Last copy! A beautiful collection of the first six (long out of print) issues of Mend My Dress - a zine that for years has been constantly impressive in its openness and strength. Seeing it in this form puts into perspective how great it is. It’s also one of the best laid out and cleanest zine collections in book form that I have seen.
“Mend My Dress offers a complex, nuanced, and skillfully constructed picture of multifarious girlhood vulnerability...[ continued ]
In this, the first issue of Last Night at the Casino, Billy gives us a glimpse at casino life from the eyes of a newbie dealer. His love of oddballs and openness to just about any kind of situation makes him the perfect host for this adventure. Fun, just a touch heartbreaking, and a great sociological study on a subject I’ve never seen any other zine take on.
32 pages, quarter-size...[ continued ]
The issue that started off this amazing, hilarious, zine series. Before the well-played themes of later issues began, they traversed the cinematic spectrum of Road House to Showgirls, Sleepwalkers to The Pick-Up Artist, all in one issue. Well-written and able to appeal to just about everybody.
52 pages, half-letter size.
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Thoughts on life, losing loved ones, family, and understanding things in a new way with age. Simple, little, and beautiful.
32 pages, quarter-size.
Comic artists and comic lovers think about comics and the importance of comics in their lives. (They even draw a few along the way.)
Within: A dusty comic book store in the '80s serving as salvation for a geeky teen girl; dealing with Asperger’s and learning social cues from comics; the current state of Heavy Metal; adapting The Secret Garden; a girl in the 70’s and her love of war comics; superheroes; Harvey Pekar; and much much more...[ continued ]
Temporary sale! Olympia's Sharkpact make well-crafted, amazingly-full punk songs with just synths and drums. Eight anthems that won’t leave your head or your turntable for days.
Listen on Bandcamp.
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This hilarious issue deals with love, sex, and relationships in movies. From obsessive-amputation love to dorky-buddy-movie love, all kinds of love gets reviewed here. Some of the most fun you can have in zine form.
64 pages, half-letter size.
Sale! A wall poster of gorgeous photography from Mr. Carson Churchill. 22.5” x 25.5”, printed on newsprint.
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Last two copies! Addicting pop music from the mind of Stephen Steinbrink. Fun and interesting without ever being over the top.
Recorded by the ever-amazing Bob Schwenkler at Olympia’s legendary Dub Narcotic Studios, this album has a wonderfully unique sound. Released on Seattle’s Off Tempo label. Comes with a digital download code.
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Sale! Two brand new tracks from Foxdye. The A-side: whispy ambience that rides a perfect line between angelic drone and stuttering tape noise. The B-side: pulsing prettiness over (breakcore-inspired) IDM beats.
Hand spray-painted by the artist herself, comes with a digital download code, bordering on weird cassingle--perfect for the Foxdye collector in us all.