Village Ghosts
$3 15x15cm 28p plus foldout 36g
This is a photocopied, cut and paste zine made up of collage, photographs and archival images about memory, class consciousness, myth and history.
Virgin #2
$1.50 A5 16p 4g
As I say above in the description for the first issue, Virgin is a zine about trying to open up a space to discuss the various reasons that people might not have (had) sex. The author concluded the first issue with a call out for folks to share their own stories about why they are a virgin. For only 16 pages this zine shows a very wide range of experience, from those who say they want sex but can’t get it to others who consider themselves asexual, and more in between.
Walk So Differently
$2.50 A5 32p 43g
A choose your own adventure zine by Emma, Anwyn and Lou about their memories of growing up and/or moving to Sydney. They write about, among other things, gentrification, Black Rose Anarchist Bookshop/Library, political graffiti, protests, racism and Sting.
Watch Him Bleed #2
$2 A6 44p 16g
Ivana’s zine is about transgression and bringing things out of the dark and into the bare light – sex drugs, race, class and the way it all intersects. Ivana used to write a zine called Feels Like Friday and started Watch Him Bleed in a bid to make zines as honest as possible.
Womanimalistic #1
$7 Half foolscap 32p
Coming soon.
World Without End
$2 A6 16p concertina fold 12g
Description coming soon.
YOU
Free when purchasing other zines!
Every week since November 2001(!) You has hit the streets – the streets of Melbourne where it was born and streets all over the world. Always free and ostensibly anonymous, You is a photocopied letter addressed to you, tucked up and stapled, usually, into a paper bag. You won’t be charged for this, but hit ‘buy’ to add it to your loot.
YOU: Some letters from the first five years
$25 13.4x19cm 80p 307g
Published by the exceptionally nice folk at Breakdown Press, this book contains, as elucidated in the title, some letters from the first five years of You zine. As Anna Poletti puts it in the blurb on the back, ‘You is local history; a story of local experiences. And it is real.’ Read just how much rockin’ out one person (and some guest writers) can do in five years.
Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #11
$2 A6 28p 23g
Tukru’s long running and much loved perzine is like reading the diary of one late 20s Finnish woman living in a small town in England, the trials and tribulations and so forth. There’s something inordinately uplifting about Tukru’s writing, even when it’s just about the dull everyday things we probably all do, she has a way – a combination of her diary-esque writing with a very cool riot grrl inspired cut n paste style – of making ordinary life seem like a big adventure, like the Raincoats/Slits song ‘Adventures Close to Home’. Each issue follows on from the next, pretty much, in the style of slightly interrupted journal entries, so for the rest of the descriptions I’m just going to give a short run through of the contents of each, to give you a general idea, but really each issue deserves to be read. It’s a proper zine series, not based on one-off themes. It’s like a zine soap opera. Yes, that’s it! In the best possible way. In this issue: injury at roller derby practice, an Ann Summer (sex toy) party, recipes for rice n peas and yaya chicken and likes lists…
Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #12
$2.50 A6 40p 33g
In this issue: Tukru breaks her wrist at derby practice, worries about having to take time off work (her boss is a royal bastard), applies for new jobs and fantasises about starting a new life by the sea, watches a lot of Buffy and more.
Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #13
$2.50 A6 40p 35g
In this issue Tukru writes about the death of her partner Carl’s father. The first half of the zine is about how she and Carl’s family deal with the loss of his dad, and in the second half Tukru focuses on her relationship with her own family in Finland.
Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #14/Here. In My Head. #7
$2.50 A6 56p 46g
A split issue with another fine UK perzine, Here. In my Head. Tukru’s side is about having her hours cut at work, going back to roller derby and organising a night of all-girl music at a local bar. Here. In my Head #7 is subtitled Change & Improvement and is about shyness and anxiety, deciding to go without make up and more.
Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #15
$2.50 A6 36p 33g
In this issue: Tukru writes about her experiences with birth control, dropping out of her roller derby team, her partner Carl getting a job, Slutwalk London and turning 29.
Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #16
$2.50 A6 40p 33g
Issue 16 is about the goals Tukru wants to reach before turning 30 (playing in a band, organising zine stuff where she lives, getting a tattoo), how the number 7 seems to relate conspiratorially to her life, lists, more, more, more…
A – E / F – J / K – O / P – T / U – Z / Badges / Music & Video
When is a zine not a zine? When it’s a book! But what if it’s a book that collects a huge array of samples from some of the year’s ‘best’ zines? Well, it’s still a book, but a very exciting one. Microcosm’s 9th zine yearbook is packed with heaps of fine zine excerpts and their authors’ contact details. Excellent to check out some of the zines you may have missed in 2009, this would also make a great introduction to the world of zines for the uninitiated (if, indeed, such a thing still exists.)
