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READ covers fiction, fanzines, zines with no fans except for us, websites, blogs, magazines, artist's books and other independent releases. Chances are, if it's been published then we know about it and chances are, if it's not in ThreeThousand, then we didn't like it. READ is for people who were born with ink in their veins and a fat balding critic on their shoulder. READ has also created more best-sellers than Oprah's Book Club and more wannabe to be writers than Hunter S Thompson.
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.
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.
Weekly zine review #2 - 'Comic of Smallness'
For those who know that Less is More, feel that the 50c coin is way oversized and get frustrated with the clunkiness of mobile phones these days, Green Comix presents to you the Comic of Smallness. Nanotechnology is finally here and it's 32 miniature pages where the only thing oversized is the staple holding it together and the dandy dog character's earplugs.
The Humble Vintage: Melbourne for Visitors and Casual Cyclists, issue #1
As of today we face a world in which people will tool about the place with flat screen TVs in their pockets. A grand and terrible future whence the ability to draw devil eyebrows on Vladimir Putin and scrunch the TV Guide up in a fit of rage will be relinquished for multiple touch screen Tetris.
One man is swimming against this ghastly tide, and that man is Matt Hurst of The Humble Vintage Bike Hire Co.
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