Keyword results: Sticky
Weekly zine review #7 - 'GUTTERSLUG'
Leave your own headspace for a while and read about Emily (that smelly kid)'s life on the streets of Brisbane. This zine has been around for a while now but this girl's writing about life as a displaced teen is not the kind of thing that dates. She chronicles life in an adult government shelter as a 17 year old, surviving in a world of abuse and abusers as well as fragments of her earlier life in a long term accommodation shelter for young people.
Weekly zine review #6 - 'Adventure Time'
The same-old same-old not doing it for you anymore? Find yourself wanting MORE? Bored with yourself, even? Maybe it's time to read about Maddy, the Zinester Girl Who Could. Dissatisfied with everyday, predictable life she starts up an 'Adventure Time! Fun Club' with other uni nerds and they go visiting the observatory (they really do).
Weekly zine review #5 - Word Attack
You may think that hardcore music is only for cool-looking cocksure punk guys from broken homes, and you would probably be right. But what about the zines of these elusive nocturnal angry young men? Well there are a lot of punk fanzines around at the moment, but one of the best is Word Attack (if it doesn't have some connotation of violence
in the title, it's just not hc).
Weekly zine review #4 - 'Goblin'
The latest zine to make waves this summer is Goblin issue 3, packed with 'the best in town' (as advertised) by a mysterious unknown zinester supreme, with each issue handcoloured by his younger brother. In one word: goblicious. The weapons catalogue section includes Crabs In Ya Pants, Swords of Manliness, and Crystal Imbedded Grenades; there are coupon sections, comics, cut-out song lyrics (‘my brother is small / not very tall / with his hands / on the wall') and a joke section where the joke.
The mother of all zine fairs
What:
The mother of all zine fairs
Where:
MOVED! Now at Degraves St Subway, Melbourne
When:
Sat Feb 13, 3-8pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
If you're familiar with the world of zines, you'll know they cover a broad spectrum of interesting subjects and ideas in a gloriously unfiltered, incredibly direct manner. You'll also know that most of them are about feeling alienated and lonely, so the thought of a subway full of zinemakers uniting and selling their wares is some really cockle-warming stuff.
Event: Markets
Stimulus: Cheap Treasure
Weekly zine review #3 - 'YOU'
Nobody writes letters anymore. Except Luke You. This week I picked up the latest issue, sat down with a tea and read for the first time about how he's been plagued with crippling doubt. Unusual, I thought. At some point he realised he would be playing the first gig in a long time as lead guitarist and my anonymous hard working zine hero has appeared to suffer a freak out.
Festival of the Photocopier: Week 1
What:
Festival of the Photocopier: Week 1
Where:
Sticky Institute, Shop 10, Campbell Arcade Degraves Street Subway, Melbourne
When:
From Wed Feb 3, 6pm. Runs all month!
How much:
Free!
Description:
As far as things to celebrate the existence of goes, the photocopier is way up there. Huge, problematic and on the way out, yet destined to be beloved by zinesters and office nerds the world over in much the same way as record players and typewriters before them.
Sticky is the place and this is the month.
Event: Festival
Stimulus: local publishing
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