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Blood & Thunder #2

Aniqa Mannan · May 23, 2013

Entering the den of Blood & Thunder is akin to discovering the lair of mad scientists. In a backalley Darlinghurst space that used to house Elke Kramer a...

Sam Wallman, 'Pen Erases Paper'

Ross Paxman · May 15, 2013

Pen Erases Paper is the name of Sam Wallman's new book of drawings and comics - and, true to its title, there's little substrate spared in the execut...

The Suburban Review, Vol. Zero

Oscar Schwartz · May 7, 2013

I heard, somewhere along the metaphoric grapevine, about a new biannual journal of fiction, non fiction, art and poetry called The Suburban Review. And I tho...

Thomas Blatchford · May 2, 2013

Crank is a local magazine that brilliantly embraces a ludicrous yet fundamental truth regarding human emotional behaviour. The contributors to Crank have all...

'The Lifted Brow', the music issue

Wilfred Brandt · May 2, 2013

Are supermodels scared when they date one another? As any writer reviewing a publication with great writing will tell you - it is scary! My analogies will lo...

Clint Curé, 'Confessions of a Rookie Film Maker'

Thomas Blatchford · April 24, 2013

Douglas Adams once said that getting a big Hollywood movie made is like “trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and br...

Sarah Booth · April 24, 2013

Ah Barcelona. Paradise for tourists, lovers of art and culture, junkies and skateboarders (thank YOU 1992 Olympics). Not the place, though, you'd find yo...

Leo Fitzpatrick, 'Just Born Dead'

Wilfred Brandt · April 18, 2013

Real books and backpacks are still the best, and perhaps most skateboarder-ly, way to bum around town and read. That's how I spent a month with Leo Fitzp...

Arthur Magazine

Tim Scott · April 11, 2013

In look and feel, Arthur Magazine harkens back to another time. When people still used the term 'counter culture'. During its initial run, from 2002 ...

Four&Sons Journal, edition #1

Meredith Forrester · April 9, 2013

Dogs. They're the best. Like when you're walking along the street and you come across a scruffy guy tied to a pole - pats and fun! Or what about when...

An interview with Zain Curtis of 'Teen Witch'

Wilfred Brandt · April 3, 2013

With the first issue of Teen Witch magazine, Chicago artist/writer/DJ Zain Curtis encapsulated an emerging aesthetic combining early internet and virtual rea...

An interview with Penny Martin

Marissa Shirbin · March 28, 2013

Penny Martin is the editor of biannual magazine The Gentlewoman. Since its birth three and a half years ago it's definitely become a mentor for me (and m...

Heavytime Books

Tim Scott · March 21, 2013

What started as a mutual respect for art, printed matter and Prince Paul and RZA's ghoulish hip hop outfit Gravediggaz has resulted in Heavytime Books - ...

Mike O'Meally Photographs: Australian Skateboarding ...

Wilfred Brandt · March 13, 2013

Usually, time capsules suck. You get some top ten pop songs, the hair style du jour, and a TV show catch phrase. You never get those deep memory triggers, th...

Kate Jinx · March 5, 2013

A few months ago I found myself having a seriously gay ol’ time on the streets of New York. With the intention of going to a queer magazine launch as the cli...

Smith Journal loves you

Us · February 28, 2013

That magazine you like so much, Smith Journal? They want you to help them help you. They've got a little survey, won't take you more than ten minutes...

'Apology' issue #1

Alex Vitlin · February 26, 2013

First impressions - Apology passes two small but crucial tests with merit: “Is it nice to hold?” and “Does it look nice?”. It is thor...

Johan Kugelberg, 'Brad Pitt's Dog'

Wilfred Brandt · February 20, 2013

I hate writers. You know the type: in their online dating profile under profession they list “writer”, and under 'looking for' they put, ...

Paper Sea Quarterly issue #3, summer 2013

Shena Jamieson and Rachel Elliot-Jones · February 16, 2013

The third installment of Paper Sea Quarterly is on sale now! This issue is all about friendship… and babes. And friends who are babes. There’s Nusha G...

'KANYEZINE' submissions open

Hayley Morgan · February 16, 2013

You will never believe this but ZINE-ZINE make zines. They made CATZINE (inspired by online felines), SPACEZINE (a black hole of sci-fi and starry existentia...

Victoria Drug Scene: Australian Comics Anthology iss...

Tim Scott · February 14, 2013

Apt title this one. So it's called Victoria Drug Scene but much of the comic art in this anthology comes from that universal art school. The one known as...

Becksley Felix, 'Ganache Is Not Spelt Ganash'

Thomas Blatchford · February 7, 2013

When the angry bakery zine Macarons Are Not Macaroons was written three years ago, it was to protest the fact that even droopy-faced cookery judges off the t...

Ian F. Svenonius, 'Supernatural Strategies for Makin...

Wilfred Brandt · February 5, 2013

Magic is a corny word, but when you consider the weird things rock music makes people do (fans, bands, groupies) there's something about it that's cl...

World's Only Magazine

Wilfred Brandt · January 31, 2013

Classical music - EEK! I know, you are scared. I am scared too. But fear not, World's Only is the kind of publication that comes from classical training ...

'Head Full of Snakes' issue #2

Wilfred Brandt · January 24, 2013

It's hard to tell what Head Full of Snakes is more obsessive about: motorcycles or printed matter. Editors Luke Wood and Stuart Geddes complain/consort a...

Wilfred Brandt · January 22, 2013

Halfway through the latest issue of this pint-sized publication, I realised Collect isn't just about collecting 'stuff'. How dull - and unrealist...

Filmme Fatales issue #1

Kiloran Hiscock · January 16, 2013

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a femme fatale is ‘a seductive woman who lures men into dangerous or compromising situations’. Brodie Lancaster ...

Us · December 20, 2012

That's Gene Tierney looking down at you on your beach towel. “I'm sorry Geney, but I'm balls deep into Jon Ronson right now.” For our...