Love James Jarvis’ work! I was browsing AMOS and I found Yod Zine, a zine made by James Jarvis. The zine was a limited edition of 300, features a bunch of awesome work by James, and has been sold out for awhile. Luckily, you can download the zine for free as a PDF. I suggest you do it if your a fan of his work. Come on it’s got a crossword puzzle in it, what more could you ask for?
Lately I’ve been doing some zines trades with some really rad people. Here are some of the zines I have received: BINMEN Issue 2 & 3 by Kelsey Dake, Lost In Patterns by Emory Allen, Silent Mountains by Chris Piascik & Josh LaFayette, and Typostruction Volume 2 by Chris Piascik. All zines are awesome times a zillion! I love doing trades with people. I also recently bought a Best Coast 7″ from Art Fag Recordings, good stuff.
Andy, Brett, Landwolf, and Pepe make up Boy’s Club. Boy’s Club is a collection of awesome comics made by Matt Furie. Three issues have been made so far. The first two are collections of one page comics and the third is one long comic. You can preview the comics on Matt Furie’s blog. If your into pizza, puke, giant hot dogs, frogs dancing in their underwear while listening to a Walkman, or wolfmen sporting radical sunglasses then I’d check out this comic. You can buy all three from Future Colors. By the way am I the only one who thinks it would be tight if Jim Henson came back from the dead to direct a Boy’s Club movie?
Linefeed has posted it’s review of the past decade in magazines. The video is just like his monthly Reading Lists, he talks about the magazines and why he does or doesn’t like them. It’s a bit long, so I suggest that you watch it in chunks.
Get Off Your High Horse is a little zine that Ben Chlapek sent me awhile ago. It came with two buttons and a sticker. The zine is stuffed with doodles and thoughts of Ben’s. The zine only costs one bone, and you can get it from his Etsy.
I make stuff all the freakin’ time! It’s what I love to do. Lately, I’ve been making some handmade zines. I started doing this because my next zine, II, was taking a longer time than I thought it would to complete. I was also kinda slackin’ on it for a month or two. Anyways I got some handmade paper from Oblation, and then decided to make some handmade zines.
I really enjoyed the thought of making these one-of-a-kind zines, and I immediately knew what I wanted to do with them. Give them away! I’ve always dropped one-page zines off at random places around Portland, it’s something I really love to do. The idea of people finding art in a rack of fliers or somewhere random has always made me smile.
I also enjoy how rough the zines are. I kinda treated them like a most of my art. No plans just dive and make some radical mistakes. Draw, draw, draw.
All the handmade zines I have made so far were dropped off yesterday. More will be made.
Hand Made Book is a zine I recently received in the mail from Maxime Francout. I’m a big fan of Max’s work, and he was actually nice enough to send the first print out of 100.
The zine is a collection of his recent work. The copy I got had a nice little drawing by Max below the Thanks To section, not sure if he did this for every copy though. The zine is really nicely printed and put together. I recommend you pick the zine up if you are a fan of his work.