Orange Zines

Issue 08 of Substrate is here. Rejoice! Access the digital version here:

Here is my lyric/personal zine, out in the world.

If you’d like to print it out, follow this method and you will have a pocket-sized book made from one sheet of paper.

http://miikogibson.com/origami/Making%20a%20Mini%20book.pdf

I don't derive joy from the world anymore, but a black hole of hyperlocal advocacy can also be a hyperfixation I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was totally late to Matter. Part of it is that I was a punk rock knucklehead during the years of 1984-1986 so it wasn't until a year or so later that I became interested in some of these bands. 

This was the first issue I saw of it. A friend of mine, Neko, had come out to NJ to visit during the summer of 1985 and brought this issue with her for me and my music loving pals to check out (akso Neko had a huge crush on Thurston Moore and talked about him incessantly!).

Matter had started in Chicago by Elizabeth Phillip and then at some point in there she moved to Hoboken and that is where the mag remained until it wound down. 

Aside from being a great looking mag (glossy which a lot of zines were not back then) she also had a great staff of writers contributing every issue. Just in this issue alone she has Steve Albini, Byron Coley, Gerard Cosloy, Ira Kaplan (who was chief copy editor), Jim Derogatis, Jimmy Johnson, Jim Testa, Howard Wuelfing and many others That's a lineup of heavies if ever I saw one!

Anywho, as you can see on the cover it's got Sonic Yoof, Redd, Kross, Great Plains, Killdozer, Game Theory, the Hoboken scene and plenty more, 

I've got about 6 or 7 issues of Matter floating around here and I always enjoy randomly picking them up and paging through them. Another great one!

I made a zine and you can download it... if u want.

The team at the @austinpubliclibrary Book Shop emailed me with the greatest news yesterday--my zine has almost sold out, and they've asked me to restock! So if you don't grab the last one for now, hang tight; I'll swing by on Friday to drop off more copies.

Finished reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (at the recommendation of Grace Crannis) and On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder (after finding out about him through Luiza Vasiliu and Cristi Lupșa a long time ago). Still working my way through Waste Wars by Alex Clapp (by way of Vlad Niculescu). Been trying to catch up, however this month has meant more delayed payments from collaborators, therefore cuts had to be made. The end of my issuu.com account is marked through this Internet Archive gathering.

✺⛲︎✿AAA! and Cosmics' second issue is underway. There has also been a technical mixup with our [email protected] account, so hopefully the call for creatures will come with tales of recovery. The Call for comix visuals are drawn by Nae/Timi Niki/Timotei Drob and colors by Lucian Barbu.

⛅︎Grateful for continuing to work alongside De Bază and BAAB. We will soon draw up an overlap of maps, might post process pics on insta.

Closing with a few shots of random recent occurrences, including carved typography by my mother's dad, on a tool for spinning wool.

"Butches In Bed" by Liuxing Johnston

The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced [ˈvaɪsə ˈʁoːzə]ⓘ) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one LMU Munich professor: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, and Hans and Sophie Scholl. The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign that called for active opposition to the Nazi regime, beginning in Munich on 27 June 1942. Their activities ended with the arrest of the core group by the Gestapo on 18 February 1943.[1]