Microcosm Publishing

OUT NOW! Scam was equal parts an introductory guide on how to get things for free and punk memoir. Youths experienced trainhopping, house shows, and cross country tours that sought out swimming holes. Community was sought and celebrated through generator punk shows on Mission Street, hunting for cans of beer on Easter, and Food Not Bombs. Angst was manifested while stealing electricity from lampposts, squatting in Miami, selling plasma, tagging freight trains, wheatpasting, spraying salt water into vending machines, returning stolen merchandise, and dumpstering as seen through the lens of a young punk. Scam has gone on to inspire a generation of imitators, the highest form of flattery.

OUT NOW! Like a well-oiled machine of zine-y awesomeness, Xerography Debt, the “review zine with perzine tendencies,” gives us a sweet new issue twice-yearly. The new issue (number 27!) is 64 pages of all we've come to love and expect from XD—the reviews, the columns, the humor, the knowledgeable zinesters cluin' us in on all that's brand-new and bumpin' in the zine scene. This time around we've got some surprises—Joe Biel interviewing zine/design legend Ian Lyman, Gianni Simone on Italian mail art dude Vittore Baroni, as well as a seven-part series of “Where Are They Now”s with iconic zinesters of the past (Jen Angel's Q&A being a definite highlight.) Combine that with reviews of great stuff like Not My Small Diary, A Guide to Picking Locks, and Proof I Exist, and you've got a solid round-up of all-things zine. Note to zine-makers: If you'd like XD to review your zine in a future issue send it to: Davida Gypsy Breier / PO Box 11064 / Baltimore, MD 21212 USA