Last two copies! Through minimalist comics and sketches, this issue of Minor Leagues confronts loss while also managing to incorporate playful vignettes and letters from readers. A continually one-of-a-kind zine.
60 pages, half-letter size.
Last copy! Dreamy comics about road trips, spreading ashes by the unmanned radar station, covering The Wipers, and getting lost in a bog.
Minor Leagues #4 lets you wander in the dream before coming to at the end with a fold-out sheet that gives the larger story around each real-life comic.
82 pages, A5 size.
Minor Leagues #6 begins the first part of a serialized book-length, comics + prose project about place, history, death, memory, childhood, and nature. An ambitious and heart-felt large-format zine from UK comic artist Simon Moreton.
102 pages, half-legal size.
A buffet of wildly different work from cartoonists, essayists, poets, and illustrators. With contributions from some of our faves: Jeff Miller (Ghost Pine) on the childhood confusion caused by a Sex Pistols tape, comic artist John Porcellino (King Cat Comics) on hidden creeks, Cherry Styles (Synchronise Witches Press) on natural skin care, and comic artist Jason Martin (Black Tea) on underrated albums.
Plus so much more from: Rob Jackson, Brigid Elva, Grace Denton, Nathan Penlington, Ben Gwalchmai, Joff Winterhart, Timothy Senior, Meriel Harrison, Maxim Peter Griffin, Iona Fox, Jayde Perkin, Jeff Miller, Delaine Derry Green, Andrew White, Dan Cooper, Jacob Knill, Sabba Khan, Peony Gent. Edited by Simon Moreton and Ali Bamford.
52 pages, magazine size.
Stories about ghosts, abandoned farmsteads, weird fires, old lives, falling over in the gravel. This issue of Minor Leagues is the second part in Simon Moreton's "Where?", his serialized graphic memoir of life, death, history, landscape, and nature in the South Shropshire hills. Told through comics, prose, and photos.
100 pages, large format.
An impressionistic fever dream of childhood memories told through drawings, paintings, comics, found archival text, photos, and weird odds and ends. Imagine the sketches for a wordless picture book meets Virginia Woolf's The Waves.
Part three of the "Where?" serialized memoir (which you can drop into without having read the other parts!).
100 pages, large format.
Last two copies! Comics about being in the snow. Drawings and photos of spring. A fold-out cover with facts about lesser-spotted dogfish. The companion comics scrapbook to Simon Moreton's epic Minor Leagues series.
40 pages, quarter-size.
A dreamy comic from UK artist Simon Moreton. Set in a '90s boyhood of meadows, sci-fi VHS tapes, MTV, crushes, first kisses.
Published by Kilgore Books. 40 pages, half-letter size. Color covers, B&W insides.
The fourth and final part of Simon Moreton's "Where?" serialized graphic memoir of memory, grief, and connection to place. Personal narratives combine with the histories, folklore, and ghosts of an area whose human use goes back over two thousand years. (Do note, dear reader: you can start anywhere in the series!)
112 pages, half-legal size.
We always love Minor Leagues, U.K. comic artist/graphic memoirist Simon Moreton's ongoing zine series. Dreamy fluid comic art, solid prose, collaged bits and pieces, a fun variety show of a zine. In this issue: notes from America, birdwatching, topographies, wallpaper, foxes, home.
64 pages, full magazine size.