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frandroidSo this is the first review of my "forcing myself to read a zine a week 2020" challenge, because I have a huge backlog of zines and I read too much online rather than on paper. I'm only going to review zines which I've either enjoyed, or that I have constructive criticism to make of, in the old factsheet5 tradition. Boring or mediocre zines are not going to get reviewed, because I can't spare the time. Unless I really hated a zine and/or its publisher...
Most of the zines reviewed will be from the few dozens I bought at the virtual Canzine 2020, since they're the most recent.
Are you having a Merry f*cking Xmas?
by Shizuka Yoshi
Single-sheet microzine, 8pp, colour
While the quarter-page and the half-page zines are for me the canonical zine formats, ideal for my beloved perzines, microzines have really grown on me in the last decade. The most popular way of making a microzine is to make your zine on one side of a sheet of paper and follow a proven folding method. Microzines are really one-offs in the "pop that idea up and say/draw a couple things about it", and you're done. Sometimes microzines are just too damn short, but what does that mean in the age of Twitter? Consequently I'm also going to be more lenient in rating these :)
So this here zine. It features a series of pictures of discarded Christmas trees on the sidewalk, with one line of text under each. Beneath a picture of three such trees on the same block, the caption reads "This is a street in New York, 26th of December". The author is clearly dismayed at the phenomena but doesn't spell out their exact thoughts, letting the reader come to their own conclusions. *****/5
Most of the zines reviewed will be from the few dozens I bought at the virtual Canzine 2020, since they're the most recent.
Are you having a Merry f*cking Xmas?
by Shizuka Yoshi
Single-sheet microzine, 8pp, colour
While the quarter-page and the half-page zines are for me the canonical zine formats, ideal for my beloved perzines, microzines have really grown on me in the last decade. The most popular way of making a microzine is to make your zine on one side of a sheet of paper and follow a proven folding method. Microzines are really one-offs in the "pop that idea up and say/draw a couple things about it", and you're done. Sometimes microzines are just too damn short, but what does that mean in the age of Twitter? Consequently I'm also going to be more lenient in rating these :)
So this here zine. It features a series of pictures of discarded Christmas trees on the sidewalk, with one line of text under each. Beneath a picture of three such trees on the same block, the caption reads "This is a street in New York, 26th of December". The author is clearly dismayed at the phenomena but doesn't spell out their exact thoughts, letting the reader come to their own conclusions. *****/5