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I Am Not The Rain
"Navigating Life As Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse" I really liked the flow of this zine between text, art, photography and poetry despite my initial reservations. I feel quite uncomfortable trying to describe this zine as anything I could say would no doubt trivialise it, so I’m not going to. I think this information should be enough for anyone to decide if it’s something they want to read or not, but I would seriously recommend it to anyone.
weight = 7 stars £2.00
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I Know You're Out There A perzine in its truest sense. Mae's latest offering to the zine world includes thoughts on her childhood memories, discovering riot grrl, significant relationships, seeing favourite bands play live, a trip to Philippines, Thailand and Singapore as well as a bursting-at-the-seams happy page. I Know You're Out There is also a visual treat due to Mae's awesome (often zombie themed) illustrations throughout. weight = 2 stars £0.75
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Intermission #2 This zine is mostly fun and chatty but with a sprinkling of more serious, intelligently written pieces. Whilst I don’t share her unmistakable love for Manic Street Preachers (MSP) I like to read about other people’s passions that are different from mine. She includes pieces on: ways to cheer yourself up, the good things about her hometown (Stoke-on-Trent), her love of “destroying” books, a mission to meet and give a mini questionnaire to Nicky (of MSP) and the results, top 5 albums of 2007, her love of Wales, thoughts on spending time alone, her love of her three-legged rabbit, a German MSP related crossword and her love of hoarding “treasure” (zine comes with a little envelope full of “treasure”!). weight = 4 stars £1.00
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Last Hours #17
Review by Eddie - thank you! There’s a week’s worth of reading here. The theme of the issue is radical illustration but tons of other stuff’s covered besides. Of the themed content, there’s lots to interest even if, like me, you don’t know much about art and aren’t even sure what you like. A highlight was the interview with Laura Oldfield Ford which shows the links between her personal/political development and her art work, so she comes across as a fairly down to earth bod who does art rather than as some bohemian pseud.
There are great articles too. Favourites are the ones on Crass, particularly Gavin Burrows’ piece, which struck a chord with me. I saw Crass once. I was the bloke stood at the back wondering what time the tune was going to start.
Inevitably I gravitated to the DIY guides section which has got a great basic how-to on zine-making from Kathleen of Scratch That Itch. There’s also handy pointers on food preserving from Isy Morgenmuffel, with some recipes I’ll definitely try.
Although I had initial worries about how ‘professional’ Last Hours looks, on balance, anything less wouldn’t have done justice to some terrific artwork throughout.
weight = 26 stars £2.50
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The Lavendar Hoe #1 It says “hysterically funny letters to celebrities” on the cover – sums it up really! This issue’s targets include: Paris Hilton, Keira Knightley, Lindsay Lohan, Tyra Banks, Britney Spears and more! weight = 2 stars £0.25
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Little Acorns #2 *description coming soon* weight = 2 stars £1.00
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MXD: True Stories by Mixed-Race Writers *description coming soon* weight = 3 stars £1.00
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Non/Monogamy: Doin’ it and Doin’ it and Doin’ it well?
Fairly in-depth text heavy zine exploring non-monogamy mostly through personal experiences. Through a series of separate pieces, Andie discusses why non-monogamy works for her and Shannon contemplates past non-monogamous relationships that haven’t been as successful as she hoped and why at the moment she can only be in monogamous relationships. There are also two pieces by others on the theme of non-monogamy. weight = 7 stars £1.50
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On Edge #4 Although self described as a “mental health zine” this zine should be informative and interesting to everybody. This is a compilation zine including pieces on people met at a stay in an adolescent psychiatric ward, the history of sexual sterilisation and mental illness in Canada, relationships with food in hospital, an open letter to seasonal depression, a great interview with Kate Bornstein about her latest book, Hello Cruel World, a few poems and some appropriate artwork. weight = 6 stars £1.50
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Poor But Happy #2 This is quite a little zine but it's packed with great money saving tips and other related information. The first half is filled with travel advice (I thought I had cheap europe travel sussed but it would appear I still have lots to learn!). Eddie then moves on to housework hints, information on tipping laws, a recipie for flapjacks, a week spent being straight edge and more. I love the great information with a chatty perzine style. Back page has a further list of money saving links. What've you got to loose with getting a copy?! It's free! weight = 1 star free
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