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The zines of Evl Jon. Evl Jon is an artist who pushes trollies (shopping-carts) full of his modified trash around Johannesburg. He recently upgraded to a box on wheels, which he lives in wherever he can park in the city.

He draws zines on single A4 pieces of paper. The zines are printed the same on both sides, but rotated, so that the top image becomes the reverse for the bottom half. The paper is then cut in half and each half folded up to create a small, eight page zine with a 'poster' on the reverse (when unfolded). Then, unfolded so that the the zine is in 8 blocks in rows of 4, the zine is cut along the long middle fold line separating the top 4 blocks from the bottom 4 blocks, from 25% in, until 75% of the way. So, the middle 50% of the fold line is cut. This allows the pages to be turned when in A8 zine format.

The top two images share a piece of paper. The next seven images are full zines. The last image is the folder that Jon keeps the zines in. Jon hasn't had a bank account for years.

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CHIMURENGA CHRONIC, OUT NOW, CHECK IT OUT - http://www.chimurengachronic.co.za/

review - http://africainwords.com/2013/04/22/the-chimurenga-chronic-now-now-first-print-issue-of-pan-african-gazette/

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Totally off-the-wall! Jungle Jim goes to Milan Design Week!

"Guys Guys Guys! Jungle Jim presents THE GALACTIC ZINE SWEATSHOP! Hosted by Afrofuture, Milan Design Week & La Rinascente, Jungle Jim creators Jenna Bass and Hannes Bernard will be leading a workshop in DIY publishing and far-flung creativitity, that will see the creation of a choose-your-own-adventure sci-fi mini-zine in 2 hours, written by writers across Africa, linked up live via Facebook.

Tuesday! 9th April 2013! 2PM GMT+2!

Click here to register, be thee in Milan or elsewhere, thou canst participate!

http://junglejimgalacticzinesweatshop.eventbrite.com"

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Aha, the zine project has been written about on Between 10 and 5, South Africa's creative showcase. Check it out!

(video by Aurora Hannisdal)

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South African Mail Order Brides: A Catalogue - Jenna Bass

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International Hair Cut for... the Big Boyz - Joakim Thorendahl

distributed around cape town hair salons

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there is a zine market tomorrow!

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To celebrate their 20th issue, African pulp-fiction magazine, Jungle Jim has released two audiobooks, 'FAIRYTALES FOR LOST CHILDREN' and 'A STORY ABOUT A CHIMPANZEE IN SPACE' (for free).

Check 'em out!

https://soundcloud.com/jungle-jim-magazine

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A short film by Aurora Hannisdal shot at the Bijou Theatre at our last 'make zines at night' evening of 2012, which happened on Wednesday 5 December. The booklet being printed is Joakim Thorendahl's International Haircut For The Big Boyz, which is a selection of haircuts offered in barber shops in Cape Town. The booklet will be distributed to barber shops over the next week.

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On The Other Hand, Simon Abbott, 2012

features game reviews, poetry, algorithmic deviation (The Game of Life, or simply Life), photographs and short fiction. Made at the Bijou Theatre on a Wednesday evening.

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sent off a batch of local zines to Studio One11 in British Columbia, Canada for their first annual 'END-OF-THE-WORLD ZINE FAIR'. They'll be sending a package of their zines down soon, way exciting. Will start a zine library here soon (have secretly already started).

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Tomorrow (Saturday, 1 Dec.) we'll be hustling zines at the Bijou Theatre as part of the Cape Town 'Art Walk' from 10am - 4pm. Come along and pick up some booklets, strange, cool, slick, rough, out-there, right-here, about architecture, with lots of pictures, with computer game reviews, even a cassette tape, some stuff made by norweigans, comics, just drawings, lots of stuff

Bijou Theatre, 178 Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town, 10am-4pm, Saturday, 1st of December

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The artists in residency at Greatmore Studios in Woodstock are having their final exhibition tonight at the studios. 6pm tonight (23rd November), 47-49 Greatmore Street, Woodstock, Cape Town. 

At tonight's exhibition will be available a handful of advance/preview copies of the first part of Mogorosi Motshumi's autobiographical graphic novel, 360°. Motshumi was the author/artist of the popular cartoon strip 'Sloppy', which ran from 1981-1994. This part of the book is titled 'Grandma's Hands', and is being printed as part of the Cape Town Zine Project. Another book printed as part of the Cape Town Zine Project, "Pissed Off", was available at the zine market on the 2nd of Nov.

Lola Lasurt, a Spanish artist, is a regular at the 'make zines at night' evenings and made a poster book of the Cango Caves in Oudtshoorn, which was also available at the zine market. She'll be going to Belgium next week, so this would be your chance to buy/swap a copy.  See you there!

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a collaborative booklet of drawings on the theme "Eden" for Electra's play of the same name. Drawings by 10 artists including Electra Nathania, Jean De Wet, Sebastian Borckenhagen.

Bottom image: left - Amy Lester, right - Hanno van Zyl

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Some of the best overseas artists contributed sketches to this colouring-in book, printed right here in Cape Town, on a wednesday night at the Bijou. 

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Matty Roodt - 'DOOM'

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'Strikken's Ultimate Beat Compilation', one of the more adventurous interpretations of 'zine' at the zine market.