classic zines

[gordonzola]

While organizing and weeding out zines from my, ahem, personal zine library, I found duplicates of a few that I didn’t want to send to some zine library where they would get stolen.

all the zines are claimed, sorry! thanks perigee

Cometbus #40
Doris #6
Doris #18
Doris #19
Mudflap (yin yang mudflap cover)
Mudflap (buttcrack cover)
SCAM #4

These are examples of how amazing zines can be. I found a lot of reasons why I love zines while going through the issues I felt were important enough to save. I'm happy to have the amazing zines I do: a complete set of Doris, Pasty, and Processed World, almost a full set of That Girl, the Epicenter anti-war zine from before I worked there etc. I do wish I had more copies of Pathetic Life, Murder Can Be Fun and Diseased Pariah News. And it kind of burns me that my i'm so fucking beautiful #1 is missing since I accounted for selling about 200 of those fuckers at Epicenter, but I'll live.

Whatever happened to the great writers of Theoryslut, Spawn of Satan, Teen Fag and so many others? Any zines you, my lovely readers, miss terribly and wish were still around?

Comments

[perigee.livejournal.com]

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[superchones.livejournal.com]

huh, isn't mudflap the zine that had some rant about the writer hating "fucking beaners making kissy faces [at her] while mowing the lawn"?! sorry the quote isn't exact and i don't have the issue number because my collection of racist zines is across the bay.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I realy don't think that was Mudflap.

Mudflap was done in the late '80s/early '90s in San Francisco by Greta from Shred of Dignity who's also made a bunch of movies. It was concerned mostly with queer punk and biking, but was an innovator, not imitator in those genres. I think your thinking of something else, though I haven't read them all in their entirety since they came out. But that would really, really surprise me.

besides, there are no lawns in san francisco, where would that come from?

[magpiesf.livejournal.com]

yeah id be surprised if that came from mudflap as well... doesnt ring any bells, though i havent read through all of them in a long time either... great zine, wish i had more of em.

[clear-all.livejournal.com]

I could probably be convinced to lend you mine, if I knew I'd see 'em again.

Or I know erik zo has 'em.

[superchones.livejournal.com]

damn, i wish i had my zines with me.

i really do not don't remember any oither content besides the shockingly laid back racism. it was a sparse zine. if you can, browse them both, check the left side pages, towards the middle/bottom.

if this isn't the zine, then oops, but i still really think it is. i put an excerpt from it in hey mexican.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I do have a copy of "Hey Mexican!" now easily findable with my new organizational system. You don't seem to be naming names, but based on the excerpts it doesn't seem like Greta's writing at all.

Mudflap was a pretty dense, not sparse, zine. Plus, I'm thinking you wrote that in 1996 (letter to the unnamed zine author is dated "13 julio 1996"). I think the last Mudflap was like 1993 or so.

[asthecrowflies.livejournal.com]

current tho' it is, have you seen the East Village Inky? i love this thing so much! see, i had an idea in my head for a little while that there were things that marked growing up, & having kids underfoot seemed (& somedays still does, but those are the hard days, right?) exclusive of 'zine making - as if it's something we only do when we are 20-like. but this one fires me up all squisky - the true tales of rasing up family in the Big City - & the drawings are great =)

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

this was my review for MRR from a few months ago:

East Village Inky #20 / $2
2.75 x 4.25 – copied – 24pgs
Ayun is a good writer and this is one of the better EVIs I’ve read. If somehow you’ve never heard of this zine, it’s about Ayun’s life raising kids in New York City. This issue actually seems a little less kid focussed than others, consisting of many NYC store reviews, veggie recipes and avoiding a high school reunion. There is child-rearing content too, of course, my favorite giving tips on birthday parties for kids. My biggest criticism of this long-running and steady zine is that I wish it would go a little deeper because at times it seems oddly naïve, especially the weirdly dumb "advice to fathers" centerfold about resisting being "feminized". I know it’s tongue in cheek, but it just seems so ‘70s for men to feel like crying at movies would be a big deal. Maybe I’m just too Californian. Another example, instead of a small illustration of a "dog preferring neighbor", let’s have an article on child-hate. But let’s not dwell on the negative, this is a zine you’d like if you are a crafty mom or dad raising young kids. (GZ)
Ayun Halliday / PO Box 22754 / Brooklyn, NY 11202
www.ayunhalliday.com.

[asthecrowflies.livejournal.com]

I know it’s tongue in cheek, but it just seems so ‘70s for men to feel like crying at movies would be a big deal.

hee! yes, she has the same capacity as we all do to delve into the corny occasionally. i've read some pieces where she does indeed take on the darker stuff (Bust magazine carries her as a columnist) - it's good, but i don't know if i'd want to digest it in cartoon...

i can forgive her any for nearly anything tho', based on article titles like, "It Takes a Village Idiot"
=)

[lizallium.livejournal.com]

i like it when you talk about zines.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

awwwwww. you're one of the few.

[fattest.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite zines of all time was Her Posse. A very inspiring and radical little queer zine from Boston in the early/mid 90's, with stuff you might hear nowadays in a crowd of Queer Shamers.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Yep those are good! I decided to keep those during my big weed out. I kept the Fat Girls and Creamy Goodness too.

[mala106.livejournal.com]

her posse was something i heard tell of, but never actually saw. "you have to get this zine. it reminds me so much of you!" ???

[clear-all.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I'd caught that issue of scam. Oh well.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

truly an under-rated zine. I'll let you know if I come across more.

if this is the Theoryslut zine you're talking about....

[cherrifying.livejournal.com]

G is "Straight Up" of Theoryslut. He published only two issues and has the pieces of a third lying around. Now he's doing the political stuff. Did you vote for him?

Re: if this is the Theoryslut zine you're talking about....

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Ha! small city eh? I would have voted for him, I saw his picture all over town, but I'm not a registered Democrat. Honestly, with all the lawsuits, I am unclear on what type of ballot I can demand at the polling place so I let it slide.

Did he win?

[walktheplank.livejournal.com]

Any zines you, my lovely readers, miss terribly and wish were still around?

Just off the top of my head:

- Dishwasher
- Factsheet 5
- Rollerderby
- Gogglebox
- Murder Can Be Fun
- Sad Magazine
- Flatter
- Alphabet Threat
- Rump Comics
- R2D2 is an Indie Rocker
- Grundig

and, yes, Ben Is Dead

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I don't remember Sad.

I loved Alphabet Threat though. Did you ever see the Youth anti-war issue a bunch of them did in 1991 for the local '60s-era peace group? The next issue had a big discussion of the lack of seriousness. awwww, kids!

[walktheplank.livejournal.com]

http://www.geocities.com/bigeyedcat/

[mala106.livejournal.com]

pure tuna fish, tennis and violins, femme flicke, evidence of frozentown, chainsaw.