Eat Your Broken Heart Out

Eat Your Broken Heart Out

Sara Seppala, Rebecca Wink, Kajal Ramanuj, Samira Simmons, Nicola Fox, Terry Oakley

Publishing Info:

Portsmouth UK, 2010

A5, 24 pages, single-section sewn

Colour laser print throughout with card cover

Description:

Subtitled, 'Emergency recipes to get over him', this zine is full of ideas for cakes, milkshakes, films, face masks recipes and feel good treats. The zine is aimed at women getting over an ended relationship. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, UK. 2010 

Link to personal website: None listed

Dreams

Dreams

Adam Weeks, Adam Insam, Ashley Watson, Alex Powell, Nicola Collins, Neil Badman

Publishing Info:

Portsmouth UK, 2009

A5, 22 pages, glued

Black and white photocopy

Description:

zine about dreams and nightmares. Themes include travelling, philosophy, surrealism
and flying. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, UK. 2009

Link to personal website: None listed

Depression Diary, Jennie's Story

Depression Diary, Jennie's Story

By Jennie Wood

Publishing Info:

Portsmouth UK, 2007

A5, 8 pages, saddle-stitched.

Colour ink-jet inside with black & white cover printed onto mauve paper.

Description:

Personal diary/journal from the perspective of someone with unipolar depression.
The diary follows the day to day medical suggestions with comments from the patient,
often humorous in tone. Created by Jennie as part of her Illustration BA(HONS) at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Link to personal website: None listed

Decades

Decades

David Williams, Jasmine Chandler, Charlotte Byles, Charlotte Hocklet, David Booth

Publishing Info:

Portsmouth UK, 2008

A5, 14 pages, single-section sewn.

Black & white inside, colour cover with brown paper dust jacket.

Description:

Each contributor worked on a different decade, looking at memories, toys, music, fashion, icons, computer games and Mr Motivator. Humorous and reflective zine. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, UK. 2008

Link to personal website: None listed

Countersunk People

Countersunk People

Anthony Zinonos

Publishing Info:

Yes Bean Press, 2008 - edition of 50

A6, 36 pages, saddle-stitched.

Colour laser print

Description:

Illustrative portfolio zine showcasing the artist's collages on themes of people and photography.

Link to personal website: http://www.anthonyzinonos.com/

Compact News – No.2

Compact News – No.2

Kevin Boniface

Publishing Info:

Huddersfield UK, 2009

A5, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.

Black & white photocopy.

Description:

Black & white humorous zine that is a compact version of a local newspaper. With edited versions of news stories, this issue contains Character Assessments, Things to do in Huddersfield and Property Guide.

Link to personal website: http://victorygarden.co.uk/VG/Home.html

Compact News

 

Compact News

Kevin Boniface

Publishing Info:

UK, 2007

A5, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.

Black & white photocopy.

Description:

black & white humorous zine that is a compact version of a local newspaper. With edited versions of news stories, many names are replaced with 'some people'. The zine includes advertisements and illustrations, which don't necessarily match the articles.

Link to personal website: http://victorygarden.co.uk/VG/Home.html

Cog & Balls

Cog & Balls

Mike Nicholson and Mette Ambeck

Publishing Info:

Stoke Newington UK, 2003

A6, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.

Black & white photocopy with colour cover.

Description:

black & white humorous comic when two lifestyles clash or, the Robot Queen sends her minions to sort-out Ron. 

Link to personal website: None listed

Collecting Odds & Sods

Collecting Odds & Sods

Nikou Nazaripour, leila Hegan, Megan Barton, Lesley-Ann Driscoll, Jodie Tipper, Joe Sisson

Publishing Info:

Portsmouth UK, 2009

A5, 24 pages, single-section sewn.

Black & white photocopy, screenprint on white and red paper.

Each zine had a sticker slotted in the front cover, various designs available

Description:

Light-hearted look at collecting from chilhood upwards. Teapots, radios, buttons, badges, etc. plus memories of childhood collecting, such as swapping stickers and hoarding smelly erasers. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, UK. 2009

Link to personal website: None listed

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/