A year after AK Press released our own Margaret Killjoy’s Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers On Fiction (featuring interviews with such Strangers-published authors as Octavio Buenaventura, Jimmy T. Hand, and The Catastraphone Orchestra), we’re pleased as hell to offer the entire book in zine format. (Which you can also, of course, buy fairly cheaply from AK Press!)
Rather, in sixteen-zine format. We’ve split up each interview, as well as the introduction and the appendices, into their own zines so that each one can actually be printed and stapled. We haven’t laid them out in A4 format yet, unfortunately. If you live elsewhere in the world, it isn’t too hard to simple “shrink to fit” and the zine’s text is only slightly smaller.
So:
Writing to announce that postcivilized.net finally has content. It’s intended as a repository of articles about post-civilization theory, as well as short blogposts regarding various elements of post-civilized culture, etc… worth checking out.
We’ve got two new items in the mail-order!
Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness contributor Margaret Killjoy (author of Space Pirates With Mohawks And Shit as well as other zines) has been photographing their travels for the past year or so, collecting a unique sort of personal zine / photo book combination every season.
We’ve been tabling these photo zines for awhile, and the first one has been available online through a print-on-demand publisher, but we’re happy to have gotten some copies in bulk, so they’re now only $5, since you can buy them through us! Each one is 52 pages, full color, printed with a spine like a proper book and everything. The first issue can be downloaded for free, and the second one will be available for free download this autumn when Margaret returns from their European book tour.
We’ve also stopped carrying the Steamypunk 1-5 collection of zines for the moment until we can get them reprinted. Hopefully this fall you’ll be seeing several new books and zines from us, as well as reprintings of some of our favorites.
The super happy anarcho fun pages continue onwards, this time addressing such pressing issues as medical care, oogles, and anarchist bookfairs.
We’re excited to say that SHAFP issue #15 has now been translated into Russian!. A friend of mine re-translated the translation, and says it’s pretty accurate. My favorite bit is that they translated “brick fight” into “let there be bricks!” On that page, click on the image to get the pdf, or just download it directly (formatted for A4 printing, of course).
The first in a new series of Space Punk adventures by Margaret Killjoy, Space Pirates With Mohawks And Shit #1: Life On Other Planets Is Difficult tells the tale of, well, space pirates. With mohawks and shit. The printable pdfs are paired with another zine, the personal zine Inertia Is A Motherfucker #2, in order to save paper. So you print out the zine (double-sided with “short-edge binding”), then fold it in half, then cut it so that the top part is square. At the bottom, you’ll have your space pirates. Or just read it online.
A year after we released Inertia Is A Motherfucker #1, we’re pleased to bring out the second issue of this sorta-anonymous personal zine, subtitled I’m Not Cool. This issue gets into the author’s childhood trauma of schoolyard abuse and ties it into social issues relating to the anarchist scene. And it also rambles about Dungeons & Dragons and touches on some other crap too. Since this zine is square, the printable pdfs are paired with Space Pirates With Mohawks And Shit #1, a short story by Margaret Killjoy. So you print out the zine as normal, then cut it into two parts, one of which is square.
A short, short fable by Jimmy T. Hand. The print version is paired with Inertia Is A Motherfucker so as to save paper.
Oh no! A personal zine! Everyone either loves or hates personal zines. We like this one, in part perhaps because we published it. It’s actually about a year old: we just got permission from the author of it to host it online. Before, it only existed in print for tabling. But we’re happy to make Inertia Is A Motherfucker available, a treatise on what it means to be (and stay) a traveler, about how, well, inertia is a motherfucker. Ooh and chaos. And romance. All that usual stuff. No trains though. The print versions of this zine are actually paired with another zine, As The Day Is Long: basically, Inertia is a square zine, so we crammed a short story by Jimmy T. Hand into the leftover space.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
In time for Steal Something From Work Day (April 15th), we’re pleased to host the zine How To Justify Workplace Theft. Most everyone steals from their work, but many folks don’t really know why they do it. Anyhow, it prints 2-up, so print it doublesided (short-edge binding), fold, staple, and cut.