Shape & Situate: Exhibition of posters from the zine
Like zines and posters? Get to the exhibition of 97 posters from the zine, Shape & Situate, founded and edited by Melanie Maddison of Leeds, UK. Posters made by artists and DIY creative folk from within Europe. Each poster highlights the (often hidden) history, and lives of radical inspirational women and collectives from Europe, as a...
Salford Zine Library – 1500 homeless zines need your help!
Many people have different ideas what a zine is. But Craig John Barr of the Salford Zine Library will try and sum up what a zine is to him. A zine is a publication self-made and printed independently by the author. Production methods vary from primitive tools such as photocopiers, pens, paper and the trademark...
My Summer of Love by Margery Higglebottom
His name was Arvel Edwin Tranter but, for reasons that were never clear, we called him Berny. In the summer of 1957 his garden parties were the place to be for anyone wishing to stand at the top of Britain’s dizzying social ladder. I was invited, I would like to think, in response to the...
Quick zine reviews
Monday morning Says is a zine by three St Martin’s illustration graduates with a delightful premise. Not having jobs, but wanting to look busy like everyone else, they meet up on Monday mornings to draw. Issue 1 concentrated on the British delight in saying sorry. It combines this with artistic analysis of the relationship between...
Misty in Roots at The Picket, Jamaica Street, Liverpool
Even through the metal slats of The Picket’s musical palisade, it’s plain to see the night is one of promise. The smoking yard is already frothing with skin heads, wizened Rastafarians, and the sensuous overflow of some mind blowing Ragga’s own Caribbean cooking… shabba. The Picket itself seemed to be watching the sand drop for...
