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Issue #93

featuring our annual BP Indie Book Picks

image from Helem by Stanley Wany, BP Indie Book Pick.

From the Editor

Do you think about prison?

Jonathan Valelly

Features

Survival and Revival: 40 Years of Queer Indonesian Zines

Adel Franklyn | Features

I Am Not Lonely for I Have a Television

Jillian Clair |

Mythic Explores the Beauty of Feminist Anger

Cole Bisson | Zine Reviews

Explore traditional relationships through a queer lens with ‘Range’

Pip Bradford | Zine Reviews

Folio: Familiarity and Form with Maya Beverly

Broken Pencil |

‘Body of Water’ Makes You Appreciate the Beauty of Being in a Human Body

Scott Bryson | Zine Reviews

Anxiety Dreams and Twin Peaks in ‘Quarantine Comix’

Jason Luther |

Meet the trepidatious and curious Stardog!

Pip Bradford |

Beautiful comics remastered for the modern age in ‘Words Plural’

Pip Bradford |

Like most good punk, ‘Pink Punk’ is brief and to the point!

Graham Sigurdson |

‘Not My Small Diary #20: The Power of Music’ is relatable and charming in its own way

Cole Bisson | Zine Reviews

A collection of sorts from a self-taught Floridian in ‘New Genre’

Cole Bisson |

‘Metamorphoses’ has an unavoidable punch of feminist anger

Cole Bisson |

‘Forever and Everything’ is the quintessential autobiographical indie comic

Graham Sigurdson |

I Discover the Weight of My Tongue

Sarah Truevert |

‘Sad House’ is a touching zine on how one family persevered in difficult times

Maxime Brunet |

‘Schlocktagon #1’ is perfect for connoisseurs of trash action cinema

Joshua Barton |

‘The Peace Formula’ asks, is spiritual awareness the formula for peace after all?

Joshua Barton |

Reviving Cuban anarchist publishing

Chompira Malverde | Zine Philosophy

Zine fests put to the test!

Jonathan Valelly | Sharpeners

Johnny Gamber’s ‘Penpalling’ is punchy, accessible and adorable

Joshua Barton | Zine Reviews

The consequences of creative bravery in ‘Manifest (zine)’

Scott Bryson | Zine Reviews

Find comfort and connection with ‘Endometri, O Sis!’

Pip Bradford | Zine Reviews

The ups and downs in the plague year in ‘Start Over: A Year’s End Zine’

Maxime Brunet | Zine Reviews

Early 90s Drunken Adventures in ‘Gray Flag #2’

Maxime Brunet | Zine Reviews

RIP Eric Carle by Mara Ramirez

Mara Ramirez | Comics

‘Driving Around: A Pandemic Journal’ captures the eerie ambiance of a pandemic vacation

Jason Luther | Zine Reviews

Deep anime classics, off-beat Hollywood dramas, and Hong Kong action flicks in ‘Drifting Cry Room #51’

Joshua Barton | Zine Reviews

Photophobia by Victor Martins

Victor Martins | Comics

Babcia by Marta Chudolinska

Marta Chudolinska | Comics

Whites only by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom | Comics

The ever-popular ritual of grieving through television marathons by The Depressed Waitress

Jillian Clair | Zine Reviews

‘The Analog Sea Bulletin’ supports the human right to disconnect

Scott Bryson | Zine Reviews