The Indie Cred Test
In the ’90s Georgia’s Chunklet magazine consistently killed with smart pisstakes on hipster culture and an alternative comedy focus (publisher... read more...
Audio Books Online (for free)
Have you ever had one of those teachers that listens to audio books at home alone, who you thought might secretly be a serial killer (natural progression... read more...
Martin Bell, 'From The Fourth Dimension'
Billed as a ‘novel’, this is technically an art book, every page filled with full-colour, no-holds-barred… stuff that Marty creates. His... read more...
Dave Carnie, 'Boob'
Reading through Boob, Carnie’s collected writings for long-defunct, now-legendary skate magazine Big Brother, I’m continually impressed by... read more...
Hila Shachar and Amy Borrell, 'The Elements of In-Between'
Darlings of the blogging world, writer Hila Shachar and illustrator Amy Borrell, have joined forces via the interwebs to create something completely real:... read more...
'DIRTY Queer Magazine', issue #2
I’m frustrated by DIRTY not for its writing (which is good), but its content. It pigeonholes a community into being based purely around vanity... read more...
'Condiment: Adventures in Food and Form'
The second edition of Condiment is concerned with the notion of questionable taste, encompassing not only food but also food. Through a series of studies... read more...
Club Donny #6
Is it because of the internet? Seems like printed publications are responding to the new varied formats for and access to content with increasingly inventive... read more...
James Doohan, 'Mystery Meats'
Some are brief, playful glimpses into some sort of acid-trip-gone-wrong storyline while others are ingenious exercises in typographic design. All of... read more...
Andrew Earles, 'Hüsker Dü: Story of the Noise Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock'
Hüsker Dü had it all: anger, volume, velocity, melody and (towards the end) combustion and a hatred of each others guts. Along the way they managed... read more...
doingbird #15
Browsing through a new issue of doingbird is kind of like going around to a really cool friend’s place for dinner. For an entire week leading up... read more...
Modern Architecture A-Z
These two massive tomes divide up modernism into A-L and M-Z (and come ensconced in slipcase), with airtight explanations and eye candy galore, from... read more...
Robert Drewe & John Kinsella, 'Sand'
John Kinsella‘s poems and Robert Drewe’s short fiction in Sand seam these small grains of rock into nostalgic prose. You might even catch yourself... read more...
Learn How To Have Fun
Charmingly simple and utterly affordable, what really shoots this humble zine into the stratosphere of awesomeness is the stupid clever writing and the... read more...
Cherish Marrington, 'The Funnyroom'
Another ‘Cherish’ whose visuals are sublime: Perth illustrator Cherish Marrington. This Cherish has daemons instead of aquatic sea-folk. You... read more...
Andrew Kuo, 'What Me Worry'
His first book is a collection of paintings, diary entries and graphs about life, music and worrying. Check out his colour chart review Hurricane Chris’s... read more...
Patton Oswalt, 'Zombie Spaceship Wasteland'
Choice cuts from the Oswalt ouvre: ‘Just make me a fucking failure pile in a sadness bowl’. ‘That’s not our policy here at Fashion... read more...
Connor O'Brien, 'Quiet City'
Everyone likes to philosophise about the ‘battle’ between print and online media. South Aus local Connor O’Brien is having a bet each... read more...
Fashion Projects
Holy crap, I just realised something – fashion magazines aren’t about fashion at all. They’re about models, the fashion tit, being weird... read more...
Romka Magazine
Featuring 36 photographers from across the world, Romka sits a professional photographer’s favourite shot right next to someone else’s happy... read more...
Lele Saveri, 'Trillogia Della Morte'
As cataloguers of weird obsessions and unique fascinations, zines excel at making the personal poetic. Trilogy Of Death is the result of a lifelong interest... read more...
'Emerald Cabal', Issue Two
Emerald Cabal offers a skewed yet shrewd take on outsider music, namely lo-fi, scuzzy punk, abraisive noise and otherwise demented sounds. You’ll... read more...
Charles Burns, 'X'ed Out'
Alternative comics seem to fall into one of three categories: weepy, creepy, or comedic. Anyone who submerged themselves in the stark, harrowing black... read more...
Peter Troy, 'To The Four Corners of The World'
This book is awesome. It is a collection of the lost journals of Peter Troy – a surfing legend from Torquay who was sitting out the back at Bells... read more...