#indie fanzine

[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

[maumoraart]

Hey everyone! As you may have noticed I'm a big fan of Metroid. Here's a free 15 page fancomic I did for the first anniversary of Metroid Dread! Art by me, and written by Omar Morales, who's also a huge Metroid fan!

Hope you liked it! Be sure to also check out Omar's website where you can read this and his other projects! https://theforcemedia.com/metroid-pdf

[indieanimezine]

🖼️CONTRIBUTOR APPLICATIONS OPEN🖼️

Contributor applications for both the Indie Animation Zine and Indie Hype Zine are now open!

Indie Animation Zine app: https://tally.so/r/mJ65d7

Indie Hype Zine app: https://tally.so/r/3jy1q9

🗓️Close June 24

[yumenikki-zine]

✨Artist Application✨

✨Writer Application✨

✨Merch Artist Application✨

✨Musician & Alt Creator Application✨

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Reblogs appreciated! @anizines

[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]

[andypartridges]

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

[lovergirl-8]

+ curious heart +

night blooming jasmine under a white pool moon, how soon is too soon?

[orangeflavorfun]

A fanzine I made about Chiitan

[stillunusual]

Helden (issue #4) YEAR: 1986 CREATED BY: Maurice Maxwell, William Maxwell and various contributors LOCATION: Dundonald SIZE: A4 WHAT'S INSIDE.... Helden was one of the Northern Irish fanzines that followed in the footsteps of punk and post-punk pioneers like No Fun and Alternative Ulster, and ensured that zines continued to be an integral part of the local music scene during the 1980s. This issue features Cruella De Ville (a post-punk band from Belfast that split up the year before) and a band from Derry called Tie The Boy. There's also an interview with Keith McCormick who ran local independent label One By One, which emerged to fill the gap left by Terri Hooley's Good Vibrations (although Hooley's label went out of business in 1982, the Good Vibrations record shop was still up and running according to an ad on page 27). The "Local News" section mentions the commercial success being enjoyed by Feargal Sharkey, That Petrol Emotion and Andy White. The zine was also successful and had even released a cassette compilation called "A Cut Above The Rest" featuring tracks by six Northern Irish bands. The rest of Helden's musical content is very diverse and it's clear from the playlist on the back page that the Maxwells and their friends had wide-ranging tastes. The most interesting articles feature the enfant terribles of mid-1980s indie rock, The Jesus And Mary Chain (who make it clear that they are not the new Sex Pistols) and original punks Siouxsie And The Banshees, whose post-punk musical adventures had already cemented their legacy as an incredibly influential band, while Siouxsie herself had become a female style icon that generations of edgy teenagers would want to look like. According to William Maxwell, the setlist of the Banshees' recent gig in Belfast included their 1981 single "Spellbound", which was given a new lease of life four decades after its original release by being played over the closing credits of season 4 of "Stranger Things". Madness (who had come a long way from their original 2-Tone roots by this time), The Long Ryders (described as "the frontier men of American rock") and Lloyd Cole are also featured. There's an excellent four page Van Morrison retrospective and a tribute to Phil Lynott, who had recently died. Several pages of reviews include a brief dismissal of "Cut The Crap" - the execrable last album by The Clash, which brought the band's career to an embarrassing end. Fanzines reviewed include Rouska, Ooz, Rumble, What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen and Another Empire. The authors refer to Helden as a magazine rather than a fanzine throughout. My copy came with a little note from Maurice. Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine's pages.... my box of 1980s fanzines flickr

[estetambleresmaloperoesmio]

Subo clips de tocatas y comparto bandas nuevas en este tiktok

[andrhomeda]

First time tabling at Treviso Comic Book Festival 2023 and i did it with my friends!

[indieanimezine]

Both fanartists and independent animation creators are encouraged to apply! Submit before June 24th!

Indie Animation Zine app: https://tally.so/r/mJ65d7

Indie Hype Zine app: https://tally.so/r/3jy1q9

[lauren-adassovsky]

Here it is! You can download my new fanzine Matsuri for free here! I had a lot of fun working on it and I hope you’ll enjoy reading my little Japanese adventures<3

Le voilà! Vous pouvez télécharger mon nouveau fanzine Matsuri gratuitement juste ici! Je me suis beaucoup amusée avec ce projet ces derniers mois et j’espère que vous aurez du plaisir à lire mes petites aventures japonaises <3

Http://7947444976933.gumroad.com

[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!

[possible-streetwear]