Zine
Reviews are back and they’ve really piled up so I’ll
cover as many as I can this issue starting with Undercurrent,
a very cool well designed and printed skate zine from Anonymous
Skateboard Shop in Cincinnati, OH. The printing is really spiffy
on nice paper in B/W with a second silver ink. Classy, and the
photos are really good with some good writing as well. (513-651-3767)
It’s been so long since we’ve done a zine column that
two issues of the always excellent Copper Press have come out.
Always beautifully designed with writing that will challenge
your mind, between No. 7 and 8 there’s pieces on Ed Templeton,
Bluetip, Burton Team Roundtable, Built To Spill, The Shins,
Jimmy Eat World and lots of good photography including a piece
on sometimes Heckler contributor Amanda Marsalis. (www.copperpress.com)
Adbusters sometimes preaches to the converted a bit much much
and is too expensive, but it’s really well done and when
they put out a good issue, it’s usually really good like
the Jan/Feb 2002 issue, a brilliant two sided visual essay on
the September 11 tragedy. (www.adbusters.org) The Third Chord
is a photo zine from renaissance man Bob Conrad, a sometimes
Heckler contributor, but better knows for his own zine, Second
Guess, his column in Punk Planet and his drumming in the now
defunct Zoinks! His photos are great rock photos of bands captured
with a musicians eye (there’s two of Fugazi and Green Day
in the Heckler book, Declaration of Independents) and range
from 7 Seconds to the Deftones and Nation of Ulysses to Superchunk
and lots more. Very cool collection and zine. (www.secondguess.net)
Thrift
Store Vampire by Scott Minton is a very cool cut ‘n paste
xerox photo zine that’s mostly skating shots that impart
a vibe of fun and friendship. Track this one down. Maybe you
can also get a copy of Home Away From Home, a neat little road
trip art zine from Mr. Minton as well. (scottminton@earthlink.net)
I’ve always thought that Loud Paper was a very cool zine
that made architecture as hip as punk rock. V3 No. 4 is maybe
their best yet with an essay, A Skateboarder’s Guide to
Architecture or An Architect’s Guide to Skateboarding that
looks at the relationship between the two disciplines that influence
and interact with each other. (loudpaper@excite.com) Hit It
Or Quit It is always one my favorite small big zines that publish
with some degree of regularity and yr pal, Jessica Hopper and
friends do not disappoint with #16 which has lots of fun writing
and music pieces on At The Drive In, Cave In, and lots more.
My favorite part is the super bitchin’ cut and paste layouts
that have been thoroughly fucked up and deconstructed. The contents
page is particularly beautiful. (hyper@macconnect.com)
Volcano is still going strong as the sno/sk8/music zine of the
Pac. NW and #30 is the best I’ve seen yet. An article on
global warming and one of the best looking covers I’ve
seen on any boarding mag, zine or otherwise. (www.volcanomag.com)
Little Engines is almost a book but calls itself a mag and since
there’s a few ads, I guess that’s OK. Whatever, LE
is one of the artsiest and beautifully put together zines you’ll
see and issue two has contributions from Camden Joy, Josh Hooten,
Damien Jurado, Andy Jenkins and lots of other very talented
folks. Essential for the serious zine collector. (tnibooks.com)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again every time
a new issue of Zine Guide comes out. Get it, get it now. #5
is the latest one I’ve seen. Indispensable. (zineguide@yahoo.com)
Evasion is a zine, but now it’s a been re-issued as a book.
At 288 pages this isn’t a quick easy read, but it’s
something you should seriously check out if a life in the malls
and suburbs of the USA doesn’t seem to fit into your future.
In a general sense, what’s being evaded here is the sheeplike
mentality of the worker bee aspect of the American dream. Evasion
comes in many forms; train hopping, dumpster diving, squatting
and shoplifting (which I think is bogus) but the bottom line
is a certain freedom from the day to day grind that most of
us deal with at some level. Minor theft issues aside, this is
a great read. (www.crimethinc.com)
Bull Sheet 6 is a nifty little xerox zine with a pretty good
skate focus. This issue has a really good interview with photog
J. Grant Brittain as well as Brian Anderson, Andy MacDonald
plus Slam City Jam and some music stuff. (sk8_or_try_@hotmail.com)
I am always stoked to get anything that Brooklyn, NY’s
own William McCurtin sends me in the mail. His art is like a
Howard Finster on steroids if he did zines and skated. His
zine is called Story Of My Scab and he’s on #6 now. There’s
a Superchunk interview but it doesn’t really matter. Will’s
zine is just so cool to look at with it’s explosion of
hand drawn art, words and letraset and a little bit of computer
type that he could do a zine on toilet paper and it would still
be the shit. (wmccurtin@hotmail.com) Besides the obvious Minor
Threat reference, Out Of Step is a one off zine that is rooted
in punk rock and skating that uses a humorous juxtaposition
of appropriated mainstream photos of models in fashion spreads,
with some personal and sometimes ranting in a good way writings
pasted on top of them and supplemented with some funny pull
quotes from porno mags. (www.outofstep.net) Nineteen Cent Zine
is a personal cut and paste zine by David Gelo with an accent
on cut whatever you want from wherever you want and paste it
on into your zine. Dave lives in Charleston, SC and is about
to become a father as #013 hits the streets. A fun read to be
sure. (nineteencentzine@hotmail.com) Slug Mag out of SLC, UT
features some pretty bad computer layout, but it does have a
lot of good shit to read like pieces on Tony Hawk, a really
good zine review page, Motorhead, De Soto Records, PETA and
more. (www.slugmag.com) And finally, a new issue of Muddle (#17)
crossed my desk and as usual, it’s one of the better larger
music zines with pieces on The Flaming Lips, Hot Snakes, Man
Or Astroman?, Les Savy Fav, and lots more. (www.muddle.com)
Whew!! See you next ish with a few more zines. -JB
Zine
Reviews are back and they’ve really piled up so I’ll
cover as many as I can this issue starting with Undercurrent,
a very cool well designed and printed skate zine from Anonymous
Skateboard Shop in Cincinnati, OH. The printing is really spiffy
on nice paper in B/W with a second silver ink. Classy, and the
photos are really good with some good writing as well. (513-651-3767)
It’s been so long since we’ve done a zine column that
two issues of the always excellent Copper Press have come out.
Always beautifully designed with writing that will challenge
your mind, between No. 7 and 8 there’s pieces on Ed Templeton,
Bluetip, Burton Team Roundtable, Built To Spill, The Shins,
Jimmy Eat World and lots of good photography including a piece
on sometimes Heckler contributor Amanda Marsalis. (
Thrift
Store Vampire by Scott Minton is a very cool cut ‘n paste
xerox photo zine that’s mostly skating shots that impart
a vibe of fun and friendship. Track this one down. Maybe you
can also get a copy of Home Away From Home, a neat little road
trip art zine from Mr. Minton as well. (scottminton@earthlink.net)
I’ve always thought that Loud Paper was a very cool zine
that made architecture as hip as punk rock. V3 No. 4 is maybe
their best yet with an essay, A Skateboarder’s Guide to
Architecture or An Architect’s Guide to Skateboarding that
looks at the relationship between the two disciplines that influence
and interact with each other. (loudpaper@excite.com) Hit It
Or Quit It is always one my favorite small big zines that publish
with some degree of regularity and yr pal, Jessica Hopper and
friends do not disappoint with #16 which has lots of fun writing
and music pieces on At The Drive In, Cave In, and lots more.
My favorite part is the super bitchin’ cut and paste layouts
that have been thoroughly fucked up and deconstructed. The contents
page is particularly beautiful. (
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His
zine is called Story Of My Scab and he’s on #6 now. There’s
a Superchunk interview but it doesn’t really matter. Will’s
zine is just so cool to look at with it’s explosion of
hand drawn art, words and letraset and a little bit of computer
type that he could do a zine on toilet paper and it would still
be the shit. (wmccurtin@hotmail.com) Besides the obvious Minor
Threat reference, Out Of Step is a one off zine that is rooted
in punk rock and skating that uses a humorous juxtaposition
of appropriated mainstream photos of models in fashion spreads,
with some personal and sometimes ranting in a good way writings
pasted on top of them and supplemented with some funny pull
quotes from porno mags. (www.outofstep.net) Nineteen Cent Zine
is a personal cut and paste zine by David Gelo with an accent
on cut whatever you want from wherever you want and paste it
on into your zine. Dave lives in Charleston, SC and is about
to become a father as #013 hits the streets. A fun read to be
sure. (nineteencentzine@hotmail.com) Slug Mag out of SLC, UT
features some pretty bad computer layout, but it does have a
lot of good shit to read like pieces on Tony Hawk, a really
good zine review page, Motorhead, De Soto Records, PETA and
more. (www.slugmag.com) And finally, a new issue of Muddle (#17)
crossed my desk and as usual, it’s one of the better larger
music zines with pieces on The Flaming Lips, Hot Snakes, Man
Or Astroman?, Les Savy Fav, and lots more. (www.muddle.com)
Whew!! See you next ish with a few more zines. -JB