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Joshua James Amberson


Ideas on simplicity, cops, paper media, kindles, the zine community, a history of the US Postal System, being the only zinesters at the Utne Magazine Awards, and a couple short vignettes. “His zines have covered everything from genealogy to film to simplicity to cops to the media to the ghosts of Snohomish county to Kindles to the Postal System (deep breath) …and beyond. It’s amazing. It’s inspiring...[ continued ]

This is the family issue. A look at the idea of 'family' from different angles: from personal family history, to the history of the human family as a whole. Portraits of grandparents, great aunts and uncles mix with facts about Iceland and Icelandic immigration, examinations of individualism and community, biological family vs chosen family, and much more.

40 Pages, half-letter size, old black & white photos throughout...[ continued ]

Issue five deals with the current state of the United States as seen from car windows mixes with historical oddities of Americana. Place and home (and the hula hoop in american history) considered through small vignettes. 20 pages, half-letter size, photographs throughout.

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Under the banner of "beginnings and turning points," this issue of Basic Paper Airplane covers a wide expanse. Personal essays and vignettes that span from childhood swarms of bees to drinking cough syrup, kitchen dance parties to hopping trains, breaking out windows in the woods to taking over the streets in elementary school. Along the way there are also essays on Gertrude Stein, huayno music of Peru, Eadweard Muybridge, and The Wright Brothers...[ continued ]

An accessible guide for home vegetable gardening! Good for beginners and also intermediate gardeners looking to learn a little more. Within: raised beds, row beds, community gardens, container gardening, direct-seeding, starting indoors, transplanting, hardening off, weeds, bioremediation, fun and easy plants to start with, when to plant, watering, bugs, seed saving, composting, plant growth and nutrients, tomatoes, flowers, berries, and more...[ continued ]

A two-year long, 60 page research zine about the artist currently known as Prince. A balanced mix of analytical, fun, and humorous.

Within: The Symbol, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, his sexuality, Tipper Gore and the PMRC, his protégés, his films, his relationship with the industry, his early life, The Revolution, The New Power Generation, Wendy & Lisa, a bunch of fun facts, and write-ups of 50+ Prince-related albums! With illustrations by the one-and-only Rachel Lee-Carman (Show & Tell)...[ continued ]