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This is a great literary zine with short fiction, word play, and poems. They also exhibit art like their amazing cover. Each one must've been painstakingly created by hand. A match is placed in a slitted envelope which holds a folded piece of flammable stolen paper. There's hidden words on the paper like "Stalin" and "ape" and "pare." Under the envelope is glued a strip reading "Close cover before striking" and under that is a strip of sand paper. Totally original. The 5th Wall, San Diego, CA
This is kinda old by now but it's their final issue and these guys are zine gods. An incredible amount of work and trouble making went into this twenty-eight pager. They run around a zoo, they explore Michigan tunnels, "A Practical Guide to Getting Busted", an omelet recipe, a hovercraft design, a photo story. There's even a picture of Greg with a busted nose. Funny, funny stuff. Samizdat, Ann Arbor, MI.
Tyler Starr writes and illustrates this zine about work. Jobs like putting up shelves in Suffield Maximum Security prison, stacking cardboard boxes for UPS, and painting condos. Tyler's got a sly, subtle sense of humor. All the stories are witty and worth reading. I laughed out loud a lot. His drawings are pen and ink and very well done. Some are squiggled and some are detailed. One especially funny story is titled: "That's guy's a prick" - a quote from an Old Italian Peon. Spoken every time a foreman came within a 15 foot radius. Also Tyler does a nice sewing machine threaded binding. Great read for down and out workers. T.S., South Windsor, CT
