Current Zines of Note
Not My Small Diary / #12, Volumes 1 and 2 / 192p / Digest-sized / $6.
Available via PayPal to delangel3@hotmail.com, or e-mail for a mailing address.
Delaine Derry-Green continues to absolutely astound me with her projects. This set of Not My Small Diary features 74 different artists, two volumes, luscious, silk-screened thick cover stock, and – the best part – twist-tie binding! Quite an original feat, considering NMSD #11 was bound with safety pins! Another great installment of this comix project, where artists contribute panels about their daily lives. The theme for this issue is “After Midnight.” Lots of great work here, and one of my favorite comix is actually one that doesn’t directly address the theme – it’s Ten Foot Rule Industries’ Shawn Granton drawing about his “man purse” – a.k.a. his bike/messenger bag. Words fail me when I try to describe just how original the NMSD projects truly are. Cough up the cash (don’t buy those damn overpriced lattes for a day or three) and see for yourself!

Living Proof / #4 / 80p / Quarter-sized / $3.
Available via PayPal to livingproof@atm4.net, or send orders to Andrew / Livingproof, PO Box 14211, Chicago IL 60614.
I’ve always enjoyed Andrew’s zines, and this one is no exception. More short fiction, more ruminations on nostalgia, more interviews with independent media mavens (this issue features Geoff Merritt of Champaign IL’s Parasol Records), and photography from Utah. The essays about girls are especially heartbreaking.

The East Village Inky / Issues #25, 26 & 27 / 40p / $2 each.
Available from Ayun’s website, or by mail at Ayun Halliday, PO Box 22754, Brooklyn NY, 11202-2754.
The continuing comic and text-heavy adventures of a Hoosier New Yorker, 3 thumbed 7-year-old, 4-year-old skate punk, and Broadway daddy. While it’s often billed as a “mama zine,” there’s enough here for the kid-free as well. Read about exploits at the Republican Convention, traveling, and turning forty. Get off your heiner and order up! (And, while you’re at it, read about Auyn’s pre-kid life in Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Downmarket Dillettante.)
- posted by Synd-e @ 9:30 PM