South East Asia

[sandy]

Hey, does anyone know of zinesters, distros or libraries in Singapore, Malaysia or anywhere else in South-East Asia?

Really keen to see what might be around my old hometown. :)

[Dave Roche]

Jason Lee does the zine "Awareness" from Singapore, but I don't know if he's still making them. Cher, who is totally awesome, does a zine called "Two Seconds Notice." She also runs a distro and co-runs the site lioncitydiy.com, which is pretty great. Muhsin, who I got to meet and who was great, runs a distro called Shaded Out Press.

In Malaysia I got the zines "Bebal" (a music zine in Bahasa), "Prasasti Hujung Langit" (English and Bahasa), and Mosh" (English; the guy who makes it is on WMZ). I also got a zine called "Deadpigs" (English) which I think is from Malaysia. I unfortunately didn't make it to the Ricecooker Shop when I was in Kuala Lumpur, but I've head they're great. I did, however, spend some time at the Studio Shop Space in Kuala Lumpur and they had some zines there. (They also had Krissy's zine, "Figure 8" hanging on the wall. Awesome!) I went to a place called Embrace Hall in Johor Bahru that was an infoshop with tons of stencils all over. They carried a few zines. It looks like they are now called Gerila Kafe, or maybe that's an offshoot? I'm not sure.

And finally I got the Philippine zine "I Remember Halloween" and "Peng Ke Shen Me", which might be from the U.S., but it's about the Taiwan and South Asian punk scenes.

[sandy]

Thanks, guys! That's heaps more than what I expected. :)

[Matthew Mu]

Rice Cooker was mostly music when I was there a few years ago, I don't remember any zines. It did just reopen I think, and it wasss several years ago, so my information is probably out of date. I did see a few at local shows in KL, but they were all in Bahasa.

There was a bit of a scene in Jogjakarta in Indonesia I think. Or at least I bought a mini comic from someone at an...alternative art fair thing. I am forgetting all the details from when I was there!

[Saling Pusa Distro/closed]

yeah it's a nice little distro.

kitty magic said:

i was gonna say shaded out press, because i randomly clicked on their website awhile ago, and thought it would be cool to have some of my zines in asia.

[muhsin shadedoutpress]

Thank you for your kind words. And yeah zine submissions are always appreciated & accepted at shaded out press. By the way i just received your mail Sally. I will contact you soon. Cheers!

Saling Pusa (I Am) said:

yeah it's a nice little distro.

kitty magic said:

i was gonna say shaded out press, because i randomly clicked on their website awhile ago, and thought it would be cool to have some of my zines in asia.