Thread by @CheeseNolan

During the week I hosted a workshop about zine making and brought with me a bunch of great examples for students. They were selected mostly down to the simplicity of the concepts behind them and the creativity of their output. I present, MY ZINE THREAD

1. Yum Yum Zine 1. Different artists illustrate each piece of the chess board. A small A6 book with a tonne of great talent.

2. Videoland by Andy Sturdevant, published by Birchwood Palace Industries. A simple but amazing collection of video rental store logos in the US.

3. Barr’s Bad Birthday by Riso Hell Press. Polaroids from a Simpsons episode reproduced in 3-channel risograph separations.

4. More Simpsons. This time published by Yellow Pages. Another simple but thorough archive, this time of books seen in Simpsons episodes.

5. Unpredictapple, curated by @AppleCoreThing , a zine of written and visual art all based on the theme of apples. Cover by yours truly.

6. Pleh Gurl, again by Yum Yum. Another group zine where different female artists illustrate scantily clad male action stars.

7. Apartamento Cookbook #3: Rice. Different contributors offer recipes which are then illustrated by Stefan Marx, in a really simple but effective format.

8. Banana by Andy Busc. A simple concertina, double sided, about bananas 💪🏻

9. Living Things 10: House Plants by Joohee Yoon, published by Little Otsu. Not risograph, but two colour litho with a simple beginning to end narrative about house plants growing out of control.

10. Pickup Notice, by Alfonso de Anda, produced at a residency at Riso Lab NY. A simple entertaining story about chasing up a missed delivery at the post office.

11. Döner Daze, by @davidjmc_ , printed by Assembly Press. A love letter to kebabs, and a subject close to my own heart. (We did in fact do a Döner Daze - Dog Days zine swap)

12. Boombox Retrospective exhibition catalogue, by Tom Sachs. Sachs makes limited edition catalogues which are then reproduced in b&w photocopies called “Dollar Cuts” making them super affordable. Owning anything by Tom Sachs makes me happy tbh.

13. Yum Yum AGAIN, this time a group zine about Kanye

14. Finally, last but absolutely not least, Clubhouse 10 by Colorama. Colorama invite artists to work with them at their studio in Berlin and collaborate on short comics. In this 10th edition, on a much bigger scale, with artists spending a week all working together.

There’s more where that came from but these stood out to me as simple concepts that have been followed through and produced really well, whether they’re simple photocopies or 7-colour hundred-page, hand bound risograph nightmares. Check out all these artists, support independents