New Zines – A Stranger to Myself and others

Hello again

It’s been ten years since I photocopied my last zine, and I don’t think I tabled that anywhere or wrote about that one at all. So consider this a long overdue zine update, as well as some of the zines I’ve written this year after a decade long hiatus.

This is the Day, 2015, A6, 40 pages

This was written in the year I turned 30, and is about living alone for the first time and my own propensity for aloneness. It’s interesting to me to read over it now, 8 years into living on my own in various places. It’s also a little bit about dating and getting into relationships and making your life change in the ways that you want.

Box Box Baby, 2025, A6, 44 pages

This zine is about my current obsession, Formula 1, but is also about sports fandoms, rivalries, and how the narratives we create about sport can be as satisfying and delusional as the narratives we create about ourselves. Consider it a primer to Formula 1 from the perspective of someone who doesn’t play or watch any other sports. No wheel knowledge required. Cover is an illustration of the McLaren rear brake by Rosario Giuliana.

Panacea for Loneliness #5, 2025, A6, 16 pages

This is number five in my series about my favourite films. This one is about films I’ve seen in the last five or so years, and is very loosely linked around the theme of grief (although not really intentionally). Think Aftersun, Personal Shopper, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and more.

A Stranger to Myself, 2025, A5, 64 pages

In 2024, after a period of pretty intense burnout, I took five months off work to travel around South America with a friend. This hefty tome is a travel diary of my experiences across Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Treat this as a virtual holiday, or as a travel guide to your own trip. I tried, but I don’t think I was able to convey how incredibly transformative this was. I miss everything every day.

All of these will be at the Northern Beaches Libraries zine fair on 26 July and Other Worlds zine fair on 2 August 2025. See you there!

x Amanda B