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.
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 #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 #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.)
