Dan Clowes, Marjane Satrapi, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Stefan Neville, City of Tales, Simon Morse, Jess Johnson, Peter Bagge, Tony Millionaire, Chris Ware, Joe Sacco, Julie Doucet, Haruki Murakami, Charles Burns, Harvey Pekar, Los Bros. Hernandez, and more...
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About: quality comics, art and writing, items of interest
Distribution: available free throughout Wellington and Auckland CBDs at select cafes, venues and choice retailers; special flying-visit-distro outside of the twin cities will see other local locales getting Choiced for Issue 2 (No 1 went to some far-flung places too). Send me a message for details on how to get a copy in the post.
Features: Serialised comics, strips, photography, intelligent writing both creative and journalistic, music criticism and appreciation, and general commentary on what it is to be choice
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Issue 1 : print run of 1000 hand-numbered copies Cover Image: Jess Johnson
Banner Artwork: Stefan Neville
Editor: Mitch Feedback and Beer: John
CHOICE pays tribute to old-school comics and their formatting - tall, fat and narrow
Size : 17cm wide x 26cm tall
B&W offset print inside, 2 colour gloss offset covers
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MONGREL ZINE #7 IS OUT NOW
The new Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine is full of spooky delights!
Haunted George schools us on Halloween sound effects and his
Garagepunk podcast Haunted Shack Theatre, King Louie charms us with
tales of stealin’ Lil Wayne’s wardrobe girl and drinking with Fats
Domino, Vancouver’s newest garage band Indian Wars find the best
skateparks, Inservibles tell us about Mexico City’s best tacos from
what is a shitty mechanics workshop during the day and taco stand by
night, a rare interview with the late Billy Van from The Hilarious
House of Frightenstein, vintage Halloween collector Mark Ledenbach,
plus Box Elders, The TVees, Hard Feelings, HYPSTRZ, The Orpheans,
Corpusse, Telekrimen, and tonnes more…
This issue includes Mongrel Zine Vol. 4 CD Comp with 28 tracks
including Bloodshot Bill’s “In the Graveyard…!” written especially for
this Halloween issue of Mongrel Zine!
Interviews with Demon’s
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Gerard Van Herk (Deja Voodoo), Teenage Hookers, Petroleum By-Product,
Simply Saucer plus other lubricants like a tribute to the late Sky
Saxon, Mike Sniper (Blank Dogs), reviews, and a 25-track CD Comp of
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