Pete’s zine timeline updated. I remembered how I first came into contact with Chris Staros at Top Shelf which opened a door into the world of US mini-comics by the likes of James Kochalka, Kevin Huizenga, John Porcellino, etc and got me stocking Alan Moore. Look around 1996, 1999 and 2001-3 for some exciting new sentences.

Scanned the cover of the early 1998 BugPowder catalog with an illustration by Frazer Irving. Gonna see if I can tidy it up and work it into the ident for this archive.

I’ve been occasionally searching online for people to see what they’re up to and while I don’t want it to distract from The Mission I was amused to discover this copy of Rubber Whammy is also in the the Germaine Greer archive at the University of Melbourne.

I think there’s a research dissertation in figuring out why some zines consistently have dates and some just don’t even consider it. Also there’s a point in the early 2000s when email addresses totally replace physical addresses, making it a bit tricky to geographically place the zine. It really drives home how central the postal network was to everything, and then how suddenly it wasn’t.

Added the following titles:

Another ~100 minis. I think there’s about 250-300 to go of this format.