We just added 7 new zines to our zine rack, and we’re looking to move from “adding in bulk each month” to adding 1 or 2 at a time throughout the month. Why? Simple. There are too many great zines to get in front of the people. More zines means more culture, more self-published, working-class content. We gotta talk about the importance of zines — of printable analog media in the digital age. Of the impact that is bumming a smoke from someone at a house show — you know the type of show where there’s 30-40 people who don’t know each other, but do sure as fuck know the local scene. You give a motherfucker a piece of paper in exchange for the cig, put that in their hands — even if it gets crumpled up and shoved in a back pocket, I promise you that paper and that interaction will be remembered far more intensely than a social media like or algorithmic boost. You wanna build a real culture? You gotta talk to real people. Zines are the anti-thesis of the commercialized, advertiser-friendly hokum they’ve sold us as “counter culture.” Zines are HOUDINI.

YAYA

By: Abbax

Yaya is a very short bizarro cyberpunk horror story. It's about a lot of things but mostly it's a bit of pointless fun. 8 Panel Zine.

The First Chance of Our Lifetimes: General Strike, Labor Peace, and the Path to Victory!

By: Marcie

Adapted from the Sunrise Movement's 2028 general strike training, this zine goes over the history of general strikes, why they stopped, and how we can get them going again.

BLACKING OUT THE CONCRETE

By: Nicholas Davies

This first issue of Blacking Out On Concrete is an intimate exploration of language, honesty, hope and purpose through Blackout Poetry, Concrete Poetry and "Off The Page" erasure.

Blood Should Stay in the Body

By: Maxwell Houdini

RIP Brady. Everyone should know how to stop the bleed. This short 8 panel zine should help educate on the topic.

The Chilean Coup D’etat

By: James Petras and Betty Petras

A zine from the 1970s, this source goes indepth into the US backed coup of socialist Chile and its implications for the western left.

"It's all about Privilege" - Undermining Abercrombie & Fitch

By: Judy Moore

In 2012 I had a brief obsession with Abercrombie and Fitch. They released a video with shirtless models miming to Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen. I was working in a video shop in Notting Hill, West London, serving a lot of preppy people dressed in A&F's luxury sportswear. As Abercrombie's Twitter account said at the time, "It's all about privilege."

Print these. Share them. Shove them in glove compartments, library stacks, and between beer cans at house shows. This is the culture they can’t buy or sell. This is HOUDINI.