Review: PILTDOWNLAD #1: GÜERO CHINGÓN #1-5

Piltdownlad #1: Güero Chingón #1-5

These five, short mini-zines squeeze out the rawness of childhood into something distilled that causes your breath to catch. The first issue explains how, in an act of self-protection in shop class, the narrator becomes Güero Chingón. The second reveals how he figured out panhandling. #3 involves more childhood violence and the odd workings of childhood frienemys. The fourth is tragic and made me want to remove all the matches from my home. The final volume was about new clothes and the cruel pantomime of boys and girls. Recommended.

Piltdownlad #1: Güero Chingón #1-5

2011

Kelly Dessaint

PO Box 86714, Los Angeles, CA 90086

Email: piltdownlad@gmail.com

Website: www.piltdownlad.com

price: $3 US/ $ 3.50 Can/Mex / $4 World

trades: possible

size: 2”x3”

page count: 5 mini zines at 16 pages each

BROOKLYN #77

BROOKLYN #77

review from Anne: BROOKLYN #78 and #79

24 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 $10 for a 4 issue subscription
(PAYMENT IN CASH!)
Fred Argoff
Penthouse L
1170 Ocean Parkway
Brooklyn NY 11230

More Brooklyn reviews! Say it with me, people: “The name of this zine is BROOKLYN and that's also what the zine is about, Fred's beloved borough of Brooklyn." History, photography, you name it and it’s in here…provided it’s got something to do with Fred’s favorite borough. One of the things I particularly like about BROOKLYN is that the issues are always packed with photos, history (things that long-term residents know; every issue has kind of a small-neighborhood feel to it, which is a great advantage), and fabulous little Brooklyn tidbits. It's one of those reads that if you don't live there, it's kind of amazing -- like a little bit of armchair travel. If you do live there, I imagine it's like this whole other world discovering these bits of history and photos of houses and neighborhoods and such.

The ever-hilarious "Brooklyn Lexicon and Pronounciation Guide" in each issue is a treat to read, and #78 has this Brooklyn reconfiguring of Jack Sprat (as you'd imagine, but in Brooklyn-ese), and #79 includes photos of Shakespeare in Brooklyn (Shakespeare on the Roof, really and truly on the roof of 57 Thames Street in East Williamburg), Totonno's (must-stop on a Brooklyn pizza tour), and The Hole (I'll leave you with some surprises for the issue).

Always a fun read worth your time. So, whaddya waitin' for? Read some Brooklyn already!

Zine Symposium in Chicago (April 6, 2013) - free to public

OUTSIDERS: Zines, Samizdat, & Alternative Publishing

Saturday, April 6, 2013

This year’s symposium will explore the use of self-produced books and pamphlets to express individualized, unconventional, controversial, or prohibited messages. Topics will range widely in historical and geographical terms, and the speakers will address the current state of self-publishing as well as its history.

Free and open to the public.

The 2013 Caxton Club / Newberry Library
Symposium on the Book

The Newberry Library60 West Walton StreetChicago, Illinois 60610

Read more here: http://www.caxtonclub.org/events/2013-symposium/newberry-chicago-saturday-program-details.html#panel-discussion 

Xerography Debt #32 NOW AVAILABLE!

To order a copy of this issue, please send $4 (order online, or send cash, stamps, money order, or check) to Microcosm Publishing

Cover Art by Bojan (Rigor Mortis)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Basic Stuff You Should Know

COLUMNS

THE SOUNDTRACK TO DYSTOPIA By Al Burian

HELLO MISTER POSTMAN By Carlos Palacios

DECLINE OF NORTHERN CIVILIZATION: ON ZINES, DIY, AND ALASKA By Frank Harlan and Josh Medsker 

IT MEANS IT'S WANK: DIGITAL IS THE NEW MIDDLE AGED by Jeff Somers

RANDOM THOUGHTS ON ZINES FROM A SEMI-RETIRED SELF PUBLISHER by Kris M.

GLOOMY SUNDAYS: A VISIT TO IRA By Gianni Simone

EXITING THE ECHO CHAMBER By Joe Biel

REVIEWERS

Anne Thalheimer

D. Blake Werts

Carlos Palacios

Davida Gypsy Breier

Donny Smith

Eric Lyden

Fred Argoff

Gavin Grant

Joe Biel

Josh Medsker

Julie Dorn

Liz Mason

Maynard Welstand

Stuart Stratu

Announcements

Index