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The Lumpen Archive is a digital catalogue of previously published experimental visual zines and comics.
There are zines from zine love favourite (and Broken Frontier 6 to Watch recipient) Miranda Smart
Well known alt comix creators such as CF and Lale Westvind and many others too.
Lots and Lots to check out – over 100 publications
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Darling Zine focuses on promoting creative womxn whether in art, music or film. On the website there’s lots of music reviews and there’s also profiles of artists involved in the zine and some comment pieces. I always appreciate a music zine, because I’m always looking for something new to listen to. the print mag
find them on instagram
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This seems to be a new blog started by Miguel A. S. Correia of Ultra Violenta (great zine you should check out here) with posts about various museums and galleries he has visited. There’s only a few posts up, but they are fun. Particularly nice to see so many photos. I was led here when Miguel posted in the zinelove chat group we run on facebook.
This is the article and it’s about visiting the Fanzineteca run by Ogata Tetsuo, another member of the group. That’s a beautiful looking place and is definitely somewhere I’d love to see!
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Included reviews of work focussed on mental health and wellbeing. There are only a few, but they’re all interesting.
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header image from What We Don’t Talk About created by Charlot Kristensen published by Avery Hill, reviewed here
Comics Anonymous does a lot to promote the small press and self publishers within the UK, particularly focusing on reviews and kickstarter previews. It’s a good site for finding out what’s out there, with a good range of interests, not just lots of genre work.
They also do interviews with creators.
Here are two recent reviews:
and the most recent interview
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Focussed on indie and small press comics available in the UK Pipedream’s site has a lot of reviews, some interviews and a nice regular round up of small press comics news. It’s their reviews that are my main interest as they do a nice job of covering small press comics/
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Here’s a review we liked, the latest small press spotlight and a review with the always interesting Lucy Sullivan as a guide to what to expect.
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A UK based collective posting daily images of zine on instagram. You can submit your own (they give guidelines). I like these list sites as you get to see a lot of things you wouldn’t have a chance to know about.
Three interesting zines that they’ve listed:
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Gareth Hopkins is an individual, prolific and generous creator that has recently set up a collection of links where you can download a number of his comics for free.
There’s a preview of Petrichor, which I awarded the best comic I read in 2019
Here’s an idea of some of Gareth’s work
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Star Jaws is not only a parody comic, it’s a parody comic with depth. Taking the Star Wars and other comics from the 70’s and 80’s as inspiration and remixing them for fun and commentary, it’s just great looking and fun reading
It’s also got work that’s not parody by the way
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from Star Jaws 45 (art and story by Paul B Rainey)
from Star Jaws 42 (art and story by David Robertson)
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not a full read, but some snippets from their photobooks. The images are mostly double page spreads and simple seeming, but evocative of a sense of alienation or the prosaic.
Here’s a selection of a couple of my favourites.
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Digital and physical magazine featuring artists from Veracruz in Mexico
It is in Spanish, but google offers an English translation.
Here are three articles I particularly liked
Veracruzanas creators: Victoria
Community Murals by Octavio Sánchez Oropeza
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regular posts all about photobooks – it sinks very closely to my tastes in photography, so it might yours as well
here are some articles about some of the books featured that I like
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header art by Liesbeth De Stercke
Ryan does an amazing job of covering the small press, he’s like a machine with the amount he gets reviewed!
great interview about an interesting anthology
also LOTS of reviews about zines, mini comics, and self-published and small press comics
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organised by David Hathawy-Price
From his own Fanscene
To classic fanzines (this one’s Arkensword)
to strip zines (Litratrip – cover Tony Schofield)
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Avery Hill Publishing put out some of the best UK comics made. They have a whole section on their site dedicated to 8-page previews of their comics.
There are some great reads just in these previews, I’ve included three of my current favourites.
also, check out out interview with them here
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a site dedicated to, in their own words, ‘Celebrating, supporting and showcasing the less heard, the less obvious.’ focussing on contemporary documentary voices, whether journalistic or photographic.
I admire their attention to people and social issues as much as their aethetics choices
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