New in: Beaney: A Short History

Beaney: A Short History by Jacob Louis Beaney, writer of Modern Moral Subjects, is an autobiographical comic that documents various periods of his life. Usually in quite graphic detail!

http://www.hickathriftpublishing.co.uk/beaneyashorthistory.html

http://www.jacoblouisbeaney.co.uk/

New in: Opinionated Nobody #5

Opinionated Nobody is a personal zine written by Rebecca, who lives in Barnsley. This is the fifth issue of the zine and features articles on growing vegetables, Ryan Adams, Sheffield Zine Fest, douchebag comedians and the alternative to douchebag comedians and lots more good stuff.

http://sullen-hearts.blogspot.co.uk/

New in: The Shrieking Violet #21

The 21st issue of Manchester's favourite The Shrieking Violet marks four years of the zine. Editor Natalie Bradbury has compiled contributions from the likes of Dominic Oliver, Roxy Brennan, Cherry Styles, Paul Gallagher and loads more talented people. There are 28 pages of photographs, articles, illustrations and recipes.

The zine is available to view, for free, online.

http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/

New in: Gaudy Verse

Gaudy Verse is written by Orla Foster and contains poems about things like "the pleasure of piling gherkins between three slabs of bread", looking for jobs, gap year students and Chris Martin.

You can buy a copy from A Closed Caption's Etsy page.

http://aclosedcaption.wordpress.com/

Red All Over The Land - A Liverpool Fanzine: Issue 189

Red All Over The Land is a Liverpool FC fanzine that's been going for over fifteen years. The 189th issue features reports from pre-season friendlies, previews of the forthcoming Premier League season, comics and articles about the club.

Subscriptions for the fanzine are available online and copies are available to buy from around Anfield and away matches before kick off.


http://redallovertheland.com/

https://twitter.com/TheFanzine1

New in: Sense/Memory

"Sense/Memory is a collection of essays, collage work, and satirical musings that attempt to dissect the fine art world as it transitions into pure digitalization.

Alternative Currents Collective is a close-knit group of like-minded new media artists, filmmakers, and musicans based in Los Angeles, CA - dedicated to the goal of merely existing. Though the actual collective fluctuates in numbers, at its core are Christina Santa Cruz and Daniel Watkins who create both collaboratively and independently under the Alternative Currents umbrella."

http://alternativecurrents.wix.com/danielwatkins

New in: Good Feet For A Big Man Issue 2

Good Feet For A Big Man is a "new collaborative DIY football fanzine, featuring a variety of articles about issues concerning the sport". The second issue features articles on football and television, the Championship, goal music, Derry City, cult footballers, goal-line technology and Paolo Di Canio. And Mark Viduka is on the front cover! Incredible.

https://www.facebook.com/GoodFeetForABigManFanzine

http://www.goodfeetforabigmanfanzine.bigcartel.com/

New in: Hand Job Issue One

Hand Job is "a literary zine based in Notts that collects work from around the UK (featuring our own writing as well) to try and showcase the British writing that we love and that we also feel is often overlooked."

They are always looking for my submissions and information about contributing to the zine cane be found here.

http://handjobzine.wordpress.com/

New in: Fanzine La Raya presents #Pussy

A Spanish zine! Amazing! 

"La Raya is a fanzine made in the Canary Islands (Spain) by Ida Galvan and Sara Perdomo. We're into a wide range of topics, including queer issues, bizarre stuff and pop culture. Our zine has a monographic approach: each issue focuses a different topic interpreted by our collaborators and ourselves through illustrations and texts. #Pussy is our first issue"

http://larayapresenta.wordpress.com/

New in: Best Pressed's Zine About Zines

Our friend Stef Bradley, who's zine 'Today' is already in the collection at the library, has recently set up her own zine distro called 'Best Pressed'. As well as selling zines at gigs and other exciting events, Stef recently led a zine making workshop in Liverpool. To help participants, she created a 'Zine About Zines', containing helpful instructions on how to make a zine yourself.

The zine features a useful illustrated 'What is a zine' and 'How to make a zine' sections, a comic about making zines and an interview with Young Explorer (us, when we're not doing zine library things!). We have a few of these at the library in a range of snazzy colours.

http://todayzine.wordpress.com/

New in: Popular Stand Issue 65

Popular Stand: a football fanzine for the likes of Doncaster, was launched in 1998 as a "collective mouthpiece against those seemingly intent on driving the club out of existence". This pre-season issue features previews for the 2013-2014 season, opinion pieces, stats and humorous articles. And Jedward on the front cover.

http://popularstand.wordpress.com/about/

@vivarovers

New in: Animated Review Issue #01

"This is the inaugural issue of the Animated Review ‘zine. Created to compliment our blog of inspirational animation, the publication highlights some of the great creative talents we have had the pleasure of featuring online.

We asked a selection of artists to reinterpret, in the own style, their favourite childhood cartoon character. The enthusiastic response we received helped highlight the importance of these shows, and the fondness with which they are remembered. Maybe some of the illustrations contained within these pages will rekindle some nostalgic memories of your own..."

Issue #01 features:

Ian Stevenson - www.ianstevenson.co.uk
Mark Edwards of DR.ME - www.dr-me.com
Nick Alston - www.nickalston.co.uk
Marcus Oakley - www.marcusoakley.com
Thea Glad - www.theaglad.co.uk
Nicolas Ménard - www.nicolasmenard.com
Malcolm Sutherland - www.animalcolm.com
Bottle of Smoke - www.bottleofsmoke.co.uk
Kid Acne - www.kidacne.com
Robert Löbel - www.robertloebel.com
Jose Miguel Mendez - www.josemiguelmendez.co.uk

http://animated-review.blogspot.co.uk/

There's also a cool digital "flip through" of the zine here.

New in: David Shit: Poems 2012 - 2013

A selection of poems from 2012 - 2013 about desire and its place within the constant flow of life and death, not only as experienced by us day to day but also seen with the forensic eye of a scientist or the long view of a historian.

David is an unpublished writer from Sydney and mainly writes poetry and short articles. He is interested in the physical world, and how the story of science tells us this, forms and influences our emotional worlds.

http://davidshit.net/

http://davidshit.net/webstore1/

New in: Red All Over The Land - A Liverpool Fanzine: Issue 188

A couple of weeks ago we Tweeted asking specifically for more football fanzine submissions, which the excellent football website Stand Against Modern Football helped us with. Here's what we said!

We want your football zines! Thanks to @standamf for putting our call out on their website: http://t.co/7xFspWIa3e
— Salford Zine Library (@SalfordZineLib) August 1, 2013

We were really pleased, then, when 'Red All Over The Land' dropped on our doormat. Keep your football, rugby league (and any other subject for that matter) zines coming!

Red All Over The Land is a Liverpool FC fanzine that's been going for over fifteen years, if my research is correct. The 188th issue - a pre-season special - includes articles previewing the forthcoming season, pre-season friendly match reports and opinion pieces.

Subscriptions for the fanzine are available online and copies are available to buy from around Anfield and away matches before kick off. 

http://redallovertheland.com/

New in: White Pigeon Issue One - In The Forest

"White pigeon is a black and white photography zine which documents the travels and experiences of a budding artist and photographer. The overall idea is to give the viewer a glimpse into the artist's love for exploring and the outdoors, and hopefully inspire them to get out and see the world and be creative on the way. 

Each issue has a different theme/setting and every publication is made solely by the artist; all the photography and art is his own. Ever imperfection adds character, reflecting the title: if it was perfect, 'Dove' would have been more fitting!"

http://incidental-intricacy.tumblr.com

@AfroAngel

New in: Kids With Puns

Kids With Puns is a celebration of the humble pun. It's a student run magazine whose main purpose is to change the pun's reputation from being cheap to one of subtlety and complexity.

It features illustrations by Isobel Wood, Hugh Cowling, Jack Edwards, Trevor Thompson, Harry Morris, John Kilburn, Charlie Davis and Tom Dunn.

http://kidswithpuns.co.uk

http://kidswithpuns.bigcartel.com

Underground Press Research Help

Can you help Joe with his research? Get in touch with him if you can! Sadly we don't have any of these in the collection at the moment (although we would gratefully receive donations, as ever!)

Request for Help with Research

I’m a research student at the University of Salford looking for help with a project on the Greater Manchester underground press in the sixties and seventies. If anybody has any issues of Grass Eye, Mole Express, Free Press, or RAP (the Rochdale Alternative Paper) – or another paper you think I may have missed – I would love to hear from you. If you were involved with the underground press yourself, or knew anyone that was, please get in touch also. The underground press has been largely neglected by historians and what little work there is tends to concentrate on papers based in London. I’m hoping to redress the balance with a study of the scene in Manchester, Salford, and nearby areas.

Please drop me an email at j.a.darlington@edu.salford.ac.uk if you think you could help me out. Any assistance is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Joe Darlington

New in: Here. In My Head #11: A 24-Hour Zine

Here. In My Head #11 is a 24-hour zine written by Catherine Elms. This issue features writings on being creative, self-esteem, empowerment, contraception, things that annoy her, and things that brighten up her day.

www.catherineelms.co.uk

catherineelms.bandcamp.com

blatantblithe.wordpress.com

@catherineelms

New in: Turbulence Magazine issue 14

Turbulence is a printed poetry magazine established in 2009 seeking to publish the best poetry it can find. It started out in Hull, East Yorkshire, a city described by Peter Porter as "the most poetic city in England" and is now based in Oxford.

Issue 14 features poetry from David Andrew, Aaron Anstett, David Bellusci, Byron Beynon, Ken Champion, Joe Eldridge, Chris Fenton, Andy Fletcher, Kathy Halliday, Scott Hartwich, Anne Higgins, Maria C.G. Hofman, Fred Johnston, Ric Lee, David Lewitzky, Mary McCollum, Robert Nisbet, Kate O'Shea, Bethany W Pope, Pam Riley, Stephen R Roberts, Anthony Ward and Lucy Winrow. The cover artist is Susan Duncan.

www.turbulencepoetry.blogspot.co.uk

@turbulencemag

New in: Pataville

Guy Mayman makes collage, sculpture and drawing which explores the intersection of culture, commerce, government and desire. He has completed a two year residency at de Ateliers in Amsterdam and a two year Daiwa scholarship in Tokyo, where he continues to visit and work regularly. He produces a zine called Pataville, which uses montage to explore the idea of cultural false memory, architectural utopia and suburban psychosis.

www.pataville.blogspot.com

New in: Psycho.Moto Zine Issues 18 - 20

The Antagonist Art Movement are based in New York and have been putting out Psycho.Moto Zine, under the original title East Coast Exchange, since 1988. The subject is underground arts where they mix writers from all over the place. Each issue is based on a theme.

The Antagonist Art Movement is a cultural movement formed in New York. The group grew out of desperation and in reaction to the New York art market. The movement primarily involves visual arts, literature, film, art manifestos and graphic design. Psycho.Moto Zine acts as a venue for the movement's writers, artists and editors.

www.antagovision.com
Antagonist Art Movement Wikipedia article

New in: Modern Moral Subjects

Jacob Louis Beaney’s Modern Moral Subjects is a series of 11 drawings that take a satirical look at the current socio-economic state of the United Kingdom, inspired by artists such as William Hogarth, James Gillray, James Ensor, Goya, and Edouard Manet.

www.jacoblouisbeaney.co.uk

www.hickathriftpublishing.co.uk

Under new management!

Hello,

I am very excited to be able to announce that myself (Steve Carlton) and Elizabeth Murray Jones are going to be taking over the running of Salford Zine Library. I am an actual qualified librarian and we both make zines under the name 'Young Explorer', so we reckon that we're well placed to continue Craig's excellent work and make the library an inspiring place to visit for as many people as possible.

We have loads of things we want to do but we're also keen to get the whole community involved. If you have any ideas or suggestions for improving the library, please get in touch. We're currently drawing up plans for exciting new stuff, so watch this space! In the mean time, if you have any zines that you would like to submit to the library, please note the change of address. There's no selection criteria - we accept anything as long as it is self published.

Many thanks,

Steve and Liz

Carl Gunhouse

Carl Gunhouse was born in 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts, but he spent his formative years in suburban New Jersey. Growing up, he developed a love/hate relationship with suburbia that led to the angst familiar to most suburban youth. With this unrest came the discovery of the anger and DIY ethics of hardcore punk rock. Yearning to be part of the hardcore scene, he started photographing bands, which began his love of photography.

http://www.carlgunhousephoto.com

Miscellanea

Miscellanea is a one-page publication inspired by Victorian broadsides. Each issue Kate works with a different contributor and creates illustrations to accompany their writing.

http://katedunstone.co.uk/

Harrier Notman

Harrier is  a student in the North, UK who likes to draw sometimes, especially the everyday stuff that pops into her head.


http://21stcenturyrookie.blogspot.co.uk/


Contribution:
Lame Vol.1

There is only one F in Fulham.

There's Only One F in Fulham (TOOFIF) is an independently owned magazine dedicated to Fulham Football Club. It is edited by David Lloyd, published six times per year and was founded in 1988.


http://www.toofif.co.uk/

Stef Bradley

‘Today’ is a comic of sorts celebrating the extraordinary everyday. Each book is made by hand, photocopying the pages of the zines at Stef's the local newsagent and cutting each one to shape with a pair of scissors. 

http://todayzine.wordpress.com/

The Eyelids of Dawn

The Eyelids of Dawn is a collection of words, art, thought, review, poetry, fiction etc from some of the same minds that have previously released music on Frequency Thirteen, alongside some new associates who have joined the fold for this zine/journal.

Romka

Since 4 years the independent photography magazine has been offering a platform for photographs that really mean something. People from all over the world submit their favorite pictures and tell the stories that lie behind them. Romka is a collective photo album in which both amateurs and professionals archive their memories. The readers are encouraged to submit their own favorite photographs to participate in the ongoing project.

http://romkamagazine.com/

HE WHO WANTS FIRE MUST BE ABLE TO BEAR SMOKE

http://www.welmerkeesmaat.com/

Distraction Faction

http://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/TonyHickson

Distant Images

Snapping Turtle Press

SNAPPING TURTLE PRESS publishes DIY poetry-zines which feature the best of lesser-known talent from poets and illustrators. We're about to publish our first punk book reviews and a review of the literature stage at Rebellion 2012.

Description

Based in York, STP is the brainchild of Lizzie Alderdice and Henry Raby.

To get a copy of any of their zines, e-mail snappingturtlepress@yahoo.co.uk

The Poverty of Feminism

http://www.elephanteditions.net/2010/01/poverty-of-feminism.html

Katie in Zombie Land

Katy Matich is a Philadelphia printmaker, bookmaker and draftsman who is equally passionate about visual artwork and historical conservation. Katy received her BFA degree in drawing and painting from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2008; and later completed her MFA degree at The University of the Arts in 2010 emphasizing in Book Arts and Printmaking. Upon graduating, she spent an 8-week post-graduate internship with the American Philosophical Society (APS) of Philadelphia. During her time at APS, Katy participated in a documentation and preservation project with the Oversize Rare Book archives.

http://katymatich.com/

Playerist

Playerist is an independently published poetry journal.

http://playerist.blogspot.co.uk/

Alarmist Magazine

The Alarmist is a fresh, new, dark, funny and twisted printed literary magazine published biannually."It’s not about trying to prove how clever or well-read you are. We’re not the Paris Review. We want to buck the modern trend, and tickle and entertain with what we publish."http://www.alarmistmagazine.co.uk/

Slimeball

https://twitter.com/slimeballzine
http://igetdressedinthemorning.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/an-introduction-to-slimeball-zine/

Astrobabble

Astrobabble is a zine about astrology and released biannually. The zine was created by Australian astrologer, "Astrogirlzarro". Illustrations are by Canberra-based artist, Cate Riley.

The first issue of the zine was released in 2009.

Contribution:

Astrobabble 8

astrobabylon.blogspot.com/

Turbulence

Turbulence is a printed poetry magazine established in 2009 seeking to publish the best poetry it can find. We are based in Hull, East Yorkshire (famous for poets such as Philip Larkin, Andrew Marvell, Andrew Motion and Stevie Smith). We are looking for poetry written in (or translated into) English from around the world.

http://turbulencepoetry.blogspot.co.uk/

Hiss Heads

'Hiss Heads' is an interview zine I put together. It contains interviews and pictures of homerecorders from UK’s North West. 

http://florianfusco.com/archives/758

Yuck 'n Yum

Yuck 'n Yum is a not-for-profit curatorial collective that produces a quarterly art zine and hosts events that promote and distribute art outside the gallery setting.

Yuck 'n Yum was founded in 2005 by Andrew Maclean, who self-published and distributed YnY whenever he could. In 2008 he enlisted Gayle Meikle and Ben Robinson to aid him in the production of the zine and develop YnY as a distribution mechanism for artists. Since then, YnY has produced 20 issues (including two special editions) and hosted many events to promote artists, including Yuck 'n Yum's Art Distribution Unit, Turn Your Bluetooth On and the AGK.

http://www.yucknyum.com/

Before The Hollywood Backlot

Elastic Seatbelt Printing Press

Two poetry zines from Elastic Seatbelt Printing Press.

Let It Sink

Let It Sink is a zine by a high school teacher called Jim from Chicago.

victimsofmathematics@gmail.com

Here is a link to an article by Jim in the Chicago Tribune about why he makes zines:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/site/newspaper/entertainment/ct-prj-0304-zine-20120302,0,1925813.story

Sunk

http://sunkartmag.blogspot.co.uk/

Ten by 10

10x10 revolves around a simple concept:

every issue develops a theme through 10 interviews (same 10 questions to 10 different people)

Issue #1 - Women force - 10 interviews to 10 women with 10 different jobs.

http://10x10fanzine.tumblr.com

Made in Arnhem

The Office of Mark Simmonds Newsletter started in Arnhem in March 2011. Each newsletter contains a single article which is typed directly onto an A4 sheet using an AEG Olympia Traveller De Luxe typewriter at the office. The original is then photocopied, folded and posted via snail mail to national and international subscribers. If away from the office, for example abroad, the newsletter is handwritten. Initially a fortnightly bulletin, as of January 2012 it is posted monthly. In July 2012, the then total of 25 newsletters were compiled for the first time to commemorate the office's imminent relocation from Arnhem to a then unknown destination.
http://www.marksimmonds.info/

Milk, Two Sugars

‘ Milk, Two Sugars’ was an A5 publication produced every month by Bob Milner and Tom Senior