Issue 75

 

A6 Riso cover with regular black and white photocopied guts: 'Lucky enough to score a residency at Te Matatiki Toi Ora (AKA The Arts Centre, Ōtautahi), I was to deliver one public workshop and otherwise work on curatorial and conference projects scheduled for February 2021 back in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Yeah nah, didn't seem I was working with Ōtautahi enough in that scenario, so instead, I've largely ignored the vetted projects to interview a raft of local zinesters and indie comics artists.' A6 Photocopy and Risograph print on recycled paper stock. Dec 2020

Issue 74

First ever small A6 issue of Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People. Inspired by the zine vending machines at Auckland Central Library and Mashuko, Wellington. A6 be the size of a standard postcard, so this is a 'remove the staples' zine of useable postcards. The postcards themselves are inspired by novelty tick box postcards from the 70s/80s wherein the writer got to choose between tick box options such as: the weather is lousy; the weather is hot, the weather is sublime. Er... these postcards contain less predictable prompts, with some acting more like Fluxus performance art scripts. A6 multi-coloured card stock. September 2020

Issue 73

"I was lucky to miss the txts and facebook messages until the end of Friday's teaching - 'Dad died this morning 8 am.' I certainly wouldn't have enjoyed trying to keep it together in front of an audience of students. As it was, I found out as I walked across campus. I then rushed to secret myself away in a private room, my panicked breathing eventually giving way to tears. Once I'd pulled myself together, I mapped a discreet route to my pushbike, hoping I could get there without bumping into any smiling waving colleagues or students." Writing and drawing. Photocopy and Risograph. The Grief Issue. A5 Photocopy and Risograph print on recycled paper stock. June 2020

Issue 72

Online access to full PDF cos of Covid

"Pandemics, so sci fi sexy. Conversely, this here narrative on - wait for it - 'chicken rearing' runs the risk of boring you shitless. Even my own family, who I'd presume would be somewhat sentimental about this narrative are telling me to stop boring them with questions about our chicken life." 12 years of chicken rearing... somewhere between personal narrative and a 'how to guide'" 5499 words on chickens!?!? Egads. May 2020.

Issue 71

Part printed on Risograph. It took me a long time to come around to this new old piece of Japanese technology. I was even suspicious enough of its pretty colours to call a presentation at Dunedin Zinefest, 'Riot or Risograph'. Anyhoo, this is a 20-page zine, part photocopy on recycled paper stock, part risograph on coloured paper stock. Cartoons, drawings and text art. February 2020