Illustration Course - Zines Unit 2010
Level 2 Illustration BA(HONS) students at the University of Portsmouth, have now finished working hard on a 4 week zine project. Groups of 6 or 7 students could select any theme and production method, as long as they made a set of completed zines. We had a group presentation , to celebrate what was created. Their Zines are now lodged in Zineopolis here's a list of what was made...

Monsters Jenny Lee, Jo Philpot, Lisa Gunn, Jenny Wem, Caroline Nickless, Ruth Waterhouse, Sarah Cochrane
Patent Pending Shaun Hillyer, Gavin Churcher, Nicky Smith, Nicky Turville, Sam Baker, Sabrina Homewood
Eat Your Broken Heart Out Sara Seppala, Rebecca Wink, Kajal Ramanuj, Samira Simmons, Nicola Fox, Terry Oakley
Space For Dreams (A) Hattie Hilsden, Jess Foyle, Zoe Jackson, Luke Hodges, Matthew Dewhurst, Katie Pascoe
Love (or) Hate Katie Astles, Katie Bulbeck, Mirella Gabraiel, Lesley-Anne Driscoll, Lucy Doherty, Ben Hoath, Lucas Maksym
Litter Tom Keegan, Ben Dabell, Jamie Savill, Rebecca Lago, John Pullen, Nigel Sharman, Spencer Mcintosh
Twenty Pence Fleece Jade Spranklen, Steve Dunn, Lorna Harrington, Kam Hassan, Tom Smalley, Liam Lonergan and
Richard Hughes

We still have a HUGE pile of new zines waiting to be added to the site, but they will be scanned and added eventually


New ZINES just added! - September 2009
Compact News No.2 Kevin Boniface
Phlegm Comic No.8 Phlegm
Phlegm Comic No.7 Phlegm
Prakalpana Literature No.23 Vattacharja Chandan
Coin Mark Strafford

New ZINES just added! - April 2009
Jason (Zineopolis research assistant) has just added these new zines to our site:
Bomblizzard I.Morgenmuffel, N.Stu, S.Larder, A.Fleet, N.Angell, E.Christodoulou, Map Map and J.Downing
Sound of Drowning (The) Paul O'Connell
Snow Day (The Period) Lucy Pawlak
Horse Tom Pearce
How to Survive a Bear Attack TK

New ZINES just added! - March 2009
Little Book of Wierd Dreams Danielle Churm, Fay Dalton, John Keaveny, Sophie Payne, Marie Stiles
Magic Carpet Beaver Shack Emily Regan, Karina Nyss, Tim Clark, Kalie Kitchenham, Holly Hilton, Nina Alexander
Collecting Odds & Sods Nikou Nazaripour, leila Hegan, Megan Barton, Lesley-Ann Driscoll, Jodie Tipper, Joe Sisson
Quirks Lauren Van Niekerk, Emily Harper, Ian Tiseo, Phil O'Connor, Paula Ide, Julia Fitzpatrick
Panic Society Paul Wardski, Michael Dane, Ashley John, Mike Purdy and Arran Macintosh
Obzine Roberta Collins, Jacob Bryant, Amy Forston, Gary Hall, Rachel Sergison, Cerian Rousset
Dreams Adam Weeks, Adam Insam, Ashley Watson, Alex Powell, Nicola Collins, Neil Badman

New ZINES just added! - March 2009
Future Fantasteek! Issue No.6 Damp Flat Books
Bear, (The) Gemma Correll
Lairs Daniel Swan
Zine Arcade Two Andrew Owen Johnston (Editor)
You Can Play Rachel Ortas
Think ? Richard Webb, Erlan Masson, Rachel Leech, Chee Leung
Anxiety Candice Cummings
Shebang Liv Willars and Lyndsey Woods

Research Assistants Feb - March 2009
Chris Mayhew and Jason James have just started working with Zineopolis as research assistants, they'll be adding new zines to the site and adding to the links and information. Jason has just added these new zines to our site:
Eighty-Seven Birds Silje Camilla
Sheds Nigel Peake
Secret Laboratory, (from the) Hendrik Dorgathen
Awkwardists, (The) Emma Rendel

New additions to the collection during Jan 2009:
Misfits -Girls Who Draw Collective
Future Fantasteek! Issue No.5 Credit Crunch - Damp Flat Books
Uamou From Another Planet Issue 1 Ayako Takagi
Uamou From Another Planet Issue 2 Ayako Takagi
Birthday Book Karoline Rerrie
In a Tizzy Issue 2 Candice Cummings
Eat You Up Sarah Lynch
A Haunting Sonia Hope
Write Soon Sonia Hope
Half Baked Karoline Rerrie
And a more, waiting for me to be photograph them...

Comica Comiket small press fair sat Nov 22 to comics zine creators please. For more details and information about how to exhibit and sell at the ICA that day. visit www.paulgravett.com

Cheltenham Illustration Awards - October 2008
Guest lecture by Jackie Batey about starting the Zineopolis Collection and independent publishing for students.
Many examples of zines held in the collection were shown onscreen and handed round the audience.

"A one day Symposium that explores autonomous career pathways for Illustration graduates and professionals. We have a distinguished line-up of speakers, who are all keen to discuss the proposal that illustrators will only find creative satisfaction through self-expression and creating work that is meaningful to them, and not dependent on short-lived trends or dictates of the graphic design industry. The Symposium will take place at Pittville Studios, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham on Wednesday the 15 October 2008, and will coincide with the presentation ceremony of the second Cheltenham Illustration Awards." Flyer copy




New additions to the collection during May-June 2008:
In a Tizzy Candice Cummings
More Pentagrams and Statements Keith J. Varadi
Hooked issue 2 MJAR and guest artists
Some Of My Best Friends Are... Sonia Hope
Sour Leaves Brendan Monroe
Uamou From Another Planet Issue 3 Ayako Takagi
USA Pinky
Vain, Issue 2 Tia Orian (Executive editor), Zachary Goehner (Art Director)

Illustration Course - Zines Unit, Feb-March 2008
Level 2 students on the Illustration BA(HONS) Course at the University of Portsmouth, worked in small groups for 6 weeks to produce a batch of zines.
The choice of subject matter, format and style were up to the students and no help was provided from tutors, this was a tuly independent project!
The results were exciting and durig a group presentation all groups reviewed each others work and applause decided the favourites.
See a selection of this years zines:
Nostalgia Susan Meredith, David Neal, Angela Marlow, Kim Mendonca, Chris Mayhew
Decades David Williams, Jasmine Chandler, Charlotte Byles, Charlotte Hocklet, David Booth
Fashion Helen Wakerley, Andy Parkes, Layla Brook, Rebecca Molyneux, Leanne Wade, Monique Upton-Jubber

26th April 2008
Press & Release Zines and Artists' Book Exhibition - Phoenix Gallery in Brighton, UK.
26 April – 7 June, 2008
The Press & Release Zines Exhibition is great and well worth a visit. I visited the exhibition on behalf of Zineopolis and bought a selection of books and zines for the collection. I'll list the titles here, when they've been photographed and catalogued and added to our listings.



February-March 2008
Zineopolis Exhibition in The University Library, University of Portsmouth
From 22nd February -14th March 2008
Zineopolis is showing some examples of our growing collection.

October 2007
Zineopolis has now properly launched! Supported by the University, this collection will build-up over the next few years, aligned to the Illustration Course BA(hons). We have been given the go-ahead to collect zines and start an online version of the collection. This collection also supports a unit within illustration, where our students will be producing zines and multilpes.
The site is being built and tested at the moment, so what you see here, is the first draft. Keep visiting us later to see how the collection is building-up.
We are hoping to have exhibitions of our zines and trades with other collections.

November and December 2007
Zineopolis visited the London Artists' Bookfair and the new titles purchased are now up on the site.
See the following titles: Caroline Et Ses Amis; Mexico; Outsider Cycle; What are you collecting now Mark?; Bio Auto Graphic; Cog & Balls and Parasites. Future Fantasteek! Issues 2 and 3 have also just been added along with Compact News by Kevin Boniface.