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Zine Review: Punk Rock Glee Club #1

March 9, 2016

We are all fans of something; however, the passion that goes with being a fan can create a barrier between the individual and the object of that passion. Anyone who’s awkwardly approached a celebrity or creator at a convention has felt this strange barrier, and some avoid meeting people they ...

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Zine Review: The Lettuce Girl

February 24, 2016

The Lettuce Girl Sophia Wiedeman If you’re belatedly looking for a sweet, Valentine’s Day appropriate story, I do not recommend Rapunzel. I recently cracked open my collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales to reread the tale, and realized that Rapunzel’s meeting with the prince is ...

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Zine Review: Jane: Documents from Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973

January 27, 2016

Jane: Documents from Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973 Firestarter Press, 2004 January 22nd marked the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Perhaps it is more apt to say it sort of legalized abortion as, according to a recent ...

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Zine Review: The Gaysi Zine, Issue 04

January 12, 2016

The Gaysi Zine: Issue 04 Editor In Chief: Priya Gangwani Art Director: Sreejita Biswas Contributors: Karishma Dorai, Soumya Menon, Pratap Chalke, Nandini Moitra, Upasana Agarwal, Amruta Patil, Sajid Wajid Shaikh, Rachna Ravi, Ankita Ghosh, Kruttika Susarla, Karishma Dorai, Anushka Jhadav, ...

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Zine Review: British Values

January 6, 2016

British Values Editor: Kieran Yates Design Director: Amad Ilyas Designer: Tom Lloyd August 2015 Disclaimer: I worked with British Values editor Kieran Yates on Live Mag UK, a youth publication for 14 to 25 year olds from January 2014 to March 2015. Yates was the magazine’s mentor. Britain’s ...

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Zine Review: Sporgo No. 1

December 28, 2015

Sporgo No. 1 Lara Pallmall Laura Pallmall is a relatively new comic creator, with only a couple years of zine-making under her belt. Like many artists working in the punk scene, she started out by illustrating album covers, posters and t-shirts. “My drawings would go on flyers and band merch ...

Comics, Interviews, Reviews, Zines

Zine Review and Interview: Atalanta and the Footrace by Salt

December 8, 2015

Zines come in all different sizes. There are big, chunky anthology zines, slim fanzines, teeny minizines, and emotionally heavy perzines. The contrast between the size of a final publication and the incredible amount of effort put forth to create it really hit me when I received Kim ...

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Zine Review: Nonbinary by Melanie Gillman

October 6, 2015

Nonbinary Melanie Gillman If you’re a webcomics reader, you may be familiar with Melanie Gillman’s beautifully illustrated As The Crow Flies. Nonbinary still features Gillman’s extraordinary shading and color-sense, but jumps genres into nonfiction, autobio comics. In sixteen pages, the artist ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews, Zines

Short & Sweet: Small Press Expo Edition!

September 30, 2015

On September 19 and 20, the 21st annual Small Press Expo was held in Bethesda, Maryland. WWAC writers Kat Overland, Rebecca Henely, and Kayleigh Hearn attended and wrote about notable new comics from the convention. Read on!

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Zine Review: Hot Dog Beach #3

September 29, 2015

Hot Dog Beach #3 Art and words by Lale Westvind September 2015 Disclaimer: I received review copies of issues 1-3 of Hot Dog Beach from Lale Westvind. I discovered Lale Westvind’s comic zines when I attended a panel at the 2015 Chicago Alternative Comics Festival (CAKE) titled “Comic ...

Zine Reviews

Zine Review: Punk Rock Glee Club #1

Zine Review: The Lettuce Girl

Zine Review: Jane: Documents from Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973

Zine Review: The Gaysi Zine, Issue 04

Zine Review: British Values

Zine Review: Sporgo No. 1

Zine Review and Interview: Atalanta and the Footrace by Salt

Zine Review: Nonbinary by Melanie Gillman

Short & Sweet: Small Press Expo Edition!

Zine Review: Hot Dog Beach #3

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