Zine Reviews
Issue #35
By Liz Mason
Published: March 1st, 2008 | 3:02pm
BRAINSCAN #22
smallworldbuttons.com, $2
Holy shit, Alex Wrekk has been publishing Brainscan for 10 years! She’s totally pro: clear, well thought out, and conversational. In this issue she documents her experience with birth control, specifically getting a non-hormonal IUD implanted in her uterus. She’s not shy about discussing having it installed, how it felt afterward, how it fits into her sex life. And the best part is that having an IUD totally works for her. When people ask her if she has good sex, she says, “Hell yeah!”
COFFEEHOUSE CRUSHES #1
microcosmpublishing.com, $3
This wistful and charming collection of comics, stories, blurbs, and lists details romance borne in coffee shops. It captures the essence of what it can mean to work in any sort of customer-service industry: the attentiveness of a barista is often mistaken for flirtatiousness by the customer or vice-versa. In many of these tales, love between barista and customer is actually consummated, and we learn the same lesson over and over: You shouldn’t get yer meat where you get yer bread. Or yer coffee.
ZINE WORLD #25
undergroundpress.org, $4
If only I could travel back in time and give this zine resource to my 16-year-old self, perpetually grounded in my bedroom for breaking curfew. Zine World would have inspired me to actually make my own zine. It has a gazillion critical zine reviews with the pertinent contact information, but also boosts tons of helpful publishing and distributing info. Editor-publisher–mailroom queen Jerianne expertly (wo)mans the ship with how-tos, disclaimers, and other miscellanea. And the letters section is always awesome. My favorite letter actually told one zinester “Your opinions suck. You suck. Piss off.” Yes! Long live independent publishing!
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