ZINES

click to view full image

clockwise from upper left:

taffy hips 6
enjoyed zara messano's wes anderson's brother-esque comics, sam gaskin's ~10% grey tones, matt lock's distilled comics moment. all artwork is uncredited for some reason.

the lost ones
this was free, sponsored by microsoft's 'zune', and includes a contribution by gary panter. i appreciate how little he invests in this.

yoko ono in the curse of hall hassi starring everyone
i can't find my copy of this ... i remember remarking about the seemingly large amount of boners. i remember seeing intricacies that i hadn't noticed before and realizing that the level of intricacy was probably very high.

::b:d:x:b::
beer, disco ball, xanax, blacklights, a narrative is torn up and patched together 2x.

mcgriddle defense
selected short works about the breakfast sandwich 'mcgriddle' edited by ryan gratzer

good moon
i reviewed this already

legal pad
sam gaskin sent this to me. from the inside back cover: "these drawings were made by brattleboro lawyer william b. price in the 1960's. his notes are full of these doodles. hopefully, this book is the first in a series of found or forgotten art.") edited by sam phillips



froghead hangover
i liked - that mark p hensel immediately located it in his hometown of austin, tx,
the 2d/3d simultaneity.

yoko ono in star talk
a one-off by aidan koch with typically nice, inky art

kuti kuti 13
really into roope_eronen's comic (apparently ongoing) about a shitting dog, depicted in deadpan formalist fashion, and a Tommi Musturi page unlike any i've seen. really good drawing / painting, similar to cf



reich 7

yoko ono in "motherly love"
significant. this is the way i want my comics to be headed - concrete comics. it's a person moving through a space, but this space is not painterly and it is from a fixed perspective. basic concrete units and basic conceptual unity are presented here. it wasn't necessarily the content but the overall potential for content that impressed me. modular creation.

eschew
robert sergel takes the things adrian tomine was criticized for, stiff characters, lifeless lines, and applies them with great success to the messy aspects of human existence (shit, smells, etc). his plot-driven narrative is, for me, less successful.

oh no yoko!
yoko ono falls naked through the air and into/through a basketball hoop by c. feeney

yokoisms
beautiful color and texture ... washed out grey toner on ~70% yellow paper, drawings of naked women drawn without employing male gaze in mind, by caley f.

yoko ono in ... my first time
in this zine the same structure is employed for each spread. by scott longo who has a flickr presence here

in the name of love (r. kelly comics)
two empty paradigms - pop music lyrics and indie comics aesthetics - are stacked on top of each other in this comic by scott longo. this review says the words and pictures don't go together and i agree. double sarcasm leads to sincerity. scott's going 'all out' here - there's plenty of fail in this zine and it makes the win all the more enjoyable.



silent pictures
nice black and white booklet with a faux tauba auerbach helvetica cover



new paris
really enjoyed this. community zine charging incredible advertising rates and a trivia section by james mcshane. (sam gaskin: "I didn't do any part of the junk store newsletter either, it's a new entity now anyways, HBML has become FYC, run by skaters and hardcore punks now")

call all my dawgs #4 viz video
really enjoyable manga fanart and ranma 1/2 fan comics. captures innocence.

zine by sam phillips

f-a-n letter
raw kitschy paper with lush black toner by c.c.-l.f.

not pictured: http://yokonoblogzine.blogspot.com/ by 'zero reference'
sweet collage of screen captured windows. windows as windows... felt good looking at this