Saturday, January 6, 2007
ChapBook - Mental foreplay for the classics, a brief memoir of Veronica
ChapBook - Mental foreplay for the classics, a brief memoir of Veronica Brandon Follett’s collection of poetry has a nice color cover and has a nice heavy cardstock heft to it. Brandon’s poetry is emotive and rich, it’s like drinking a good Chianti. His topics are varied, and run the gaumet from lap...
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Friday, January 5, 2007
Zine Review - Volcano
Zine Review - Volcano William Davidson returns, this time with an odd comic panel sequence, beginning with a female nude whose image is altered from panel to panel. It’s an interesting transformative set of panels, while certain images might be disturbing, if you look at this artwork as a whole...
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
Zine Review - Yee Ha!
Zine Review - Yee Ha! William Davidson’s Yee Ha! Is a quirky little artzine. The drawings are crude and have overtures toward cubism, but appear to be done with charcoal or crayon. Completely image based, this issue appears to focus on various states of laughter. It’s an interesting piece of work,...
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Zine Review - Heart Beating for 168 Seconds
Zine Review - Heart Beating for 168 Seconds Brought to us by Ivana Stab and Jasmina Berber, Heart Beating for 168 Seconds is a heavily collaged multi-layered quarter sized zine. With text and images working well with each other, this work really shows us how simple and good a zine like this can be....
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Friday, December 29, 2006
Zine Review - Reality Ranch #1
Zine Review - Reality Ranch #1 Scott Erickson’s entertaining litzine, Reality Ranch leads with a funky article about biking in Portland, and moves on to a humorous account of the creation of the saxophone. Reality Ranch deals mostly with absurd parody, and carries such article titles as, “Potatoes...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Zine Review - The Quick and the Dead - August 2006
Zine Review - The Quick and the Dead - August 2006 The Quick and the Dead, August 2006 Hannah Ridge’s per/litzine, The Quick and the Dead is a fun little read. It’s quarter-sized and begins by thanking the reader for being there. I always like to see this in a zine, because our community is so...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Diamond in the Rough No. 7
Diamond in the Rough No. 7 And now more from the shameless self-promotion department... Diamond in the Rough is my perzine, and this issue chronicles some of the most emotionally turbulent time in my life, the breakup process that Touya and I went through. I thought long and hard about some of the...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Zine Review - Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 5
Zine Review - Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 5 HHDS 5 begins with an interesting discussion about Cell Phones in the HipHop community, then follows with an Article entitled, ‘the wonders of possibility’ which discusses writer’s block. I suffer from writer’s block from time to time, so found the article...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Zine Review - Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 4
Zine Review - Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 4 Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 4 HHDS 4 begins with a critical look at postmodernism, and how Tyler reconciles it in his personal life. I like that kind of introspection in a person, and Tyler follows it up with a few paragraphs about writing on the backs of...
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Zine Review - Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 3
Zine Review - Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 3 Hiphop Don’t Stop Number 3 Hiphop don’t Stop is a smorgasbord of interesting ideas and concepts, with short interesting bits. I like how Tyler leads with a byte about sonic collages, and Kevin Eder’s article about Summer is pretty cool. Tyler’s bits about...
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