Dudes Magazine #19

from Blackguard

88 pages, magazine size, $5.00, Editor-in-Chief: Nighthawk, Dudes Magazine World HQ, 6819 Minnesota Ave, Saint Louis MO 63111, USA + www.dudesmag.com + dudesmagazine [at] gmail.com Some great stuff in this issue. Of course list fans will enjoy 'Dudes Picks' where each contributor picks his or her favourite Jam, Flick and Vittles of the month (and there are 19 contributors this time). Rin Tin Tin recounts a story about how he learned of editor Nighthawk's unorthodox butt-wiping technique. Apparently he stands up, turns around and faces the crapper to achieve this. ... Pancake Master contributes a very funny rant about people who like to start sentences with "I'm not gonna lie, but..." When this happens, Pancake jumps in and says, "I didn't think you were gonna lie..." and points out that these idiots can be assumed to be otherwise lying unless they use this dumbass stipulation. Half the Dudes seem to be in bands, or involved with the music business somehow. Nighthawk books bands around St Louis, and sometimes he goes on tour with friends' bands and works on the merch table. This would explain the big punk rock presence in DM. In this issue, you get interviews with Too Many Daves, Holy Mess, The Copyrights, and Andrew W.K. There's a double page spread, 'Tony Pails & Pony Tails', with many pictures of dudes with pony tails. This becomes a new term in the Dudes Glossary: Tony Pail - any Dude with a pony tail. Pancake Master reports on Star Trek : The Exhibition at the St. Louis Science Center, and his quest to watch all Trek series (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager). Nighthawk contributes his third and final installment of the Treeman saga, 'Adventures With Treeman'. J-Man reviewed my cut'n'paste zine Grunted Warning #14. Thanks J-Man! It reminds me I really gotta do another one of these, which I haven't done since GW#14 back in December 2011... The 'Dudes Glossary' in this issue is one of the most extensive ever. Highlights: Dudeicure - cutting your fingernails and/or toenails Poobs - pubes that have poop on them, usually on the balls, resulting from wiping back to front. Tony Pail - any Dude with a pony tail [... oh wait I've already covered that one, but it's hilarious enough that it doesn't matter... "Hey Tony, Nice Pony!" Dudes Magazine is not for everybody that's for sure. And it sure as shit is not 'right on', but then again who wants to read a 'right on' zine anyway? I like DM so much that last week I went back and re-read all my back issues. Awesome bus reading, Dude.

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Growing Things: A Guide for Beginning Gardeners

Growing Things: A Guide for Beginning Gardeners
digest, 40 pages, $3 ($1 shipping in US; $2 outside)
Growing Things is a little zine that Joshua put together out of desperation after seeking for a good zine about basic gardening to include in his distro (Ms. Valerie Park Distro) but not finding anything suitable. With promptings and contributions from friends, he took the initiative to produce the publication that he found lacking. Joshua starts out by making it clear that he and the other contributors are not experts and have no formal training in gardening (especially the science thereof), and that there are myriad ways of going about things. What works for one may not work so well for others. I am pleased that he stated this upfront because as an avid gardener (and as someone who is trained in the profession), I did find a few of the things in this zine to be a bit “off” from my experience and perspective. However, I also agree that everyone’s gardening experience is unique, and in fact, Joshua’s summary of the zine provides very succinct examples of how starkly different the experiences of gardeners can be and how, as I have always felt, gardening is a trial and error, seat of the pants adventure regardless of how long you’ve been doing it or how trained and educated you are concerning it. The content of the zine is exactly what you would expect from a zine about basic gardening: making garden beds, container gardening, planting, weed control, insects, composting, seed saving, watering, plant nutrition, etc. A bit of the writing is less about the how-to and more about the joy of gardening. All in all it’s a very informative zine and a great introduction to the world of gardening. Joshua was correct in (albeit reluctantly) deciding to put together the zine he had been wishing existed, because the outcome is a very approachable, well put together, straightforward gardening primer.
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joshuajamberson@gmail.com

Xerography Debt #31 [June 2012]

from Blackguard

48 pages, digest size, $4.00, edited by Davida Gypsy Breier >>> davida [at] leekinginc.com + www.leekinginc.com >>> send your zine for review to Davida Gypsy Breier, PO Box 11064, Baltimore MD 21212, USA After reading this, I wrote to three of the zinemakers reviewed, and I now realise that each time I mentioned that I read a review of their zine in the new XD#32. 32? Jumping ahead a bit there. Anyway, here's the new XD! So it looks like, after 2011 being the Year of the Revenge of Print, 2012 is the Year of the Revenge of the Revenge of Print. OK. But you better think of something else for 2013. XD31 welcomes new reviewer and columnist Carlos Palacios. He lives in Germany but discovered zines in his native Peru. Awesome! Welcome aboard, Carlos! In his debut column, Carlos writes about the importance of words, especially the written word. The other columns - Joe Biel reports on an e-book experiment conducted by his author wife after being urged by one of her Twitter followers to do so, that she would make a killing compared to print sales. Ha! Guess what. It didn't work out that way. ... Jeff Somers contemplates 'Zine Longevity' (most of the people doing zines when he started aren't doing 'em anymore). ... Al Burian reports on trying to live the punk life in Germany, culminating in a raid at the vegan restaurant where he worked. Yikes! ... To wrap up this issue's columns, Gianni Simone reviews Aftershock : Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan, the comics anthology Adam 'Sun Dogs' Pasion put together following the March 2011 tsunami. Then 30 pages of zine reviews. Reviewers this time around: Anne Thalheimer, D. Blake Werts, Davida Gypsy Breier, Eric Lyden, Fred Argoff, Joe Biel, Julie Dorn, Liza Mason, and Stuart Stratu. (That's right! Me, that's who!) ... Interesting to compare this and last issue. A big page drop off here. XD30 had 64 pages. XD31 has 48. I thought it was a faster read than usual. I also notice some reviewers MIA: Gavin J. Grant, Kathy Moseley, Matt Fagan, and Maynard Welstand. Where they at? Well, page count drop off and all, XD still has bang for your [4] buck[s], and if you're into zines (which you should be!) you will order a copy. And send your own zine in for review! ... What?! You don't have a zine! What's wrong with ya? Get fuckin' busy!

Phatsville Comix #17

84 pages (!), digest size, $?, for ordering info email >>> fatankle [at] yahoo.com First of all, wow! that amazing wraparound cover by Benjamin Sea. Second of all, is this anthology getting phatter, I mean fatter? It feels real chunky, chunkier than ever! ... I just checked my review of Phatsville #16 and yes indeed, the new issue is expanded by twenty pages. It's also the 10th Anniversary Issue, since Phatsville #1 came out in 2002. In honour of this milestone, there's a page of photos of the Phatsville 'Phounding Phathers' [2002], then photos of these in more recent years showing the terrible toll time at the comix coalface has wrought upon their once hideous-free mugs. Ugh! ... No, really, but one of the pics is of the awesome full-back Phatsville tattoo [designed by Anton Emdin] sported by Giles. Man, that's dedication. Respect! ... But on to the actual comix... Highlights in this issue: J-Stew's 'Hear Ye! Hear Ye!' rant (Yes! This shitty new designated seating rule in Aussie cinemas is fucking retarded. Last week in a near-empty cinema here in Sydney, right when the movie was starting, some young douchebags came up to me and mumbled, "Uh, sorry, uh, I think you're in our seat..." The seats all around, front and back, were empty. There were (plus or minus one) six people in that theatre. What the fuck? The incredulous look I gave them must have been sufficient because their spokesman said, "Uh, that's cool, we'll just sit here...") ... Where was I? Ah! Highlights of Phatsville #17! There's also a very clever two-page strip of palindromes by Ben Hutchings (he can draw good, and he's brainy! Huh. Huh.); Shaun Craike's strip 'Access Denied, Bitch' is hilarious - Shaun gets called into the P-Ville HQ and told his new strip has gone too far... Giles's 'Jesus Saves!' strips hits the target on the blasphemy front, and is very funny (even broad-minded Christians oughtta find this one funny), yet very 'safe'. Next time do one featuring Mohammad. That's much less safe, as some Danish cartoonists will attest to. And yes, that's a dare, a challenge, a theological comix gauntlet thrown down! Heh heh. On the minus side, what the hell is this endless, boring (yet well drawn, but damn near unreadably lettered) and "to be continued' 'Boy Lord Mayor' strip by Will Kelly doing in here? Serialised strips in comix anthologies suck. The Phatsville editors need to fuck this off, and suggest Kelly do his own comic. Nevertheless! The pluses kick the minuses out the door here. If you want a real good, pure Aussie comix anthology with no damned foreigners, Phatsville fits the bill. And Happy 10th Anniversary, dudes! Here's to the next ten!

Romp #3

ADULTS ONLY! 40 pages, digest size, $5.00, by Aaron Lange, aaronlangecomix [at] gmail.com + aaronlange.com + thecomixcompany.ecrater.com You know you're in good hands when you flip the cover and the page 2 letters column has feedback from the likes of Jim Blanchard, Pat Moriarty, and Noah Van Sciver. Moriarty writes, "I haven't seen material like Romp since my days at Fantagraphics when Eros was paying all the bills. But yours is funnier and better drawn." Aaron Lange sure is good at drawing, and his stuff is very funny, mixing in porno comix, extreme black humour, women's issues, Jabba the Hutt, and hilarious glory hole shenanigans. Better get yourself a copy before Romp receives an Eisner award and you won't be able to afford the Deluxe Hardcover Collected Edition. Order the first three issues NOW or regret your mistake FOREVER!

Goofy Funnies #3

ADULTS ONLY! 32 pages, digest size, by Dexter Cockburn thecomixcompany.ecrater.com Fudster Pudwhacker is laid up in the school nurse's office, "What a drag!" he says. Well, knowing the horny hi-jinx Dexter's characters get up to, I'm sure it won't be a drag for too long. And surprise! It isn't! Enter student nurse Pickles (last seen in Goofy Funnies #2). She practices a pretty cool form of alternative medicine. ... Next up, Dexter ratchets up the weirdness factor with Bosco the bear on a picnic with his sweetheart - they soon get to getting it on under a tree, yet little do they know a beehive is above. The bees wonder what the heck is going on below, all that banging on their tree! The beehive falls and gets stuck on Bosco's head, he's still porking away but trying to get his head beehive-free. His sweetheart none the wiser, she's getting an extra buzz from Bosco's wild and desperate movements. ... Then an 'Arts & Crafts Dept. - Do-It-Yourself Tijuana Bible!' ... The next strip introduces a new (I think) character, Ugly Eunice. "The poor girl ... Body of a Greek goddess but a face like a can of smashed assholes." Reminds me of the Seinfeld 'Two-Face' episode. Haw! (Although I gotta admit I thought the 'ugly' Seinfeld Two-Face was still hot.) ... There are two more strips ('strips', heh heh, geddit? huh? Strips? Me so funny!) - the Goombay Smasher with Trixie in 'Fuckin'' (subtle, right? nice.); and Marty Marz, space explorer ... he's good at exploring 'spaces' ... oh man, am I on a roll or what? If you want hot, funny, smutty comix, Dexter's got the goods for you. Get some!

ButtRagMag #10

from Blackguard

ADULTS ONLY! 32 pages (not including the sheets of toilet paper stapled inside), 11cm x 14cm, $? buttragmag13[at]gmail.com If you're an assfan you've come to the right place. ButtRagMag focuses like a laser on butts and all booty-related bizniz. After an intro by editor Jaimie, Dexter Cockburn's strip 'Buttmeister Fuller!' features the butt-infatuated Buttmeister 'abusing' the latest issue of his favourite zine (ButtRagMag, of course!) There follows many pages where butts and bungholes are depicted in all their rear-ended glory. There's another Dexter strip ('Down The Ol' Rabbit Hole'), a Jaimie strip ('Bonerators in Punkass Grabbrs in Ballstown') and interviews with 'punk-ass' bands The Hickoids, The Chumps, and The Lower Class Brats. Best interview question and answer? Q: What's your favourite toilet paper? A: Joey from Lower Class Brats - "The kind that comes out of the freezer from having fire hole."

Sprouts

Zine Review: Sprouts

from One Minute Zine Reviews by DJ Frederick

 

 

Sprouts: More Comics About Food

$5 / 56 pages

treesandhills.org

 

Sprouts is the eleventh in a series of comics anthologies from artists living in New Hampshire, Vermont & Western Massachusetts. The comics range from simple to complex. Personal favorites include a comic featuring the virtues of carob by Glynnis Fawkes, Bill Tulp’s expose of monoculture & the imminent danger our food supply is facing, and Colin Tedford’s story about the Winchester School Garden. These anthologies are always both educational & highly enjoyable.

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Clam Juice #2

from Blackguard

ADULTS ONLY! 32 pages, digest size, by Carrie Q Contrary & Dexter Cockburn - www.carrieqcontrary.com + thecomixcompany.ecrater.com This issue is a team-up between Carrie and Dexter. Carrie has one side, flip the book and Dexter's got the other half including the other cover. Carrie's story, The Kitty Sisters, features Milly and Jilly waking up to a new day. They don't get outta the house, hell no, there's too much fun to be had together! And they sure seem to get along well! Dexter presents another tale of The Adventure Club, actually The Mystery of the Haunted Sea Part Two (Part One appeared (I think) in Oh My! Comix #2) - this one is an extended sequence between Pop and Scooter lost at sea. Alas, Pop will never see his pet hamster again, but Scooter takes his mind away from such concerns. Ah, Scooter!

Clam Juice #1

from Blackguard

ADULTS ONLY! 32 pages, digest size, by Carrie Q Contrary - www.carrieqcontrary.com The first strip here follows a young woman's busride. She manages to have fun without the aid of iPhones or iPads. Unheard of! (I think there's a Wii or two in there though.) Next up, 'Sexy Librarian' just loves to read. Yet, it's a strange kind of reading. Perhaps she has an eyeball in her vagina? Then a young man arrives and ask her where he can return his library books. She shows him, but if you ask me, it's an unusual place to put library books. The final story involves two schoolgirls ostensibly going to a schoolboy's house to study math. They shortly get rid of him and proceed to not study math, but rather one another's anatomical delights. For 'hot 'n' sexy' comix, Clam Juice has got it going on.

Cyanotype: a how-to guide

Zine Review: Cyanotype a how-to guide

from One Minute Zine Reviews by DJ Frederick

Cyanotype: a how-to guide

mistydawn.mm@gmail.com

This ¼ size zine introduces the world of using sunlight to make blueprints / exposures on paper, cotton, wool and other materials. The process involves some basic chemistry & a small darkroom set-up but can be done in anyone’s house or apartment. I appreciate how comprehensive this zine is – explaining the history and step by step process for producing your own cyanotype graphics. There is also a brief resource list for further reading / learning. Let's get away from the computer printer & back to basics (and fun).

International Zine Month 2012 from Spill The Zines!

International Zine Month 2012

from Spill The Zines! by noreply@blogger.com (Cath)

via http://www.flickr.com/photos/hortensejones/

This Sunday (July 1st) marks the beginning of International Zine Month, and entire month dedicated to celebrating zines and independent publishing with people from all over the world. Here are two excellent ways to celebrate IZM:

flyer by Alex Wrekk

1. 31 Days of International Zine Month.
Alex compiled a list of things to do for every day in July to celebrate zines, the postal service, zine libraries, and distros. Some examples include teaching a friend or family member about zines, writing to a distro telling them you love what they do, and making your own envelopes. The full list can be found at http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/, or you can download a PDF of the above image to copy and distribute here.

 

2. 24 Hour Zine Thing
This challenge asks zinesters to create a 24-page zine in 24 hours straight, on any day they wish during IZM. The zine must be created from conception to final product during this time, so you can't approach the challenge knowing exactly what you're going to create! It's all about being adventurous and setting a challenge for yourself. Read more and sign up to the challenge at http://24hourzines.com/.


What are you guys hoping to do to celebrate International Zine Month? Do any of these challenges particularly grab you? Let us know in the comments!

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p.s. For those of you who noticed, I'm sorry I didn't write any zine reviews on Sunday. They're going to have to be a week late, because I'm rubbish. They'll be done in the form of a vlog though, so hopefully worth the wait!

Worm Poo

Monthly Salon by the Somerville Arts Council, opens up June 27, to the burgeoning world of zines.

Plastics