I Was Bunty's Double

I Was Bunty's Double
Ziggy Kolker

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth UK (2025)
A5 size.
Printed on matt paper, full colour.

Description:
Each page contains detail reproduced from The Bunty, which was a UK girl's comic (1958 to 2001).
Girls and women's faces with a variety of expressions are scattered throughout the pages. The scans are details so the method of original printing (CMYK dot patterns) can be seen clearly.

This zine is part of a pair,  I Was Bunty's Double and Seventy-Four Drawings of the Venus de Milo, are both part of the 'Me and Aphrodite' transition project.

Link to Artist's Website: https://ziggykolker.com/

I Was Gonna Wait: A Zine About Procrastination

I Was Gonna Wait: A Zine About Procrastination
Jempol
USA (2023)

Publishing Details:
Foldy zine A6
Riso primed in blue on yellow paper

Description:
Mini calligraphy perzine about art procrastination, the pages give reasons why the artist needs to wait before completing this zine, including waiting to get better at art, waiting for better materials, waiting for a better idea, waiting for more time etc etc. The central spread concludes that the artist did it anyway. Fun idea showing art about your own inaction can reroute negative energy into creative energy.

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)

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.

It's on the Syllabus!

It's on the Syllabus!

Andrew Kozlowski
Papercity Publishing
FL, USA (undated, c.2019)

Publishing Info:
A4 foldy zine
blue ink on cream paper
102mm x 66mm closed

Description:
This zine contains hand-drawn speech bubbles that represent a dialogue between the teacher and the student. The teacher is fielding all the questions with the assertion that the information required is already 'on the syllabus'. The zine hints at structural educational issues such as budget cuts and non-functioning teaching management systems. The zine is a humourous snapshot of the day in the life of a teacher.

Artist's Instagram: @Andrew.Kozlowski

I Really Don't Know Where I'm Going...

I Really Don't Know Where I'm Going...
@recovery_doodles

Publishing Info:

London (?), undated c.2021

A5 black and white with colour cover

34 x pages

Description:

Selection of captioned doodles all about the author's mental health. The back of the zine has this quote ' Tales from my neurodiverse soul; told through pictures. The drawings visualise emotions such as fear and hopelessness including a dog,
cake and a tortoise.

Link to Instagram:   @recovery_doodles

I Am Playing God With You

 

I Am Playing God With You
Ben Couzens

Publishing Info:
UK 2021
A4 colour laser print with relief printed cover on yellow card
42 x pages
Perfect bound

Description:
Illustrated narrative sequence that’s a conversation between two people, one of them very distracted.

Instagram: @bencouzens

Manifest No.3: It's About Time

Manifest No.3: It's About Time
Jen Payne

Publishing Info:
28 pages, landscape format
Colour printing on heavyweight satin paper
Branford, CT, USA, 2021

Description:

'Einstein said time is an illusion, that time and space are merely “modes by which we think.” But, if you think too hard on that you end up down rabbit holes and worm holes. Want to come along?' From creator's website

Zine containing photos, drawings, collages, poems, narratives and thoughts. 

Artist's Website: https://3chairspublishing.com/manifest-zine/
Instagram: @3chairsbooks

In and Under

In and Under
QBX36

Publishing Info:
A6 landscape
8 x pages
Colour photocopy on 80gsm paper
UK 2020

Description:
Zine documenting and celebrating abandoned places.

I Pretend to Work

I Pretend to Work

By Andy Smith and Ryan Snook

Publishing Info: Hastings, UK, 2018
Mini-zine (A7) Saddle-stitched
B&W photocopy with screen printed colour cover

24 pages

Description:

Collaborative illustration project between Andy Smith and Ryan Snook, drawings about everyday observations and ideas.

Link to Personal Websites:
http://www.asmithillustration.com/

http://www.ryansnook.com/

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Matthew George

Publishing Info:
UK 2015
Saddle stitched zine in colour on white copy paper
Mini-zine 5cm x 7cm with 32 pages

Description:
"Introducing Ich bin ein Berliner! A radical new zine on various themes including all things German, American popular culture, donuts and political graphic art from around the world. This 32 page mini zine hopes to embrace all things German much as the U.S President John F. Kennedy aimed to do in his 1963 speech "Ich bin ein Berliner", which roughly translates as I am a jelly doughnut. The zine will feature in a visually graphic way, some of the rich culture and feel of Germany which charms so many and at the same time offering a witty perspective. This is the first issue of of an ongoing zine which I hope you will all enjoy.  It is completely hand made and printed by myself and hope to be able to distribute them across the UK and ROTW."

Link to Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/IchBinEinBerliner

Link to Twitter: @IBEberliner

Infrared Dreams in Times of Transparency

Infrared Dreams in Times of Transparency
Guest Artist: Amrei Hofstätter

Published by: Married Print, Germany

Publishing Info:
Berlin, Germany 2014
Folded offset-print poster (84 × 59.4 cm) on heavy paper.

Description, taken from the Married Print website:

In her essay Infrared Dreams in Times of Transparency – The Love Life of Drones and Other Western Cyborgs Vika Kirchenbauer investigates the concepts of transparency, love, the “western” gaze etc. by reference to the global drone system:

"Drones are masturbatory: they resemble only a self-consuming illusion of total subjectivity, a lonesome wank in the safest place. The drone is the ultimate peeping tom of modern warfare. Looking at the world through drones, with no-one looking back, the West –Former West, Global North or whatever term is considered adequate– ultimately stares back at itself. The gaze unmet by the observed is lastly directed inwards with self-satisfactory fulfilment."

Amrei Hofstätter translates some of these ideas into one of her signature illustrations, depicting transformations of unclear result that leave behind traces of abstract, absurdist machines on the brink of disintegration.

About Married Print, taken from the Married Print website:

MARRIED PRINT gives space to arguments about contemporary culture, society and politics.
For each issue, an author is invited to explicitly deploy a theme of her choice, and an illustrator
to comment and reflect on it visually in poster format.
The dense and detailed texts and images span a wide range of themes and styles, but as common thread we ask our contributors for overtwisted speculations or bold thematic cross-fadings and we trust in their indifference towards affirmative accomodations.

MARRIED PRINT comes as folded offset-print poster (84 × 59,4 cm) on heavy paper.
Additionally, the illustration is available as a fine art print in a limited edition of 10.

MARRIED PRINT is edited by Martin Müller and Inga Seidler and published by Dicey Studios

Link to blog: http://married-print.com/

Institute of Cultural Inquiry

Institute of Cultural InquiryCollective: Lise Patt, Associate and Director
Sue-Na Gay, Assistant Director
Brian Douglas, Grounds Coordinator

Publishing Info:
A6 landscape saddle-stitched zine.
34 pages including cover colour on white heavyweight paper.
Los Angeles 2013.
ICI address: 1512 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035, USA

Description:

"The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) is a non-profit educational and cultural organization focused on ‘visual technologies’ and how they are used to document, imagine, remember and conceal the convergence of human activities and capabilities we call ‘culture.’ The Institute sponsors research, displays, symposia, workshops, performances and tactical interventions. In addition, it is committed to maintaining a number of long-term, ongoing projects that stretch across disciplines such as The AIDS Chronicles, The Manual of Lost Ideas, and Traumbagger (dream-dredger). The organization also maintains an active publishing program through the ICI Press. Headquartered in Los Angeles with satellite laboratories in London, Köln, and Venice, Italy, the ICI offers residency, curatorial, publishing, fieldwork and event horizon opportunities for visual researchers and/or fabricators and for curious spectators of visual culture." From ICI website

Link to Website: http://www.culturalinquiry.org/

In A Tizzy issue.3

In A Tizzy - Issue Three
By Candice Cummings

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2009
A5, 12 pages, sewn binding
Inkjet on pearl paper with day-glo sticker on one page.

Description:
Humorous zine all about the economy and getting a job. Front cover has day-glo sticker. Job interviews and preparing your cv mount up over the pages. Patterned end pages show shoes.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

International Bob

International Bob
Lisa Gunn

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth 2011
A5 x 16 pages
Colour inkjet printed on white with peal cover.
Foam shapes on cover.

Description:
Short satirical zine showing inactivity from the protagonist. The character 'Bob' is shown in various guises in different countries.

Link to website: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gunnfamily/index.html

I See You

I See You
Amanda D'Egidio

Publishing Info:
USA, 2011.
A6, Vertical half-size foldy
6 pages, black and white photocopy.

Description: Photographic colleged folding zine about being watched.
"A mysterious viewer sees miniscule details of a person she watches. In creating the zine, I wanted the reader to become curious and intrigued. Being watched is creepy; however, we all watch someone."

Link to photosteam: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53354414@N04/

In A Tizzy - Issue Two

By Candice Cummings

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2009

A5, 12 pages, sewn binding

Inkjet on tinted paper

Description:

Humorous zine all about money worries and getting a job, includes fake adverts and advice for life. Front cover has stamped gold pattern and the crown has 3 rhinestones. Financial pressures and bills mount up over the pages. Patterned end pages show economy shopping.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

In A Tizzy - Issue One

In A Tizzy Issue One

By Candice Cummings

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2008

153mm x 210mm, sewn binding

Inkjet on brown paper with rubber stamp marks

Description:

Great looking zine that details a panic attack and how to cope with it, the tone is humorous and includes advice and illustrations, both real and surreal. The zine is printed on brown paper with subtle colour elements. The zine also has a tracing paper fly leaf. The brown panic bag is tucked into the packaging.Created as part of Candice's final submission for her Illustration BA(HONS) Degree at the University of Portsmouth, 2008.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

It

It

By Andy Smith and Ryan Snook

Publishing Info:
Edition of 40, Hastings, UK, 2010

132mm x 155mm, Saddle-stitched

B&W photocopy with screen printed colour cover

Description:

Correspondence zine drawn between June 2009 - May 2010.
18 sequential pages collaborative book project.
Each illustrator completes one page then passes it on to the other illustrator, much in the same way as the parlour game, 'exquisite corpse'. This makes for a strange unfolding narrative that winds left to right across the pages.

Link to Personal Websites:
http://www.asmithillustration.com/

http://www.ryansnook.com/

I Don’t Need Your Change I Need A Change

I Don’t Need Your Change I Need A Change

By RJ

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2010

Small foldy

Screen print on to manilla

Description:

Zine about homelessness. Comes with a small key with luggage label.

Link to Personal Website:
http://www.freakstaticillustration.co.uk/