Emitron - An Occasional Micropaper - Issue One
Borbonesa

Place of publication: UK
Year: 2003
Size and binding: 7cm x 7cm, accordion
Number of pages: 1 double-sided page
Print methods and paper type: Blue and red ink on card cover, black ink on tracing paper

Description: Edition 103
“Borbonesa’s third volume is an ongoing collaboration between Borbonesa and the
remaining members of the Belgian art assemblage 'Emitron'. In accordance with the very
specific advisements of Emitron, Borbonesa has been redressing and re-articulating their
works, unseen since the group's official disbandment in 1986. This is achieved through the
coordination of performative lectures, public interventions and retrospective exhibitions, as
well as the production of an irregularly printed periodical entitled 'Emitron - An Occasional
Micropaper'.”

 

www.borbonesa.com
Borbonesa is a group of artists based predominantly in the south of England collaborating to produce multi-authored artworks including bookworks, occasional papers and animated film. The group was formed in 2001 in Brighton. In addition to our practice as artists, we work in partnership with schools and cultural organisations to devise and deliver creative learning opportunities for learners of all ages and backgrounds.

Also see: Micro Library Books


It Means You’re Alive (and You’re Drinking Coffee)


It Means You’re Alive (and You’re Drinking Coffee)
Ozzy Crawley

Place of publication: Winchester, UK
Year: 2023
Size and binding: 7cm x 11cm saddle-stitched
Number of pages: 18
Print methods and paper type: Screenprinted dark pink on bright pink cover, inner pages - colour print on white paper.

Description: Edition of 13 (2/13) Colourful printmaking with a mini zine inlaid.
“My practice focuses around the joy of making. I use bright colours, friendly shapes and whatever objects I fancy to create energetic compositions.” (author’s website)

Vote (The): Young People’s Edition


The Vote - Young People’s Edition
Sarah Houghton

Place of publication: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Year: 2025
Size and binding: 29cm x 37cm folded
Number of pages: 4
Print methods and paper type: Newspaper

Description: A series of papers printed as a newspaper, which are part of PhD student Sarah
Houghton’s research at the University of Portsmouth. An investigation into the hidden history of the Portsmouth Suffragist movement explored through the lens of visual communication design. This is the Young People’s Edition and includes activities for young people to design their own banners and
rosettes. 
“Re-presenting the people. This is a play-on-words with reference to the Representation of the People Act from 1918 that marked the moment women gained the right to vote in general elections.” 
Author's Website: www.representingthepeople.co.uk

Dice Rules - A Working Manual for Generative Print and Merriment



Dice Rules - A Working Manual for Generative Print and Merriment
Andy Reaney

Place of publication: Winchester, UK (2023)
Size and binding: A5, saddle-stitched with fold-out dust cover
Number of pages: 28
Print methods and paper type: Multicolour print on white paper.

Description:
Edition of 20 (2/20)
A collection of printmaking outcomes and rules for printmaking from experimental printing
using dice in collaboration with students from Fine Art and Games Design programs at
Winchester School of Art and students attending The Saturday Club between 2018 and 2022.
“Games are fun; printing is fun; and not knowing quite what you’re doing can be trepidations
and cathartic in equal measure.” Reaney 2023

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bru_ha 

Cat Hair



Cat Hair
Amy Palmer

Publishing info:
Portsmouth UK 2025
A6 foldy zine
Two colour riso printed
Laser print monochrome poster inside.
Includes small badge showing a pink cat

Description:
A short story about cat hair getting everywhere. Illustration with hand drawn type in pink and purple.
Zine unfolds to show a photo of the ‘fluff machine’.

Link:

Instagram @amyp.art 

I Am Not A Tourist In Nature


I Am Not A Tourist In Nature
Penfoalzines

Publishing Info:
Unknown place of publication c.2024
A4 saddle stitched
12 pages
Colour laser print

Description:
Poetry zine on a nature theme that includes colour photography of decaying trees and moss.


Churches, No Steeple

 





Churches, No Steeple
Penfoalzines

Publishing Info:
Unknown place of publication c.2024
A4 saddle stitched
12 pages
Black and white laser print

Description:
Poetry zine that includes black and white mixed media artwork






Migraine in Wonderland




Migraine in Wonderland
Emily Chappell (artist and editor)

Publishing Info:
28 x pages
A5 zine
Laser printed in colour with card cover
Scotland 2024

Description
Zine focussed on creative responses to the lived experience of migraines. This collective of 11 artists each uses their practice to share their stories.

"Migraine research is underfunded, GPs undertrained, support within society minimal, and the condition consistently misunderstood, ridiculed and undermined. 11 artists, including myself, have put forward a creative response for this zine. We are all based in Scotland, but geography aside, we all have migraine and a creative outlook in common. Responses were varied in tone and content, yet each was an emotive and humbling thing to receive. People are being generous with their honesty here." Emily Chappell, zine intro.

Link to author's website
www.emilychappell.com

 

Things People Say When You Are Autistic

 



Things People Say When You Are Autistic
Orlando Richardson

Publishing Info:
22 x pages
29cm x 21cm A4 landscape
Laser printed in black and white
London, UK 2024
Description:
This zine shares, through hand-drawn text and images, a series of statements often heard by people with autism. For example "Can they fix it?" and "But you talk". The zine looks from the perspective of a neurodivergent artist and reflects back the ill-considered comments directed at them.  The zine is monochrome, landscape A4 making the words feel loud and very much in the face of the reader.

Instagram: @orlandorichardsonart

Heaps vol.1: Breathtaking Panorama

Heaps vol.1: Breathtaking Panorama 
Luke Johnson and Simon Hobbs

Publishing Info:
Folded 4-page double-sided concertina
23cm x 9cm closed
Laser printing on textured paper, issue 2 of 15
Portsmouth, UK 2024
Description:
Zine that celebrates mid-century American tourist ephemera. This collaborative zine brings together items from the authors's personal archives, referred to as 'the Heaps Archive'. The zine focuses on colourful typography found in tourist leaflets and maps.

Instagram: @heaps_zine


Beautiful Truth (The)


Beautiful Truth (The)
Dexter Froud

Publishing Info:
Indiana, PA, USA 2024
12 x pages
Black and white photocopy onto 90gsm white paper

Description: 
Short autobiographical narrative about mental health challenges and coping mechanisms. Text with line drawings that explain how the author has been experimenting with blind contour drawings (a method of drawing without looking at your pen and moving it without taking it off the paper. The story parallels drawing distorted lines and how thoughts can also become distorted. It also shows the positive effect drawing can have as a release.

Artist's Contact, a PDF version is available: dexterfroud@gmail.com / Venmo (@dexfro)

Lost in Translation

 


Lost in Translation
Jess Babbini-Baker

Publishing Info:
Winchester, UK 2023
A3 foldy
Colour laser print on cartridge paper

Description:
This zine is created from collaged and painterly marks that evoke the sea, nature and the night sky. Blue tones throughout with no text apart from the maker's name on the pink bellyband.

Instagam: @jessbbaker_art

Complot

 

Complot
Collaborative zine: Ceri Amphlett. Alice Flynn, Amy Palmer, Helena Woolley, Madeline Lincoln, Lee Shearman, Luke Johnson, Jasmine Young, Jaz Potter, Joe Emery, Will Welton.

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2024
A4 French folded printed on RISO ME 9350E
140gsm Seawhite cartridge

Description:
This zine was created during a Riso Up Club with Ceri Amphlett and Lee Shearman for BA illustration students at the University of Portsmouth UK. It includes individual and collaborative printed pages in a range of colours and overlays.

Link to Riso_Up Club
https://www.instagram.com/riso_up_club/

Practice Makes Perfect Progress

 


Practice Makes Perfect Progress
Collaborative zine: Mark Jones / Riley Stratton / Yuting Zhou / Cat Kidd / Sean Sesbreno / Julia Kniupa

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2024
A4 folded zine
RISO printed on ME 9350E

Description:
This zine was created during a Riso workshop by Ceri Amphlett for MA illustration students at the University of Portsmouth UK. They made the artwork and printed the edition in about 3 hours. In this session, the students created whatever they wanted and agreed to print in yellow/pink/blue.

Link to Riso_Up Club
https://www.instagram.com/riso_up_club/

Concertina


Concertina
Rhiannon Richardson

Publishing Info:
Winchester, UK 2023
A4 folded vertically 210mm x 85mm
Hardcovers, with 12 x page concertina

Description:
This zine is created from collaged architectural and landscaped elements. Blue and orange are prominent throughout and details of maps and text are interwoven.





Wyrd No.1 and No.2


Wyrd No.1 and No.2
Publisher/editor Will Wright

Publishing Info:
A5 perfect bound
Colour printed on silk recycled paper
no.1 - 52 x pages / no.2 - 68 x pages

Description:
Publishing various art and articles of contemporary shamanism, occult and high strangeness.

ISSUE No.1
  • Wyrd - insight into contemporary shamanism
  • Handrunes - an Elder Futhark rune technique using your digits
  • Yggdrasil: The Universe Inside- exploring modern visionary art of the world tree
  • Mr Punch - toy photography of the Lord of Misrule
  • Trance Visions - exclusive art and insight into a modern Seidh practice
  • Banishings and the Northern Perspective - use of this ritual within the Northern Mysteries
  • Wyrd Basics - a guide to meditation
ISSUE No.2
  • Futhark font by Will Wright. A Graffiti-inspired rune font for the Elder Futhark.
  • Handrunes pt2 by Magnus Stokoe. More ideas and techniques for this finger magick.
  • Rave & Ritual by Will Wright. Dance, trance and the occult.
  • Visionary Art of Tefnut by Claire Wyldheart. Devotional doll photography.
  • Mr Punch & Friends. Further adventures of the Lord of Misrule and his folklore companions
  • Wyrd Basics: Exercise of Will
Publishers Instagram: https://www.wyrdzine.co.uk/

Manifest No.11: Great & Small [bundled with] There's No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy




Manifest No.11: Great & Small [bundled with] There's No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy
Jen Payne

Publishing Info:
24 pages, portrait format
Colour printing on satin paper
Branford, CT, USA, 2023
Description:
Zine about animals in art and literature containing photos, drawings, collages, poems, narratives and thoughts. 
The included mini zine There's No Such Thing as the Poop Fairy contains advice on how to behave responsibly in nature

Artist's Website: https://3chairspublishing.com/manifest-zine/
Instagram: @3chairsbooks


Zino Loci - Issue 1

Introducing ZINO LOCI a shared imaginary location that seeks to bring visual and creative voices together annually on shared themes. Zineopolis is excited to welcome a new collaborative zine project between students at the University of Portsmouth, UK and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. The project will be run collectively by Jac Batey, Nicolas Verstappen,  and Jonathan Scott.


The first issue of this collaborative zine is themed around GUILT and SHAME. The contributors explored how these complex emotions are visualised through narrative, comics, sequential illustration and artistic expression. Printed in Portsmouth, UK (2023)

See the link to the Zino Loci website for more info.    Zino Loci Website




Minizine

 


Minizine
Industrie Museum Gent - To accompany the Printing Exhibit
Belgium 2023

Publishing  Info:
Folding minizine.
Laserprinted on arrival in the exhibit.

Description:
There is a colour laser printer at the entrance to the printing technology exhibit in the Industry Museum in Ghent, Belgium.
Visitors to the exhibit can print their own personalised copy (adding a name and title) then as they walk around the printing presses and other artefacts there are six stages where they can stop and add to their zine. The stages encourage the visitor to draw type, add colour stickers, rubber stamps and embossing. Each element supports information about printing technology. 
A lovely way to engage visitors and elicit interaction and attention.

Link to Industry Museum: https://visit.gent.be/en/see-do/museum-industry

World Through Our Eyes (The)



World Through Our Eyes (The): Selection of 6 x Mini Zines
Loretta Butler (editor)

Publishing Info:
Publisher: The World Through Our Eyes - Fort Collins, Colorado, US (2023)
A4 folded mini zines (foldy zines)
Colour laser printed on white paper.

Description: 
A mixture of visual zines on various themes. Focussed on Gen-Z issues
“The World Through Our Eyes is a zine filled with wonderful alternative art and writing. The pieces included in this zine are created by young up-and-coming artists whose work does not necessarily fit in with societal norms due to its punk, queer, and alternative nature. Our purpose with this zine is to give people the opportunity to come together and share stories, experiences, and feelings with each other free of judgment. A place where others can finally see the world through our eyes.” (Publishers Instagram)

Publishers Instagram:
@theworldthroughoureyes0

 

My Worries, Fears & Anxieties

 



My Worries, Fears & Anxieties 
Luke Johnson aka Lulu

Publishing Info:
Portsmouth, UK 2023
Foldy A3 down into A6
Laser Printed on 200gsm white card

Description:
An illustrated collection of the author’s fears including pet death, too much water, and answering telephone calls. Blue and yellow throughout with illustrations in a mixture of drawing, collage, and printmaking 

Link to Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lulujohnsonillustration/


It's on the Syllabus!


It's on the Syllabus!

Andrew Kozlowski
Papercity Publishing
FL, USA (undated, c.2019)

Publishing Info:
A4 foldy zine
blue ink on cream paper
102mm x 66mm closed

Description:
This zine contains hand-drawn speech bubbles that represent a dialogue between the teacher and the student. The teacher is fielding all the questions with the assertion that the information required is already 'on the syllabus'. The zine hints at structural educational issues such as budget cuts and non-functioning teaching management systems. The zine is a humourous snapshot of the day in the life of a teacher.

Artist's Instagram: @Andrew.Kozlowski

Hello My Name is Sketchbook as Textbook


Hello My Name is Sketchbook as Textbook
Andrew Kozlowski
Papercity Publishing
FL, USA 2022

Publishing  Info:
28 x pages
Blue and black monochrome printing on cream paper
Illustrated as a narrative comic
Saddle-stitched 20cm x 25cm

Description:
This zine is a partial pastiche of a sketchbook that explains how keeping a sketchbook can be a useful practice for artists. It is narrated by the ‘teacher’ running the drawing classes and includes his thoughts and ideas about creative practice. The illustrations are a mix of metaphorical, educational, fantastical, and realistic. This is a lovely drawn manifesto in favour of the Sketchbook and gives a strong rationale for keeping one.

Artist's Instagram: @Andrew.Kozlowski


Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)