zineopolis

Bio Auto Graphic - Part One

Bio Auto Graphic - Part One

Michael C Nicholson

Publishing Info:
Ensixteen Editions 2006 , Stoke Newington, U.K.

A5, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.

B&W photocopy with colour cover.
Additional short comic called, I, in the sky (see blue cover above)
Originally packaged as set of three zines with belly band: part one, part two and I, in the sky

Description:

A short visit to New York by a Britisher, taking i the sights and sounds of the big apple.

Link to Personal Blog: http://www.ensixteeneditions.blogspot.co.uk/

Bear (The) No.5

Bear (The) No.5

Gemma Correll

Publishing Info:
Yes Bean Press, Bristol, U.K. 2008

A6, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.

B&W photocopy with colour cover.

Description:

Little folded zine full of humorous observations and comments, black and white line drawings and hand rendered type throughout. Pages on facial moles, puppies, useful greek phrases and being nice to your grandmother.

Link to Personal Website: http://www.gemmacorrell.com/

Back To The 90s

Back To The 90s

By Victoria Fielding, Claire Geary, Kerry Silver, Peter Snell, Chris Millard & Holly Valverde

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth UK, 2006

A4, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.

B&W photocopy on newsprint.

Description:

Black & white nostalgia zine about living in the 1990s, including films, sweets, toys, brit pop and cartoons. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, UK. 2006

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Anxiety

By Candice Cummings

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth UK, 2008

A7 (105mm x 72mm) – A4 foldy

Screen print 2 colour.

Description:

Small ‘foldy’ all about anxiety attacks, following the sequence of feeling fine through to major panic. 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

Awkwardists, (The)

Awkwardists, (The)

By Emma Rendel

Publishing Info:
Aldgate press, London, 2006

170mm x 240mm, 16 pages, perfect binding.

B&W with tinted cover.

Book reads front to back, then rotated can be read in the other direction.

Description:

2 back-to-back stories, both have the underlining theme of global corporations and advertising. Both Stories use dark humour to tell the stories of how these companies have destroyed the lives of the protagonists and whether they know it or not.

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

Pocket Guide to Erotomania, (A)

Pocket Guide to Erotomania, (A)

By Alexandrea Veresova, Amelie Whittingham, Freya Moffat, Jasmine Drew, Karl Devine, Nathan Chapman

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2011

A5, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.

B&W photocopy on brown paper.

Description:

Black & white zine listing 12 sexual proclivities, some well-known, others less so. Intended for an adult audience. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, UK. 2011

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Pocket Book of Concealment and Disguise Part 3: The Private Detective, (A)

Pocket Book of Concealment and Disguise Part 3: The Private Detective, (A)

By Andy Webb

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 1999

A5, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.

B&W photocopy on newsprint, with colour card cover.

Description:

Black & white satirical handbook for the private detective, playing on cliches from many detective movies. The book includes techniques for not getting seen as well as puns and lines from classic detective fiction, ie. Raymond Chandler.

"The content of my work is based around idiocies from life COMMA
using simple line drawing and text to create an image FULL STOP
My work also contains a satirical humour FULL STOP"
Andrew Webb.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

America 2008 - A Travel Diary

America 2008 - A Travel Diary

By Gemma Correll

Publishing Info:
Bristol, UK 2008

A5, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.

B&W photocopy, with cream cover.

Description:

Travel diary covering all the food and drink, observations, people, halloween and the elections. Delightful jumble of speech and drawings all mixed together.

Link to Personal Website: http://www.gemmacorrell.com/

Adventures of Ruba, (The)

Adventures of Ruba, (The)

By Suzanne Moulton

Publishing Info:
Puttytwist, 2005

A6, 20 pages, saddle-stitched.

B&W digital print, with colour cover.

Description:

Short narrative of a young woman in Kenya who looses a leg in an accident and the support she gets from the village to help her rebuild her life. Environmental theme throughout.

Link to Personal Website: http://www.cafepress.co.uk/puttytwist

Adventures of Ninja Bunny, (The)

Adventures of Ninja Bunny, (The)

By Philip Spence

Publishing Info:
UK 2005-2007

85mm x 100mm, 24 pages.

B&W digital print, saddle-stitched.

Description:

Short narrative of a ninja bunny fighting a much larger creature in the rain.

Link to Personal Website: http://www.ninja-bunny.com/

About Blank – Issue Two

About Blank – Issue Two

By Alberto Rodriguez

Publishing Info:
Toledo, Spain 2007, edition of 200.

A6 Landscape, 14 pages.

B&W photocopy, saddle-stitched.

Description:

Image-based survey of graffiti and sub-cultures. Written in Spanish, with hand drawn illustrations and scanned photographs. Including short articles.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

About Blank – Issue One

About Blank – Issue One

By Alberto Rodriguez

Publishing Info:
Toledo, Spain 2007, edition of 200.

A6 Landscape, 16 pages.

B&W photocopy, saddle-stitched.

Description:

Image-based survey of graffiti and sub-cultures, written in Spanish with hand drawn illustrations and scanned photographs.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

You Can Play

You Can Play

By Rachel Otas

Publishing Info:
London, UK, 2007.

150mm x 105mm 8 page concertina.

Screen printed.

Description:

Short sequence showing a series of toys that can be played with - and one that can't.
Featuring AiAi

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

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

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/

XX & XY

XX & XY

By Christian Bennett, Grave Parvin, Jacob Hill-Gowing, Leon Caddick, Lotti Haxell, Scott Kadwell, Maya Antonova

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2011

A5, 66 pages, saddle-stitched

B&W with screen printed cover

Description:

Zine with adult content, themed about relationships and sex. The zine also contains some illustrations that have social comments. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, UK

Link to Issuu – viewers need to confirm they are over 18:
http://www.issuu.com/xyxx/docs/xxxy

X-Rated Animal Hospital

X-Rated Animal Hospital

By Karoline Rerrie

Publishing Info:
Birmingham, UK, 2007

A6, 16 pages, saddle-stitched

B&W

Description:

Small, fun, beautifully illustrated zine about a 'saucy' animal hospital. Dogs, pussys and rabbits play doctors and nurses across a variety of puzzles and games such as, spot the difference, dot-to-dot and word search.

Link to Profile:

http://www.facebook.com/karoline.rerrie

He bought me ANOTHER Soda and he tried to molest me in the SAME parking lot AGAIN!

He bought me ANOTHER Soda and he tried to molest me in the SAME parking lot AGAIN!
By Paul O'Connell

Publishing Info:
Brighton, UK, 2009

A5, 28 pages, saddle-stitched

B&W and colour laser print.

Description:

“A second anthology collection of illustrations inspired by 'those songs that get stuck in your head all day’!” Paul O'Connell is a writer and graphic artist who self-publishes collections of his own solo and collaborative work under the title of The Sound of Drowning.

Link to website:

http://www.soundofdrowning.com/

Wrong Dog (The)

The Wrong Dog
By Dave Shelton

Publishing Info:
Cambridge, UK, 1998

A6, 24 pages, saddle-stitched

B&W with colour cover

Description:

The dreamlike tale of a burnt-down house and missing dog. Seemingly unlinked illustrations linked by wandering narrative, the ultimate shaggy dog story. David has since become a widely published children’s book illustrator/author and comic artists.

Link to website:

http://daveshelton.com/

Write Soon

Write Soon

By Sonia Hope

Publishing Info:
London, UK, 2008

A5, 16 pages

B&W on tinted paper

Description:

Zine full of scans of postcards and letters all to the author, containing hand drawn type and doodles. Sonia works at INIVA (Insitute of International Visual Arts) in London, she manages all aspects of Iniva’s library and information services, including archive materials. Her research interests are contemporary visual arts, British and Caribbean literature, feminism and gender theory.

Link to website:

http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/h/hope_sonia

Why? Because We Can

Why? Because We Can

By James Johnson, Phil Holehouse

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2006

A4, 12 pages

Bound with poster-hanger

Colour ink-jet

Description:

Satire on the many sob-story celebrity magazines such as Pick Me Up or Hello.

This is a humorous collection of nonsense, including problem pages, horoscopes and advertising. Created for the Zines Unit, Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth.

Link to personal website: None listed

We Can Be Heroes

We Can Be Heroes

By Zoe Wooll, Jennie Wood, Pat Nolan, Sarah Walbrin, Simon White.

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2006

A5, 24 pages

10 pages, saddle-stitched

B&W photocopy with colour cover

Description:

This zine is about superheros in the real world. It is humorous and has satirical adverts and short stories along with strip cartoons. Created for the Zines Unit, Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth.

Link to personal website: None listed

We Are The Target People

By Andy Smith

Publishing Info:
Edition of 300 Hastings, UK, 2009

135mm x 130mm

10 pages, Sadle-stitch

Screen printed

Description:

This is a humorous narrative about a groups of dancing target people. The book has a great punchline. These are self published books that are hand silkscreened and produced in small editions.

Link to personal website:

http://www.asmithillustration.com/