Michael Tussey, Master of Monsters and good design, gives us a great little zine (in 3 colors).

www.devilbeast.com

John Fellows: Graphic Designer / Illustrator / Artist / World Traveler / Dog Owner / Bike Rider / Thinker / Friend

www.johnfellows.net

Juliana shows us simple ways to meditate in this contemplative zine. Limited prints to the right are also available for trade.

Megan explores the nature of love and the heart in this layered handmade zine.

Dave Brown is a creative consultant and brand innovator. He is the founder of Holiday Matinee and Better Looking Records. Dave is an expert in creating and marketing brands. He lives in the world of creativity, new media, good design and social responsibility.

holidaymatinee.com

welcometodave.com

Sibylle Manss:

metalepsy.net

Zine: Move Along People Nothing to Feel Here

Bio

I was born and raised in rural Illinois. I earned a BFA in Studio Art (with Summa cum Laude honors) as well as a BA in Art History from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2004. My background as a skateboarder provided me with my first exposure to “art” and continues to inform both my daily creative practice and my outlook on life. I’ve lived in many places throughout the US and Europe. I hope to someday (soon) occupy a small studio in Paris or Madrid where I can putter about, making drawings and reading books. I’ll drink beer in parks, ogle and lurk at the Palais de Tokyo or in Malasaña; maybe I’ll learn some languages, maybe even teach a class or two, travel around a bit and be able to criticize the United States from a comfortable, sanity-promoting distance. I’m currently at work on an MFA in Visual Arts at UC San Diego.

Statement

I primarily work with fast, simple drawing, which I tend to think of as a reductive method: reducing figurative and symbolic forms to basic essences. I promote the idea that utter simplicity conjures up power and a raw, purer manifestation of grace, enabling an artwork to affect its viewer on a more primal level. This concept arises out of a long consideration of the sketchbook as a critically influential component of my creative practice. The work itself deals with a dialectical tension between epiphanic moments and existential void space. Its concerns are, simultaneously: the possibility that spiritual transcendence and upward social mobility are equally profound (and irreparably collided) cultural constructions or myths that in fact oppress (rather than liberate) those that subscribe to them; and that the notion of movement or progression through one’s existence is inseparable from metaphors of ascendance and verticality, metaphors which provide psychologically violent building blocks upon which only one thing can be built: hierarchical paradigms of power, exclusivity and ego-worship. Furthermore, the work examines the world which has resulted from the aforementioned concerns: a world in which history has failed, a world where empty dreams have delivered nothingness, a world where the myth of upward mobility and the promise of the “good life” have been realized as corrupt. This is a world in which the mythical comfort of the “light at the end of the tunnel” is shown to be no more than our burning need for intimacy.

bridgethevoid.blogspot.com

Clarke is a bike-riding architect from South Park. He’s a fellow Yeller member who likes spirit animals, dogs, and partying like crazy.

eatenbymountains.blogspot.com

Beautiful, introspective, and simple zine from Jordan A. Karnes. Jordan is a writer, editor, & all-around creative enthusiast living in the neighborhood of Golden Hill in San Diego, California. She enjoys blue skies, Jacoranda trees, bicycles, and the usual camaraderie of pals, etc. She’s also a writer for Sezio here in SD.

A punkish style zine that was once stolen off my doorstep, now landed safely in my mailbox.