Big Beans (Hat Havoc)

Big Beans (Hat Havoc)

P J Crunky

Publishing Info:
28 x pages, A6 portrait

Black & white laser print on white card with colour cover

Portsmouth, 2025

Description:

Part of an ongoing series of adventures from the Hat Havoc collection. Hat wearing characters deal with everyday life in surprising ways. Pythonesque humour throughout.

Author's Instagram:
@pjcrunky

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

Hello My Name is Sketchbook as Textbook

Hello My Name is Sketchbook as Textbook
Andrew Kozlowski
Papercity Publishing
FL, USA 2022

Publishing  Info:
28 x pages
Blue and black monochrome printing on cream paper
Illustrated as a narrative comic
Saddle-stitched 20cm x 25cm

Description:
This zine is a partial pastiche of a sketchbook that explains how keeping a sketchbook can be a useful practice for artists. It is narrated by the ‘teacher’ running the drawing classes and includes his thoughts and ideas about creative practice. The illustrations are a mix of metaphorical, educational, fantastical, and realistic. This is a lovely drawn manifesto in favour of the Sketchbook and gives a strong rationale for keeping one.

Artist's Instagram: @Andrew.Kozlowski

Handsome Testimonial (A)

A Handsome Testimonial: The Life and Times of James Scott (1829-1912)

Gill Crawshaw

Publishing Info:

UK, 2023

A5 zine, saddle stitched

38 pages

Photocopied in black & white on recycled paper with a heavier grey cover.

Description:

This zine tells the story of Deaf textile worker James Scott. The author has researched his life and places it in the context of Victorian attitudes to disability and charity. The zine tells a positive and often overlooked narrative of a disabled worker contributing to his family and society through employment. The zine also explores language around disability, such as how Victorian terminology may have changed but these historical attitudes can still exert influence on contemporary perceptions around charity, pity and worth. Collaged text and images many from historical sources. The zine was funded by Unlimited

Author on Instagram @gillcrawshaw

How to Be the Perfect Woman

How to Be the Perfect Woman
Ellie Travers, Mollie Mills, Willow Sykes, Imogen Carter, Maria Acostandei

Publishing Info:
A5 laser printed with riso cover
16 x pages, saddle stitched
Portsmouth, UK (2018)

Description:
A collaborative zine that looks at some of the gender stereotypes of being a woman. E.g. exploring children’s toys e.g. Barbie. The zine also includes spoof instructions, cartoons and comments. A mix of drawing, collage and photography. The creators were students of BA Illustration at the time this was published.

Halland

Halland
Conor Clements

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2022
A5 saddle stitched
32 pages laser printed in colour.

Description:
This zine was created as the Major Project for Conor's MA illustration. The research was into creativity, play and education. The zine encourages the reader to be playful in order to inspire creativity, aimed at a younger audience the methods included are cheap and easily accessible using old cardboard, poster paints, scissors and glue. The zine encourages tactile creativity and the pleasure of making tangible artworks - for fun.

Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/hallanband/

Heroically Found

Heroically Found

Manifest Zine No.9

Jen Payne

Publishing Info:

Branford, CT, USA 2022

13cm x 17.5cm portrait
24 Pages, colour laser print

Three Chairs Publishing Co.

Description:
This zine is part of the Exchange Project including five artists. The challenge was to create something to promote 'curiosity and precarity, to ignite the spark of possibility and to introduce new ways of seeing things.'

Found images, photos, poems, drawings and writings explore the mindfulness, creativity and storytelling.

Link to Publisher:
https://3chairspublishing.com/

Handout, issues 1-6

Handout, Issues 1-6
Editor Joel Chaffee

Publishing Info:

Charity Case Publishing, Issues 1-6 (2008-2013)
Brooklyn, NY, USA and New York, USA

A4 black and white on various lined paper stock

Saddle-stitched separate sheets between 10 -20 pages for each issue.

Edition of 100

Description:

Zine covers topics such as fiction, essays, short humour, visual art, interviews, and poetry. Mostly by Brooklyn-based artists.

How Not To Do Work

How Not To Do Work
Author unattributed

Publishing Info:
A4 foldy zine
One sheet folded into 8 pages with large central image on the reverse.

Colour print on cartridge paper.
Portsmouth, UK 2019

Description:
Small scale folded zine about the artist's enemy - procrastination. The zine is ironic with tips about how to procrastinate successfully. It suggests playing computer games, cleaning the house, sleeping, watching TV, wasting time on a mobile.

Happy Whatever

Happy Whatever
Katherine Bale, Stina Finander, Elena Gliebute, Eve Omare, Charlotte Vince, Kirsty Wakefield

Publishing Info:
A5, sewn binding in pink thread
16 x pages
Colour laser print on cartridge paper, black and white with spot colours pink or orange.
Portsmouth, UK 2019

Description:
Collaborative zine where each illustrator has contributed a double-page spread. The theme is feel happy and relaxed through small things, such as coffee, playing with cats, reading, watching movies with friends, sleeping and favourite foods.

How About We Help Save Our Oceans?

How About We Help Save Our Oceans?
James Lejeune, Bec Clark, Jasmine Ramen, Chloe Viner, Nim Rose, S.Peacock, Lokimakerofmischief

Publishing Info:
A5 colour laser print on cartridge paper
20 x Pages
Portsmouth, UK 2019

Description:
Collaborative zine about environmental issues, this issue is about the Ocean. Each illustrator has contributed a double page spread including statistics, problems and possible actions.

Instagram links to illustrators:

@jin_grows_art
@beepbeepbec
@Jasmine.ramen
@chlovinerarts
@nim_rose_designs
@speacock.art
@lokimakerofmischief

Happy Accidents

Happy Accidents
Editor: Rachel Davy

Publishing Info:
Series of experimental riso images as part of an MA illustration workshop, spiral bound together.
Each zine is a various mix of images and tests.
Printed in the University of Portsmouth
Edition of 15

Description:
MA Illustration workshop run by Rachel Davy. Taking a sample image from the Major Project students explored the possibilities of riso printing for making zines. Each bound copy contains a different selection of experimental artwork.

Link to editor's Instagram: @rachel_davey_

Hokule'a

Hokule'a
Jody Arthur

Publishing Info:
University of Hawaii at Manoa 2016
A6 foldy

Description:
"Single sheet zine of a lino cut print. Made in honor of the Hokuleʻa’s World Wide Voyage, 2013- 2017. Printed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. 4 1/4″ x 3 ½,” 160 copies."
(Author's website)
Link to website: http://www.jodyarthur.com/

How To Deal: Breaking Up

How To Deal: Breaking Up
Chanel Wilkins

Publishing Info:
Frisco, TX, USA 2016
mini-zine, A4 foldy in black and white

Description:
Mini foldy zine, showing one solution for coping with a relationship break-up. Eating ice cream.
The light-hearted line illustrations are in sequence showing how to create the perfect dessert.

Link to blog: http://mermaidblobs.tumblr.com/

Hourly Comic Day 2015

Hourly Comic Day 2015
Alex Hahn

Publishing Info:
Buckinghamshire, UK 2015
A6 foldy - A3 single sheet folded to make 8 pages with poster on reverse.

Printed in colour on heavyweight newsprint and folded.

Description:
Drawn for Hourly Comic Day 2015. Hourly Comic Day is an annual event that takes place on February 1st where participants draw one short comic for every hour that they awake. These type of comics are sometimes referred to as 'hourlies'.
Alex's narrative shows himself and Duffin (a character that is half muffin, half doughnut) trying to get things done throughout a dull day.

Link to Alex Hahn's Website: http://www.alexhahnillustrator.com/

Hackney Rebel

Hackney Rebel

Dawes Gray

Publishing Info:

Portsmouth, UK 2014

Saddle-stitched zine made by Bookleteer
10 pages A6 landscape on white card.

Description:
Prints inspired by the life and work of comedian Tony Hancock as seen in the film 'The Rebel'

In 1991 I gained a First Class Degree in Painting at Canterbury College of Art, and after intervals in America and Japan I completed a Master’s Degree at Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall. It was at this point that I became interested in the relationship between words and images and began working within the book format. As well as exploring the inter-relationship between text and image, I was also interested in creating portable, accessible art that didn’t require a specific viewing context. (from website).

Link to website:

http://www.dawesgray.co.uk/

HIRNPLATZT16

HIRNPLATZT16
Matt Burden
Published by: Hirnplatz Zine

Publishing Info:
London 2013
Saddle stitched zine in black and white on satin heavy paper.
A5 with 80 pages

Description:
"I started out by using objects and images from the 'Wellcome Trust' in London as a trigger for making
a series of stream-of-consciousness drawings. And then from those drawings I looked to see if I could find something to develop into some sort of narrative. This is what I ended up with."

This black and white zine is an unusual telling of the 'Nativity', drawn throughout the pace is frantic
as the narrative evolves. Matt is an Alumni of the Portsmouth illustration degree and completed his
Master's at the RCA in 2013.

Link to blog: http://www.mattburden.co.uk/
Link to publisher: http://hirntrust.at/

How to Get Shit Done

How to Get Shit Done
DR Charlotte Cooper

Publishing Info:
London 2013
A5 saddle-stitched zine.
16 pages on off-white paper with slightly heavier cover.
(No images in this zine).

Description:
This zine is unusual in our collection since it only includes text. However, it's about getting things done, getting creative projects off the ground and how to avoid delaying and 'faffing' around. The zine is full of expletives used to emphasise action. The tone is humorous and there's some great advice about how to actually get work completed.

Excerpt from Charlotte's blog...

This is a zine for people who struggle to get shit done. It’s for the avoiders and procrastinators, the non-finishers, the inert, the moribund, and the people who dwell on fear and anxiety. By shit I mean DIY cultural work, but it can also mean the day-to-day stuff of life. I made this zine because I’ve been hearing a lot of conversations by people who struggle to get shit done. I am quite good at getting shit done, so I thought I’d share a little of what I know. The zine has 16 pages and a card cover. It’s written in a snappy, no-nonsense tone and features a fair bit of swearing. It’s a queer-punk self-help zine that critiques self-help culture and includes a broader political context. It contains the following:
Some things I’ve done recently

• A discussion about what motivates people to do things and the difficulties of courting success
• A consideration of the resources people may or may not have to do things
• Three common obstacles to getting shit done (fear, time, discipline)
• Helpful resources
• A passage about the implications of archiving

Link to blog: http://charlottecooper.net/

Hella Random

Hella Random
E. Lin

Publishing Info:
Birmingham UK, 2012

A5 with 36 pages.

Cover and foldout poster printed on white cardstock.
Published by Zine Arcade.

Description:
"Zine compiling a great deal of my comics, illustration and design work from 2009 to 2011. Includes the horror comic Warm Mansion, foldout Slutwalk Seattle 2011 posters, and a many more short comics. Published and edited by Andrew Owen Johnston." from Ghost Darling website.

Link to website: http://www.ghostdarling.com/

Hate

 

Hate
By Armin Roshdi; Chris Watts; David Scott; Eleanor Clancy; Kayleigh Causton; Paige Calvert; 

Rob Troughton; Siobahan McKenna

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2012
A5 portrait zine, edition of 9
White silkpaper cover, colour inside.

Description:
A collaborative zine that is well produced and bound. The simple cover is intriguing and is a good choice. The work inside is unified by the set colour palette and theme suits all the artists. There are some great moments I particularly enjoyed; whispering is rude and missing teeth.
Created as a group project for the Zines Unit, Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth 2012.

Link to personal website: Artist’s QR codes printed on the inside back cover.