Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium

Shoppe ~ Magazines & Zines

A selection of hand-picked gems from our downtown Portland store. Minimum order of $8.

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Crap Hound #6: Death, Telephones & Scissors cover

Crap Hound #6: Death, Telephones & Scissors

8.5x11, 104 pgs, offset, saddlestitched

UPDATE: Holy moly! We're down to less than 80 copies! Price will only go up from here so get 'em while you can!

Revised and expanded edition of Crap Hound #6: Death, Telephones and Scissors. Featuring eight brand new pages, and a gorgeous cover by Jordan Crane, it's sure to delight old and new readers alike.

Between a brief introduction and the end credits, Crap Hound is pure imagery. Each page is filled with high-contrast art, carefully taken from vintage catalogs, advertising, obscure books, and found ephemera. Through sheer volume of artfully arranged iconography, Issue No. 6 visually explores popular meaning, cultural ideals and historic symbolism of Death, Telephones and Scissors.

Debuting in 1994, Crap Hound became a favorite of both zine readers and publishers, and has received enthusiastic reviews from sources including The New York Times Magazine, RE/Search Books, the American Institute Graphic Arts, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

  • Edited and designed by Sean Tejaratchi
  • Published by Show and Tell Press
  • Cover by Jordan Crane

$40.00

 
Crap Hound #7: Church & State cover

Crap Hound #7: Church & State

8.5x11, 96 pgs, standard size

The first all new issue of Crap Hound in eight years! Featuring 96 pages of glorious religious and patriotic imagery! Despite the nearly decade stretch between new issues, editor Sean Tejaratchi has been dutifully culling the choicest hight-contrast art, lovingly lifted from vintage catalogs, advertising, obscure books, and found ephemera.

Debuting in 1994, Crap Hound became a favorite of both zine readers and publishers, and has received enthusiastic reviews from sources including The New York Times Magazine, RE/Search Books, the American Institute Graphic Arts, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. 

Here are some interviews with Sean and reviews of various issues:

$12.00

 
The East Village Inky #37 cover

The East Village Inky #37

39 pages, mini zine

$3.00

 
Maid's Rooms, Paris, 2002 cover

Maid's Rooms, Paris, 2002

By Yasmin

10 Page 6"x9"

A short illustrated tale about a kind of room that exists in a kind of city, and the kind of people who inhabit it.

$5.00

 
The Missing Peace: Truth and Justive in Israel/Palestine cover

The Missing Peace: Truth and Justive in Israel/Palestine

7" by 8.5" 54 pages

Written by a Palestinian American and a Jewish American this is a zine that surely stirs up some debate. Through a series of researched mini-essays and interviews the authors give an overview of the Isreali/Palestinian situation beyond what western mass media wishes to portray.  They do a wonderful job of featuring accounts and essays that make things more personal and immediate, showing that people can become involved.

$5.00

 
Alien Boy cover

Alien Boy

Erin Yanke (Life During Wartime) and Icky Ciccone (Nosedive) made this beautifully designed zine that collects a selection of writing and art by James Chasse, as well as interviews with the filmmakers and information about the case.  It includes a CD with KBOO related radio coverage of the case. Published by Reading Frenzy.

$8.00

 
East Village Inky # 41 cover

East Village Inky # 41

By Ayun Halliday

"In which a fledgling children's book author attempts to move more magazines by splashing her rekindled (strictly non sexual) affair w/ a NYC celebrity all over the cover in a misleading sort of way!"

$3.00

 
Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia cover

Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia

By Marc Moscato

"Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago
Presenting photos and photocopies from Chicago’s ill-forgotten radical nightclub, The Dill Pickle Club, hobo gatherings and 1910s-20s ephemera, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia provides a timely look at the origin of American counterculture and working class art leading up to the Great Depression. New edition also includes a DVD of the short film, The More Things Stay The Same, a documentary on the life and world of hobo king and prostitute physician, Dr. Ben Reitman."

$13.00

 
East Village Inky #40 cover

East Village Inky #40

By Ayun Halliday

$3.00

 
Fillip 9 Winter 2009 cover

Fillip 9 Winter 2009

"Fillip is a publication of art, culture and ideas issued three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society and Emily Carr University of Art and Design.  Crossing academic, artistic and related practices, Fillip acts as a forum for critical discussion in the contemporary arts and situates itself as complement to and stimulus for contemporary practices and discourses."

Includes: Sunshine Daydream Maerdyad Enihsnus a Vinyl 45 by Cranfield & Slade

$5.00

 
 
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