Jeffrey Dahmer Zine
By :: Detective Kennedy - There is no contact info in this zine so I don't have permission to distro it. But if you wrote this or know who did please get in touch with me so I can ask permission. Anyway.. this zine is pretty much self explanatory. It's a zine about the crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer straight from a detective who was there. It even includes some gruesome photos of the murder victims. Please keep that in mind when ordering. This is very interesting.
20 Pages/Half size/$1/1 oz
Kurt Cobain Was Lactose Intolerant Conspiracy Zine- SOLD OUT
By :: Kelli Callis - This zine is pretty self-explanatory. I love this zine! It made me laugh so hard and now I'm a true believer that "Courtney didn't kill Kurt Cobain, milk did".
16 Pages/Half size/$1/1 oz
The Lamb Shall Dwell Peacefully with the Lion
By :: Sabrina - This zine is all about my life growing up in a church that was outside the mainstream Christian churches. Included is a description of what the church believed then, and how it has changed now, the effects it had on my life and mental health, and a strange table of what my father used to carry with him when dining out, a table of Biblically approved fish.
32 Pages/Half size/$2/2.5 oz
Let It Be Known
By :: Contributers - This issue includes "Examples in the life of Every Woman", Hothead Paisan comics, Strange News clippings, World Economics, "The Activist scholar: contradictions and challenges", "The Invisible Apartheid of kent state university", "Abuse of women in US prisons", "Cunt", "Yoni language an alphabetical listing", "Sexual assualts and other forms of violence at music concerts and festivals", "Consent",police brutality, and more. This is an amazing and truly informational zine.
46 Pages/Half size/$2/2.5 oz
Little : Issue 1
By :: Joanna - Little is my first personal zine and contains thoughts and ideas on life,
photos from around my home town of Brisbane, a short story about a
pryomaniac who has taken up residence in my head and a visit to a young
artisit exhibition at the old art gallery, as well as many other little
things. (Review written by Joanna)
40 Pages/Quarter size/$1.50/2 oz
Little : Issue 2
By :: Joanna - This beautifully artistic zine reads like a confessional of self-doubt. Woeful tales of a writer who has hit a mental block.. the words flow out like poetry and it's an interesting mix of someone's personal life account of deppression. A great read for a rainy Tuesday, or any other day you feel like staying in and chilling by your lonesome. (Review written by Melissa)
22 Pages/Quarter size/$1/2 oz
Make Me Numb : Issue 12
By :: Andee - I wrote this issue at a point in my life where I was finally starting to deal with being sexually assaulted as a child. It has an underlying theme of that, & the emotional unstability that came along with that. It also deals with my grandfather’s death, my (dysfunctional) relationship with my mother, teaching young girls to use tools, learning to deal constructively with conflict, & trying to unlearn all of the things that society taught me when I wasn’t paying attention.
44 Pages/Quarter size/$1/1.5 oz
Matriculate AKA Sidetracked : Issue 9
By :: Menghsin - This isn amazing zine. It changed my whole outlook on school. It's very informative and interesting. It includes: Recommended resources, quotes, "The epic story of Marc Moscato, the punk ass 4-year-old rebel without a cause" in comic form, prisons compared to schools, submitted stories about unfairness at school, comics, fashion at school, "Boys in drag", zines and sexual harrassment at school, "10 things I learned from highschool", "Portraits from the past", experiences in catholic schools, "My 100% true tale of unadulterated high school fascism", articles about unfairness school taken from newspapers, etc etc. I highly recommend this!
44 Pages/Half legal/$2/3 oz
Miranda : Issue 9
By :: Kate - This issue is so cute and has a light purple cover and inside it includes Moroccan tattoo tale, "Mama's bad day", Miranda FAQ, "Mother/Reader", Countdown to her second baby, "Stray thoughts of a stay-at-home-mother", her writing group, a recipe for pasta with spinach and ricotta, book list, notes from a zine conference, and much more. This is highly recommended.
28 Pages/Half size/$2/2 oz
Morgan Anne and Peter Pan
By :: Jen - Morgan Anne and Peter is a fictional adventure story from Neverland about Pirates and flying and a kidnapping and more. Fully illustrated and exciting like so many exciting things, it's the perfect zine for anyone who never wants to grow up.
24 Pages/Half size/$1/1.5 oz
Morbid Curiosity : Issue 6
By :: Loren Rhoads - This issue is very professional looking! I love it! It has an in color cover and it's glossy. Inside it includes Medical experiments, Slaughterhouse Skulls, Vienna Burial Museum, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Suicidal Thoughts, In the Nuthouse, Haunted Houses, LSD, Ghosts, Big Brother, Occult Shops, Night Terrors, Ghost Hunters, Channeling Spirits, and SO MUCH MORE. This is the best and I highly recommend it.
112 Pages/Full size/$6/ppd
Moriarty : Issue 1
By :: Jacey - "I climbed a tree for a height I could never see. The top reduced sanity and a ball for gamey was eaten. Tripping over I climbed out on the smallest branch. I sat and picked clouds with the meter keeping time". A striking square shaped zine filled with poetry and beautifully written pieces. Lovely artwork and fantastic layout.
22 Pages/Half Legal/$2/2 oz
Mr.Peebody : Issue 15
By :: Jay - This is the August 2001 issue of Jay's personal zine. It's a daily account of his life in Hollywood. This time around he goes to the LA Zinester's Picnic, has weird dreams, steals his girlfriend's car, talks about eating and sports and sex a lot, describes a visit to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose and finishes up with some previews of movies that are still being filmed.
32 Pages/Half size/$2/2 oz
TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT
My Life With Evan Dando Popstar
By :: Kathleen Hanna - This is a whole zine about Kathleen Hanna's fascination with Evan Dando. Letters to him, writings about him, etc. "I have chosen you because you are a boring popstar who is merely repeating words in time. Because you are feeding the machine (unlike Tanya Donnely who is, after all, feeding the tree) Because you are doing nothing that hasn't been done before and yet I am compelled to love you, and/or want to fuck you".
40 Pages/Quarter Size/$1/1.5 oz
Never 1984
By :: Andrew - "A team of teenage boys tackles the weights of the world and their community with a slew of short columns directed at the effects of government control and social ills in never1984. The tone of most of the articles is rife with disgust, animosity, and a sweetness that rings true when ideas are expressed by, "this is bullshit!" Expressing a need to recognize sexism in commericials and encouraging a boycott of oil companies.." (Review by MRR) This zine also includes the english language and how he writes, "Canada kicks arse!", Coke and pepsi and their role in schools, a civics lesson, police blotter Game, a protest he attended, A prisoner's column, Quotes, interviews, and much more.
40 Pages/Half size/$1.50/1 oz
Nicotine Scars : Issue 1
(Formerly "First you were so sweet")
By :: Kelly Cutthroat -- This zine is a personal zine run by another of my best friends named Kelly. Writings on the name Nicotine Scars, Friendship, Plastic surgery, Chicago Riot Grrrl, Free Mumia, Love, Journal entries, poems, and more.
18 Pages/Half size/$0.50/1 oz
Nicotine Scars : Issue 2
By :: Kelly Cutthroat -- Another zine by the lovely Kelly. This one has Poems, Journal entries, an article about Brian Deneke, Random thoughts, Zine reviews, and more.
22 Pages/Half size/$0.50/1 oz
Nicotine Scars : Issue 3
By :: Kelly Cutthroat - This zine is VERY personal. I love it. In it there are lots of journal entries about her moving to California and leaving all her friends and a boy she likes behind, an article on cops, a STOP DR. LAURA article type thing, a few poems, + more.
18 Pages/Half size/$0.50/1 oz
No, I Don't Think So : Issue 1 - SOLD OUT
By :: Bionica Biteme - I wanted to distro this because it helped me through my own feelings. This is about date rape and how Bionica is dealing with it. Very emotional and highly recommended. "This is about being raped and how you go to the bookstore, you read zines, you watch oprah, but they never talk about it the way it happened to you."
24 Pages/Quarter size/$1/2 oz
No, I Don't Think So : Issue 2 - SOLD OUT
By :: Bionica Biteme - "When I said I had a happy ending I lied. No one's endings are happy until there is justice, until you aren't scared anymore, until your best friend's aren't hurting between their legs anymore." This is more about Bionica's rape. Very emotional and it is highly recommended.
32 Pages/Quarter size/$1/2 oz
Nymphet
By :: Cat Tyc - This has a blue cover and inside it is all poetry. But not crappy angsty poetry, this is great stuff. I write poetry and this zine really inspired me. This is highly recmmended. "I eat caramels in the morning/to feel moonbeam sundream sticky sweet/fantasies/act/tempramental daughter/be the best friend/I'll be yr right hand/and the left if you need/psycho analyst/instigator/diplomat/everything to everyone/push in/my ribs poking out/broken/from last we met/grip at my sides/smile on my lips/no one sees/that I think/Fucker, Fucker, Fucker, Fucker/he only stares back/Fuck her, fuck her, fuck her, fuck her."
32 Pages/Legal size/$1.25/3 oz
Obsessia/I Wrote a Letter to You, Getting Over Myself : Split
By :: Jen and Sean - Jen's side can only be explained by the intro which says, "This is a letter. It is a letter to many different people who will probably never get a chance to see it. This is a letter written by a girl who likes to hide behind a smile. This is a letter written by a girl who needs to tell you what goes on in her mind, so she knows that she's not the only one. This is a letter addressed to everyone.". Sean's side has an amazing layout and amazing train of thought writing. "I shouldn't tell you how busy living my life is and how my schedules aren't routine yet every moment I've had for th past month has turned into appointments with the rest of the world.". Jen and Sean are very talented. This is highly recommended.
40 Pages/Quarter size/$1/2 oz
Off Track
By :: Beth - Written in an almost-sing-song voice, this zine chronicles what heartache, love and desperation is all about! It's wonderful to read and almost leaves you feeling like the letter was meant for you, it's a breathtakingly honest zine. (Review written by Melissa) Also includes needing art to live, being on the subway, dreams, photography, and zine reviews.
76 Pages/Quarter size/$2/2 oz
(over) Indulgence
By :: Jesse Lee - Stories of substance abuse, masturbating gorillas, militant nuns,
and pedophiles contaminate the 52 pages that make up (over)
Indulgence. The zine's images are meticulously designed with equal
importance to its accompanied text, thus producing an even more
destructive reading experience. Topped off with an interview with
Lowbrow painter, El Daino, (over) Indulgence shares what many
others don't like to talk about. – Please make sure that you are over 18 when ordering!
52 Pages/Square size/$0.75/1 oz
Placenta : Issue 1
By :: Rosa-Maria - This is a self proclaimed "Punk rock / Vegan Parenting zine" and I love it. This issue includes Eva's homebirth stories, Post-partum Herb bath recipe, A lovely Saturday in the life of Dru Blood, Early breast feeding chronicles, Crimethinc Poster, Thrifty Mama, Rock star experience #1, Rocker mom vs. Soccer mom : What makes me punk, Recipes, Top 5 albums to listen to with little humans, Punk parent resource page, and more. Even if you are not a parent you will still love this! It's great!
33 Pages/Half size/$1.50/2 oz
The Pleiades : Issue 6
By :: Miranda - The sixth issue of my personal/literary zine is the "seduction" issue, and is divided into six "acts." the
writing is journal entries, observations, thoughts on the theory of seduction and the ways in manifests itself in my life, ideas on the private/public distinctions and how they relate to me/ Anne sexton/ women, a letter to Anne sexton, irony, choosing what and what not to share with the world (masks), how seduction is tied up with identity/survival, my sexual
identity, mental illness, dreams, the past, past lovers, and some fiction. Sprinkled throughout are pictures of me in various disguises. (Review written by Miranda)
40 Pages/Half size/$1/2 oz
The Pleiades : Issue 10
By :: Miranda - The 10th issue of The Pleiades zine is all about growing up. I write about fear, depression, self-injury, turning 25, relationships, confusion, nico, loss, disguises, self-hatred, communication, ideas about maturity, teenage sex, patriarchal culture, self-doubt, power, perspective, my aesthetic, love, my lolita complex, a letter to my long-term ex-boyfriend, break-ups, etc. (Review written by Miranda)
40 Pages/Quarter size/$2/2 oz
The Pleiades :: 11
By :: Miranda - This is the private and public lives issue. it's about/includes learning to be less serious, ideas of success, identity, growing up, being confused by panic attacks I had when I was a child, childhood manifestations of OCD, wanting to have a cat, feeling safe, strength, teaching college english, the class politics of my english department, my crush on howard dean, public/private lives and how gender/societal status plays into them, control, confessional poetry/perzines and how they relate to private/public lives, a mini-version of my graduate thesis on the poetry of anne sexton and the way she blurred society's definitions of private/public and personal/political, anne sexton resources, my love for the ripeness of springtime, memories of being 22 and living in seattle, mourning, guilt, feeling dirty, self-hatred, paranoia, feeling like i'm always being judged, bedroom politics, spokane, etc. "It's one of the main reasons I do a perzine: I feel that, by pulling forth the hidden parts of my insides and sharing & analyzing them, I am both shaping my public identity and letting others know that, if they have felt/experienced some of the same things, it's okay & that they should share & shape their public identities, too." (Review Written by Miranda)
64 Pages/Quarter size/$2/2 oz
Pretend it Didn't Happen and Maybe it Will Go Away
By :: Bethany - In this issue Bethany writes about how she can't give her zine to strangers, radical cheerleading, a dream about lost jobs and fingers, gender, diary entries from the 80's (from a diary she found), Internet friends, mad libs, random thoughts, "Whole vs. Parts", letters, zine ads, and more. This is put together very well and the layout is really cool.
30 Pages/Quarter size/$1/2 oz
Queen of the Kangaroos MiNi
By :: Violet Nova - An all text personal zine by Violet Nova who also does a zine called "Remorsecodeblues" (which I also distro). As Violet says in the zine :: " This zine is autobiographical fiction - the truth as I see it. It's brutal honesty to me; Take it however you like."
