Future Fantasteek! No.3, The Carbon Footprint Issue


Future Fantasteek! No.3, The Carbon Footprint Issue
Jac Batey

Publishing Info:
Place of publication: Brighton, UK
Year: 2007, Edition of 50 (27/50)
Size and binding: A5 saddle-stitched
Number of pages: 16
Print methods and paper type: Cover - black ink on pearlescent copper paper, inner pages - black ink on yellow paper and black and yellow ink on off white paper.

Description: 
A collection of illustration, hand lettering and photography with witty inventions, advice and satirical advertisements.
Quote from author’s website: “Once again, the Damp Flat Research team share their fantastic inventions, ideas and advice. The evil central colour pull-out has a mirror where you can see your evil twin or simply worry more with the new Damp Worry Doll. There are inventions to help you spot a bad idea; pretend to talk like a grown-up or slow yourself down to avoid having to do anything. That and so much more... PLUS are you really being watched?”

Link to Author: futurefantasteek.com

Maps


Maps
Egg Box Publishing

Place of publication: University of East Anglia, UK (2016)

Publication Info: A5 saddle-stitched, 16 x pages.
Print methods and paper type: Colour print on card cover, inner pages full colour laser print

Description: A collaborative zine from students at the University of East Anglia in 2016. This was the first zine created by 'Egg Box' and it asked students to submit written, photographic and artwork responses to the theme of Maps. Some contributors took the theme very literally by drawing maps of the campus, while others took a metaphorical approach, such as creating a map of pain on their body caused by chronic illness.
Quote from author’s website: “Egg Box Publishing's monthly collaborative zine for October 2016. Based on the title 'Maps' members submitted content which was put together, edited and designed by Egg Box Publishing. Thank you to everyone who submitted: Jay Stonestreet, Eve Mathews, Emily Mildren, Mireia Molina Costa, Tony Allen, Anisha Jackson, Hugo Douglas-Deane, Sophie Chapman, Lauren Rice, and Katherine Leaver.
Link to publisher: www.eggboxpublishing.com

Future Fantasteek! Issue 2, 'Comfort & Security'


Future Fantasteek! Issue 2, 'Comfort & Security'
Jac Batey

Place of publication: Brighton, UK (2007)

Publication Info: A5 saddle-stitched, 16x pages.
Edition of 50 (29/50).
Print methods and paper type: Cover - black ink on pearlescent lilac paper with glitter stickers, inner pages are black ink on fluorescent pink paper

Description:
A collection of illustrations, hand lettering and photography with witty inventions, advice, and satirical advertisements.
Quote from author’s website: “The second outing for the 'Damp Research Laboratory' - once the staff were hastily re-hired. Marvel at the Negativity Negator; find out why "NO" is better than "yes". Ever wondered why everything is always out of order? Let the Entropy-Go-Round inform you. How useful is Vitamin O? And another 'bang-on' Masked-Cat truism for your delectation..”
Link to author's website: www.futurefantasteek.com

Portsmouth and Hampshire Suffrage Standard Edition No. 2 - The Diary of Harriet Blessley



Portsmouth and Hampshire Suffrage Standard Edition No. 2 - The Diary of Harriet Blessley
Sarah Houghton

Publishing Info:
Place of publication: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Year: 2025
Size and binding: 29cm x 37cm folded
Number of pages: 4
Print methods and paper type: Newspaper

Description:
A series of papers printed as a newspaper, that are part of PhD student Sarah Houghton’s research - an investigation into the hidden history of the Portsmouth Suffragist movement explored through the lens of visual communication design. This edition focuses on the diary of Harriet Blessley.

“Re-presenting the people. This is a play-on-words with reference to the Representation of the People Act from 1918 that marked the moment women gained the right to vote in general elections.”

www.representingthepeople.co.uk

Extra Extra Read All About It




Extra Extra Read All About It
Abalama

Place of publication: UK (2015)

Publishing details: A5 saddle-stitched, 26 x pages.
Black ink on pink cover, inner pages are black ink on white paper

Description: An A5 collaborative zine featuring the work of seven artists. Their multimedia artworks are creative interpretations of strange newspaper headlines. The zine has a gold paperclip holding a clear plastic bag with the business cards of all artists involved.
“We looked at weird headlines and simply illustrated them using each of our own interpretations.” (From the publication)

Self Penetrating Shaft Screws



Self Penetrating Shaft Screws
Andrea Todd

Place of publication: UK (1997)

Publishing Info: 
Size and binding: Box - 4cm x 5.5cm x 1.5cm, Inside Page - 10cm x 26cm
Number of pages: 1 double-sided page
Print methods and paper type: Blue ink on white paper, folded inside a yellow cardboard box with blue text

Description: Made to look like an instruction leaflet, this pastiche is double-sided and folds out to feature instructional illustrations to aid in the use of the tongue-in-cheek 'Union Self Penetrating Shaft Screws'. Fun use of the double entendre.

Link to Instagram: @andreatodddesign


Emitron - An Occasional Micropaper - Issue One
Borbonesa

Place of publication: UK
Year: 2003
Size and binding: 7cm x 7cm, accordion
Number of pages: 1 double-sided page
Print methods and paper type: Blue and red ink on card cover, black ink on tracing paper

Description: Edition 103
“Borbonesa’s third volume is an ongoing collaboration between Borbonesa and the
remaining members of the Belgian art assemblage 'Emitron'. In accordance with the very
specific advisements of Emitron, Borbonesa has been redressing and re-articulating their
works, unseen since the group's official disbandment in 1986. This is achieved through the
coordination of performative lectures, public interventions and retrospective exhibitions, as
well as the production of an irregularly printed periodical entitled 'Emitron - An Occasional
Micropaper'.”

 

www.borbonesa.com
Borbonesa is a group of artists based predominantly in the south of England collaborating to produce multi-authored artworks including bookworks, occasional papers and animated film. The group was formed in 2001 in Brighton. In addition to our practice as artists, we work in partnership with schools and cultural organisations to devise and deliver creative learning opportunities for learners of all ages and backgrounds.

Also see: Micro Library Books


It Means You’re Alive (and You’re Drinking Coffee)


It Means You’re Alive (and You’re Drinking Coffee)
Ozzy Crawley

Place of publication: Winchester, UK
Year: 2023
Size and binding: 7cm x 11cm saddle-stitched
Number of pages: 18
Print methods and paper type: Screenprinted dark pink on bright pink cover, inner pages - colour print on white paper.

Description: Edition of 13 (2/13) Colourful printmaking with a mini zine inlaid.
“My practice focuses around the joy of making. I use bright colours, friendly shapes and whatever objects I fancy to create energetic compositions.” (author’s website)

Vote (The): Young People’s Edition


The Vote - Young People’s Edition
Sarah Houghton

Place of publication: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Year: 2025
Size and binding: 29cm x 37cm folded
Number of pages: 4
Print methods and paper type: Newspaper

Description: A series of papers printed as a newspaper, which are part of PhD student Sarah
Houghton’s research at the University of Portsmouth. An investigation into the hidden history of the Portsmouth Suffragist movement explored through the lens of visual communication design. This is the Young People’s Edition and includes activities for young people to design their own banners and
rosettes. 
“Re-presenting the people. This is a play-on-words with reference to the Representation of the People Act from 1918 that marked the moment women gained the right to vote in general elections.” 
Author's Website: www.representingthepeople.co.uk

Dice Rules - A Working Manual for Generative Print and Merriment



Dice Rules - A Working Manual for Generative Print and Merriment
Andy Reaney

Place of publication: Winchester, UK (2023)
Size and binding: A5, saddle-stitched with fold-out dust cover
Number of pages: 28
Print methods and paper type: Multicolour print on white paper.

Description:
Edition of 20 (2/20)
A collection of printmaking outcomes and rules for printmaking from experimental printing
using dice in collaboration with students from Fine Art and Games Design programs at
Winchester School of Art and students attending The Saturday Club between 2018 and 2022.
“Games are fun; printing is fun; and not knowing quite what you’re doing can be trepidations
and cathartic in equal measure.” Reaney 2023

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bru_ha 

Cat Hair



Cat Hair
Amy Palmer

Publishing info:
Portsmouth UK 2025
A6 foldy zine
Two colour riso printed
Laser print monochrome poster inside.
Includes small badge showing a pink cat

Description:
A short story about cat hair getting everywhere. Illustration with hand drawn type in pink and purple.
Zine unfolds to show a photo of the ‘fluff machine’.

Link:

Instagram @amyp.art 

I Am Not A Tourist In Nature


I Am Not A Tourist In Nature
Penfoalzines

Publishing Info:
Unknown place of publication c.2024
A4 saddle stitched
12 pages
Colour laser print

Description:
Poetry zine on a nature theme that includes colour photography of decaying trees and moss.


Churches, No Steeple

 





Churches, No Steeple
Penfoalzines

Publishing Info:
Unknown place of publication c.2024
A4 saddle stitched
12 pages
Black and white laser print

Description:
Poetry zine that includes black and white mixed media artwork






Migraine in Wonderland




Migraine in Wonderland
Emily Chappell (artist and editor)

Publishing Info:
28 x pages
A5 zine
Laser printed in colour with card cover
Scotland 2024

Description
Zine focussed on creative responses to the lived experience of migraines. This collective of 11 artists each uses their practice to share their stories.

"Migraine research is underfunded, GPs undertrained, support within society minimal, and the condition consistently misunderstood, ridiculed and undermined. 11 artists, including myself, have put forward a creative response for this zine. We are all based in Scotland, but geography aside, we all have migraine and a creative outlook in common. Responses were varied in tone and content, yet each was an emotive and humbling thing to receive. People are being generous with their honesty here." Emily Chappell, zine intro.

Link to author's website
www.emilychappell.com

 

Things People Say When You Are Autistic

 



Things People Say When You Are Autistic
Orlando Richardson

Publishing Info:
22 x pages
29cm x 21cm A4 landscape
Laser printed in black and white
London, UK 2024
Description:
This zine shares, through hand-drawn text and images, a series of statements often heard by people with autism. For example "Can they fix it?" and "But you talk". The zine looks from the perspective of a neurodivergent artist and reflects back the ill-considered comments directed at them.  The zine is monochrome, landscape A4 making the words feel loud and very much in the face of the reader.

Instagram: @orlandorichardsonart

Heaps vol.1: Breathtaking Panorama

Heaps vol.1: Breathtaking Panorama 
Luke Johnson and Simon Hobbs

Publishing Info:
Folded 4-page double-sided concertina
23cm x 9cm closed
Laser printing on textured paper, issue 2 of 15
Portsmouth, UK 2024
Description:
Zine that celebrates mid-century American tourist ephemera. This collaborative zine brings together items from the authors's personal archives, referred to as 'the Heaps Archive'. The zine focuses on colourful typography found in tourist leaflets and maps.

Instagram: @heaps_zine


Beautiful Truth (The)


Beautiful Truth (The)
Dexter Froud

Publishing Info:
Indiana, PA, USA 2024
12 x pages
Black and white photocopy onto 90gsm white paper

Description: 
Short autobiographical narrative about mental health challenges and coping mechanisms. Text with line drawings that explain how the author has been experimenting with blind contour drawings (a method of drawing without looking at your pen and moving it without taking it off the paper. The story parallels drawing distorted lines and how thoughts can also become distorted. It also shows the positive effect drawing can have as a release.

Artist's Contact, a PDF version is available: dexterfroud@gmail.com / Venmo (@dexfro)

Lost in Translation

 


Lost in Translation
Jess Babbini-Baker

Publishing Info:
Winchester, UK 2023
A3 foldy
Colour laser print on cartridge paper

Description:
This zine is created from collaged and painterly marks that evoke the sea, nature and the night sky. Blue tones throughout with no text apart from the maker's name on the pink bellyband.

Instagam: @jessbbaker_art

Complot

 

Complot
Collaborative zine: Ceri Amphlett. Alice Flynn, Amy Palmer, Helena Woolley, Madeline Lincoln, Lee Shearman, Luke Johnson, Jasmine Young, Jaz Potter, Joe Emery, Will Welton.

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2024
A4 French folded printed on RISO ME 9350E
140gsm Seawhite cartridge

Description:
This zine was created during a Riso Up Club with Ceri Amphlett and Lee Shearman for BA illustration students at the University of Portsmouth UK. It includes individual and collaborative printed pages in a range of colours and overlays.

Link to Riso_Up Club
https://www.instagram.com/riso_up_club/

Practice Makes Perfect Progress

 


Practice Makes Perfect Progress
Collaborative zine: Mark Jones / Riley Stratton / Yuting Zhou / Cat Kidd / Sean Sesbreno / Julia Kniupa

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2024
A4 folded zine
RISO printed on ME 9350E

Description:
This zine was created during a Riso workshop by Ceri Amphlett for MA illustration students at the University of Portsmouth UK. They made the artwork and printed the edition in about 3 hours. In this session, the students created whatever they wanted and agreed to print in yellow/pink/blue.

Link to Riso_Up Club
https://www.instagram.com/riso_up_club/

Concertina


Concertina
Rhiannon Richardson

Publishing Info:
Winchester, UK 2023
A4 folded vertically 210mm x 85mm
Hardcovers, with 12 x page concertina

Description:
This zine is created from collaged architectural and landscaped elements. Blue and orange are prominent throughout and details of maps and text are interwoven.





Wyrd No.1 and No.2


Wyrd No.1 and No.2
Publisher/editor Will Wright

Publishing Info:
A5 perfect bound
Colour printed on silk recycled paper
no.1 - 52 x pages / no.2 - 68 x pages

Description:
Publishing various art and articles of contemporary shamanism, occult and high strangeness.

ISSUE No.1
  • Wyrd - insight into contemporary shamanism
  • Handrunes - an Elder Futhark rune technique using your digits
  • Yggdrasil: The Universe Inside- exploring modern visionary art of the world tree
  • Mr Punch - toy photography of the Lord of Misrule
  • Trance Visions - exclusive art and insight into a modern Seidh practice
  • Banishings and the Northern Perspective - use of this ritual within the Northern Mysteries
  • Wyrd Basics - a guide to meditation
ISSUE No.2
  • Futhark font by Will Wright. A Graffiti-inspired rune font for the Elder Futhark.
  • Handrunes pt2 by Magnus Stokoe. More ideas and techniques for this finger magick.
  • Rave & Ritual by Will Wright. Dance, trance and the occult.
  • Visionary Art of Tefnut by Claire Wyldheart. Devotional doll photography.
  • Mr Punch & Friends. Further adventures of the Lord of Misrule and his folklore companions
  • Wyrd Basics: Exercise of Will
Publishers Instagram: https://www.wyrdzine.co.uk/

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