Pages / $2.50 ($5.00 by Mail) / 23 Veteran's Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3A 4C4 Canada / Even after I got the less-than-stellar review by Broken Pencil a few months ago in their publications, I still got a trade in the mail by Candace, from Maggot-Zine. Now, my exposure to [...][mag] - #9
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/4/08
[mag] - #9 Full Size, Newsprint, Free, 64 Pages. This is a super huge zine that has some of the same problems with it as does Maximum Rock?n?Roll and Punk Planet. The sheer number of ads is amazing, sometimexs taking up 3 or 4 pages. That trespass is a minor one compared to [...]Zine Review: La Boca #2
via Trading Stories with the Leaves by Trading Stories on 4/4/08
E Parrott's second issue of La Boca is exciting from the get-go, before you even crack it open, thanks to a cleverly designed cover. Its bright brown card-stock is painted with white and pink blobs, which are made sensible only by the photograph printed on them by the copy machine.
This design sensibility and obvious mastery of the equipment shows through in the body of the zine, too. Photos have been manipulated through the photocopier to exaggerate light and shade. Grainy reproductions are given definition by hand-drawn lines; sometimes whole sections — a notebook here, a scarf there — are replaced by sketches.
The result is a striking clash of the real and the unreal. Parrott looks at the world and sees abstractions and ideas and feelings to which others are oblivious. She sees tenderness in a friend's actions, and fraternal connections between different Beatles albums. "everything has connotations."
I was fascinated by a passage in which Parrott imagines herself as a man:
listening to iron and wine I think of him–– 20-something, huge beard, mellow look on his face. and all the associations that go along with an image like that. yes, that's what i want. and, like i often do, i imagine myself looking exactly that way, forgetting for a second that i can't grow facial hair, or have masculine features at all, and that short hair says something different on a girl, that even that mellow look is different on a girl.
There follows a powerful discussion of gender identity. It's not a fully-fledged manifesto; there is anger there, but Parrott admits "i need to think more about it". The power of the section — just a couple of pages long — comes from this introverted caution. It conveys the author's real discomfort with being a woman: "sometimes … i notice the sound of my own female voice and wonder how anyone takes me seriously."
These thought-experiments give La Boca #2 great depth. By taking the real world but giving it a twist — whether by wondering what if the author was a man, or by reducing a photographed cat to a line-drawing — the reader is forced to look at things from a new, unexpected perspective. It is a sophisticated technique, and integrated just as effectually in Parrott's words as in her pictures.
La Boca #2 has an almost paranoiac awareness of the layers of possibility that exist around us:
we live on the edge of something, it scares me. who says things will happen as expected, things could just go out of control.
One day, hopefully, they will.
E Parrott, La Boca #2, 1/4 size, 48 pages.
Available from Loop.
Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
via Feminist Review by Feminist Review on 4/3/08
By Ariel SchragTouchstone
Combining her first two autobiographical graphic novel adventures through ninth and tenth grade in one sweet volume, Awkward and Definition represents Ariel Schrag's complicated life at Berkeley High School. Written and drawn during the summer after each school year, both Awkward and Definition perfectly detail the insanities and nostalgic quirky pleasures of high school life. From intense note-passing in class about same-sex attraction, to getting stoned at concerts and trying to play it cool in front of the parents, Schrag keeps each chapter true to life and revealing of awkward teen culture.
I'll admit that at first reading Awkward was, well, awkward. Schrag's shaky handwriting is crammed on the page in such small font that, at times, I thought maybe my bad eyesight was a sign that I was too old to be reading the tiny letters. With time and the turning of each pager, however, Schrag's scrawling letters become more bold and stable as she matures on the page. Awkward moves from best friend problems to Juliette Lewis obsessions and the troubles of dating grungy boys.
While Awkward reveals both the madness of freshman year and the uncertainties of growing up, Definition shows how a young punk girl can change into a complex, intelligent, and confident bisexual. In her sophomore work, Schrag details her growing obsessions with chemistry, Gwen Stefani, and figuring out her sexuality. And although her life may seem complicated and awkward, Schrag's cool and confidant center ooze out into the steady and assured drawings of her sophomore year. From turning 16 to getting recognition for her first comic, Awkward, the pages of Definition show a definite maturation in Schrag's lovable character and artistic work.
Awkward and Definition have previously been available separately, but now the first two year's of Schrag's high school life can be read in one volume. The two years read seamlessly, and compliment each other in their development of artistic talent and storyline. Humorous, honest, and engagingly simple, Schrag's work is the definition of genuine talent.
Review by Chelsey Clammer
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Ker-Bloom #36
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/3/08
This zine is one of the ones that has been out for an absurd amount of time, but hasn't really caught on to the masses of people. The people that have read this zine are in love with it, as it is a very fun read. The only problem that I could potentially see [...]Journalsong #4
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/2/08
Bipedal, By Pedal!
via Feminist Review by Feminist Review on 4/1/08
Edited by Joe BielMicrocosm Publishing
Joe Biel assembled Bipedal, By Pedal! so he'd have something to hand to curious onlookers as he rode by them in the spectacle that is Critical Mass. The slim little zine contains an even-handed history of the movement, along with short articles and graphics, illustrations, and leaflet designs from other participants.
Biel details the conflicts that arise between cyclists and people driving cars with honesty and thoughtfulness. Critical Mass can be a positive social step toward sustainable transportation alternatives, an opportunity for recruitment, and a fun social scene. It can also be an area of protest and interruption of the status quo, which sometimes results in aggressive confrontations with car drivers and the police.
Biel offers a theory echoed by those who lend their own essays to the latter part of the zine: "I feel this is just a product of living in a macho society, but I also feel it's not up to my judgment to tell someone how to behave in such a freeform activity." The authors' reticence to make assumptions about participants' motives for involvement in the movement puts the focus of their criticism on strategies and actions rather than judgment of individuals. Even irritated drivers are given the consideration they deserve; after all, every SUV driver is a potential "Masser," and Critical Mass offers an alternative to gridlocked traffic, escalating fuel prices, and a polluted and dangerous environment. What emerges is a welcoming picture of an emerging and evolving culture, and a guide to involvement for those who want to join the ride.
Review by Ari Moore
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J5 Zine #5.5
via NeuFutur Magazine by admin on 4/1/08
J5 Zine #5.5 / :10 / 24S / j5@drop.to / http://www.dumedia.tk / Reviewed 19 September 2004
A mini-zine that includes whatever presumably that the editors could dig up, whether it be some beautiful pictures (which are slightly hard to see being shrunk to such a small size and poorly printed), or some often-humorous poetry. The poetry is by and large just some pseudo-prose, never fitting into a rhyme scheme but is usually pretty stream-of-consciousness. What really makes this zine for me is another picture, this time the centerfold in which the sun is burning through a tree, a lovely sight that even through all the problems with printing and lack of color. The poetry is all laid out in the typical windows system fonts, except for one specific piece (…and once again) which is tackled in a script. With this simple change, I feel as if so much more emotion is conveyed, the minor nuances in the script showing subtleties that would never be captured with a computer-created font. Where the handwritten poem is the most hard-hitting, the oddest pieces come towards the end of the issue, the "Brief synopses of the archetype of the mature masculine", where different color blocks on top of a picture indicate different things, such as "the royal blue gives light to the king within". J5 Zine is one of those completely off-the-wall zines that don't have any particular agenda, and as such, don't bog individuals down with a certain slant. Hope to see more issues come out of this group, as while they are not necessarily the polit or perzines I find myself getting into, the poems are written by a talented hand, and the later prose pieces are compelling enough to make me finish the zine.
Rating: 6.2/10
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