Remembering Alan Justiss

We’re sad to report that friend of the Zine Collection and Jacksonville writer par excellence Alan Justiss passed away over the weekend. Though he created a vast body of work, mixed it up with the likes of Alan Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski, and had a huge influence on at least two generations of young Jacksonville writers and creatives–and much will no doubt be written about that–we remember him fondly for his work above and beyond the call of duty in promoting the first Much Ado About Zines event last spring. Though obviously in ill health, Alan, acting as the grand old man of Jacksonville zines, undertook a hectic two-day schedule promoting and participating in the event. He appeared on WJCT’s First Coast Connect radio show (listen to that episode here) talking about the history of zines and chapbooks, gamely attended the gala fundraiser for the event, adding some much needed grit to the champagne bubbles, got up bright and early to do a reading on the day, signed books and chatted with fans, and finally attended a lunch with all of the other zine writers. His performance, shunning a microphone and relying on the gravitas of his voice for amplification, was just electrifying and incantatory. He easily held his own against savvy wordsmiths like Patrick Hughes and Duncan Barlow. It was a great thrill to be able to gather such a diverse and talented group of zine writers; but at the end of the day, it was Alan Justiss who sat at the head of the table. He will be missed.

Donations!

Call me biased, but librarians are awesome – whether it’s a public library or university.   I ran into my friend Mr. Ross Martin at a show in Deleon Springs last week.  He works as a librarian at Seminole State College.   Apparently he was jumping the gun on some spring cleaning, and low and behold he had a giant plastic tub of zines to donation to our collection.   It was amazing.

His donation has a lot of older punk zines in it that will really help fill out our collection.  A lot of them are specific to Florida as well.  Thanks so much again Ross!

Listen To This Zine!

It’s happened to all of us, you finish reading a zine, and wonder what exactly the band that gave that great interview sounds like? Sure, you could trawl around iTunes, but where’s the fun in that? The Zine Collection has teamed up with the Popular Media department at the Main Library to offer you a selection of albums from bands featured in the pages of some of our finest, cutting-edge music zines. They’re displayed with the new zines on the first floor of the Main Library, and we think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by some of the selections. As always, maximum volume yields maximum results.

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 288
Clockcleaner – “Babylon Rules”

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 278
The Fall – “Hex Induction Hour”

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 278
Thee Headcoats – “Knights of the Baskervilles”

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 308
The Cramps – “Live at Napa State Mental Hospital” (DVD)

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 283
Jay Reatard – “Singles 06-07″

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 191 AND Razorcake Vol. 4
Minor Threat – “Complete Discography”

Razorcake Vol. 48
Otis Redding – “The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul”

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 179
Boysetsfire – “After the Eulogy”

Maximum Rock N’ Roll Vol. 289
Southern Death Cult – “Southern Death Cult”

Tail Spins. Vol. 33
Melt Banana – “Cactuses Come in Flocks”

Tail Spins. Vol. 19
Sebadoah – “III”

Many more to come…

James Kochalka Loves Zines

Indie comix legend James Kochalka loves our zines! In fact, here he is, captured by an intrepid photographer this summer while enjoying an issue of King Cat from the JPL Zine Collection’s archives! Kochalka, the creator of critically-lauded comics like Monkey Vs. Robot, Johnny Boo, American Elf, and Pinky & Stinky, actually got his start in minicomics and zines, finding both a forum for his work, and a community of peers that could offer up criticism and advice.  From there, he has branched out into music, graphic novels, children’s books, and even a feature film project. Thanks for reading, James!

New Zines For July/August

Stop the Presses!  Here are some freshly minted zines available for your reading pleasure. More to follow in the next couple of weeks:

Abort! Vol. 22 : more tales from the land where every day is prom night
Abort! Vol. 23 : Summer 2010
Beer Frame. Vol. 6 : the journal of inconspicuous consumption
The Cheese Stands Alone. Vol. 1
Dig It! Vol. 18
Dropping Out (for students). Vol. 1
Figure 8. Vol. 2
Flipside. Vol. 120
Grindhouse Journal. Vol. 10
Hawaii (1778-1959) : from western discovery to statehood
Hermenaut. Vol. 14
iii zine. Vol. 2
Jock Itch. Vol. 3
Murder Can Be Fun : 1993 datebook
Murder Can Be Fun. Vol. 6 : along came (Typhoid) Mary
Murder Can Be Fun. Vol. 12 : the art of murder
Murder Can Be Fun. Vol. 13 : death at Disneyland
Not Sorry. Vol. 2
One Way Ticket. Vol. 2
Pajomo. Vol. 1
Pajomo. Vol. 2
Passive Lobotomy Press. Vol. 5
Popnausea. Vol. 3
Punk Planet. Vol. 32
Shrike. Vol. 2
Spying Upon Lunatics : an Investigations compilation
Tail Spins Magazine. Vol. 4.19
Ten Foot Rule : proliferation
Twentybus. Vol. 10

New Zines for June

We will be at the Riverside Arts Market on Saturday, June 12, from 10 am to 3 pm.  Stop by and say hi, sign up for a library card, check out some music CDs and a bunc of the newest zines:

AC Dickson’s guide to Ebay powerselling
All the days are numbered so*
Attic vs basement : fiction vs nonfiction
Been meaning to keep a journal
Beer powered bicycle. Vol. 5
Burn Collector. Vol. 11
Chicago stories
Couch tag. Vol. 1
Datacide. Vol. 1
Dear motorist… : the social ideology of the motorcar
(em) zine. Vol. 15
Erosion. Vol. 5
Fine Print. Vol. 2.4
Forced Exposure. Vol. 18
Gegory Zobel’s Mental Health Advisory. Vol. 2
Greenwoman. Vol. 6
I $ you
Impact press. Vol. 57
Ker-bloom! Vol. 51
Kissoff. Vol. 10
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 174
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 179
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 190
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 192
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 196
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 238
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 239
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 240
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 241
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 243
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 244
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 251
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 255
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 264
Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 286
Movement magazine. Vol. 10.1
Mr. stubbles. Vol. 13
ND. Vol. 18
Portland bicycle culture primer. Vol. 2
Potluck: A Cooking Compilation
Psionic plastic joy. Vol. 13
Root v.1
Root v.3
Second best zine ever!
Slingshot. Vol. 101
The juniper. Vol. 12 : small living
The spaz. Vol. 4
There are worms in my oatmeal!!
Touched by an anvil. Vol. 16
Truckstop magazine. Vol. 19
Try, Try Again
Xtra tuf. Vol. 5.5

We’re Expanding!

Largely due to last month’s auspicious release of 100 new zines into our collection, we’ve grown too big for our trusty display shelf by the Popular Reference Desk.  So we’ve moved! But only a few feet! Here’s the deal, from now on the familiar “Zine Island” will be devoted to all of the new zines that we’ve added to the collection over the last couple of months.

Meanwhile, all of your old favorites will be right over your shoulder. The zines won a gunfight with Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey and claimed some of the erstwhile Western shelving as their own. More new titles to come!

New Zines for May

Okay, we’ve been saying it for weeks now but finally, here is a list of the new zines for May.  Read em and weep….

• 12 items or less : a grocery shopping zine
• 9 and a half left. Vol. 9
• Absolutely Zippo ! Anthology
• Adjective Stories
• Are You Really Reading the Sun?
• Beer powered bicycle. Vol. 7
• Blurt! Vol. 4 / Gullible Vol. 27 split
• Brains. Vol. 1
• Burn collector. Vol. 12
• Chickenhed zine and roll. Vol. 5
• Cometbus Vol. 39
• Cometbus Vol. 45
• Cometbus Vol. 46
• Cometbus Vol. 47
• Cometbus Vol. 48
• Cometbus Vol. 49
• Con queso. Vol. 3
• DIY: A how to guide for publishing a high school zine
• Engineering and mass marketing of an individual identity
• Environmental imp pack. Vol. 1
• Environmental imp pack. Vol. 2
• E.C.F.U. Vol. 7
• Exile Osaka Vol. 2
• Factsheet 5. Vol. 64
• Feel happiness. Vol. 1
• Feel happiness. Vol. 2
• Fifth Estate Vol. 379
• Forty Four Presidents
• Ghetto Garden : d.i.y. country trash livin’
• Greenwoman Vol. 4
• Greenwoman Vol. 5
• Haggard and Halloo. Vol. 26
• Herbal first aid
• Human waste. Vol. 1
• Human waste. Vol. 2
• Human waste. Vol. 3
• Human waste. Vol. 5
• Irrartional Fears
• Junket. Vol. 1 : taxi stories part one
• King-Cat Vol. 70
• Laundry basket : a tales of washday woe
• Living proof. Vol. 2
• Loserdom. Vol. 17
• Mathew Courtney’s Wide Open Caberet : ABC no rio, 1985 – 1990
• Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 195
• Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 197
• Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 206
• Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 271
• Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 281
• Maximum rock n roll. Vol. 282
• Mixed Reviews
• Movement magazine. Vol. 9.3
• Movement magazine. Vol. 10.2
• Movement magazine. Vol. 11.6
• Movement magazine. Vol. 12.4
• Movement magazine. Vol. 17.1
• Moving Forward: Program for a Participatory Economy
• Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness
• Not Necessarily the News Vol. 2
• Not Necessarily the News Vol. 2.5
• Outpunk Vol. 7
• Painted Gash Mythos
• Punk Zine
• Quest Among the Bewildered
• Razorcake. Vol. 55
• Reggae Chicken
• Rise and fall of the harbor area. Vol. 14
• Rocks and blows. Vol. 1
• Rocks and blows. Vol. 2
• Rocks and blows. Vol. 3
• Running 21. Vol. 1
• salt and slush : winter recipes nova scotia
• Scenery. Vol. 13
• Separatorium
• Seven Inches To Freedom Vol. 1
• Seven Inches To Freedom Vol. 2
• Seven Inches To Freedom Vol. 3
• Seven Inches To Freedom Vol. 4
• Shotgun seamstress. Vol. 1
• Shotgun seamstress. Vol. 2
• Shotgun seamstress. Vol. 3
• Shotgun seamstress. Vol. 4
• Solid gould. Vol. 1
• Songs Unsung Vol. 4
• Sounds of your name
• Spin-spin : a beginners guide to spinning yarn
• Spokes of Hazard. Vol. 2
• Truckstop magazine. Vol. 2
• Truckstop magazine. Vol. 6
• Truckstop magazine. Vol. 7
• Truckstop magazine. Vol. 8
• True grit. Vol. 2
• Worn Fashion Journal Vol. 5
• Xeens and things Vol. 21
• You. Anthology
• Your Day Will Come Vol.  4 / Mix-Tapers Do It Better spit
• Zendik Vol. 63
• Zine Machine Vol. 1

FLA 2010 Presentation

We had the pleasure of presenting at the Florida Library Association’s Annual Conference this last weekend and we were smashing if I do say so myself.  We presented about how to start a zine collection and about all the programs and outreach we have done.  Hopefully some other libraries in Florida will start zine collections.   Here is a link to our presentation.

Stay tuned for more info as it develops.

New Zines for April 2010

Okay, we realize that this is a somewhat paltry zine release for this month. We apologize. We’ve been busy spreading the good word about zines at the Riverside Arts Market, hosting Tough Junkie at the Library, and giving a presentation at this year’s Florida Library Association Conference. But now all that’s finished, and we’re back to concentrating on the important stuff – getting zines in your hands. Enjoy these for now (there are some real treasures), and next month we’ll drown you in new zines. Promise!

Away With All Cars
Big Hands Vol. 5 – The Chumbawumba Issue (with cassette!)
Cambia Social. Vol. 1
Drinking Sweat In The Ash Age
Get Lost – A Travel Zine
The HPV Zine
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 236
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 266
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 270
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 276
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 277
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 283
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 287
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 288
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 290
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 300
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 301
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 302
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 313
Maximum Rock N Roll. Vol. 316
Megabeef. Vol. 3
Razorcake. Vol. 54
Scenery. Vol. 14 – Fire As A Metaphor
Smiling Disease: A Guide to Public Snickering
This Is Our Cousin Zine
Where You From?