Description:
40 artists contribute pages to this collaborative zine about nightmares and bad dreams.
Author's Website:
https://kearabazstewart.tumblr.com/ABITOFUNDIGESTEDPOTATO
“I turned off notifications and refreshed the app every five minutes to see if I got any messages or Likes on my latest post. Sometimes I did this while driving.”The zine is very honest and reflective in tone and exposes a need in us all to be liked and noticed. There is a black humour underpinning the zine with the artist fully aware of the toll Instagram is having on their self-esteem, the front cover has a graphic banner shouting ‘now 300% more negative!’ The artist is aware of this online manipulation but still engages with it, as we share in their frustration.
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.
"Beyond Recovery is an independent community mental health creative project that started in late 2011. We are a small group of people who have been gathering ‘expert by experience’ mental health art pieces and literature in the Merseyside area of England. We want to pass on the wisdom gleaned by people recovering from mental distress about staying well to other people, as well as pointing out local, national and international organisations people can turn to for help and information.
We have printed two booklets featuring articles and artwork from service users in Merseyside on recovery in mental health. They also featured a guide to local mental health services. We distributed the booklets throughout Merseyside’s shops, bars, cafes and health centers – keep your eyes peeled!
We produced our first booklet in early 2016 and distributed the 2000 copies as widely as possible in the local area to a variety of organisations, cafes, barbers, libraries and to national mental health organisations via email. For issue 2 we held creative sessions at The West Kirby Drop-In during 2016 to obtain some of the material after gaining funding from The Wirral West Community Fund. For further details you can contact us via beyondrecovery2012@gmail.com, social media or this blog." (Text from Project Website)
"This zine continues my exploration of early forms of computing and codification, some of which paved the way for the intricate woven patterns of tapestry, brocade, and damask. Just as the Jacquard attachment allowed looms to produce these stunning fabrics, so too did the development of punched cards and other forms of code allow for the creation of visual and audio sequences and patterns." (Lee Sherman)Link to author's website: https://www.leeshearman.com/
Welcome to Broken Pencil! Since 1995, we have been a mega-zine dedicated exclusively to exploring independent creative action. Published four times a year, each issue of Broken Pencil features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary on all aspects of the indie arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention. (From website)Issue 97 is a horror issue to celebrate Halloween and all things ghoulish. With features about art, future, zines and the best haunted bookshops. (from Magazine website, Oct 2022)This is the horror issue to align with Halloween, all things ghoulish, zine reviews, literature, art, and haunted bookshops.
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"This work came out of a dream and then another dream and the peripheral flutterings of the mind vying for attention. It was dream that showed me what to do and that was to follow where it might lead. There seemed a purpose, a vague goal, but it showed me there was no grander purpose than to spend time quietly alone by myself. By delivering that story onto paper intuitively, I have documented the process of listening to myself - the dream self. The stories appear in comic book form as a souvenir of those trips taken to this quiet place. I recreate that place here in a tangible form, a physical approximation so that you too may visit awhile. I recommend visiting this space alone but that may not be possible." Lewanne Stewart from Authorial Illustration Practice Website
