Sssnakes #4 mini-comic

Sssnakes #4

This issue of Sssnakes sees our heroes Sly and Steven demonstrating snake locomotion ("Do the Locomotion with Me"), talkin' 'bout love ("We Be Long Together") almost getting into a fight ("Fight Club'), visiting Merry Old England ("Pub Grub") and channeling the Bard ("Channeling Shakespeare").

5.5 x 3 in, printed with ink jet printer with a magenta color cardstock cover, stapled

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Snakes #2 mini-comic

Sssnakes #2

Your pals, Sly and Steven, are back in the second issue of this bright orange, but still slithery, minicomic. This time these nerdy reptiles star in such adventures as "Just Say No," "The Evolutions of Sly and Steven," "Cactus Juice," "Snakes on a Plane", and "Tired, Tired, Tired." 

5.5 x 3 in, printed with ink jet printer with an orange color cardstock cover, stapled

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Sssnakes #3 mini-comic

Sssnakes #3

Sly and Steven return for the big mini #3 where they appear in such comic strips as "Out of Gas," "A Prickly Pair," "Steven Meets a Bully," and "Sly & The Reptiles."

5.5 x 3 in, printed with ink jet printer with a green color cardstock cover, stapled

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Sssnakes #1 mini-comic

Sssnakes #1 

In the debut issue of this hand-made minicomic, Sly and Steven star in "It's All Greeks to Me," "The Nature of the Beast," "Higher Aspirations," "Fashizzle," and "Waiting for Godot (with apologies to Samuel Beckett.)" 

5.5 x 3 in, printed with ink jet printer with yellow color cardstock cover, stapled

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Reglar Wiglar #28

Reglar Wiglar #28

Issue number 28 of Chris Auman's long-running zine is now available. This full-color zine printed in the standard comic-book format looks great and features part two of "A Portrait of the Artist as a (Very) Young Man," where Auman critiques his childhood artwork from the viewpoint of a "famous art critic". Sucky the parasitic worm also returns to offer more sage advice, this time to those looking to live on the cheap. Fans of heavy metal heroes Metallica will enjoy former POTUS Donald Trump's favorite songs, albums, and band members. Plus a new Cassetty comic! 

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Reglar Wiglar #27 zine

Reglar Wiglar #27

Chris Auman's long-running zine, Reglar Wiglar, makes its full-color comic-book debut for issue #27. Started in 1993 as a spoof of alternative music magazines, Reglar Wiglar evolved from those inauspicious beginnings into a print zine covering music and comics, a digital magazine, then back to print again. Features in this hilarious issue include  "A Portrait of the Artist as a (Very) Young Man," where Auman critiques his childhood artwork from the viewpoint of a "famous art critic" and "Working with a Hangover" where he offers advice under the guise of a parasitic worm named Sucky. Fans of 80s hardcore will love "Donald Trump on Black Flag," where the Donald dishes on his favorite Black Flag albums, songs, singers, and more. Plus a new Cassetty comic! 

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Reglar Wiglar #26

Reglar Wiglar #26 Zine

The "Best of the Blog" issue celebrates 15 years of relative stupidity. All kinds of funny lists and parodies here including an "interview" with Lady GooGoo, record reviews, and fun with band names.

Specs.

5.5 x 8.5 in. Full-color glossy cover, b&w throughout, stapled, 80 lb paper, 110 lb

Reviews

Reglar Wiglar has me wistful for an era of the internet I hardly even lived through. ...it is goofy, fun, and doesn't fill me with extistential dread like literally everything else on the internet. If you like band name jokes, this is the zine for you: it's chock full of them—Jimmy Cooper, Razorcake #120

 

This issue celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Reglar Wiglar blog and features parody interviews, funny lists, ridiculous record reviews, and the assorted absurdity readers have come to expect. Good for some gigglin'!—Quimby's Bookstore Chicago

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Snakes in the Grass Gift Box

A Snake in the Grass

A Snake in the Grass is a unique gift for any occasion. Kids and adults love getting cool stuff in the mail, and if you love snakes, even better! It’s not just the snakes who are ready to slither into a box and be delivered to your door, boxes also include an assortment of knickknacks, buttons, and stickers. Each box also comes with the latest issue of the Slither Sentinel newsletter. Every box is decorated by hand so each one is different.

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* not real snakes

Turtle Tote Gift Box

Turtle Tote

A Turtle Tote is a unique gift for any occasion. Kids and adults love getting cool stuff in the mail, and if you love turtles, even better! It’s not just the turtles* who are ready to slowly crawl into a box and be delivered to your door, boxes also include an assortment of knickknacks, buttons, and stickers. Each box also comes with the latest issue of the Turtle Times newsletter. Every box is decorated by hand so each one is different.

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* not real turtles

Frog in a Box Gift Box

Frog in a Box 

Frog-in-a-Box is a unique gift for any occasion. Kids and adults love getting cool stuff in the mail, and if you love frogs, even better! It’s not just the frogs* who are ready to hop in a box and be delivered to your door, boxes also include an assortment of knickknacks, buttons, and stickers—maybe even something for your new froggy friends to snack on. Each box also comes with the latest issue of Frog Pond Magazine. Every box is decorated by hand so everyone is different.

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 *not real frogs

The Air Waves Goodbye

The Air Waves Goodbye by Steve Stelling

The Air Waves Goodbye is navel-gazing for those with especially deep, inverted belly buttons. It started as an urge to create something for Rock and Roll’s supporting staff. Roadies and recording engineers need poetry too. Looking for magic in the mundane secondary or even tertiary aspects of getting a band together became a way to reflect on the solitude of studio life versus the weirdness of being creative in public, regardless of medium.

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Gray Flag #3 litzine

Gray Flag #3 by Chris Auman

From 1990 to 1993 I kept a journal. Or I should say, I tried to keep a journal. I didn't make confessional diary entries or record life's mundane moments, and I didn't write in it every day, every week, or even every month sometimes. 

Much of what is in the two notebooks is just recollections, sketches, thoughts, et cetera. Some entries end abruptly while others are impossible to decipher. The beginnings of these notebooks showed much ambition and a lot of promise. However, much like the notebooks I kept in high school and then college, the farther you go, the less organized, the more space between snippets of writing, and eventually, you reach a long stretch of blank pages with a few notes and a phone numbers scrawled here and there. 

For the past twenty-odd years, I have occasionally looked at these notebooks from this period of my life. This usually occurs after a move to a new apartment which happened fairly frequently. Up until recently, however, I could not bear to read these things beyond a sentence or two before wincing in acute embarrassment and throwing them back in the old Dubuque Star beer case where they’ve lived for the past 30 years. 

I can read them now. Most of them anyway. I was a kid when I wrote them—early twenties, anyway. Thought I knew everything. Knew a bit. I don't judge myself as harshly as I did even a few years ago.
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The result is Gray Flag which features some of the more coherent entries I kept while a student in the writing program at Columbia College in the early 1990s. I was forced to make some editorial decisions, try to decipher illegible words and sentences, fix some glaring grammatical errors, and change a few names. Gray Flag #3 is available now from RoosterCow.

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Used Records & Tapes #3 Review Zine

Used Records & Tapes #3

The third issue of this oftentimes funny, sometimes poignant, and mostly nostalgic look at records of decades past features contributions from writer March Basch (co-screenwriter of I’ll See You in My Dreams, The Hero, and Hearts Beat Loud), prolific zine publisher and Quimby’s Bookstore manager, Liz Mason, and zine maker and novelist, Joshua James Amberson, and more plus a 2-page comic spread from Jesse Reklaw.

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In this issue: Eugene Chadbourne, U2, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Cheaptrick, The Clash, Trio, Beck, Mojo Nixon, and more.

Used Records & Tapes #2 Review Zine

Used Records & Tapes #2

Mike Dixon and Chris Auman enlist the help of fellow zinesters & music nerds to create a new issue of this funny, nostalgic look at records of decades past. This issue features contributions from Liz Mason (Caboose zine), Billy McCall (Proof I Exist zine), Jim Fath (@boringdadmusic), David Gill (writer/teacher), Mike Dixon (@icecoldsox), and Chris Auman. 

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In this issue: Pat Benatar, Big Black, Minutemen, Capsize 7, Daddy Longhead, Culture Club, Hall & Oates, Corey Hart, Cyndi Lauper, Lemonheads, Les Savvy Fav, Life Stinks, LL Cool J, Love & Rockets, Men at Work, Harry Nilsson, Sparks.