January 2010
18 posts
Café Royal ZINEFAIR!
Craig Atkinson is one busy man. Aside from running the amazing Cafe Royal publishing imprint, he is also organising a huge zine fair in lancashire this weekend. It takes place in the SU of central lancashire uni. The line up looks great, and includes one of our favourite new additions to the collection, Preston is my Paris, as well as zineswap regulars Cheap. Learn more here.
ETERNAL TRUTH
So I just got an invite for this on facebook. This weekend sees the launch of Eternal Truth, featuring artwork by Rory Gleeson, Julian Molina, Benjamin Hodgkiss-Rhodes, Jack Latham, Hype Williams, John Gleeson, Miranda Lossifidis, Georgina Baccus, Bunny Bissoux, Shane Connolly, Future Schlock & Jiro Bevis. It’s happening at the Chapter One gallery. But more exciting than that is the...
Heartbreaker
In it’s own words: “tired of reading whiny break up stories? so are we. heartbreak zine is a zine for anyone who has ever fucked someone over.. and then laughed about it.”
So just the perfect thing for valentines day, huh?
Anyway, they’re looking for submissions, so if you’re a mean-spirited asshole, get in touch, or read more over at the blog. They have a launch...
Reviews
The reviews have started! First up is El Lenguage No Verbal reviewed by Alex here
Next up is Preston is my Paris reviewed by Cui here
There will be more coming in the next few days. Incidentally, the guys from Preston is my Paris have a launch party coming up on Jan 28th, and were recently given the zine of the month slot in Dazed mag. Check out their blog for more…
Updates!
Soooo, things are VERY busy at the moment at zineswap. We will now be filming every zine we get sent. At the moment, you can view most of the videos in ‘A’ and soon all the ‘B’s will be online. Also, all the synopsis’ will be scanned and added (mainly so we don’t have to spend AGES typing them all out.)
Adolf the pond dolphin from zineswap on Vimeo.
The...
This week, Jan 20th
So, it’s been a little quiet this week, but we did get sent this gem. A lovely photo essay romanticising Preston. Great. There’ll be a proper review up soon, but in the mean-time, enjoy:
Preston is my Paris from zineswap on Vimeo.
Almost...
Thanks Alex.
The Squad
Zineswap would like to welcome Ms Cui Su to its editorial board. She’ll join Mr Moshakis in the words world, reviewing zines and conducting interviews in between writing her PhD. You can read some of Cui’s writing here, or find her beavering away in a library near you.
Also helping out with interviews is Sonsoles Alvarez. She’s our spanish contingent and you’ll be able...
One from the archive
Mosquitoes, Elephants, Mountains and Molehills from zineswap on Vimeo.
We received this zine at our launch night back in 2008. It’s by Bart de Baets, an exceptional artist and designer from the Netherlands. This is beautifully printed, and the content—ranging from short stories to photo-narratives—is very engaging. What’s quite nice about this zine is that it manages to avoid...
WatchA quick preview of the zines we got sent this week.
Watch.
THE ARCHIVE
So here is our •new• filing cabinet. We got it in exchange for an old bicycle frame which was covered in rust. It looks like much of that rust has now somehow transferred itself back onto the cabinet. Anyway, top draw = swaps and display copies, bottom draw = alphabetised archive.
Duke Press Launch →
Just picked this up from manystuff. If you’re in London on the 19th, they’re launching. From the website: Duke Press is an independent publishing collective based in London. Founded as a platform for creative publishing, we issue works which are printed in small editions, hand-made and numbered.
Pere Saguer—Collection
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Pere Saguer is a regular over here at zineswap. We have had a number of beautiful zines from him over the last few months. Trying to find out more about this prolific guy, I found his photostream on flickr. Not sure if this is his personal collection, but what a fantastic reference. Have a look.
Flickr: fanzinepaper’s Photostream
Rob
EDITOR
NEW EDITOR
Allow us to introduce you to Zineswap’s new editor, Alex Moshakis. Alex will be helping us with all things ‘wordy’. He’s got words for every occasion, sometimes too many, but that’s another story all together. He’ll be helping us with this blog, and also with an exciting new project that we’ll be announcing very soon. More from him soon, or if you can’t wait, here.
ROB
