Zine archive

Zine Collection

A massive collection of my zine back issues.

Print book is out of stock, but it’s still available as a pdf for £3 in the shop

Being Editors

2011/ re-issued 2017

A selection of essays about children’s author Diana Wynne Jones.

  • How I started reading DWJ
  • Complete bibliography
  • Interview with Diana
  • DWJ and the curse of the terrible cover art
  • Things reading Diana’s books has taught me
  • My favourite: Fire and Hemlock
  • My favourite: the Ogre Downstairs
  • My favourite: the Homeward Bounders
  • My favourite: Howl’s Moving Castle
  • My favourite: Witch Week
  • Witch Week as the anti-Harry Potter
  • Adult villains
  • Review of Farah Mendlesohn’s book
  • Polly’s complete reading list
  • The ending of Fire and Hemlock explained

You can download it as a free pdf

Fanzine Ynfytyn 36

2020

Singapore and Australia

  • Singapore- durians & monsoon
  • Melbourne op shops and failing to see the penguins
  • A trip to Sticky Institute
  • A solo weekend in Tasmania
  • MONA modern art museum
  • Exploring the backstreets of Sydney with Vanessa Berry
  • Take Care Distro zine dinner
  • Disastrous whale-watching trip
  • Katoomba & Blue Mountains
  • The moon is upside down
  • Tim Tams

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 35

2020

Working in museums

  • Punchups in the dinosaur queue
  • Checking taxidermy for worms
  • Unpleasant encounters with Simon Pegg
  • Feeding rotten bananas to giant butterflies

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 34

2019

About studying Classics and Ancient History

  • The Cambridge Latin Course- death by volcano, poisoned holy water or crocodile?
  • Why actually studying Classics is nothing like Donna Tartt’s novel
  • Roman love poet rundown: Tibullus is a soft wet boy
  • I am bad at Medieval Latin. Don’t worry, so were medieval monks on the whole.
  • Site visits to Rome, Aquae Sulis, Pompeii, Catullus’ house, Fishbourne Palace and various Roman graveyards

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 33.5

2019

You can’t draw that ma’am.

About that time Ernest Hemingway’s heirs sent me a cease and desist for drawing his face

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 33

2018

About travelling around Germany for work. I made some of it just before moving house, and then lost the pages, so nobody has ever read it.

Parts of the text were later incorporated into Mitteleuropa.

Fanzine Ynfytyn 32.5

2018

One long essay about various things

  • What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
  • Borges and Calvino
  • Do actuaries secretly rule the world?
  • Getting your revenge on society via accountancy
  • Last Year at Marienbad

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 32

2018

  • Suspicious whispering
  • The joys of Latin
  • Cogidubnus
  • Aquariums
  • Oulipo word games

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Keep It Clean

2017

24 page 1/4 sized zine on yellow paper about keeping your place nice with low effort.

People seemed to want does-what-it-says-on-the-tin instructional zines, so I made one.

  • Bathrooms and kitchens
  • Bedding and towels
  • Mmm that smells good

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 31

2017

36 page 1/4 sized perzine on green paper + mini colour zine

A split zine about a last-minute holiday to Croatia, and then a work trip to Slovenia two weeks later.

  • The beautiful Dalmatian coast
  • Game of Thrones location mania
  • The joy of the humble burek
  • Hostel life
  • They really do love Iron Maiden in the former Yugoslavia
  • Slovenia, the land of Žizek, potica cake (and sadly Melania Trump)
  • Slovenia is very underrated
  • Metelkova autonomous district in Ljubljana
  • Ljubljana Biennial arts festival
  • Lake Bled and Austria by train

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 30.5

2017

Made for the 24 hour zine project in October 2017- all pages written and laid out in one day. About moving house, and dreaming of Siberia.

  • Oh I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside
  • Oh God Where Do I Put This Box
  • To Get a Letter, Send a Letter
  • Yakutia
  • Small pleasures 20/01/2017
  • Dream Club
  • But Is It Art?
  • Words we got from Farsi
  • Vegan tteokbokki recipe

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 30

2018

About failing to study at Oxbridge, and then the miserable experience of working there.

  • Baffling interviews
  • Rigid hierarchies
  • Strange social structures
  • Terrible posh people
  • Racism and classism a-plenty
  • “Oxford is the city of closed doors”
  • My friend H’s depressing years at Cambridge

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 29

2017

Northern Italy

  • Italy in the 90s
  • Getting sent to the wrong side of Italy by my job
  • Legnago, the most boring place in Italy
  • The joys of Italian electrics
  • Lake Garda then and now
  • The Name of the Rose
  • Catullus and an impromptu Latin lesson
  • Shadows of Fascism on Lake Garda
  • Invisible Cities

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Free Lunch 1

2017

A mini freebie zine for promo and to throw in with orders

  • Why I like Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Small Pleasures Spring 2017
  • Zine recommendations
  • Current zine catalogue

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Film Photography 101

2017

24 page 1/4 sized zine on green paper teaching you all the basics of film photography in a friendly jargon-free way.

  • Vintage camera types
  • How to fix common issues with second-hand cameras
  • How to clean vintage cameras
  • Lenses explained
  • Film types and sizes
  • Cross-processing
  • Uses of filters
  • Aperture explained
  • Shutter speed explained
  • The Sunny 16 rule
  • Exposure and EV rating
  • Tips for portraits
  • Tips for landscapes
  • The Rule of Thirds

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 28

2017

My trip to Japan

  • Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto,
  • Nara, Hiroshima, and Naoshima
  • Ghibli museum, Shinto Shrines and Buddhist
  • Temples
  • Meat-free Japan on an extremely low budget
  • Rabbits, Deer, Cats and Herons

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 27

2016/19

When I was house-sitting in Bognor Regis

  • An unfortunate series of events leads to me being stranded in Bognor
  • Old people, lots of old people
  • Never-ending train strikes
  • Some thoughts about solitude and being observed
  • Excellent charity shops
  • Robert Smith’s house
  • I try to volunteer with the local Labour Party, but everyone seems to think I’m a teenager on work experience despite being 30.

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 26

2016

French campsites

  • The ocean-going glamour of cross-channel ferries
  • Family arguments about putting tents up
  • The wonders of the French hypermarché
  • Wholesome Dutch people
  • Rubbish circuses where the attractions are one dog and one llama

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 25

2016

  • Exploring the World of the Ceiling
  • Small pleasures
  • Crispy Teriyaki Tofu recipe

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 24

2016

About getting an IUD

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 23.5

2016

Mini zine made for the 2016 24 Hour Zine Challenge

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 23

2015

About unhealthy modern wellness and body culture

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 22

2015

  • Being in charge of a maze at Hampton Court
  • Foxes

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 21

2015

  • Free Eurostar tickets
  • Walking miles and miles
  • French music magazines
  • €30 a night central Paris hotels, whose colour scheme can only be described as “depressed Willy Wonka”
  • Père Lachaise, Montmartre,
  • Canal St Martin, St-Germain,
  • Quartier Latin, and others
  • Accidentally getting caught in a march of 1 million people
  • Zazie dans le Métro and other French film recommendations

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 20

2013

  • Jeff Mangum
  • North Korea (I haven’t been)
  • Competitions I have won

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 19

2013

  • Small Pleasures June 2012
  • Bulgaria
  • Polenta cake recipe

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 18

2012

  • Late 80s/early 90s video rentals
  • Things that are disgusting when tinned

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 17

2011

  • Mr Frosty sets are disappointing as an adult
  • Top five famous cockroaches
  • Small pleasures June 2011

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 16.5

2011

Mini zine made for the 2011 24 Hour Zine Challenge

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 16

2011

  • My grandparents are like something from Roald Dahl
  • Small pleasures

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 15

2011

  • Pointless board games
  • Obstacle courses for
  • hamsters
  • Bad french jokes
  • Marie Antoinette style macaron recipe

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 14

2011

€2 black and white photo booths and free tourist maps abound in Vienna, so that’s what I used to make the zine.

  • Vienna
  • Burgenland
  • Austrian schools
  • Klimt and Schiele
  • Modern art
  • Hundertwasser
  • Sachertorte recipe

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 13

2011

  • The pains of learning ballet

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop.

Fanzine Ynfytyn 12

2010

  • Nuclear sales
  • Small pleasures

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 11

2010

Full colour photo issue

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 10

2009

A trip to Ireland

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 9

2009

  • What do amoebas have to worry about?
  • Things I would like complete sets of
  • Things I’m looking for in charity shops
  • Childhood ambitions, reviewed

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 8.5

2009

Mini zine made for the 2009 24 Hour Zine Challenge

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 8

2009

Playlist issue

Out of print

Fanzine Ynfytyn 7

2008

  • Exquisite corpse
  • Oulipo book game
  • Mr C my very strange former English teacher

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 6

2008

Mostly a combination of hand-drawn ink outlines and digital colour.

  • Mostly a combination of hand-drawn ink outlines and digital colour.

Out of print

Egészségedre

2008

Egészségedre means to your health in Hungarian. If you say it slightly wrong, it sounds like “to your whole arse”. Hungarians love to teach drunk foreigners how to say cheers.

  • Adventures in Hungary
  • Unpredicatable landlords
  • Parquet floors
  • Difficult Finno-Ugric languages
  • Soup inside loaves of bread

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 5

2007

  • Junior school music lessons
  • Parmigiana di melanzane recipe
  • Books about buses

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Fanzine Ynfytyn 4

2006

  • The man and the song come to blows
  • A cake is baked
  • Reasons not to visit Iceland in January

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop

Pobble Eh Come?

2002-2006

These were some of the first zines I made, silly collages to swap with penfriends in other regions of the UK and New Zealand.

The pages were made from outdated home medical guides, falling apart Enid Blyton books, photocopied bits from Norwegian textbooks, and the colour supplements from various newspapers.

The title is the Welsh-language soap opera Pobl y Cwm deliberately spelt completely wrong.

  • Peter feels hot all over
  • Widely read in New Zealand
  • That awful Suzie
  • What makes your tummy rumble?
  • Ihr Persönliches Exemplar
  • So very heart-rending
  • Danser du?

Out of print, but available as a part of a £3 ebook compilation in the shop