For the last two decades Ian Vanek has been busy producing a graffiti zine called 99mm. Compared to his punk rock career this publication is seemingly one of his quieter projects but no less impressive in its dedication. Continue Reading
Zines
Urinals, Public Space & Murals
This month marks a hundred years since the artist Marcel Duchamp submitted his now famous artwork, Fountain, to an international exhibition in New York. Influenced by Dadaism his submission was simply a urinal he’d bought in a local shop. Duchamp’s surrealist questioning of institutional definitions of art has had a defining impact on modern art. Continue Reading
Graffiti Marginalia
Bern: International Playground is a quirky new zine from Switzerland. One way to describe it is as an almost scientific catalogue showing samples of graffiti found in a particular environment. The photographic survey presented in this format is the result of more than a decade of research into vandalism Continue Reading
A Subcultural Travel Guide
This is something I’m quite excited to see – a magazine that combines graff and footy! There are occasional bits of football graffiti to be found in various magazines and I’ve seen a couple of special street-art editions of ultras magazines too. However, while I was hoping for an in-depth look at football graffiti, Strfzg doesn’t quite do this. Rather than documenting football related graff, the zine is more like the personal travelogue of an FC Augsburg supporter. Continue Reading
Walls Acquired
I recently got sent Free Wall Space which is a newly released zine showing work by the Barcelona based Bad Buzz. The publication is the result of two years of the artist ‘pulling his eyes out everyday’ sketching to achieve his own style. In fact eyeballs do seem to be a theme running through his work and feature a lot here! Continue Reading
From Bristol to Prague and Beyond
I’ve lately got a few zines which I thought I’d review together in one go. ‘Nothing but Tags’, Guide, and another magazine that has no title. Continue Reading
Introducing the Iconosphere
This article is a bit off topic as it’s not really about graffiti and it’s not a review of a graffiti publication either. It’s actually a football fanzine called Stand. The publication is usually an 
interesting read, which isn’t dominated by all things premier league, and is about as close to an ‘ultras’ stance as you can find in the UK. Continue Reading
A brief look at Nottingham
Issue one of, the nicely named, Claimed Surface is only a small twenty-eight page zine but it offers a nifty snapshot of graffiti in Nottingham. Continue Reading
Stick ’em up!
This is DAFT which is a small A5 size magazine that advertises itself as the UK’s first sticker mag. Continue Reading
Old news from the North
Thrappage was a zine that originally ran from 1999-2001. I’d never actually heard of it before so I was intrigued to see a new anthology has been released. Thrappage: Greatest Hits is a collection of some of the best content from the original publication. There is an intro and an outro that explain what the magazine was, how it was received, and what it lead onto. Continue Reading