The last of the minis (zines sized A6 or smaller) have been added - see the list below. I’m now going to finish off the A5 zines and then move onto the comic book sized zines. Looking at the boxes I’m about halfway there.

I’ve been playing around with the layout of the zine listing pages - this is definitely a work in progress to expect tweaks. I’ve added a new “Contributors” field for any additional people involved in the publication. This is most useful for anthologies - check out 5 o’clock Shadow 13 and !GAG! to see it in action. Of course I haven’t actually added the contributors for the vast majority of the zines and that will come in the second pass. This is just a test to see how it might work.

[Techy bit follows] The plan was to try and hook these into the Jekyll CMS so it would build pages for each contributor, but one thing I’ve found is Jekyll’s implementation of categories and tags is simply woeful. Anyway, all the more reason to do it properly with a proper CMS once the data entry is complete and just treat this Jekyll site as a sketch. [Techy bit ends]

Notable items in this upload:

  • Aleksandar Zograf’s Alas Comics 5 comes to mind whenever there’s a sense that my country is splitting in two, so quite often in the last decade. Zograf was sending zines out from the 1990s Yugoslav War and this one, titled “What would it be like if a civil war broke out in your own country?” is a sobering cautionary tale. On a lighter note, hand coloured cover!
  • Karen Rubin’s The Dust isn’t the only teeny tiny zine in the archive but it’s the only one you need a magnifying glass to read, which is thankfully included. It’s a detective fairy story printed at fairy scale, a fantastic conceit.
  • Stewart Home’s Necrocard. I had no idea these were from him until I looked them up tonight. I had about a hundred and sent them out with my zines for a while. Dunno where I got them from. Just the one left now…

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