SWEAT ISSUE±14 IS HERE!

Perfect company for bidding farewell to those January blues. In this issue there's fashion illustration by Clover Chen, cool artwork by Emma Alhqvist plus other peoples new years resolution & my article musing over Lana Del Rey.

I'm also giving away 10 issues ABSOLUTELY FREE because the people at the printers are now like my best friends haha. If you would like a free issue either leave your e-mail in the comments below or e-mail sweat.zine@gmail.com. EDIT: All the issues are gone now. Sorry! First 10 people get the free issues, we'll contact you about postage addresses etc. Otherwise you can read the issue online here and buy it for £2.50 from the link at the bottom of the page. 

ISSUE±13 IS HERE

For just £2.50 (+postage) you can get your very own copy to flick through, read & use to complete crosswords & dot to dots around the uhr...TV, at Christmas. The last SWEAT of 2012, which is pretty darn exciting. So to celebrate, if launching on 11/11/11 wasn't enough it's also chocka block with awesomeness from Spring 2012 trend reports & games to stunning artwork by Philippe Debongnie and Sarah Watson. Don't ever say I don't love you, you can view it all & purchase it HERE.

Sorry things haven't improved. This week has been generally shit all round on a personal note. Although I do have a new tattoo...randomly. Love you all.

It was the ever lovely Hannah Dostine who introduced me to Sticky Institute, via her blog, zine swapping, pen palling & her contribution to SWEAT. & I sent off a few issue 5's a while back & pretty much forgot about it, only these wonderful long e-mails started arriving every month or so from Sticky telling me about what awesome things Zinester's all over the world were getting up to & making me feel bad for not putting more effort into that sort of thing. Until a couple of months back when a lovely package arrived as the payment for the zines of mine that they'd sold. 

I'd opted for payment in the strange underground art form of Australian zines because... it's never really been about making money & I really love seeing other people's work, because all zines are so different. So 6 months after I waved goodbye to mine, 16 zines came back in return. From the informative Macarons are not Macaroons & Mutiny to the very personal Watch Him Bleed & Ladybeard (3rd photo). Ladybeard was a particular favorite of mine because it was a story I'd never heard before, written extremely eloquently & opened my eyes to a whole new section of society. For just $2 I would recommend it to anyone & everyone, I have made most of my friends & my mother read my copy & they have all been suitably impressed. 

Tales of a 34-year-old Man Whore (4th photo) was another highlight, sketched messages sent to the publishers friend from a jerkface cheating ex. I found myself laughing more than a few times. There were also 3 issues of Y.O.U zine (photo 2) with one on CD that I haven't got round to listening to get... but am very intrigued to. I also loved the zine in picture 5 too (not sure of the title) about two deers who squat & have cardboard antlers.

Anyway what I'm really saying is there are some properly amazing people out there making lovely paper things. I could get lost on Sticky's website for days...

Zine Love.

ISSUE±12 OF SWEAT

HAS LANDED.

For it on your doorstep it's just £1.50 + postage. You can find a link to buy it, or observe the beauty of it ***here***. It'll make you make faces as above. Or you can possibly use it as an, um, hat. Packed full of delights from Jonathan Kelham, Siobhan Barbour & Mice Ailing.

Well good innit.

The wondrous Barbara Ryan of BFR mag is putting on an ace exhibition/event at the Tatty Devine Brick Lane shop until the 3rd of September. & of course SWEAT is part of it! The launch is tonight, but you can pop along anytime to browse the zine library or even bring along your own publication to swap or add. You can also read an interview with her about the exhibition on Dazed Digital here. & you should check out her blog too, innit. I wanted to go down tonight but unfortunately after hours of traveling yesterday I don't much fancy getting a numb bum on the mega bus just yet. But I will make it down soon!

Lovely.

ISSUE±11 OF SWEAT
HAS DROPPED!!

Right into the flowers on my balcony *ahem*. Seemed like the perfect setting for the gorgeous cover designed by the eternally wonderful Grace Hamilton & there's even more exclusive pieces by her created especially for SWEAT. Along with...

The review of Suck It And See I promised,
and some super lovely photography by Billie Turner,
as well as an interview with the girl herself.

You can get hold of your very own issue to hold in your very own hands for just
***£1 or $1.50***
or take advantage of the fact that it's all online right here.
Because I love you!

ISSUE±10 OF SWEAT IS HERE!

You can read it here, buy it here & stare at photos of my reaction whilst reading it *ahem* right here. You can only see the exclusive, awesome very special pull out Royal Wedding poster by Jaymie O'Callaghan if you buy the hard copy, but since it's only £1/$1.50, why the hell wouldn't you buy it? There's also Karolina Burdon, poetry by Shanna McCloud, John Garcia, xkcd & my very first published short story!

SWEAT LOVE