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Zine Reviews - November 2006

Zine Review – Elephant Mess #17

November 30th 2006 14:14

Zine Review – Elephant Mess #17

With a cool flip-up format, Elephant Mess emphasizes stream-of-consciousness, the pouring output of one person’s mind. Yet, unlike many zines with this format, the ideas have been refined to the point of being literature, and not purile tripe. Dan Murphy makes it work, with a sweet sequence of concepts that makes you think about his world without being arrogant or ordinary. Dan likes to make you ponder, and I like that in any good piece of writing. Tastes like: Turkey Soup

Snippet:

“Fact or fiction? Isn’t that one of the deepest, most perplexing of life’s questions anyway? It only makes sense to perpetuate the mystery by playing into the myth, right?”

A mere fifty cents, an excellent value.

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Zine Review - Nobody can eat 50 eggs #27

November 16th 2006 16:27

Zine Review - Nobody can eat 50 eggs #27

Steve goes from the glossy to the half bound, this one could easily be called the, ‘cartoon’ issue, because it’s a thick fatty beast of his best work. While his art style is a touch difficult to see in this smaller format, I feel the volume offsets it. I like the narrative style that he tells his stories in, it makes it easy for the reader to follow, and also I like at the bottom under each cartoon of breaking the fourth wall, it really allows me to enter into Steve’s world and not be an outsider. His insights reguarding the work place are fascinating, and the bits with his Myspace addiction are very funny. Tastes like: Doritos (classic Nacho Cheese, if we must be specific)

Soundbite:

“For her birthday, I got Jennifer a sketchbook and a DVD of the movie mean Girls. At the bottom of every page in the sketchbook I wrote something for her to draw (like ‘surly pirate’ and ‘suspicious kitty’), The idea came from a conversation we had where she had said she would draw in a sketchbook but never knew what ot draw. She has not draw in the book to date.

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Eat_50_eggs @ hotmail . com

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Zine Review - Nobody can eat 50 eggs No 26

November 14th 2006 22:13

Holly heck, is this guy for real? He needs to be on stage. I’m serious, one word:

FUNNY

For a mere three bucks you get a professionally printed glossy zine that it’s pretty clear someone put some love and care into. This just might be one of those few zines that you’ll see cross from being a zine to a magazine. I wish that All Jaffe (mad magazine) would hire this guy, but it might make the mainstream humor media actually funny again. His images, and artwork are sketchy, loose and very cartooney, in an odd sort of Charles Aadams way, but with good use of spot coloring (yes a color zine folks). My personal favorite was a multi-page article, ‘Get rich the EASY WAY’ which advises ladies to marry rich old men. Great layout, good use of illustration and just plain laugh-out-loud funny. Tastes like: Fritos

Tidbit:

“The fun and games soon end though. During the night, the giant croc attacks their camp. A helpless cameraman is drug off and is never seen alive again. In vain, Steve tracks the blood trail only to discover his friends’s mutilated body. He takes careful note that the crocodile didn’t feed on its prey. It’s almost as if this is a warning of sorts”

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Zine Review - Introvert Number Four

November 9th 2006 15:59

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Zine Review - the Hss Reader No 5

November 5th 2006 20:16

Zine Review - the Hss Reader No 5

Another thick issue, HSS Reader is what many mainstream (maga)zines strive to be. Informative, witty, and downright cool, this issue was considered the

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