I am exceptionally proud to announce a great lineup of new work for sheer spite’s fall/winter season!
The U.S. store will be here soon– I know I’ve been saying that for a while, but zines are at the warehouse, and I just need our shipping partner to launch the store. I hope to be able to share that soon!
Clipart Crypt (#1?)
Clipart Crypt is an extremely indulgent fanzine celebrating clipart, featuring interviews with clipart experts and aficionados, and collages of the strangest and most beautiful vintage clipart I could find.
The zine includes some history of clipart, thoughts on Kid Pix, an interview with someone who runs an amazing digital preservation project, an interview with the editor-in-chief of Emojipedia about the relationship between emoji and clipart, and selections from a reference librarian’s personal collection of feminist clipart.
Fully risograph printed by NoGloss: Cover printed in red on #65 solar yellow paper, interior pages printed in blue on 24lb. pink paper. Saddle-stitched (stapled). 8.5 x 11 size closed. 28 pages + covers.
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This one’s print-only– no digital version 🙂
Swapping Genders With My Ex
In this comic, originally published online through Crucial Comix, Cee Lavery recalls his relationship with an ex at a moment when it became clear that neither of their genders were a good fit, and that their relationship would also be coming come to an end. With tenderness and humour, he chronicles swapping clothes and accessories, and eventually building a deep and cherished friendship.
Half-legal (8.5 x 7), black and white, 24 pages including covers.
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Der Eydes, Vol. 1
On a cold March evening in Montreal, Cesario Lavery walks home from work and stumbles across a discarded first-edition book of literary criticism on the great Franz Kafka. When he cracks it open, he discovers not only an extraordinary book, but a portal to the life of the book’s previous owner – the extraordinary Dr Chaim Fischel Shatan.
Der Eydes is a lively, moving story of Montreal past and present, and the ways they intertwine, and of Jewish diaspora and resistance.
Half-letter, saddle-stitched (stapled), 46 pages including covers. Cover is two-colour riso-printed by NoGloss, interior pages are black and white.
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Der Eydes, Vol. 2 (print zine)
Picking up where Volume I left off, Volume II finds Cesario connecting with Chaim’s children, and thinking about his own family’s murky history. A story about falling head-over-heels into an unexpected connection with someone you’ve never met, and chasing that connection down, this volume of Der Eydes explores the fragmentation of history across diaspora and displacement, and the bittersweet joy of piecing some fragments together while knowing that others will always be lost.
Der Eydes is a lively, moving story of Montreal past and present, and the ways they intertwine, and of Jewish diaspora and resistance.
Half-letter, saddle-stitched (stapled), 76 pages including covers. Cover is two-colour riso-printed by NoGloss, interior pages are black and white.
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Coming this winter from Sheer Spite:
Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke
While biking to work one summer morning, Alyssa Favreau gets in an accident, has a stroke, and suffers severe brain damage. After losing consciousness, she spends the next month floating between wakefulness and surreal dreams. As she emerges back into the world, she must relearn how to move, think, feel, and live in a changed body and mind. In this memoir, Alyssa chronicles the frustrating, absurd, uncanny process of re-entering her life as someone not quite the same as before.
Upcoming events:
Here’s where you can find me and pick up these hot new zines:
- November 15-16: Expozine (Montreal)
- December 5-7: City of Craft Small Zine + Paper Market (Toronto)
thanks for reading!
xoxoxo lee
