Modern Toss Issue No.3



Modern Toss Issue No.3
Mick Bunnage and Jon Link - Modern Toss Ltd

Publishing Info:
Worthing, UK 2005
A5, 64 pages.
Commercial full-colour printing and binding

Description:
This A5 colour comic contains many characters, now familiar with Modern Toss, including, Mr Tourette, Customer Services and Work. The humour is often about everyday events and life with heavy use of swearing throughout (to humorous effect). This is Issue No.3.

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

Misfits




Misfits
Girls Who Draw - Jane Anderson; Jess Bradley; Gemma Correll; Zoe Darnell; Yee Ting Kuit; Yee Ping Kuit; Tanya Meditzky; Clare Power; Karoline Rerrie; Sarah Ray

Publishing Info:
Birmingham, UK 2008
A6, 24 pages.
Commercial full-colour printing and binding

Description:
Postcard book containing the work of 10 female illustrators, lovely collection of images that focus on drawing and line work.
"Each card inside has been beautifully printed ready for you to send to all your arty farty friends or to just keep as it is, if you can’t bare to take it apart. They’ve sold really well at Handmade & Bound Craft and Zine Fair in London, the Manchester Artist’s Book Fair and at our GWD launch at Plus International Design Festival in Birmingham last week"
Excerpt from, Girls Who Draw website

Link to Personal Website: http://girlswhodraw.wordpress.com/

Mexico Souvenir Program



Mexico Souvenir Program
Jean-Kristau

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

Description:
Bizarre comic that interweaves mexican wrestling posters with spoof medical advertisments. Images mix collages of toys and dolls with lettering and drawings. Rather dark in tone although very colourful in appearance. 
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 Collective Website: http://www.lederniercri.org/

Major Research Project



Major Research Project
Tim Clark

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2010
A5, 36 pages.
B&W photocopy on white paper with day-glo pink card cover

Description:
This is Tim's practical dissertation produced as a pair of zines, this is the written element, it goes with the visual element called Head Vomit. This pair of zines were Tim's submission for his art dissertation during his final year on the illustration BA(hons) course at the University of Portsmouth.

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

Magic Carpet Beaver Shack




Magic Carpet Beaver Shack
Emily Regan, Karina Nyss, Tim Clark, Kalie Kitchenham, Holly Hilton, Nina Alexander

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2009
A5, 28 pages.
Black & white photocopy, with poster insert and cover on orange day-glo, trace cover

Description:
Zine containing eclectic illustrations about beavers and moustaches, surreal humour. Subtitle of zine is " Toothy McGums Moustache Hallucination". Created as part of the Zines Unit, for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Love To Print: Obsession




Love To Print: Obsession
Love to Print Collaboration, coordinated by Karoline Rerrie

Publishing Info:
Birmingham, UK 2010
A5, 24 pages.
Colour Screenprint

Description:
Zine produced by colour screenprinting. Invited artists produced a page of obsessions on a theme of their choosing. Subjects include: cats, squids, bikes, cameras, owls, cakes, stamps and camping. Artists include: Jess Bradley, Claire Lynch, Sarah Ray, Sarah Lynch, Karoline Rerrie, Yee Ting Kuit, Ruth Geen, Gemma Correll and Kate Seaward.

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



Love To Print: Patterns
















Love To Print: Patterns
Love to Print Collaboration, coordinated by Karoline Rerrie

Publishing Info:
Birmingham, UK 2010
A5, 20 pages.
Colour Screenprint

Description:
Zine produced by colour screenprinting. Invited artists produced a page of patterns on any theme. The artists are: karoline Rerrie, Katie Parry, Sarah Lynch, Ruth Green, Helen Entwisle and Daisy Whitehouse. Pages include bugs, dogs, owls, mushrooms, cats and birds.

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

Love Songs



Love Songs
Karl Mumford

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2006
A6, 18 pages.
Colour inkjet.

Description:
Zine about Love as seen through the lyrics of popular love songs with illustrations. Including Sam Cooke, Celine Dion and R-Kelly. Created as part of Karl's submission for his Illustration BA(HONS) Degree at the University of Portsmouth.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Lonely Panda



Lonely Panda
Karoline Rerrie

Publishing Info:
Birmingham, UK 2007, edition of 500
A7 landscape, 16 pages.
Colour printing in brown monochrome.

Description:
Small format colouring book about a panda and his friends. The featured animals are all black and white, such as dalmations, badgers, zebras and penguins. Each page features a different animal, with the panda a the start and finish.

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

Little Zine of Big Monsters, (The)



Little Zine of Big Monsters, (The)
Chrissy Kent a.k.a. Just Another Artist

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2009, edition of 25
A7, Foldy (A4 folded sheet)
Colour inkjet print on textured paper.

Description:
Limited edition zine made as part of Chrissy's illustration BA show.
The zine is about various monster characters and their mini-biograhies.
Humourous in tone. 

Link to Personal Website: http://www.justanotherartist.co.uk/index.htm

Little Bunny Book of Mean (The)




Little Bunny Book of Mean (The)
Chris Getliffe a.k.a Kitchen District

Publishing Info:
London, UK 2009
A7, 14 pages, saddle-stitched.
Colour inkjet print on heavy weight satin paper

Description:
Small zine in the format of double page spreads of cartoons. The characters are rabbits living melancholy human lives. The short stories usual feature rabbits being mean or unkind to each other and concerns broken human relationships.

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

Little Book of Wierd Dreams



Little Book of Wierd Dreams
Danielle Churm, Fay Dalton, John Keaveny, Sophie Payne, Marie Stiles

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2009
A5, 20 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white inkjet on brown and red paper

Description:
Group project creating a zine about dreams and the subconscious mind, illustrations are about the most popular dreams, such as flying or loosing teeth. Printed on brown paper with red central section. Created as part of the Zines Unit, for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth.

Link to Personal Websites: 
Fay Dalton - http://www.faydaltonillustration.com/ 
John Keaveny - http://www.johnkeaveneydesigns.com/

Litter




Litter
Tom Keegan, Ben Dabell, Jamie Savill, Rebecca Lago, John Pullen,
Nigel Sharman, Spencer Mcintosh

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2010
A5, 28 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy, with brown cover and trace overlay

Description:
Zine themed on litter, with illustrations about cat litter, junk, rubbish, litter picking, and recyling. various approaches with an interesting mix of styles.
Created as part of the Zines Unit,  for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth.

Link to Personal Website: None listed


Like Dislike - Issue 2
Jessyca Murphy and Leif Anders

Publishing Info:
Bellinghsm, USA 2007
A6, 28 pages, saddle-stitched.
B&W photocopy

Description:
Black and white zine containing the likes and dislikes of the authors. Computer themed issue. Subjects include You TUbe; IMDB; i-tunes; emails from Zimbabwe and private Myspaces. 

Link to MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/likedislike

Like Dislike - Issue 1



Like Dislike - Issue 1
Jessyca Murphy and Leif Anders

Publishing Info:
Bellinghsm, USA 2006
A6, 28 pages, saddle-stitched.
B&W photocopy

Description:
Black and white zine containing the likes and dislikes of the authors. Subjects include Geena Davis, people who put nut shells back in a bowl of nuts, conservative indie kids and saying 'flippin'. 

Link to MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/likedislike

Last Stop Motel



Last Stop Motel
Lee Farrell, Harjas Kalsi, Chris Gosden, Paul Bateman

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth UK 2006
A4, 20 pages, saddle-stitched.
Colour photocopy.

Description:
Colour graphic novel, detective story set in a seedy city covering dark themes, adult in nature.
Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth 2006.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Lairs



Lairs
Daniel Swan

Publishing Info:
Brixton, London, UK 2008
A5, 20 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy on tinted papers.

Description:
Zine produced in black and white printed on coloured paper, black line drawings of slightly surreal houses, homes and lairs of various types.

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



Keepers or People I Know



Keepers or People I Know
Steve Larder

Publishing Info:
UK undated, purchased in 2008
A6, 28 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy with cream cover and red linoprint

Description:
Small zine with one drawing per page of various people known to the author.

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

How to Survive a Bear Attack



How to Survive a Bear Attack
TK

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2009
A6, 8 pages, folded-sheet
Black and white photocopy on to white paper

Description:
Short sequence explaining how to survive a bear attack, humorous illustrations.

Link to Personal Blog: http://blog.tkillustration.co.uk/

How I Tenuously Know All Four Original Members of Black Sabbath



How I Tenuously Know All Four Original Members of Black Sabbath
Tom J Hughes

Publishing Info:
London, UK, 2008
A5, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white laser print on cream paper

Description:
A collection of illustrations depicting how the author is vaguely connected with the original members of Black Sabbath.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Horse



Horse
Tom Pearce

Publishing Info:
London, UK, 2007
A5, 8 pages, saddle-stitched.
Colour inkjet on glossy white paper

Description:
A collection of illustrations depicting humorous events and nonesense jokes

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

Hooked - Issue 2


Hooked - Issue 2 
Various Artists, assembled by MJAR

Publishing Info:
London, UK, 2007
A5, 32 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white laser print with colour laser pages, screenprint dayglo orange on cover.

Description:
Illustrative zine in black and white with some colour pages, containing work from various artists - doodles, illustrations and photographs and street art.

Link to Personal Website: http://www.etsy.com/shop/hookedblog

The Hungry Slug



The Hungry Slug
Tom Genders

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2006, edition of 5
10cm square, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy with brown textured paper cover.

Description:
Short funny tale of a slug who over-eats until he becomes ill. Created by Tom as part of his final submission for his Illustration BA(HONS) degree at the University of Portsmouth, UK, graduating in 2006.

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

Het Moet Onverstaanbaar No.3



Het Moet Onverstaanbaar No.3 
Anima Mal Nata

Publishing Info:
Undated, Holland (purchased in 2009)
A5, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.
Colour printing (commercial printers).

Description:
A collection of illustrations, drawings and doodles some by the author but featuring another 11 artists. The tone is lively, colourful and anxious with elements of horror.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Head Vomit
Tim Clark

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth UK, 2010
A5, 20 pages, saddle-stitched.
B&W photocopy on white paper with yellow fly leaf and day-glo pinkcard cover

Description:
Collection of writings and drawings about student life, this zine accompanies a written dissertation also produced as a zine, called Major Research Project. This pair of zines were Tim's submission for his art dissertation during his final year on the illustration BA(hons) course at the University of Portsmouth.

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

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