"In the 1990s, band t-shirts were a kind of code, allowing you to reveal your secret identity to others. Your secret identity was a person of discerning taste, who spurned the 'mainstream', and had a deep understanding of the perils of being like everyone else. Sightings of someone wearing a Superchunk or Butthole Surfers t-shirt could inspire a thrill, almost a panic, that you were not alone."

Stories about band t-shirts and their significance from the creator of Disposable Camera.

15cm x 15cm, 56 pages

vanessaberryworld.wordpress.com

The new issue. I had a typewriter that I loaned from a friend and intended to lay out this entire issue with it. I got one page in and realised these are the kinds of ambitions I should pursue when I have more time on my hands...but it's an ambition I intend to return to as soon as the dust settles over this Summer. Since I've started Distort, a few fanzines have come along with layouts that make me feel like I'm wasting my time...

PO Box 239 North Carlton VIC 3054

30 cm x 21 cm, 16 pages.

it was not easy. it was not fun. go and do it anyway.

APPREHENSION. 2 July 2010. Today was Basil's birthday. I woke up with mixed feelings about the day ahead. On the one hand I was happy that Basic gets to have a special day, he deserves celebrating. But another part of me was apprehensive, in case Basil asked me for special birthday...favours...

11 cm x 8 cm, 80 pages plus amazing mini zine (issue 24)

Emma is folding a boat out of scrap poetry. We are listening to - what are we listening to, Emma? ... 4 out of 12 people in my Spanish class enjoy dancing to reggae, but only one of them also likes country music (that's me). Ola! You are a true statistical anomaly...

15 cm x 11 cm, 36 pages.

PO Box 4 Enmore NSW 2042

A sequel to 'Daily diaries' where the challenge to record daily life as a comic continues, with a lovely increase in comic design goodness. 

15 cm x 11 cm, 32 pages

alexeclark.blogspot.com

Like zines surviving the arrival of blogs and vinyl enduring in an age of MP3, the typewriter still finds itself both used and useful (as well as provoking widespread affection) despite a fall from prominence...I knew I'd find more music that used the sound of keys clacking for rhythmical or ambient purposes than songs sung as an ode to the humble devices themselves...

a zine accompaniment to a mixtape devoted to typewriters, see www.mixcloud.com/ttfb

21 cm x 15 cm, 24 pages, colour cover

www.fulsomeprism.wordpress.com

Welcome to Stitches In My Head 1#, a fanzine with a focus on punk rock (a general term) and those bands of today, but always with an influence from music and other things music related from the past. Nothing's changed since my old zine except the title; I'll let you figure out what the old one was. I'm four months into a six month holiday in the USA. I'd hit a head end with punk in Melbourne and had to get out...

28 cm x 22 cm, 22 pages.

stitchesinmyhead.blogspot.com, christina_musiclife@hotmail.com

I started to voraciously read Dolly and Girlfriend magazines when I was about twelve or thirteen. They cost about $3.50 and were sold at the servo on the corner near my mum's house. I felt guilty about reading them...

10 cm x 11 cm, 12 pages.

...NO REGRETS: Biggest stupido thing I did was putting off buying tickets to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, who performed this month, for ages because I was worrying about money (even though the ticket was a meagre $20) and then it sold out and I missed out. Also, having noone to go with to see Circle Pit, not that I should have let going alone stop me, and thus only attending one out of five of their Melbourne shows. Lastly and mostly, recording failure with Socio Poder.

30 cm x 21 cm, 28 pages

christina_musiclife@hotmail.com

This zine is something of a legend. 'You' is a free, anonymous, weekly zine from Melbourne Australia, made and distributed since 2001. It involves a letter addressed to you from various writers, usually handwritten, often sealed in a paper bag and signed off 'from Luke' but may be also written by different people. This zine has been known to be typed in Braille, appear inside cigarette boxes, cassette tapes, noodle boxes, and has assumed the form of a CD and an hour long DVD. The zine usually appears in English but issues have included Spanish, French, Greek, Norwegian and Hungarian. Every week there's a different issue - see what issues you score through the magic of mail order! And if you're super keen, check out the anthology of the first five years.

variable dimensions.

The free, anonymous, weekly zine from Melbourne Australia comes in various dimensions and packaging, and here's the anthology of the first five years published by Breakdown Press. You started appearing on the streets of Melbourne in November 2001 and since then appears weekly internationally.

 YOU involves a letter addressed to you from various writers, usually handwritten, often sealed in a paper bag and signed off 'from Luke' but may be also written by different people. This zine has been known to be typed in Braille, appear inside cigarette boxes, cassette tapes, noodle boxes, and has assumed the form of a CD and an hour long DVD. The zine usually appears in English but issues have included Spanish, French, Greek, Norwegian and Hungarian. Every week there's a different issue - don't forget to add some to your order.

a lot of pages, 24 cm x 18.3 cm Breakdown Press www.breakdownpress.org