Zine Scene

Zine Scene: J Gerlach’s Simple History Series

J Gerlach: Simple History Series (Microcosm Publishing) The history textbook might seem like an odd choice to adapt to a…

Zine Scene: Al Burian’s Burn Collector

Al Burian: Burn Collector #15 (Microcosm Publishing, 3/1/11) For a purported personal zine, Al Burian’s Burn Collector is strangely outward-looking.…

Zine Scene: Adam Gnade’s Hey Hey Lonesome and The Heat and the Hot Earth

Adam Gnade: Hey Hey Lonesome and The Heat and the Hot Earth (Punch Drunk Press, August and December 2011) When…

Zine Scene: Phase 7

Alec Longstreth: Phase 7 The personal zine or “perzine” genre is one of the most popular in independent publishing (we’ve…

Zine Scene: The Toucan Magazine

Liz Baudler & Laura Rynberg: The Toucan Magazine It seems that all we hear about these days is how much…

Zine Scene: Shuteye

Sarah Becan: Shuteye (Shortpants Press, 9/26/11) Sarah Becan’s comic book series Shuteye is, appropriately enough, about dreams. In the dream…

Zine Scene: Big Questions

Anders Nilsen: Big Questions (Drawn & Quarterly, 8/16/11) Big Questions is a pretty self-explanatory title for the “magnum opus” of…

Zine Scene: Papercutter #17

Jason Martin: Papercutter #17 (Tugboat, 2011) There are plenty of prose and poetry journals in the world — we profiled…

Zine Scene: The Canterbury Tales

Seymour Chwast: The Canterbury Tales (Bloomsbury, 8/30/11) Even English nerds have trouble with The Canterbury Tales (and this coming from a…

Zine Scene: Vain

Vain Magazine: Issue 10 (Fall 2011) When you see it on a bookstore shelf, Vain immediately stands out. Small, unassuming,…

Zine Scene: Sinister Resonance

David Toop: Sinister Resonance (Continuum, 6/24/11) David Toop’s new book, Sinister Resonance, looks at the ubiquity and power of sound…

Zine Scene: Habibi

Craig Thompson: Habibi (Pantheon, 9/20/11) Can love survive great hardship through words and memory alone? In Habibi -- where community…