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NEW ZINE ALERT!
Is It Just Me or Are We Nailing This?: Essays on BoJack Horseman
A deep-dive into BoJack Horseman, by way of personal essays, comics, tarot, and interviews.
Within: alcoholism, international fandom, the history of screwball comedies, unlikeable cartoon women, absurdism, representation in voice acting, the power of Lisa Hanawalt, and much more. For fans, as well as those who can’t understand what there is to love in a cartoon about addiction and depression.
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New zine! The 15-year anniversary issue of Basic Paper Airplane, where 20 writers, musicians, DJs, label owners, publishers, and comic artists tell stories of how cassette tapes have affected their lives, for better or worse.
Within: the art of the mixtape, the importance of the boombox, the intimacy of the Walkman. Plus tales of recording with cassettes, performing with cassettes, releasing cassettes, falling in love with cassettes. Nostalgia, subversion, frustration, possibility.
Contributions from: Andrew Barton, Ariel Birks, Karleigh Frisbie Brogan, Aaron Burch, Laura Daegling, Tim Devin, Fukumup, Aaron Gilbreath, Cynthia Carmina Gómez, Jack Lewis, Chask'e Lindgren, Pat Maley, Jason Martin, Sara Renberg, Kevin Sampsell, Gina Sarti, Christopher Sutton, Tucker Theodore, and Alexis Wolf. Cover art by Rachel Lee-Carman. Risograph-printed throughout by Whatnow Press.
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Shit’s Fucked, Still is the long-awaited follow-up to our own Gina Sarti’s tiny bestselling zine of useful suggestions for getting through tough times. And would you believe: it’s even better than the first! Sweet, personal, practical, fun, and down to earth.
Within: bad mood bag, home museum, floating flowers, magical Mondays, bathroom poems, comfort potatoes, and so much more.
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A fantastic new issue of Alyssa Giannini’s Wanderer zine. Within: new adventures in sobriety, attachment styles, the prevalence of men as DIY music gatekeepers, EMDR, the search for sober recklessness, and taking over the long-running DoDIY resource site. A great read!
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Now in its thirteenth year, We’ll Never Have Paris is an institution. This issue of the all-memoir literary journal revolves around “hindsight” and within there are bald spots, guns, hearing aids, fandom, and so much more.
Essays by: Steven Svymbersky, Lisa Alexia, Amy Bobeda, Suzanne Present, Gustavo Rivera, LD Green, Anna Seregina, and Karen Lynch. Cover art by Sima Schloss.
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8-Track Mind #104: The Commodification of Nostalgia
Nearly thirty years into its existence, 8-Track Mind still manages a weirdness few other zines have. Loosely dedicated to an obsession with 8-track tapes, in issue 104, the “Cartridge Family” ostensibly work under the theme of “the commodification of nostalgia” and let whatever happens happen.
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The latest in Jennifer Williams’ well-loved workbook zine series. We Need Emotional Labor: Discussion Questions to Redistribute the Work that Holds Communities Together is an essential guide to understanding both the value of emotional labor and the imbalance of it.
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