Zine Revue 08

I did a volunteer shift at the Glasgow Zine Library this weekend, so I thought I'd highlight some of my favorites from their current selection of zines in the reading room. Check these out if you're local! The Weegie Whackers were also there, raising money with a bakesale for their LGBTQ Tennis club.

Title: In Amongst the Pigeons: An Intro to Ghost Dog

Author: Edmund Stoer

Category: Movies

I LOVE this movie, so much, and this zine is a really cool, eye catching format. Each page is a frame from the film, and the pages are cut to widescreen ratio. Stoer's thoughts on Ghost Dog himself, what he represents about the status of the hero (whether cowboy or samurai) in modern films and settings, are very perceptive and really capture why I think about this film so much. Is Ghost Dog not quite weird??? YES! But that's what makes it so good.

Title: How I Survived My Teenage Years

Author: The Mollusc Dimension

Category: Comics

This was a part of the new curated display for this month, themed around Human Growth. It's a cute, short comic zine that covers a variety of relatable teen years incidents-- being unable to dance, equally unsuccessful attempts at body modification, having to check out at the grocery store when your crush is on the register-- all the despairs and agonies are here.

Title: Thrift Score

Author: Al Hoff

Category: Periodical

This is a 90s quarterly zine that I love going through when I'm in the library, because my pulse also quickens at the possibility of recreating past amazing scores whenever I go past Glad Rags or an Oxfam. The zine is based out of Pittsburgh, PA, and is an interesting portal into how to find and evaluate thrift stores, as well as zine distribution infrastructure in the largely pre-internet 90s, though the author does have this crazy new thing called an e-mail address. Woes about overabundant items, reviews of pick-n-mix trashy SF paperbacks, reader submissions of the strangest items they've ever thrifted (including a psychiatrist's couch!), the hidden dangers of 70s clothing, and a legendary tale of how a thrifted shirt came to appear in a PJ Harvey video are all found within these rich pages.