They Quickly Ran From The Enormous Finger

They Quickly Ran From The Enormous Finger 
Andy Smith

Publishing Info: 
Hastings UK, 2008 - edition of 300
130 mm x 130mm, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.
Screen printed in two colours.

Description: 
Small humorous book that shows a group of people running from an enormous finger. The sequence of pages highlights suspense and surprise, although the title does describe exactly what's going to happen.

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

Stereoplastika - Issue Two

Stereoplastika - Issue Two (Issue One entitled, 'Planet Stereo')
Alberto Rodriguez

Publishing Info: 
Toledo, Spain, UK, 2007
A6, 26 pages with additional A4 fold-out central section.
Black and white photocopy with royal blue cover and stickers.

Description:
Image-based celebration of music and club culture

Link to Personal Website: http://stereoplastika.com/planeta.htm

Special Brands

Special Brands
Joe Kolessides

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2009
A5, 14 pages, French-fold with metal spiral binding.
Colour laser print.

Description: 
A selection of twisted advertisements for strange products, a satirical look at consumerism. Strange characters frantically promote nothing in particular.  Joe graduated from the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2009

Link to Personal Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/happyhateful/sets/

Statements

Statements
Keith J. Varadi

Publishing Info:
New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 2008
A5, 28 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black & white photocopy with cream card cover

Description:
Zine containing the thoughts & writings of the author, in the form of very short statements, hand written typography. Variation of melancholoy,humour and surrealism.

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

Space For Dreams, (A)

Space For Dreams, (A) 
Hattie Hilsden, Jess Foyle, Zoe Jackson, Luke Hodges, Matthew Dewhurst, Katie Pascoe

Publishing Info: 
Portsmouth, UK 2010.
A5, 21 loose-leaf sheets, with belly-band.
Black & white photocopy onto various tinted grey papers.

Description: 
Black & white set of loose A5 prints on various tinted papers all based around the theme of dreams and nightmares. Created as part of the Zines Unit, set for Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Sour Leaves - Book Three

Sour Leaves - Book Three 
Brendan Monoe

Publishing Info: 
Berkeley, USA 2006.
A6, 40 pages, saddle-stitched.
Sepia ink computer print onto cream paper.

Description: 
Surreal cyclic-story of two small characters, who after their home is destroyed, seek another place to stay. Background setting is the natural environment, trees, rivers and woods.

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

Sound of Drowning, (The)

Sound of Drowning, (The) 
Paul O'Connell

Publishing Info:
Brighton, UK 2008.
A5, 20 pages.
Black & white inkjet on glossy white paper.

Description:
A comic stip style zine made up of 4 short stories. A mexican surgery, a girl with a robot sister, a seminar on psyco-schematics and a makeover story.

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

Some Of My Best Friends Are...

Some Of My Best Friends Are... 
Sonia Hope

Publishing Info:
London, UK 2007.
A5, 11 pages.
Black & white photocopy.

Description:
Black & white zine around the themes of Sonia’s Ph.D. research - black women’s writing. The zine format brings together ideas about language, reading, literature and the physical experience of actually reading a book. Reflective and thoughtful. 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 Personal Website: http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/h/hope_sonia

Snow Day (The Period)

Snow Day (The Period) 
Lucy Pawlak

Publishing Info:
London (?), UK, date unknown.
A5, 8 pages.
Colour inkjet on glossy white paper.

Description: 
A narrative set on Clapham Common (London) where an out of controll snowball causes a disaster.

Link to Personal Website: http://shootingpeople.org/cards/Lucy_Pawlak

Slosh
Stuart Richards, Chris Ede, Tom O'Malley, Kim Botha, Jordan Ring, Helen Andover and Rose Freer

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2005
A4, 32 pages, Folded A3 sheets.
Black & white photocopy on newsprint.

Description: 
Black & white satirical newspaper, showcasing seven illustrators
Created by a group of students about to graduate from the Illustration BA(HONS) Degree, University of Portsmouth, UK.

Link to Personal Website: None listed

Sheds

Sheds 
Nigel Peake

Publishing Info: 
Analogue books, UK, 2007
150mm x 210mm, 16 pages, perfect binding.
Colour inkjet on white paper.

Description:
A zine completely dedicated to sheds including illustrations, photography, shed facts and even a shed poem.

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

Shebang - Issue one

Shebang - Issue one 
Liv Willars and Lyndsey Woods

Publishing Info: 
UK 2008
A5, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black & white photocopy on pale blue paper.

Description: 
"Shebang is a light blue homemade zine crammed with music features, travel guides, artist profiles, craft tutorials and any other fancies that catch our eye! We believe that the simple things in life should be celebrated and shared; the new favourite record you've found for pennies in a charity shop, the cake recipe your nan passed on or the gig last night that made your heart skip..."
Shebang website

Link to Personal Website: http://www.shebang-mag.co.uk/index.htm

Senses

Senses
Samantha Davey, Gary Booley, Susan Carre, Jenny Booth, Michelle Barratt

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2006
A5, 21 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black & white photocopy.

Description:
Black & white zine looking at the senses, including facts, paintings, humour, drawings and typography. 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 Personal Website: None listed

From the Secret Laboratory

From the Secret Laboratory 
Hendrik Dorgathen

Publishing Info:
Unknown
205mm x 155mm, 16 pages, saddle-stitched.
Colour inkjet on off-white paper, screen printed cover.

Description:
A series of various images, most depicting a character in various colourful styles resembling old computer graphics. Some elements on the cover are printed in luminescent ink.

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

Quirks

Quirks
Lauren Van Niekerk, Emily Harper, Ian Tiseo, Phil O'Connor, Paula Ide, Julia Fitzpatrick

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2009
A5, 24 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black & white photocopy, colour cover.

Description: 
Black & white zine around the theme of quirks, diverse subjects such as fainting goats, grass snakes's defense, fashion, platypus and thumb sucking. 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 Personal Website: None listed.

Progress of an Artist, (The)

Progress of an Artist, (The) 
Torin Glock

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK, 2000
A6, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy.

Description:
Cyclic and satirical narrative about a critic's mentoring of a young fine artist.
Follows the artist from school through university and on to a successful career as
an artist.Created as part of Torin's final submission for his Illustration BA(HONS) Degree at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Link to Personal Website: None listed.

Prakalpana Literature No.23

Prakalpana Literature No.23 Bangla-English Bilingual
Vattacharja Chandan

Publishing Info: 
Kolkata, India 2008
A5, 76 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white commercial printing with colour cover.

Description:
An independent small press poetry review - Poetry magazine that has examples of concrete poetry, short stories and texts. There are a few illustrations. The text is in two languages, Bangla-English."Prakalpana" is a new form of literature and art composed of: P for Prose, Poetry, graPhics + R for for stoRy + A for Art, essAy + K for Kinema + L for noveL, cuLture, pLay + N for soNg, as derived by Vattacharja Chandan. The word 'prakalpana' means proper imagination.

Excerpt from NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW...
"Prakalpana is a mixture of forms from literature and art, encompassing as much of the wider scope of culture as it can. THE QUESTION RAIN answers use a form of words that commingle or create new compounds. For example, big and ignorance becomes bignorance."

Link to Personal Website: http://www.vattacharjachandan.blogspot.co.uk/

Planet Stereo - Issue One

Planet Stereo - Issue One 
Alberto Rodriguez

Publishing Info: 
Toledo, Spain, 2007, edition of 200
A6, 16 pages with additional A4 central fold-out section.
Black and white photocopy with day-glo yellow cover.
A selection of colour stickers.

Description: 
Image-based celebration of music and club culture

Link to Personal Website: http://stereoplastika.com/planeta.htm

Pick Your Nose

Pick Your Nose 
Arran Mackintosh

Publishing Info: 
Portsmouth UK, 2009, edition of 300
A7, foldy, 6 pages opening-up to an A4 poster.
White screenprint onto red paper
Red acetate sewn envelope.

Description: 
Small fun zine sold to support the Red Nose Day (http://www.rednoseday.com/) events during Comic Relief 2009.

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

Phlegm Comic No.8

Phlegm Comic No.8 
Phlegm

Publishing Info: 
Sheffield, UK 2008
A5, 36 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy with screen printed cover.

Description: 
Drawn so that the comic is held vertially when read, the dense black and white pen and ink illustrations contain fake advertisements and socal comment.

Following excerpt from Phlegm's website...
"The name phlegm came from one of the four bodily humours in ancient Greek medicine, blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Phlegm was believed to be responsible for an apathetic and unemotional temperament. The comic's ethos has always been to give a moments relief from everyday drudgery and apathy, and give you something to think about...The comic contains my pen and ink illustrations, cartoons, and spraypaint work found in the streets. The work is intricate, often surreal, but most of the time it looks like a mad person has been locked in a room for years with no company but a bottle of Indian ink and a scratchy nib….because that's precisely what it is."

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

Phlegm Comic No.7

Phlegm Comic No.7
Phlegm

Publishing Info:
Sheffield, UK 2008
A4 folded to A5, 12 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy with coloured paper cover.

Description: 
Drawn so that the comic is held vertially when read, the dense black and white pen and ink illustrations contain fake advertisements and socal comment.

Following excerpt from Phlegm's website...
The name phlegm came from one of the four bodily humours in ancient Greek medicine, blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Phlegm was believed to be responsible for an apathetic and unemotional temperament. The comic's ethos has always been to give a moments relief from everyday drudgery and apathy, and give you something to think about...The comic contains my pen and ink illustrations, cartoons, and spraypaint work found in the streets. The work is intricate, often surreal, but most of the time it looks like a mad person has been locked in a room for years with no company but a bottle of Indian ink and a scratchy nib….because that's precisely what it is.

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

Patent Pending

Patent Pending 
Shaun Hillyer, Gavin Churcher, Nicky Smith, Nicky Turville, Sam Baker, Sabrina Homewood, Lloyd Jones.

Publishing Info: 
Portsmouth, UK 2010
A5, 32 pages, saddle-stitched.
Black and white photocopy with coloured paper cover (various colours).

Description:
Mix of bizarre and satirical advertisements for nonsense products i.e. Cure for death, Neon Braces, Brain Food, Turdbine and Miracle Beard Cream. The zine is A5 landscape throughout. Each issue has a different colour cover and has a small badge attached to the inside front cover. 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 Personal Website: None listed.

Parasites

Parasites
Katherine Manolessou

Publishing Info:
London, UK 2005, 1st editions of 100
A6 Foldy - single sheet.
Two colour screenprint (red and flourescent orange) on heavy cartrige paper.

Description:
Cyclic images without text of parasites attacking a larger beast, which in turn is attacking another beast.

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

Panic Society

Panic Society 
Paul Wardski, Michael Dane, Ashley John, Mike Purdy and Arran Macintosh

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2009
297mm x 105mm, 11 pages but split into 4 sections so countless variations.
Black and white photocopy onto coloured paper.

Description: 
Exquisite corpse game created as a multipage zine, bizarre characters form even odder ones as the pages are jumbled-up. 

"Zine depicting a gallery of horrors from the madness we see in society, coupled with some subject-stretching imagination." Arran Macintosh

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 Personal Website: http://www.mushroominthebox.com/

Outsider Cycle

Outsider Cycle 
Laurent Impeduglia

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

Description: 
Raging comic about American culture, war, death and destruction.
Hand drawn illustrations and typography with a few photographs of 3D objects.
Includes strong language and adult content.
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/