#Classic UK Comics Zines

[tankgirlfan23]

Atom Tan

[dragonageannual]

DAA 2025: Legacies Product Previews!

It's almost time! Our 2025 shop opens in just five short days on October 1st. Check out the product previews below for a sneak peek at the amazing creations on offer!

All proceeds from 2025 sales will be donated to War Child UK.

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Dragon Age Annual 2025: Legacies

A Dragon Age Annual classic! We're excited to say that this year the calendar comes with a pre-punched hole so that you can easily hang and display the beautiful creative works inside. Our calendar celebrates your favourite characters, stories, and all there is to love about Thedas. With designs that span the entire Dragon Age franchise, there's sure to be something you'll want to see!

Keep reading to see previews for Sagas: A DAA 2025 Zine and our merchandise pack, including art prints, mini tarot cards, stickers & sticker sheets, magnets, and a wooden charm!

Sagas: A DAA 2025 Zine

Featuring 4 full-length fanfics, 2 comics, and 7 art pieces, this booklet celebrates even more of Thedas' myths, legends, and heroes. From Grey Wardens to The Qun to ancient and Dalish elves, you won't want to miss out on this one-of-a-kind anthology!

Prints

Decorate your home and make sure your guests know you'd rather be in Thedas with these art prints featuring our favorite Seeker, Cassandra Pentaghast, and the fabled Emerald Knights! Keep an eye out for our stretch goals to find out how to get these prints upgraded to A4-sized 👀

Mini Tarot Cards

Divine your Dragon Age destiny with our set of four mini tarot cards! Featuring the new DAA logo on the back, flip the cards over to find that your future holds four brand new fanart designs.

Stickers

Water bottle looking a little bare? Or maybe you need to decorate your new laptop? Either way, we have a sticker extravaganza to suit your needs! *Unlock The Broken Arrow for all physical orders with one of our stretch goals. **Unlock Iron Bull Planner Stickers for all physical calendar orders with one of our stretch goals.

Magnets

Satisfy the demands of the Qun by picking up this magnet set! Featuring Qunari legends, Sten and The Iron Bull, these button magnets will make sure no space on your fridge—or wherever you display them—is wasted.

Charm

Purchase of this charm includes a golden bead ball-chain, so it can easily be used as a key chain or zipper pull! If a necklace is more your style, simply pair the conveniently sized and lightweight charm with your own chain or cord and wear to show off your Andrastian pride!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE END OF THE MONTH APPROACHES, BUT MY COLLECTION ROLLS EVER FORWARD.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the penultimate set of Tumblr Cover photos, set #22 in my ongoing TCP collection, and featuring online finds such as:

SIEGE's "Drop Dead" discography on Deranged Records, The Scarecrow of Oz (from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz") illustrated by William Stout, a 1980 zine advert for English apocalypse punk band DISCHARGE, sleeve art illustration for the "Flames for All" album by FATSO JETSON, "WIZARD" magazine promotional illustration of the Marvel Universe by Alex Ross, UK post-punk band KILLING JOKE, photographed backstage in Boston, MA, c. 1980, panel artwork of Conan the Barbarian by John Buscema & Ernie Chan, and lastly, a promo advert for the American Underground Comix classic, "Cheech Wizard," created by the late, great Vaughn Bode.

Sources: Facebook (my FB profile), American Legacy Fine Arts (ALFA), Fatso Jetson official Bandcamp, Days of Punk, Flickr, View Comic Online, Artvee, various, etc...

[downthetubes]

Fanzine Flashback and a FANSCENE update: Fantasy Advertser #80, from 1983, revisited

Fanzine Flashback and a FANSCENE update: Fantasy Advertser #80, from 1983, revisited

One of the latest digital additions to the Classic UK Comics Zines archive is Fantasy Advertiser #80, edited by Martin Lock and John Hay, published in August 1983, with a cover by Kev F. Sutherland. In this issue, Alan Moore talks to Pete Scott about V for Vendetta, and then Tharg Richard Burton talks to Kev Sutherland about 2000AD. Plus, who wouldn’t want to vote in the latest Fantasy Advertser…

[nearit]

Not Because of the People - print edition!

Four comics about empty places & the people who live there + extras, now available in print. 176 beautiful black and white pages, created by me and brought into the physical world by Comic Printing UK.

You can buy the print edition here and the digital version here. Nae extras in the PDF version, and it can't sit on your shelf making you look damn attractive like the book can, so... they're both good, but maybe you want to buy the print version, I don't know!

PRAISE FOR NOT BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE

"The best haunted house comic you’ve never read" - Dan White, artist of Cindy and Biscuit and Sticky Ribs.

“Classic British indie small press pamphlet, and a sharp burst of mood and ideas. It’s very much comics as poem – it’s the sort of work that Douglas Noble has been known to do” – Kieron Gillen, writer of The Uncanny X-Men and The Wicked + The Divine “A spooky zine… Liked this a lot. The writing is really strong and the art suggests just enough to make you uneasy" – Sarah Horrocks, artist and creator of Aorta and Goro

[antiquatedfuture]

Zine Care Packages (Antiquated Future Spring Newsletter)

What a challenging time. Things have felt pretty bleak and I debated about whether to send this spring newsletter a lot, but friends convinced me we're all in need of good news. If nothing else, I want to say two things: 1) We'll still be shipping orders (with plenty of hand-washing and sanitizing) several times a week. 2) While we always appreciate and need your financial support, we'd also like to offer the resources we have to any of you who are having a hard time. 

In short: We're offering free zines (and tapes and books) to anyone who's currently struggling financially, mentally, or physically right now. No need to tell us details, just email and say "I'd like a package," and we'll send one your way. Let it be a surprise or make a list of what you'd like and we'll send you what we can. Feel free to spread the word to your friends and community through our Facebook or Twitter posts. It's not much, admittedly, but hopefully it's something.

In more general distro news: we have a few more calendars & planners in stock (and very very on sale), we’ve been restocking things as much as we can, and we accidentally left up our temporary store-wide cassette sale (that also includes a decent handful of LPs and CDs) as well as our zine sale on select titles. We also just posted a newsletter from the record label side of Antiquated Future. We're currently lending some small financial assistance to Portland writer Martha Grover as she recovers from a brain surgery by selling a fundraiser pack of her Somnambulist zine. And if you're in the Portland area, we're helping do porch deliveries of food, baby supplies, and various resources. Please reach out if you'd like one or you know someone in need.

NEW ZINES Antonia- A rare, almost-sublime zine about place, memory, and lost history. About the ways things change and stay the same. About how the place you're from shapes who you become. About growing up in a small Midwestern town without a zip code, a place not on most maps. ($5) Behind the Zines #9: A Zine About Zines- The latest issue of newest best zine about zines around. Within: the evolution of DIY comics culture, zine-fest history, imagined zines, One Punk's Guide to collaborative zines, a history of that one Crimethinc poster, The Most Unwanted Zine, confessions of a sex-zine zinester. Contributions from our own Gina Sarti, as well as John Porcellino and so many others. ($3) Brainscan #34: A Dabbler's Week of DIY Witchery- In the wake of the controversy surrounding a recent viral article about spending a week "becoming a witch," Alex considers what her guide to a witchcraft practice would look like. The results are a day-by-day guide to trying out her particular variety of secular witchcraft (that she lovingly refers to as "DIY witchery"). ($4)

Caboose #12: Jury Duty- A personal story of serving as a juror on a medical malpractice suit. As usual, Liz Mason's playful, endlessly curious take on the world makes this a ride worth taking. A peek into the court system through the eyes of this long-running zine-star. ($4) Clock Tower Nine #15- One of our favorite Seattle zines is back with tales from the record store counter, long walks in various locales, dangerous doppelgängers, and 8-track tapes. As Clock Tower Nine ringleader Danny Noonan describes it in the introduction: "This fanzine is like a bunch of people sitting around a fire in late fall, all taking turns telling a story." ($3) Cometbus #59: Post-Mortem- How does Cometbus, after 38 years as a zine, just get better and better? It's a mystery, but it does. Issue 59 is a deep dive into both death and longevity in the underground. In short: what does sustainability look like in counterculture? This question takes Aaron on a journey from the Epitaph Records and Thrasher magazine offices to hanging out at a punk-owned vegan donut shop and a tamale stand at the farmer's market with Allison Wolfe (of Bratmobile). ($5)

Doris #23- A back-issue fave from one of the best zines ever. Long personal stories that look both outward and inward in surprising ways. ($2) Doris #26- Shy-punk-girl comics, social ecology, the cynical hour, a grandpa who built malls, hammer and nail history, and more. ($2) Eulalia #3- Two issues of the art zine Eulalia in one. Grief and romance, hand-in-hand. Gorgeously designed! Letterpress-printed covers. Each issue is bound with a special do-si-do binding, so each half can be read separately. ($10) Fluke Fanzine #17- Since 1991, Fluke has been creating great variety zines covering all realms of punk and underground culture. Graphic novelist Nate Powell, skateboard magazine historians, Maximum Rocknroll, R.E.M., '90s women-led punk, the Soophie Nun Squad family tree, more. ($3)

Forever & Everything #5- Comics on parenting, depression, coffee, therapy, alcohol, Willie Nelson, Charlie Brown, and living in New Orleans. ($5) Good Days Gone Cold Days- A photography zine/art zine made while living and working in "a house without heat, without doorknobs, and without much insulation or electricity to speak of" for a late fall in western Pennsylvania. Comes with homemade bookmark, building permit, and banjo tab. ($12) Keep Loving, Keep Fighting #8- A reprint of this 2008 issue of Keep Loving, Keep Fighting. Forty pages of feeling at home in New Orleans, communication between friends, death, visiting Montreal, and moving away. ($5)

Learning Good Consent- An essential compilation zine about consent. From personal stories to worksheets, approaches, definitions, resources, and beyond, Learning Good Consent is here to help us all feel more comfortable and be more respectful. ($4)

Little Leagues #1- The companion comics scrapbook to Simon Moreton's epic Minor Leagues series. Prose, comics and photos about being in Japan, making chutney, experiencing autumn. ($3) Little Leagues #2- Comics about being in the snow. Drawings and photos of spring. A fold-out cover with facts about lesser-spotted dogfish. ($3) Our Lady of Near Death Experiences- Jodi Darby writes about becoming a cross-country truck driver as a 23-year-old woman in the mid 1990s. A mini-memoir told in vignettes, Our Lady is a twisted love song to the road in all its complexities. A gorgeous reprint of this zine classic from 1998. (And we have the last few copies before it goes out of print!) ($10)

The Paruretic #1: The Story of a Guy Who's Pee Shy- The first issue of one of our favorite new zine series. The Paruretic tells what the intricacies and complexities of life with parusesis, the social phobia of being pee shy. Illuminating, accessible, and worth reading every issue. ($2)

The Paruretic #2: The Story of a Guy Who's Pee Shy (College)- In this issue, Mark recalls figuring out the debilitating effects of his bladder issues when he goes to college and, for the first time, navigates living in dorms, drinking at college-town bars, and hooking-up. ($3)

The Paruretic #3: The Story of a Guy Who's Pee Shy (Vacation)- In this issue: searching out acceptable bathrooms while on the road, not urinating for ten hours while in the air, and a bathroom-by-bathroom diary of experiences. ($3) The Paruretic #4: The Story of a Guy Who's Pee Shy (The Search for Help)- In this issue, Mark reaches out, looking for help, and is met with a less-than-sympathetic medical system. Within: clueless medical professionals, almost losing a job over a urinalysis, and finally finding someone who understands. ($3) The Paruretic #5: The Story of a Guy Who's Pee Shy (Dating)- The dating issue covers how Mark handled (or avoided handling) dating in high school and college. It's a chronicle of, as Mark says, "how my shy bladder has driven every part of my love life." ($3)

Somnambulist Zine Pack Fundraiser- For the past 17 years, Portland memoirist and illustrator Martha Grover has been publishing Somnambulist zine, an expansive and playful look at the world at large (and easily one of the best zines running today). This pack includes all nine in-print issues of Somnambulist (a $40 value for $25!). All proceeds go straight to Martha's brain surgery recovery fund. Help a great writer, get nine amazing zines. ($25) Somnambulist #33: How to Survive the Portland Winter- A fun how-to guide from Portland-born writer Martha Grover. Within: dealing with all the rain, taking care of your mental health, venturing out, staying in, eating soup (with recipes!), and the truth about umbrellas. Illustrated by Liz Yerby. ($5)

Somnambulist #34: The Starfish- A single, long-form essay about Martha's journey through Cushing's disease and Addison's disease, and the lingering tumor she's chosen to not demonize or see as something separate. The Starfish is a surprising and exciting meditation on what it means to be in a body. ($3) Surely, They'll Tear it Down- A short zine letter about gender, race, identity, and not-knowing from the author of Fixer Eraser and We, the Drowned. ($2) Tattoo Punk Fanzine, Issue 3- A jam-packed new issue of Tattoo Punk, the fanzine about tattoos, punks, and tattooed punks. Edited by Ben Trogdon of everyone's favorite artsy punk paper, Nuts! ($15) Valentines Every Day- Weirdo anytime-valentines from zine-seller extraordinaire, Julie Wade. Funny, bizarre, off-kilter, occasionally unsettling. The perfect gift for that especially-odd someone. ($6) What Happened- A dreamy comic from UK artist Simon Moreton. Set in a '90s boyhood of meadows, sci-fi VHS tapes, MTV, crushes, first kisses. ($5) 

NEW BOOKS & MISCELLANY The Collected Plays by Portland Preschoolers- In short: One of our favorite little books around! A modern classic, even. Five years of collected plays written by Portland, Oregon preschoolers. Hilarious, invariably bizarre, oddly brilliant, sometimes surprisingly profound. Perfect for putting out on the coffee table, reading aloud to friends, impromptu group performances. ($10) Four-Year Depression- A book about figuring out how to love your family in the Trump era. From Billy McCall of Proof I Exist and Behind the Zines. ($10) Zine Game- A long-time favorite in the zine community, now in a fancy, professionally-made version accessible to all game lovers. Playing like a cross between canasta and Magic: The Gathering, Zine Game is all about building your own zines. A really fun time with tons of possibilities. ($16)

NEW MUSIC & SPOKEN WORD Alice Notley "Live in Seattle"- An LP of one of the most adored living poets. Alice Notley pushes boundaries, and it's an absolute joy to hear her reading her work. (LP + digital download) ($16.95) Annelyse Gelman & Jason Grier "About Repulsion"- A collaboration between poet Annelyse Gelman and sound artist Jason Grier. About Repulsion mixes songs, sampled poems, textural walls, beats, noise, to create this EP of one-of-a-kind soundscapes. (LP + digital download) ($16.95) Eileen Myles "Aloha / Irish Trees"- The legendary poet Eileen Myles, on vinyl for the first time. Aloha/Irish Trees features nearly an hour of Myles live in the studio, reading past and present poems. Intimate, playful, raw. (LP + digital download) ($16.95)

Harmony Holiday "The Black Saint and the Sinnerman"- Harmony Holiday's record of poems and sound collage. Adventurous and accessible, twisting cultural images into something surprising, political, socially aware. In conversation with Charles Mingus’ classic 1963 album The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. (LP + digital download) ($16.95) Rae Armantrout "Conflation"- Fifty-four surprising and gloriously unique poems from Rae Armantrout, a Pulitzer-winning poet of great gifts. (LP + digital download) ($16.95) Susan Howe & Nathaniel Mackey  "Stray: A Graphic Tone"- Made in collaboration with Shannon Ebner, Stray: A Graphic Tone juxtaposes historic and recent material from poets Susan Howe and Nathaniel Mackey. An adventurous LP of spoken word delights. (LP + digital download) ($16.95)

Stay well, take care of each other as much as possible. Xo, Antiquated Future

[stillunusual]

Deviation Street (issue #3) YEAR: 1977 CREATED BY: Kevin Anderson and his mates LOCATION: Hebburn SIZE: A4 WHAT'S INSIDE.... Issue #3 of Deviation Street was mainly the work of Kevin Anderson. This was the final issue of the zine but nevertheless it's oozing with positivity and excitement about the incredible musical explosion that was happening in the UK in 1977. Kevin and his mates had been to some awesome gigs in recent weeks: Iggy Pop, The Adverts, The Clash, The Stranglers, Penetration and the Live Stiffs Tour (featuring Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Wreckless Eric and The New Rockets, Nick Lowe's Last Chicken In The Shop, and Larry Wallis's Psychedelic Rowdies). They also met and interviewed the likes of Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Tubes, Mink De Ville, The Only Ones and Tom Robinson Band.... The new vinyl releases reviewed include John Cooper-Clarke's "Innocents" EP, which was a particular favourite of mine at the time, especially the track called "Suspended Sentence" which BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel played a lot on his evening show. Kevin also went to see a screening of a film about the Sex Pistols at Newcastle Poly and there's even a review of slasher classic “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”. The back cover of the zine features Newcastle record shop Listen Ear, which later changed its name to Volume Records (and was regularly featured in Viz Comic during the 1980s)…. Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine's pages.... While writing this piece I discovered that Deviation Street was reborn in 2017 as a website and magazine "for readers, writers, artists and musicians who span the creative spectrum". The website's archive section includes material from all three issues of the original zine as well as some great previously unpublished photos. my box of 1970s fanzines flickr

[knockknockzine]

Issue 8 of Knock Knock is now available to purchase! This issue is a collection of art, comics and stories surrounding the theme of the occult, from many contributors from all over the world! 64 pages of horror goodness! 

You can grab copies on our Etsy store here:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/619681507/knock-knock-occult-classics-zine

Or you can subscribe to our zines on Patreon, for $2 a month you can get the printed zines to your door as they come out!

https://www.patreon.com/frissoncomics

If you’d like to contribute to our 9th issue, our gourmet edition check out the post below with the callout 

[conartist23]

HEADS UP, I GET A LITTLE WORDY

In the first half of this year, I was invited to contribute to a WicDiv zine that unfortunately fell apart. For these 2 pages, I fulfilled the role of both artist and writer (article and editor notes) (because clearly I’m a low-key control freak)

I don’t usually explain my intentions, and I think it’s fun when there’s something to unpack in creativity. But I’m going to touch on some points, in broad strokes.

So, after the jump, my musings, and a full transcript in case its hard to read (with tumblr resolution it probably will be)

The brief itself dictated it would be an in world magazine, we’d be making articles and art as if the gods were real. As such, I leaned toward merchandise, because that felt tangible and novel.

So, first up, Persephone Perfume. Probably sparked by a loose name connection (which I touch on in the editors notes). Visually, it speaks to an important meta-element of WicDiv, decapitation. Logically, it was a way to work in a likeness, so the product was identifiable, rather than some disconnected motif. Storms and Pomegranates are tied to the myth of her namesake.

Next, the Camden market shoddy reality of the not at all unnerving perfume head. In a rare dalliance with comedy, my mind went to knock-offs. What’s more tragic than a t-shirt adorned by Spider-man, Shrek and Darth Vader with the words Justice League… A failed product. So, rather than be the misguided but honest result of sweatshop labour, it’s a semi legitimate venture. I say semi, not to make you laugh, but because I imagined merchandising from the gods being a licensing nightmare. It didn’t make sense for me, to have the gods be hands on with trinkets, branded mugs etc. So, what started as a product defined by the corporate machine, soon began to unravel, design problems leading them from idealistic proof to unsatisfying reality. So, the pineapple headed, generic featured toby mug from hell, ended up being abandoned, with swathes of it turning up at markets across the uk, in a desperate last ditch attempt to make something. Watch me hardly touch on this pseudo world building in the tiny paragraph I gave myself. More god merch as easter eggs.

Woden graffiti. At the time, his identity was a mystery, and technically, in world, still would be. Not much else to say other than I enjoyed writing the banter, which stemmed from me actually not really knowing what Woden did (cue headfirst dive back into the comics). Rip is written on the wall, because, everyone fucking dies in Wic Div.

Finally, an image of the underground, because it’s London af. Originally, the train lights were more eye like, to dubiously suggest The Morrigan. It’s not really a visual associated with her, couple that with being ridiculously large, I moved against it. Instead, it’s the shadows cast, you can make out the outline of The Morrigan with a crow. I toyed with touching on will o’ the wisps, to further root in folklore, but efficiency of words and all that. I applied homemade filters, messed with the colours, all to push an analogue fuzziness.

My persefumone joke. Says it all really. I am a bad person and I don’t remotely care. Crimes against comedy ☑︎

With all this said, it’s up to you if I’m using the word jaunt legitimately or ironically…

THE TRANSCRIPT

We managed to get our hands on the full page ad of the pretentiously named “Pom”. This proposed persephone perfume, promised perfection it was not permitted to provide. The product ran into a lot of problems, and went dark for a while. But nothing, could save us from that steely gaze that follows you around the room. It’s back, not quite as fresh, in our segment “spotted in the wild”.

Spotted in the Wild

[see left] Discovered at Camden Market this weekend, a fantastic likeness of dear Persephone.

Wait till you get those proofs back before you run the ads eh?

Heads up (I know, I know, I’m so witty), apparently this one contains chemicals unsanctioned by most known governments… that’s adult speak for this shit is poison. Sounds like someone’s been reading the Hades playbook and wants to invite you all for a jaunt in the underworld. Stay clear of this one.

Unless you want to use the head as an ornament… then pour it out and place it on the mantel. Classy.

Everyone’s favourite Woden? Someone’s favourite? Probably? What is it he does exactly? I don’t know… I love my job don’t fire me.

[EDITOR’S NOTE : Woden is a producer, as in he makes. The job is indifferent to you frankly. I, on the other hand, think you’re…. ok. You’re safe. For now. ]

Thank the gods! ;) praying emoji. Tell me, oh benevolent overlord, in your infinite wisdom, is that huginn or munnin?

[EDITOR’S NOTE : Dont. Push. It.]

Another day, another eagle-eyed (or should that be crow uhurr hurr) reader claiming to have photo evidence of the ever elusive Morrigan.

“Evidence”.

Well… at least the potato that captured such classics as 'alien autopsy 56' and 'bigfoot goes on holiday' survives to this day.

Don’t tell them it’s the lights of an oncoming train okay? Leave a little magic in the world will you? For me?

[EDITOR’S NOTE: How did he not make a perfume/Persephone joke. Persefumone. Forgive me. I am deeply sorry.]

I enjoyed what I did, working to an outline, deadlines. I don’t think I’ll be doing a zine in the immediate future, I’m concentrating on my own projects, particularly on ways to avoid, you know, actually doing them.

You read all that? Want a hug? I know, that boy sure does chat shit. He’s gone now, he can’t hurt you anymore.

[iesorno]

lazy sunday read - Classic UK Comics Zines

lazy sunday read - Classic UK Comics Zines organised by @David_HPrice and, like it says, featuring many classic comic fanzines and strip zines #comics #stripzine #fanzine #webzines #history #zines

(click on images to follow links) organised by David Hathawy-Price From his own Fanscene To classic fanzines (this one’s Arkensword) to strip zines (Litratrip – cover Tony Schofield) all contents copyright its respective owners

[nicolewebster88]

ZINE RESEARCH

DEEP DIVE:

50 ZINES:

1) https://www.behance.net/gallery/38823815/Zine-Green-Hill

2) https://liahmoss.com/localguidetoedinburgh/

binding is sewn

3) https://www.flickr.com/photos/philippawood/3447360101/

4) https://www.etsy.com/listing/478097461/autumn-wild-plant-zine-comic-risograph?ref=shop_home_active_10

5) http://www.bijoukarman.com/new-gallery-21

6) http://www.bijoukarman.com/sweethearts-of-the-rodeo-zine

7) http://www.bijoukarman.com/girls-and-plants-zine

8) http://www.bijoukarman.com/iris-murdoch-penguin-classics/hasutk7ym0gt1ii3lz73ri7sd9931m

9) https://dribbble.com/shots/6692063-Egress-Zine?utm_source=Pinterest_Shot&utm_campaign=RypeArts&utm_content=Egress%20Zine&utm_medium=Social_Share

10) http://hardcoreambient.storenvy.com/products/18562732-teenage-graphics-riso-zine

11) https://dribbble.com/shots/4133797-An-tema-Risograph-Zine

12) https://www.behance.net/gallery/19329225/Imaginary-Fronds

13) https://www.behance.net/gallery/33452061/Myself-as-Me-and-You-%28split-release-with-Ins-Estrada%29?tracking_source=project_owner_other_projects

14) https://www.behance.net/gallery/57403387/Self-Publishing-Zine-flower-Zineflower?tracking_source=search%7Czine

15) https://www.behance.net/gallery/62618167/Paradiso-Issue-No-02

16) https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/dear

17) https://www.behance.net/gallery/9841907/Floriography-fanzine

18) https://boingboing.net/2012/12/31/windowpane-surreal-d.html

19) https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/645701344/motel-zine

20) https://www.behance.net/gallery/37547605/Unfolding-The-Saree-Indie-Zine

21) https://heliopress.tumblr.com/post/134301777169/every-morning-by-mel-stringer-is-out-today-buy

22) https://www.etsy.com/listing/518547184/a-damn-tiny-zine-twin-peaks-art-mini

23) http://jooheeyoon.com/p1.html

24) http://www.designersjournal.net/news/twenty-years-of-design-by-famous-vs

25) https://www.counter-print.co.uk/collections/all-books/products/you-me-we

26) https://www.counter-print.co.uk/collections/magazines/products/oase-104

27) https://www.oliverbonas.com/us/gift/all-day-cocktails-low-no-alcohol-magic-recipe-book-305952

28) https://store.moma.org/books/frank-lloyd-wright-unpacking-the-archive/900026-900026.html?cgid=books#view=grid&start=1

29) https://store.moma.org/books/henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-exhibition-catalogue-hc/915-915.html?cgid=books#view=grid&start=218

30) https://www.counter-print.co.uk/collections/all-books/products/the-rules-do-not-apply

31) https://leperiplo.com/collections/brighton-digital/products/brighton-impresa

32) https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/appetites-a-cookbook-by-anthony-bourdain-and-laurie-woolever?category=books&color=000&type=REGULAR

33) http://www.bookofideas.co.uk/Vol-2/

34) https://www.thisismirador.com/rubbish/

35) https://natalieandrewson.bigcartel.com/product/the-demon-on-sourwood-mountain-comic

36) https://www.katebingamanburt.com/what-did-i-eat-today

37) https://www.storenvy.com/products/28592660-lovesick-zine/v/115294124

38) https://www.behance.net/gallery/81938763/ON-REPEAT-FESTIVAL?tracking_source=search%7Czine

39) https://www.behance.net/gallery/73890761/SMILE?tracking_source=search%7Czine

40) https://www.behance.net/gallery/35184417/Crime-Zine?tracking_source=search%7Czine

41) https://www.behance.net/gallery/92810617/Good-Omens-Zine?tracking_source=search%7Czine

42) https://www.behance.net/gallery/44402209/GIRLS-ZINE?tracking_source=search%7Czine

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44) https://www.etsy.com/listing/271357074/the-land-around-us-risograph-zine?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=zines&ref=sr_gallery_27

45) https://jackieillustrated.bigcartel.com/product/paris-zine

46) https://jackieillustrated.bigcartel.com/product/heartbreak-zine

47) http://jackiediedam.com/amalfi-coast-illustrated-travel-guide/

48) https://manjitthapp.co.uk/a-wes-anderson-zine

49) https://pollyfernsergeant.bigcartel.com/product/booklet

50) https://worldfamousoriginal.com/collections/zines-books/products/copy-of-copy-of-ugly-girl-gang-issue-4

PHYSICAL ZINE/BOOK:

“Where Real Londoners Eat Breakfast” by Bianca Bridges

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Punk’s DIY Aesthetic

For years fanzines (a combination of the words fan and magazine), have been a powerful form of self-expression and exploration for artists who found no voice or place in the mainstream and established art scene. Fanzines, or simply zines, provide the artist with the opportunity to be art maker, publisher, designer and printer. As such, artists were, and still are, given the chance to create something completely original without the shackles or constraints associated with the mainstream art and publishing worlds. 

This level of innovation and creativity is best seen through the Punk era fanzines that are characterised by their intentionally “bad art” pen and ink illustrations, “untutored graphic techniques,” and purposeful references to the artist’s hand (Chwast, Heller 165). With the launch of Punk magazine in 1975 and thus the Punk DIY (do it yourself) aesthetic, outsider artists and mainstream pariahs were finally given a platform to produce the work they wanted to make. It is from these Punk zines that a DIY revolution launched an underground movement — through self publishing, trade shows, zine enthusiasts and eventually the Internet — that infiltrated and redefined the current, mainstream markets of Illustration and Graphic Design today.

The Punk aesthetic, a combination of Dadaism assemblage and antagonistic rejection of classical illustration and design principles, has greatly influenced the art scene since it began in the mid-1970s. Art Chantry, one of the most influential Punk artists, often describes the movement as “a social and philosophical revolution against status-quo positions of reigning norms” (Chwast, Heller 165). Beyond Punk’s obvious influences on CD and album covers, its biggest impact on the art world is found in the movement that began when cartoonist John Holsmtrom founded Punk with Ged Dunn and Legs McNeil. As a magazine, Punk was revolutionary in its time as it provided unbiased and truthful accounts of the growing alternative music scene in New York. “It was distributed in England before the first UK Punk zine was produced,” thus providing the seed in both America and Britain for what would become the so- called Punk DIY conventions of raw “spontaneous page layout, the production values of the photocopier, and a mixture of typographic treatments such as cut and paste, ‘ransom notes,’ and handwritten and typewritten letterforms,” (Triggs 46). However, Punk’s most important impact on the art scene lies in Holstrom’s illustration and hand lettering style that has a “caustically comic appearance, a combination between an underground newspaper and a high school newsletter,” (Chwast, Heller 165). The combination of self- publishing and a healthy disregard to institutional conventions, endowed artists full of freedomof expression that went unappreciated by the mainstream. Consequentially, the Punk DIY revolution was born.

The innovation and aesthetics of these Punkzines launched a DIY revolution that has transformed the face of Illustration and Graphic Design today. Many modern day Illustrators are greatly influenced by notion of taking complete artistic control of their work; this is to say that instead of simply creating an illustration, more and more Illustrators are merging the role of artist and designer by incorporating their own hand lettering, setting type themselves, and even controlling the layout of piece itself inside of a publication. Moreover, the DIY influences of Punk zines become even more apparent when one looks at the compositions, collage/assemblage techniques, bold graphics, and deliberately quirky and styled line drawings of such currently prominent Illustrators as Mikey Burton and Hattie Stewart.

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British Comics Fandom Flashback! Fantasy Advertiser #75, from 1982 (with added Grant Morrison)

Online discussion of comics takes many forms, but none so enjoyable at times than a trip down memory lane – and over this surreal Easter weekend, one Facebook thread I kickstarted led back to the early 1980s. Discussion that revealed a fascinating snapshot of British comics fandom back in 1982, when Grant Morrisonhad only begun to deliver his take on the superhero genre, comic shops were…

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Generacion Suicida - Sombras 12" is out!

Generacion Suicida are creators and innovators of a special underground punk scene in South Central Los Angeles, bringing together kids from the neighbourhood along with other LA punks from across the city to chaotic and DIY shows held in a garage in their back garden! For those not familiar, they play fast paced, melodic punk channeling the sounds of KBD style punk.

Released in Europe to coincide with their UK tour in January, Sombras is their third LP. Jangly guitars, male/female vocals, the group is obviously influenced by the Vicious and Eskorbuto, but retain the sound they have been playing for years, and once again keep that classic sound fresh, exciting, and most importantly, relevant.

Each copy includes a 10 page comic style zine insert. Take notice that we only have 45 copies of blue vinyl! STREAM/DOWNLOAD: https://doomtownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sombras-12 BUY: http://livinginadoomtown.bigcartel.com/product/generacion-suicida-sombras-12-doomtown

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So hard to get a photo of this. "Dark Chocolate" my gruesome retelling of Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Hand brushed hammered card. Two tone black print and gold detail. Gold thread bookbinding. Not gonna lie this looks so sick in RL. FankFukitsDun. Beer me. O M G I D R A W E D I T #zine #graphic #art #blackandgold #bookbinding #handmade #handrawn #artist #artsy #lowbrow #lowbrowart #horror #gore #death #skull #darkart #skullart #charlieandthechocolatefactory #darkchocolate #omgidrawedit #comic #reaper #notforkids #graphicnovel #black #pen #pencil #evil #willywonka #uk

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British comic fanzines archive “The Fanscene Project” has a new online home

A fantastic digital celebration of British comics fandom has a new online home

An incredible project aiming to document the history of British comic fanzines and fandom, both as an online archive and in print, has a new home on the web. Founded back in 2015 as the Classic UK Comic Zines site, artist and comic archivist David Hathaway-Price has been constantly adding to what is now The Fanscene Project. Now residing at comicsfanzines.co.uk, the project is an online,…