Coin




Coin
Mark Stafford

Publishing Info:
UK, place and date unknown
140mm x 145mm, 36 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black & white printing with green and balck cover

Description:
black & white cyclic narrative without text that charts the tale of a beggar who collects enough money to buy a boat, but things don't work out well.
"the comic was an extension of a piece I did for the first of the ICA Comica events, there was an entire wall of intersecting comicstrips, running from a spine story by Tom Gauld (now with the Guardian,) my strip intersected with a Gary Northfield (now with the Beano)...My story is mostly either read as pretty damn depressing, or a paen to the indomitability of the human spirit. My friends just think it was an excuse to draw a sea monster."  Mark Strafford

Link to personal website: http://www.hocus-baloney.com/

Cheetahs Never Win!




Cheetahs Never Win!
Steve Reeder

Publishing Info:
Vienna, Austria 2009, Issue No.3
A5, 36 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black & white photocopy, colour cover.

Description:
Black & white humorous comic/zine that features animals in various situations. Often including social commentary.

Linked-in Profile: http://www.motmotdesign.com/

Chavazine



Chavazine
Gemma Jung

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2007, edition of 10
A5, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black & white photocopy, colour ink jet cover on glossy paper
Each zine was packaged in a plastic folder with a selection of postcards and badges. 

 

Description:
black & white humorous zine that is a compact version of a more elaborate colour production. It looks at 'Chav' culture in the U.K. There is another zine in the set looking at 'Emo' culture. Created by Gemma as part of her final submission for her Illustration BA(HONS) degree at the University of Portsmouth, UK graduated in 2007.

Linked-in Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gemma-jung/38/4bb/4b0

Charity Chop




Charity Chop
Tom Edwards

Publishing Info:
Brighton, UK 2009
A6, 20 pages, saddle-stitched.
Colour inkjet printing on heavy cartridge paper

Description:
A collection of customised charity shop pictures, which have then been photographed for this book. Including many new bizarre animals and people.

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

Catch BC




Catch BC
Chris Poole, Adnan Kamenica, Tom Ryan, Chris Jaffe, Heather Hamilton, Ben Johnson, Carl Reed

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2011
A5, 32 pages, saddle-stitched.
Laser printed with colour cover and silver sticker.

Description:
black & white humorous zine that is a visual version of the chilren's game known variously as; Chinese whispers, telephone, grapevine, broken telephone, whisper down the lane, etc. The game consists of a secret phrase that is whispered on to the next player so that eventually the message gets muddled. This is a fun visual version. 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

Caroline Et Ses Amis No.2



Caroline Et Ses Amis No.2
Caroline Surys

Publishing Info:
Le Dernier Cri Collective, Maseille, France, 2004, edition of 450.
A5, 36 pages, saddle-stitched.
Silkscreened cover, interior pages full-colour offset litho

Description:
Comic illustrating Carolines friends, in all their macabre glory. The title is a pun on the popular French children's tales (43 in all) Caroline et ses amis, by Pierre Probst dating from 1953, about a young girl and her band of friends including cats and dogs. In this version the friends are grusome and twisted. 

Le Dernier Cri Collective.
French publisher specialising in rather disturbing serigraphs and comics with a very low print run. Based in Marseilles, Bolino and Sury run a silkscreening studio from which they’ve produced, through painstaking handmade effort, a decade’s worth of books, comics, monographs, print-medium objets d’art and their flagship magazine 'Hopital Brut'. 
“Our main aim is to help expose artists from the margins, whether they’re in contemporary art or comics.”

Link to Personal Website: http://www.lederniercri.org/

Bug - from Franz Kafka





Bug - from Franz Kafka
Dan Kitchener - worried Dog Productions

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 1996
105mm square, edition of 6
16 pages, saddle-stitched.
B&W photocopy on tinted papers, including yellow stickers.
  
Description:
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug..."
Book based on the sequence of events described in Kafka's short, unhappy tale of a man who, upon waking, has changed into a bug. The dark pages mirror the downbeat tale but a packet of yellow stickers are provided so the reader can brighten-up the pages, if required. 

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

Book of Matches: Paradise Lost




Book of Matches: Paradise Lost
David Faithfull

Publishing Info:
UK 2000, Published by Semper Fidelis ISBN 1900599104
42mm x 128mm Edition of 500
13 pages, Stapled softback in the form of a matchbook.
Inkjet and screenprint

Description:
Depicts the story of 'Creation' and the 'Fall', abridged from John Milton's Paradise Lost, narrated through 'match' imagery. This is a small book in the form of a matchbook but thicker, the pages are folded in two and open out to form a long thin book. This book forms part of a series of matchbook multiples.

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

Bomblizzard (Vol.1)




Bomblizzard (Vol.1)
Isy Morgenmuffel, Nikki Stu, Steve Larder, Adam Fleet, Nich Angell, Evan Christodoulou, Map Map, James Downing

Publishing Info:
Unknown
A5, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.
B&W photocopy.

Description:
A collection of of work from different illustrators under the theme 'winter'. Works include comic style narratives and illustrated articles.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Bob Wab No.1




Bob Wab No.1
Helma Voskuylen

Publishing Info:
The Netherlands 2008
A4, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.
Ricoh printed (digital mimeograph) on vellum paper at Knust, Nijmegen (Nl)

Description:
A collection of one person, collaged and originals from different illustrators and artists, the text is in Dutch but some of the illustrations are also in Japanese. The zine is eclectic and seems to have no particular theme, printing in generally in monochrome on each page varying colours throughout.

Further Information:
This zine was created at the Knust Workspace.
Knust is the name of the graphic department of artist run organization Extrapool based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Knust represents a print workspace and a bookbinding workspace, and is highly specialized in the stencilprinting technique, also known as Risograph or mimeograph printing.

Link to Knust Workspace: http://www.knustpress.nl/

Blue Inks




Blue Inks
Andy Smith

Publishing Info:
Hastings, UK, 2009, edition of 200
135mmx130mm, 28 pages, saddle-stitched.
Screen printed in 2 colours (with one page in 3 colours)

Description:
Short narrative about a bizarre familiy of characters called the Blue Inks, and their busy day. These are self published books that are hand silkscreened and produced in small editions. 

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

Blossom




Blossom
Laura Tyson, Julie Fowler, and Rachel Clatworthy

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2006
A5, 20 pages, saddle-stitched.
B&W photocopy on tinted papers with screen printed cover.

Description:
Black & white on tinted paper with central section screen printed on pink paper. Including cartoon strips, creative careers advice, well-being comments and illustrations. Made as an aspirational zine to encourage young women to be creative and positive. 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 Facebook: None listed

Birthday Book




Birthday Book
Karoline Rerrie

Publishing Info:
Birmingham 2008, Lonely Panda Press, No.27/500
105mm x 140mm, 16  pages, saddle-stitched.
Laser print on card.

Description:
This is a little colouring book that is all about birthday parties, with pages on birthday cakes, wrapping presents, making balloon animals and the perfect dessert. Printed in monochrome cherry red, it can be coloured and personalised by the owner. Would be great for children.

Link to Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/karoline.rerrie

Bio Auto Graphic - Part Two




Bio Auto Graphic - Part Two
Michael C Nicholson

Publishing Info:
Ensixteen Editions 2006 , Stoke Newington, U.K.
A5, 16  pages, saddle-stitched.
B&W photocopy.
Originally packaged as set of three with belly band: part one, part two and I, in the sky

Description:
A short visit to America by a Britisher. The comic covers a journey from New Haven
through Boston and New York.

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

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




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/
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