John Gerken

[Review originally published on NewPages.com]

I’d read some of John Gerken’s writing in other publications and always liked it, but never read a whole issue of his zine. Well, I read this one and liked it quite a lot. This is the Special Disaster Cover Issue (John lives in New Orleans), but it’s not about Katrina; it’s just that the silkscreened covers for this issue survived the floodwaters produced by the hurricane. However, there is a thread of beginnings running through this issue. John writes about serious issues like identity, community, and what it means to be alive. But there’s a lot of hope in these pages, and a lot of possibility. A few contributions from other folks appear here and there between John’s thoughts: Ally Green offers a beautiful pictorial essay on beginnings; Shelley of the excellent bike zine Chainbreaker reports on her annual trip to India; Hope of Keep Loving Keep Fighting writes about a lot in a short space; and Travis of America? shares his personal take on beginnings and endings. This is definitely one of the good ones.… (lisätietoja)

"I'd read some of John Gerken's writing in other publications and always liked it, but never read a whole issue of his zine. Well, I read this one and liked it quite a lot. This is the Special Disaster Cover Issue (John lives in New Orleans), but it's not about Katrina; it's just that the silkscreened covers for this issue survived the floodwaters produced by the hurricane. However, there is a thread of beginnings running through this issue. John writes about serious issues like identity, community, and what it means to be alive. But there's a lot of hope in these pages, and a lot of possibility. A few contributions from other folks appear here and there between John's thoughts: Ally Green offers a beautiful pictorial essay on beginnings; Shelley of the excellent bike zine Chainbreaker reports on her annual trip to India; Hope of Keep Loving Keep Fighting writes about a lot in a short space; and Travis of America? shares his personal take on beginnings and endings. This is definitely one of the good ones." -newpages.com/magazinestand/zines… (lisätietoja)