I’ve decided the last Monday of the month is going to be Zine Monday here at the blog. Every Monday going forward, I’m going to showcase a favorite zine from my collection. First up is this extremely limited edition Simpsons zine by a young person named Tilly (via @zinetent).
It’s a gallery of Simpsons characters rendered in a combination of finger painting, marker and stickers. Here’s Homer. His mouth is stamped by, I think, a closed fist:
Marge is a foot.
Bart is also a foot. Maggie and Lisa are open hands.
There’s the usual gang of suspects, Sideshow Bob, Krusty, Mr. Burns… each as delightful as the last.
The zine has a dustjacket made out of yellow construction paper.
Okay. It’s quirky, it’s cute and all that but it’s a remarkably successful example of form matching content. There’s just something so perfect going on here with the subject, the media, and the physical object itself. It’s not so gritty as some of my other favorite zines (that grittiness being almost a requirement to rank in my favorites), but it is loaded with handmade charm and that puts it way up there in my collection.
Well done, Tilly!