MAAB Line-up

Here it is folks… your MAAB Zine session line up!

10:45 – 11:30

Ian Koss (Ink 19), Joe LaChute (Seven Inches to Freedom), Tom Pennington (The Hum, Reax)  and Max Michaels (Movement Magazine) will be discussing their history with zines, the importance of independent publishing, and the role of the Internet in publishing.

12:00 – 12:45

Authors Duncan B. Barlow (Super Cell Anemia), Patrick Hughes (Diaries of Indignities), Shelton Hull (Folio Weekly, Section 8) and poet Alan Justiss (too many to list) will read from their own original work.

If you want more info on the events or bios on these authors, click here or on the logo at the top. Hope to see you there!

Zine Release Party at Art Walk!

The February zine release was great! About 120 people came to hang out, a great group of 40 or so stuck around for the whole event!  Travis Fristoe, Samantha Jones and Chelsea C all did an amazing job.   Thanks again for coming up from Gainesville!  A lot of new faces came to check out the collection and the new items.

Travis Fristoe

Samantha Jones

Chelsea C.

And here’s some video from a bit of Chelsea’s set.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyxijjomQTk

Zine Release Party @ February Art Walk

As promised, we will have a big batch of zines ready for check out at February Art Walk.  But there’s more….

We will have special guests!

Travis Fristoe (of ‘America?’ Zine, and bands such as Moonraker, Reactionary 3) discusses his America zine and the DIY publishing world at large.

And come hear the music of…

Samantha Jones (of the bands Cassette, Bitchin, Slang, Rumbleseat etc) and Chelsea C (1/2 of the duet know as Dirty Fist)

5:30-7:00at the Main Library right by the zine collection! You know, first floor by the DVDs!

Check out this older post for an interview with Travis Fristoe.

Here is the list of new goodies:

1. Abort Vol. 20
2. 904 Skate Magazine Photo Issue: Summer 2006
3. Abort Vol. 21
4. ABC No Rio: Enter the Nineties
5. Adventures in Menstruation Vol. 1
6. Adventures in Menstruation Vol. 2
7. Adventures in Menstruation Vol. 3
8. A’ La Maison w/ mix CD
9. Anarchism: An Introduction
10. The Black Cloud Vol. 2
11. Blast Asteroid and the Space Patrol
12. Blast Asteroid Returns
13. Boy~Girl Vol. 2
14. Carbusters: Nov. 2008 – Feb. 2009
15. The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting Vol. 5
16. Dwelling Portably v. 3
17. Dwelling Portably v. 4
18. The F-Word Vol. 3
19. Elephant Mess Vol. 21
20. Emergency Vol. 5
21. Even Noisy Sparrows Vol. 4
22. Feedback Vol. 4
23. Frost Vol. 0
24. Greenwoman Vol. 2
25. Griot Vol. 6
26. Grooves: Experimental Electronic Music Magazine
27. The Hum Vol. 1/ Alley-Oop! Vol. 9
28. Human Waste Vol. 4
29. Human Waste Vol. 6
30. Jesse Reklaw’s Ten Thousand Things To Do
31. The Juniper Vol. 5
32. The Juniper Vol. 6
33. The Juniper Vol. 9
34. The Juniper Vol. 11
35. Make Something
36. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 242
37. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 265
38. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 267
39. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 268
40. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 272
41. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 273
42. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 274
43. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 275
44. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 278
45. Maximum Rock and Roll Vol. Vol. 318
46. Momentum Vol. 32
47. New Orleans… My Love
48. The New Wave of Cut and Paste Vol. 6
49. The Night of Your Life
50. Notes from the Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture
51. Our Lives Vol. 1
52. Our Lives Vol. 2
53. Paper Bird: Styrofoam Flowers
54. Paping v.10
55. Privilege and Solidarity
56. Razorcake Vol. 33
57. Razorcake Vol. 43
58. Razorcake Vol. 44
59. Razorcake Vol. 45
60. Reciprocity Vol. 2
61. Regeneration Vol. 6
62. Seven Inches to Freedom Vol. 5
63. Sick: a compilation on physical illness
64. The Silk Screen Zine
65. Slug & Lettuce Vol. 78
66. Slug & Lettuce Vol. 89
67. The Strange Voyage of the Leona Joyce
68. Telegram Ma’am Vol. 8
69. Uncle Eno’s Magazine
70. The Wave Project Vol. 5

So many… can’t… catalog… another…

Folio Loves Zines!

Folio Weekly has been super awesome to us zine librarians lately.  They caught us doing outreach at Jacksonville’s Cinema Sounds event, and laid down a pretty sweet blurb about our Zine Machine program for kids. Thanks Folio!

Speaking of Zine Machine, here is the new flyer!  Tell us what you think.

Food Geek v. 5

Food and zines! Can it get any better? Carrie McNinch’s Food Geek is just ridiculously charming and useful. I was initially drawn in by the cover, a dead ringer for vintage Kellog’s Cereals ad art, but we all know that content is king, and Food Geek doesn’t disappoint in that respect. McNinch crams her minicomic-sized publication with an eclectic  array of food writing that would never make the pages of stuffy pubs like Food and Wine, usually more concerned about how to cater a dinner party  in the Hamptons. Their loss, because Food Geek is bursting at the seams with recipes, comics, essays and travel narratives that further the love of food. A noble calling, to be sure. Also key to this zine is the lack of judgment from either editors or contributors. While McNinch cops to being a vegetarian, she stresses that this is about food of all stripes and shapes, and the zine is all the stronger for it. Standout pieces include McNinch’s essay on her eating experiences while travelling in China, a Cheap Eats on the Road cartoon from Shawn Granton, and a recipe for Pakora. Even the letters section offers forth a clutch of recipes and tips. (And is that Shane Williams from Flipside contributing?) There’s a real joy (and a delicious aroma) wafting off every page. Dig in.

Going Postal v.1

For a zine, Going Postal v.1 is surprisingly dense and informative. I know how that sounds, and I’m really not trying to discount content levels in others zines but seriously; GP jumps from Kris Mininger’s personal remembrances of DIY godfather Irving Stettner to a brief history of zines from early table top presses through the Internet age of Big Brother and on to a second piece by Mininger about English anarchist, artist and bus driver Arthur Moyse… and that’s just the first half. GP even dips a toe into the academic realm with an excerpt from Steve Bailey’s and Anita Michel’s published paper on perzines and personal identity. Heck, much of GP’s content includes full citations for the discerning reading. But don’t think the editors of Going Postal are just a bunch of stamp collecting eggheads. They want you to share their love of print zines and mail and they don’t seem too concerned that their entire premise for GP may be judged as anachronistic. So if you’ve got some spare time and you have been ruminating whether or not to actually produce that zine you have been thinking about (come on, we know you have ideas…), check out Going Postal for a good kick in the pants.

Zine Outreach

Saturday’s outreach was a blast! A lot of great people were at the show and we definetly gave out lots of flyers and library card applications.  It was in a very cold warehouse on a very cold night, but we had a lot of fun and got to talk about the zine collection to everyone.

The next place we’ll be doing outreach is a the 5 points theatre for Cinema Sounds.   It’s an event where bands produce lives scores to classic movies.  The event starts Saturday January 16th at 10:30pm.  Be sure to stop by our table, say hello, check out some zines and sign up for a library card! Read more about the Cinema Sounds event here.

New Zines for January 2010

Here is a list of the new zines we have cataloged for January.  Keep sending in any donations you have and we will keep cataloging them for th general public’s reading pleasure.  We have a special event comig up on January 30th so check in for details on that as they develop.  Also we be at Warehouse 8B this Saturday to promote the collection.  Come out to hear The Body, Nuclear 2 and Civilization and pick up a library card application while you’re at it.

Alley-Oop! Summer 2005
Broken Hipster: the Epilogue
Cracks in the Concrete v.9
Cracks in the Concrete v.10
Elephant Mess v.17
Feedback v.3
Going Postal v.1
The Hum v.3 / Alley-Oop v.10
Late Era Clash v.20
Let It Be Know v.3
Next Stop Adventure v.3
Off-Line v.40
Razorcake v.13
Razorcake v.31
Razorcake v.47
Razorcake v.48
Razorcake v.50
Razorcake v.51
Razorcake v.52
Razorcake v.53
Revolutionaries
A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance
The Sixth Minkey’s Guide to Herbs
The Sixth Minkey’s Guide to Random Movies!!
The Sixth Minkey’s Guide to Vampires!!
The Sixth Minkey’s Guide to Zombies
Stick Shift
Strike the Inertia
The Urban Hermit v.22
Valet of the Dolls

MAAB announcement

On Saturday, February 27th, the Zine Collection will have a place in the spotlight at the 15th annual Much Ado About Books.  Hosted by the Jacksonville Public Library Foundation, this two-day fundraising event will include presentations and panels with a variety of popular authors.   

For the zine portion of MAAB, we are planning a discussion panel about the importance of zines and independent publishing followed by a reading by independent authors.  These sessions will be free and open to the public.

In the mean time, be sure to check out the Zine Collection at the Main Library and support this new and vibrant collection.

Check back here for more information and author lists.

Complete Control v.11

No matter how specialized and niche “mainstream” music publications get,  so many amazing songs and fascinating stories are going to be missed. While a small handful of, for the most part, unimpressive bands gather up all the column inches in Rolling Stone or SPIN, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of bands toiling away in the underground, living almost parallel lives to what is considered rock n’ roll behavior. One of these bands is Operation: Cliff Clavin, a political pop-punk band from Bloomington, Indiana, active in the late 90s. Complete Control mastermind Greg Wells was their roadie for a brief American tour in 1997 and kept a diary that is an alternately funny, touching, and informative look at life in the punk rock underground in pre-Internet America.

In the six years that it took him to publish his diary (this issue was released in 2003), one might be forgiven for thinking that the material here would be dated, not so. “Spinal Tap” syndrome afflicts every band, large and small, and it’s no different here. Canceled shows, flaky promoters, the drummer getting a job mid-tour (!) to defray expenses, losing their van doors in a car crash – this stuff is like a rite of passage that will have the reader laughing or shaking their head in sympathy. The rest is a primer on the difficulties (and rewards) of slogging it out on the underground circuit before “pop-punk” was a dirty word and “Myspace” was synonymous with “promotion.” While Wells, as an earnest punk rocker, can’t help but occasionally throw out howlers like “my girlfriend called me, and she’s sleeping with that guy she met at the Mumia benefit” and that every night on the West Coast seemingly ends with an intense political discussion, this zine is an entertaining historical document – by someone who actually lived it. More!