Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium

My Day #19: At a Minor League Baseball Game

By Nate Orton

The continuing series of zines in which Nate's drawings are displayed alongside observations and writings all layed out while at a minor league baseball game.

$3.00

Nowhere is More Important Than Here #1

41 pp., 11x8.5, perfect bound, color

A celebration of place and experience, NMITH promotes awareness of the world through travel and how the journey affects ourselves. Part travelogue, photo essay, and journal, every personal story conveys the challenges and rewards of travel, the unexpected beauty of coming home, and appreciation of place. Issue#1 features stories on transitions, women in the Mexican markets, and Belize.

$11.00

Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things 2011

By Kate Bingaman Burt

3x3, fold out

A tiny, gate fold display Oprah's favorite things. lovingly drawn by Reading Frenzy favorite Kate Bingham-Burt! Each package comes with a Favorite Things trading card, and a rare peek into the spendthrift ways of insanely rich people

$4.00

Plazm #30

160 pp., 12x9, perfect bound

PLAZM triumphantly celebrates the power and beauty of print with their 20th year anniversary issue. The Pacific NW's premier arts and culture magazine, PLAZM creates gorgeous full color coffee table worthy magazines. Tons of great content including:
- David Lynch in conversation with Stephanie Snyder
- Corin Tucker
- Wangechi Mutu
- Bruce Sterling
- Erik Davis
- Sherry Turkle
- Zeloot
- Death by Cat
- Christina Seely
- Aurthur Bradford
- Kevin Sampsell
- Lots more
ZM

$10.00

Railroad Semantics #1

By Aaron Dactyl

63 pp., 7x5.5, perfect bound

From the publisher: Devoted to trainhopping and railroad culture, Aaron Dactyl's Railroad Semantics zine describes the sights, sounds, successes, and defeats of riding around the U.S. inside of (and sometimes on top of!) freight trains. This first issue, re-published here in book form, explores a round-trip, early-spring train ride from Portland to Pocatello and back, as well as a long, winter ride to Eugene. Both informative and entertaining, issue one also features a wide array of articles on railroads and rail-related activity, letters, postcards, and is full of absolutely gorgeous photographs of landscapes and hobo graffiti--a poetic sense of adventure captured in words, pictures, and scenic vistas!

$8.00

Rolling Thunder #9

104 pp., 11x8.5, perfect bound

From the editor:How important is legitimacy-in our own eyes, in the eyes of potential allies, in the eyes of the public? How can anarchists cultivate it? What pitfalls does it hold?Rolling Thunder #9 explores these questions while reporting on the past six months of upheavals around the US. Following up on our coverage of the 2008 convention protests, this issue assesses anarchist action at the 2009 G20 summit, mapping conflict throughout the city and analyzing the strategies of the police and protesters. The accompanying Pittsburgh scene report examines the decade of local organizing that prepared the ground for this and other confrontations. Elsewhere herein, we scrutinize protest and resistance on campus-from the recent occupation movement to efforts to shut down fascist student organizations-and overseas in the Smash EDOcampaign. All this, plus obscure Russian history, a reappraisal of the concept of "free speech," and the usual stunning prose. No advertisements; 16 full-color pages. 

$5.00

Severe Courtship

By Casey Williams

44 pp., 5x5, perfect bound

An adorably illustrated cautionary tale of love and wild women taken from the pages of The Davy Crockett Almanac circa 1835. The vernacular (and spelling!) of the day is kept in tact, but this ill fated story of a miner, a mountain girl, and a bear will keep you deciphering the unique spelling and pictograms. Perfect for the Little House fetishist in your life!

$5.00

Splatter #1

By Jaine Bee

38 pp., 11x8.5, saddle stapled

"Splatter" hearkens back to the zines of yore (the mid 90's) with the zombiefication  of seminal zine "Flatter". Full of mini stories, book reports, comics, fake posters, and every little hilarious thought Ms. Jaina Bee has in her head. Splatter is guaranteed to keep you busy for hours! 

$4.00

Splatter #2

By Jaine Bee

40 pp., 11x8.5, saddle stitched

Another hodgepodge heaping helping of Splatter! Yum! This issue features more comics, recipes you should never attempt, irreverence and fun fun fun in the 'Guns R Fun' back cover feature. 

$4.00

Terrible Beasts

32 pp., 4.5x5.5, saddle stapled, silkscreen cover

A sweet little collaborative sketchbook filled with simple drawings of the nastiest most terrible beasts imaginable! Stuffed rabid squirrel? Check. Mounted lamprey eel? Check. Mean ol' teddy bears? Why yes. What, no Wall Street execs? Regardless, you'll still get inspired to create your own little menagerie of nightmares.

$5.00