This is a fun little zine, alternating a memoir with very quirky graphics. The theme is elementary school, leading up to and including the always-anticipated Summer Vacation. The writing brought me right back to my own school memories: the silly exercises they’d make us do in gym class, the one kid who seemed to throw up every week, the teacher with the weird accent you’d later realize was American, etc. These experiences are the most common we share, and make excellent reading material, bringing back a flood of memories. Half of them could be my memories if only the names were changed: “Plano didn’t have any real outdoors, ‘cept for the swampy high grass where the older kids hid their porno mags. These areas never lasted long, they usually got paved over.” After it had jogged so many of some of my oldest memories, I was left wondering what happened to the solid kid-society we had back then, how come it never led to a solid society of adults? Wasn’t that what cramming us all into elementary school was for? Hmm. (LR)
#4, zine, English / main creator: Adam / 65 cents plus post / 3553 Aylmer #6, Montreal QC, H2X 2B9