#Found Brutalist Portsmouth
#Found Brutalist Portsmouth
November Tan
Portsmouth, UK (2026)
Publishing info:
A6 foldy
Colour laser print
Description:
Zine that maps out the brutalist architecture of Portsmouth, UK. The pages contain photos of buildings such as the King Henry Building, and the Isambard Brunel Multi-Storey Carpark.
Link to author: @novembertan
Yes to Pics
Charlotte Cooper
London, UK (2026)
Publishing info:
Folded A3 page laser print in colour
Description:
The zine documents the early stages of a collaborative photography project with Holly Revell. We are exploring themes relating to photography and trust." (author's communication)
Link to author: https://charlottecooper.net/zines/
Broken Together
Broken Together
Author: August Mai
Seattle, USA (2023)
Publishing info:
A5 on white card
Full colour, inkject print
16 x pages, including cover
Description:
Collaged family photographs that are dedicated to each member of the author's family, mother, sister, uncle and the self. The author self-describes as from a multicultural background, Taiwan, Vietnam and USA
Link to author: https://www.augustmai.com/
Close Encounters of the Human Kind: To Be Undone: I Want to Touch the Moon: Falling Through Space
Close Encounters of the Human Kind:
To Be Undone:
I Want to Touch the Moon:
Falling Through Space
(set of four mini zines)
Cosmic Fables aka Charlie (c.2026)
(author)
I am a Silly Cat
I am a Silly Cat
Seattle, USA
(2026)
32 x pages, including cover
Pompey Drag Files (the): A Disclosure of Drag History from the Victorian Era, to Today
The Pompey Drag Files: A Disclosure of Drag History from the Victorian Era, to Today
Shelly Grotto
Publishing details
A5 colour pages bound with baker’s twine
56 x pages
Description
Pastiche of an FBI investigative report, this includes ‘classified’ information detailing the hidden history of Portsmouth drag - from Victorian sailors to Panto Dames and preset day Pride. Including handwritten notes, photos, collage and typewritten notes.
Link to author's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shellygrotto/
The Terrifying Adventures of a Timid Introvert
The Terrifying Adventures of a Timid Introvert
James Blagden
Publishing Info:
(2025) UK
58 x pages
A4 perfect bound
Full cover printing
Description:
A4, 58 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025This zine was created as a visual diary to reflect on time spent in nature with a small group of friends, featuring 58 pages of illustrated autobiographical short stories on rock climbing, hiking and nature.
Link to author on Instagram: @jmblagden
More More More
Publishing Info:
Description:
Satirical magazine about over-consumption and advertising. This illustrated magazine contains parody adverts and features about social issues, capitalism and consumerism.
Link: @azeezatok
Steel
Elizaibkart aka. Elizabeth Oluyede
Publishing info
Portsmouth UK (2025)
Laser printed on grey and white paper.
Mini one sheet foldy 18 pages
2 A6 postcards
1 A5 postcard
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.
Bit of Undigested Potato (A): An Anthology and Bad Dreams and Nightmares
Keara Stewart (editor)
Publishing Details:
58 page, A5 perfect bound anthology zine.
Colour cover with black & white pages inside.
UK (2015)
Description:
40 artists contribute pages to this collaborative zine about nightmares and bad dreams.
Author's Website:
https://kearabazstewart.tumblr.com/ABITOFUNDIGESTEDPOTATO
Big Beans (Hat Havoc)
28 x pages, A6 portrait
Author's Instagram:
@pjcrunky
My Neighbours Are Not Terrorists / Gerado / Alex Pretti Was My Neighbour
My Neighbours Are Not Terrorists / Gerado / Alex Pretti Was My Neighbour
Sarah Evenson (2026)
Publishing Info:
3 x mini foldy zines
A7 portrait
Black and white on cream card
Description:
Three zines protesting ICE action in Minneapolis, USA in 2025/2026. The zines capture personal stories and connections with the author's neighbours, Gerado was taken away in January 2026 the author has had no news of him since. Alex Pritti an intensive care nurse, and also the author's neighbour, was shot on Jan 24th by ICE officers in Minneapolis. The third zine talks of connections between neighbours in the community.
Link to Instagram: @saltysweetsarah
Link to Website: http://sarah-evenson.com/
Gender Affirmations (set of 3)
Gender Affirmations (set of 3)
Experiences of Trans People / The Non-Binary Umbrella / Experiences of CIS People
Wik Wisniewska
Publishing Information:
Set 3 x A5 zines of 12 pages each
Description:
Three zines looking at different gender experiences through various lenses. Based on interviews and research the zines share the voices of trans, non-binary and CIS people's experiences. Illustrated stories throughout.
Author's Instagram:
@wikohwikart
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/
I Was Bunty's Double
Ziggy KolkerPublishing 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/
Zine-O-Nomicon
Portsmouth, UK (2025)
Black and white laserprint on pink paper.
16 pages, saddle-stitched
Material Grrrl Guide (The)
Material-Grrrl Nos.6 and No.4 (2023)
Alexa Alexakari
Publishing details:
A5 printed zine, saddle stitched
24 x pages
Description: Colourful zine about crafting and feminism, crochet, knitting, felting and culture.
Material Grrrlz is a worldwide community of crafters :) We’re obsessed with maximalist DIY fashion, celebrating girlhood and always being the best dressed at the craft store <3
Through a quarterly magazine, online community platform and monthly in-person workshops in London, we aim to equip and empower Gen-Z to engage with fiber art and craft to build community, engage politically, and promote sustainability.
(From author's website)
In this special holiday edition of the mag, we meet material grrrl Destiny Franks, announce an upcoming collab with Särö Studio, and share our complete Material Grrrl Gift GuideLink to Instagram: @materialgrrrlz
Free patterns include a quilted cowgirl boot stocking (sewing) and customizable colorwork mittens (knitting & crochet). (From author's website about No.6)
In issue 4, we’ve got you covered with all the essentials for the perfect material grrrl summer: how to be a bimbo, a meme god, and the best dressed at your next picnic afternoon. Free patterns include a customizable sewn tote to carry any bottle of booze, the perfect crocheted garland decor for any get together, and a knit smock top that you’ll want to wear every day. (From author's website about No.4)
Computers Apps and Smartphones
Computers Apps and Smartphones
Future Fantasteek! Thematic Compilation of Issues 1-16
Jac Batey
Publishing Details:
First Published (2015), Second Edition (2026)
40 pages
A5 saddle-stitched
colour printing on recycled silk paper
Description:
Link to Artist: futurefantasteek.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.
Reflective Practice
Reflective Practice
A3 foldy zine
Black & white photocopy on cartridge paper
Mini zine in the form of lovely drawn comic panels, giving the author's experience of trying to pick their way through what a reflective practitioner is.
"Reflective Practice was made as part of my MA research into what it takes to successfully learn to draw something, interrogating my own practice and internalised ideals. In it, I explored the social context of my school experience and considered things in my life that had previously disrupted my development, using the framework of Kolb's Learning Cycle." Basil Hutton (2025)
Text Message Moods
Text Message Moods
Kali Kambo
Lancaster, PA, USA (2024)Publishing Info:
Mini zine by which shows how we have learned to recognise patterns within texting. The playful zine imagines six short text exchanges, but shows how the pattern of the type changes with the emotion and intent of the typist, no words are included.
We now all recognise the wavering three dots (… is typing) and can often see at a glance, (when catching up with 52 messages on WhatsApp) whether someone has a lot to say, or is casually catching up with you. In Text Message Moods, ‘Venting’ shows the blocks of text required for explaining and agonising over a particular incident, whilst ‘Casual’ is a more even shorter exchange including smiley emoji.
What's at Stake? Young People's Take on AI & Education

What's at Stake? Young People's Take on AI & Education
Ayça Atabey, Colton Botta, Harry Dyer, Esther Priyadharshini, Jen Ross, Cara Wilson
Publishing Details:
A4 printed zine
Colour way in orange and light blue
Description:
This zine represents the messages young people wanted to share with decision-makers and educators, to help you make responsible AI a reality in education. Funded by an AHRC 'Bridging AI Responsible Divides' project grant.
"In June 2024, young people at three secondary schools took part in workshops on the topic of the future of responsible artificial intelligence in education. This work was part of a larger research project on the emerging context of generative AI (GenAI) tools and their implications for education, now and in the future.
This zine is one outcome from these workshops, and it represents the messages young people wanted to share with decision-makers and educators, to urge you to make Responsible AI a reality in education. The young people were creative, thoughtful and imaginative – these materials express their hopes, fears, and personal meaning-making with and about AI. We encourage you to see their images and words as an important act of AI literacy, expressed through creativity, collaboration and reflection.
For the most part, young people are providing you with questions, not answers. We learned and had our assumptions challenged by their work. Please take what they have offered here as a provocation, a confrontation and an opportunity to think expansively about your own values and hopes for education". (from the project's website)
There are some pertinent comments about bias and representation here, the kids absolutely get it. Fascinating reading for anyone researching creativity and AI with education. For example, "Young people highlighted many unknowns regarding the consequences of using or not using GenAI. They wonder if they can trust the tech companies, when they see so many examples of unsolicited ads, bias, censorship and other negative consequences of technology."
Computer is Your Friend
Computer is Your Friend
Ashleigh Ronning
Melbourne, Australia (2023)
Publishing Info:
A6 Riso printed zine
Saddle stiched
Description:
Small zine that uses humour and narrative in the form of a daily diary that shows the interactions of the narrator with their ‘helpful’ computer. The computer known as ‘Compu-Pal’ is trying to be useful but inadvertently stresses the user by overriding their decisions, thus infantilising the author. Interestingly this zine uses hand drawn versions of operating system windows, loading bars and alerts, making us aware of the human behind the story. The typography parodies ‘Chicago’, Susan Kare’s font designed for Apple, in use from 1984, the square shapes displayed on an early screen are a ubiquitous visual code for ‘computer’.
In Ronning’s zine the computer helpfully creates art to free up the narrator’s time and there’s a parody of a fitness watch that tells the user to “Please relax! Enjoy your leisure time!” amidst a flurry of pop-up windows alerting the user to data collection and privacy risks. The humour comes from the absurdity of the computer ‘helper’ which ironically doesn’t help at all.
Link to Instagram: @ashleyronning










































