The East Village INKY
Former Neo-Futurist member Ayun Halliday’s quarterly guide to her life in NYC’s East Village and what it’s like to raise a baby in Thompkin Square Park. I cannot even begin to tell you how thoroughly charming and funny this handwritten, hand-drawn diary of a young semi-hippie’s life is. Written in teeny-tiny 7 point type covering every inch of each of 40 pages, this is a lot of information, everything from how the neighborhood women treat Ayun differently now that she has a baby, to her semiconscious guilt over being one of the people gentrifying the East Village, to a comprehensive guide to which sushi restaurants in Manhattan are poor-people-friendly. Named after the way Ayun’s child pronounces her own name, this zine is by parts political, self-deprecating and sometimes wholly silly. As Inky says, “I big kid cup!” Couldn’t have said it better myself. (JP)