Zine Review
Issue #28
She Wolf #1
By Jen Ng
Published: June 1st, 2006 | 12:00am
She Wolf #1
2005, $6.50
47 pages; 8” x 9” (numbered edition of 1,500)
available at quimbys.com
Brooklyn-based zine She Wolf is nothing short of eye candy. It's dressed in a handsome cover with enticing illustrations and photography and accompanied by only a smattering of text. Articles highlight creative gals such as Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu, comic-actress-musician Dame Darcy, and Le Tigre front woman Kathleen Hanna.
Although it’s pretty to look it, I wish there was more to read. The handful of articles, however, provide interesting and quirky revelations about Kathleen Hanna's rebellious teenage years and her favorite video games. There's also an “Illegal” section, which showcases cool graffiti art and “guerilla feminism” by way of a do-it-yourself vagina stencil.
At $6.50 a copy, this splurge purchase is justified because it stands out from the rest. It falls somewhere between a fanzine (for its hodge-podge coverage of underground culture), a magazine (for its color and glossy pages), and a coffee-table book (for its archival aesthetics and flip-through accessibility).
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