Getting up: The staff have to put a sling on me, get you into the ceiling hoist. Then they hoist me up, and bring my chair over. Then they recline my chair and pull me backwards, making sure I'm in the right position before they put me down. Then they lower me into my chair and take the sling off and put the hoist away. The staff then does my seatbelt up. They then wash my face and brush my hair...

21 cm x 15 cm, 12 pages.

The cover doesn't actually include the pic, we added it (from within the zine) for the sake of mail order. Awesome zine!

Well I don't know about you kids but for me it's midsemester, which means midsemester essays, which means looking for any excuse to procrastinate. I've been thinking about this particular project for a while as it's actually the kind of zine that I want to read other people's versions of. Basically it's a short list of words, terms and phrases that my closest friends and I use from day to day and where they come from. Most of them are appropriated from popular culture - some of which you'll recognise, some of which you might not.

15 cm x 10 cm, 16 pages

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

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Cool little comic about a girl who had mystery headaches when she was small. The story is told through cute line drawings that follow her journey to recovery. Pictures include: Throwing up from her bed; Unable to catch a ball; She and her mother facing a sea of (scary) grinning doctors offering conflicting diagnoses; Her being showered in various pills and bottles; Finally being told the real diagnosis by a gleeful-looking doctor. Essential pocket reading.

32 pages, 10.5 cm x 7 cm

...I don't remember most of winter, probably because I spent up to four hours a day pulling up weeds, transplanting flowers for cross-breeding, rearranging furniture, writing letters, and catching rare bugs and fish - all within the blissful world of Animal Crossing [on Nintendo DS]. It was summer in my town, and I was working on my tan. The only clear memory I have of the desolate, adventure-less winter is one night in July or August...

Winter to Summer 2009

16 pages, 11 cm x 15 cm

All my friends are dead because I shot them...they're dead, so I wrote them this confession...

21 cm x 15 cm, 16 pages.

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Half of this zine was written whilst bored at work and half of it was written in the several hours that I was locked out of my house on a thursday night. As infuriated as I was then, in retrospect it was a better use of my time than sitting on my bed, eating curly wurlys and watching the final season of Oz.

This is an autobiographical 'mixtape; of things that happened in 2008 and before. Includes mini stories on houses I've lived with and people I've lived with, identity crises and other such non sequiturs.

30 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042 www.tinypaperhearts.com

Although this zine is partly about the vertigo and the nervousness and the nausea, it's also about the transcendence and the joy and that amazing feeling when you think that things cannot get any better, except they do.This is another personal zine inspired by my decision to quit the call centre that I've previously referenced in the Epitaph for my Heart series. Includes events that propelled this life changing (for the better) decision, my take on the etiquette of resigning from crappy jobs, the aftermath of quitting and the politics of office 'theft'.

28 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm  

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042   

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...one month and five blood tests later (in which each time the pathologist commented on my terrible veins, slapping my forearm with a fervour that seemed almost unprofessional) the questionable results in my initial test were explained - I have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) which led to a high resistance to insulin which meant that my blood sugar levels became diabetic...

21 cm x 15 cm, 28 pages

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.com

Celebrates the uniquely diverse architectural styles of this outer western Sydney suburb. Photographs and drawings lovingly depict historical homes, retro fibro and the much under-rated 1970's Hacienda. Include colour prints and hand colouring. Edition of 150.

24 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

The Age of Pisces (AD 0 - 2000) began with the death of the archetypal Piscean, Jesus Christ, and ended with the death of another archetypal Piscean, Kurt Cobain, in 1994. The Uranus-Neptune conjunction following his death passed from Pisces into Aquarius in the second half of the 90s, marking a new age of technology that was to transform modern life. This marks the Age of Aquarius (2000 - 4000).

While this seems cut and dry, I detect overlap between the great epochs...

21 cm x 15 cm, 8 pages.

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My aim with each issue of Astrobabble is to stick to an astrological theme of some sort, hoping that the articles and information on each page connect to each other in some way...This issue's theme is Pluto and it's transit through Sagittarius and Capricorn.

How to spot a Sagittarian (Keith Richards)

Old, leathery work horse look; The Sagittarian traits of experience and excess are deeply etched into Keef's face; lean, horsey torso - no middle aged spread on Keef baby; jeans are the Centaur's uniform - a must in any Sagi's wardrobe...

21 cm x 15 cm, 8 pages

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This issue of Astrobabble focuses on the sun sign Gemini and its numerological equivalent, the number 5. The main article looks at how the number 5 life path has unfolded for the American artist, Dennis Hopper. I continue with 'How to spot a...' series by scrutinising that Gemini wordsmith, Bob Dylan. You should be all good at this by now...

21 cm x 15 cm, 8 pages

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