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Showing posts with label zines - S. Show all posts

Steel

 


Steel
Elizaibkart aka. Elizabeth Oluyede

Publishing info
Portsmouth UK (2025)
12x page A5 saddle stitched zine
Laser printed on grey and white paper.
Mini one sheet foldy 18 pages
2 A6 postcards
1 A5 postcard
Zine bundle

Description 
The zine celebrates black inventors through history that have been overlooked due to racial injustice and prejudice. The A5 zine is the story of Benjamin Banneker (1731-1805) astronomer and mathematician.
 The mini zine includes Madam J Walker, philanthropist and businesswoman; Henry Floyd, inventor and carpenter; Patricia E Bath, doctor, inventor and ophthalmologist; Granville T Woods mechanical engineer.

Seventy-Four Drawings of the Venus de Milo

Seventy-Four Drawings of the Venus de Milo
Ziggy Kolker

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

Description:
Each page contains a drawing of the Venus de Milo sculpture drawn in various ways with including pencil, paint, collage etc. Soft tones and colours throughout.

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/

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

She

 


Front cover through red lens


She
Ula Hanham, Holly Whitton, Erin Baldwin, Becca Taylor

Publishing Info:
16 pages, riso printed (blue/pink) on card.
With red acetate lens in pink 'female symbol'
Portsmouth, UK 20203

Description:
A collaborative feminist zine that contains overlayed images in blue/pink. When viewed through the red lens the pink vanishes, a metaphor for female voices being silenced or ignored. Created by students on BA illustration in response to a theme of social awareness.

Authors' social media: not listed


Sisters of Mercy Are the Merciful Police, (The)

 


Sisters of Mercy Are the Merciful Police, (The)
Dylan Earnshaw

Publishing Info:
A5 laser printed on neon (various colours).
16 x pages
Included B&W A4 foldy 'Rolladisko'
UK (2023)

Description:
UK Goth band 'The Sisters of Mercy' are reimagined as detectives trying to solve crimes and capture the baddie 'Brick-Bat'. Fun punk/goth aesthetic throughout the colour neon pages. The author names The Sister of Mercy song 'Adrenachrome' as a theme tune to play alongside reading.

Link to author: https://www.instagram.com/dme__art/





Shit Happens


Shit Happens
Big Angrie

Publishing Info:
A5 x black, white and red laser printed.
20 pages, saddled-stiched 
Portsmouth, UK (2022)

Description:
Drawings and cartoons about the small annoyances of life. The author kept a visual diary of daily irritations and selected elements that could be illustrated. 
"Journalling is a great way to express your feelings in a productive way. Writing and illustrating this zine helped me express my anger, and also reminded me that because shit happens, that doesn't mean life is shit." (from back page of zine)


Sketchbook #1

 



Sketchbook #1
Hugo Douglas-Dean

Publishing Info:
UEA, UK 2016
A5 colour laser print
20 x pages
Saddle-Stitched

Description:
A collaborative zine featuring pages from different artists’ sketchbooks: Emma Wellington, Jack Douglas-Dean, Lauren Rice, Ashland Larkin all compiled by Hugo Douglas-Dean. The artists were all students at UEA at the time of publication.



Something-Something, No.1

 





Something-Something, No.1
Adam Dahlstedt

Publishing Info:
Stockholm, Sweden 2021
A5 black and white photocopy on yellow paper, with orange insert
20 x pages
Saddle-stitched

Description:
Zine compiled from left over elements during the author’s daytime job as a graphic designer. Includes visual ideas, random graphics and off cuts. Experimental collages, and text.

Link to Instagram: https://instagram.com/leftoverstogo


Suz Zine Vol.7

 


Suz Zine Vol.7
Suzanne Gibbs

Publishing Info:
Portland OR, USA 2022
A6 black & white photocopy
8 x pages
Saddle-stitched

Description:
Illustrated visual dairy containing short anecdotes/reminiscences that are engaging and tender.
SuzZine is a humbly hand-made mini-magazine for women flirting with how to create wacky wonderful wisdom-full creative escapades for themselves. Each 8 page (sometimes more) issue is filled with compassionate content encouraging women to honor their vibrant voice and unearthed stories.
Artist’s website (2022)
Link to artist’s website: https://suzannegibbs.com/collections/suzzine
&
https://instagram.com/suzannesgibbsart



 

Steeped


Steeped
Samir Knego

Publishing Info:
Hillsborough, NC, USA 2021
A5 colour printed
8 x pages
Saddle-Stitched

Description:
A short poem that unfolds sequentially in the captions under the photos. Subtitled ‘A zine for tea breaks and short waits’ the photographs are of tea bags steeping, tea in cups and mugs.

Instagram: @samirknego

Scene Mean



Scene Mean
Mel Stringer

Publishing Info:
A7 photocopied onto white paper
Saddled stitched
16 pages
2010, UK

Description:
Small zine with lively drawings of people saying mean things to other people (or behind their backs).

Link to Instagram: @melstringer


 

Season Ticket Dickhead



Season Ticket Dickhead
Siobhan Britton - Slug Ink Press

Publishing Info:
A5, sewn binding in blue thread
12 x pages
Black and white photocopy
Brighton, UK 2019

Description:
Observational illustrations in the form of a visual diary drawn on the train. Satirical anecdotes about the commuting experience, including the 'train nemesis', 'laptop wars' and 'things that should be illegal on the commute'.

Twitter and Instagram: @SlugInkPress

Shit Dad Jokes




Shit Dad Jokes
Collaborative zine: Sam Boyle, Ellie Cheatle, Sophie King, Lauren Riley, Sinead McDonnell

Publishing Info:
75mm x 105mm one page foldy
Color photocopy
Portsmouth, UK 2017

Description:
small folded zine containing five cliched jokes. The zine comes packaged with ear plugs to block your ears.
Each joke is illustrated.

Smile: Valley of the Crow



Smile 
Valley of the Crow (artist: Charlotte Little)

Publishing Info:
A6 x 12 pages
Printed in colour on 130gsm silk finish paper with a 300gsm silk finish cover.
Printed in the UK (2019)  on FSC certified paper.
Limited run of 100

Description:
This unique item has been created as an artwork companion piece, released alongside the mixed media animation and live action music video for the track ‘Smile’ by Valley of the Crow. The Zine is a mixture of stills from the video, lyrics from the song and colourful hand drawn illustrated panels designed by Charlotte Little, adapted from the original animations for the video.

Link to animation: https://valleyofthecrow.co.uk/

Sad Sack




Sad Sack
Blair Roberts

Publishing Info: 
A6 x 16 pages
Riso printed in blue on pale blue paper.
Printed in Australia 2018

Description:
Autobiographical art-zine including sensitive illustrations and hand drawn lettering about anxiety, stress, relaxing and drawing.

Link to artist's Website: https://www.blair-roberts.com/

Space of Dissent (A)



Space of Dissent (A)
Rachael House

Publishing Info: 
Undated
A6 foldy zine (sheet of A4)
Riso printed in pink and blue

Description:
Illustrated zine to encourage political activism through reader participation. Central image needs to be filled-in by the viewer.

Link to Instagram: 
@rachaellhouse

Sondervorstellung: Was Sie schon immer uber zines Wisen Wolten



Sondervorstellung: Was Sie schon immer uber zines Wisen Wolten
The Archiv of Youth Cultures / Archiv der jugendkulturen

Publishing Info: Germany, Berlin 2016
A5 zine with 2-colour riso cover.
Black and white laser print.
28 pages.

Description:
German language zine that was created during a zine research project, lost of information about zines, collections, content and production methods. The research project was run by the Archiv der Jugendkulturen in Berlin.

Link to Website:
In English
http://www.jugendkulturen.de/english.html

In German
http://www.jugendkulturen.de/Intro.html

Scapegoat




Scapegoat
Nathan Lambert

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2017
A5 black and white laser print.
45 pages.

Description:
An adaptation from Dante's Inferno. The narrative focuses on the seven deadly sins.

Link to blog: https://nath94an.wixsite.com/scapegoatcomic



Seven Deadly Sins




Seven Deadly Sins
John Lihou

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth 2017
Saddle-stitched zine colour laser print
24 pages A5 portrait.

Description:
The seven deadly sins illustrated though pastiche VHS low-budget film covers.

Link to website:  https://johnlihouillustration.weebly.com/


Summer Monster Girls (zine bundle)





Summer Monster Girls (zine bundle)
Chanel Wilkins

Publishing Info:
Frisco, TX, USA 2016
Zine bundle that included:
1 x quarter-folded zine, 16 pages, saddle-stitched, full colour.
2 x mini-zines both A4 foldy in full-colour.

Description:
"A bundle of zines, all fully colored, featuring watercolor paintings of monster gals such as witches, werewolves, harpies, robots, aliens and mermaids." Artist's Description

The larger zine is untitled and contains images of horror-ice-cream, zombie women, mermaids and aliens. The mini-zines are called Ice Cream Death no.1 and Ice Cream Death no.2. They contain illustrations of horror inspired desserts such as 'Bloody Sunday' and 'Butter Finger Crunch'.
"Perfect for the ultimate creepy summer." Artist's Description
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