#indie fanzine

[stillunusual]

Hello! I hope you’re doing well! Thanks for all the time you’ve put into scanning all of these amazing zines. I’m teaching a class on zines and zine making starting in January, and this has been a great resource, so thank you again! If you ever have the time and inclination, could you scan the Groovey fanzine? It was the first zine I ever bought, so many years ago, and it went missing over the years. Just seeing the cover made me so happy. Again, thanks, and take care! Best wishes,

Sarah

Hi Sarah

Thanks for getting in touch.

I have very little time for scanning/uploading more zines these days, but I'll put that issue of Groovey fanzine on my priority list for 2025….

[gamenburger]

Alright. It's here.

REVIEW OF THE KILLER is a (mainly spoiler free) zine review featuring commentary, analysis, comics, and various evil activities. It released on my itch.io page and will be free for anyone to download, as well as a convenient reader embedded in the page itself. It is releasing alongside the steam version of Anthology Of The Killer by @myfriendpokey.

It is available to print in both a4 and letterhead format, in color and B&W. All of these will be available in 600 or 300 PPI (as disgustingly high as Itch will allow) as well as regular old, web and storage friendly formats. I recommend vibrant pink and canary paper for greyscale copies. It is free to distribute as you please.

If you have liked any of the art I've done so far, please share this anywhere and everywhere you feel charitable to do so.

I hope you enjoy. I am always hoping you enjoy.

[hillsidecomics]

The long-awaited second instalment of Orlok Holmes: Vampire Detective has arrived in the Hillside Comics Shop! Can Orlok and his loyal companion, Dr. Jeff Witson, solve the case of the Neck-Bite Killer? Order your copy today, and save money by getting the Hallozine bundle! (Includes Dr. Acula 1-3 and Orlok Holmes 1&2)

[indieanimezine]

⭐️CONTRIBUTOR LINEUP⭐️

To recap, here is our incredibly talented team of artists for the Indie Animation Zine!

[vamphorica]

wow! a death note zine how cool let me go check – oh. yet another zine from 2017. never mind.

[yumenikki-zine]

✨Artist Application✨

✨Writer Application✨

✨Merch Artist Application✨

✨Musician & Alt Creator Application✨

Neocities

Reblogs appreciated! @anizines

[hearttinmyhand]

more shitty collage zine scans // the raveonettes - gone forever

[onemillionfurries]

i know the whole reason they fell out of fashion is because the internet came around and forums and websites replaced the need for them, but GODDDD do i ever wanna get a bunch of artists together and start a furry fanzine that ISN'T professionally printed. just printed on printer paper with black ink. have people submit their own art and stories to it. no need for a fucking application and choosing only the best artists with the most polished art styles to get in. anyone has the potential to get their submission featured in the zine.

[possible-streetwear]

[stillunusual]

Attack On Bzag (issue #6) YEAR: 1984 CREATED BY: James Brown LOCATION: Leeds SIZE: A4 WHAT’S INSIDE…. Journalist and lifelong Leeds United fan James Brown is best known for founding Loaded magazine in the mid-1990s, but a decade earlier, when he was still a spotty teenager, he started a fanzine called Attack On Bzag, while also contributing to alternative magazine Leeds Other Paper (which gets a mention in this issue of his zine).

Issue #6 of Attack On Bzag has a deliberately shambolic layout and is packed to the gills with irreverent and entertaining content that covers much more than the mid-1980s indie music scene. It was one of the first fanzines to feature extracts from Viz comic, which was still a comiczine with limited distribution at the time (and who could have predicted that after becoming rich and famous in the 90s Brown would end up buying Viz in 2001?)….

Brown's musical guide to mid-1980s Leeds correctly states that the "best and most credible shop to hang out in is by far Jumbo Records" (where I personally bought a lot of vinyl back in the day).

Bands featured include The Membranes, Five Go Down To The Sea, The Three Johns, Hagar The Womb, The Nightingales and the wonderful Folk Devils, whose "Beautiful Monster" ep includes one of my most played tracks of 1984 - "Brian Jones' Bastard Son".

Brown promotes a plethora of fanzines while also bragging about having been recently featured in the NME (who gave him a job a couple of years later). There are two pages dedicated to hyping fellow fanzine writer The Legend! (who also went on to work for the NME) and one of his favourite bands, The Monochrome Set.

Ranting poet Steven Wells (AKA Swells/Seething Wells/Susan Williams), who created a fanzine called Molotov Comics and was another soon-to-be NME writer, also gets a page to himself, while fellow ranters Swift Nick (head honcho of New Youth fanzine) and Richard "Kool Knotes" Edwards (co-editor of Cool Notes fanzine) get half a page each.

There's an amusing interview with rising star Rik Mayall, conducted while the second season of "The Young Ones" was showing on British tv. Each episode of the sitcom featured a different "musical guest" and the bands were selected by Mayall, who reveals that he turned down The Clash. Liverpool soap opera "Brookside", which was actually quite good in its early days (and had a character called Alan Partridge, who had nothing to do with Radio Norwich), also gets a two page spread.

There's even a very tasteful cartoon called "Zelda's Stomach".

Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine's pages….

my box of 1980s fanzines flickr

[gamenburger]

Comic strip excerpts from REVIEW OF THE KILLER, available to read, print, and distribute free on itch.io, bonus features coming today on my blog.

[hillsidecomics]

Coming this October, Orlok Holmes, the Vampire Detective returns in A Sequel In Bohemia! Now available to pre-order from the Hillside Comics shop!

[bennyzine]

In the ruins of a lost civilization, a space archaeologist is trying to light a fire among the shadows of swaying trees…

With one week before preorders end, we present a trailer animated by the amazing Penreve, one of our very own contributors!!

Preorder NOW to unlock our next stretch goal of a Benny & Unbound doctor transparent card!!

CREDITS: 🎨 Penreve (Animator) 🎨 Erin (Animator) 🎵 Zxy (Sound Designer)

SHOP

[indieanimezine]

💜CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT💜

Our next page artist is DevLunar, the creator of Motley's Mathhouse!

[andypartridges]

GETTING LOUDER NOW: a courtney barnett fanzine by @andypartridges read the full zine transcript & extra pages on my substack :-)

[proustian-dream]

1990, Spain, Stamp, flexi-disc.

Twee pop.

Flores se mueven a mi paso / me cuentan mil historias / que nunca han ocurrido de verdad // Mira, yo no te estoy mintiendo / cuando te digo esto...