Matthew Murray's Page

Zines are pretty rad. Also: robots, bicycles, comic books, falafel, hedgehogs, dinosaurs.

I have volunteered, tabled, and run workshops at the Portland, Brighton, and London Zine Symposiums/Fairs.

I helped organize the Birmingham Zine Festival.

I created the Midlands Zinester group on this site, and have organized several meetups.

I run the 365 Zines a Year blog.

Some zines I have made (None of these are in Russian by the way, that's just cover design):

Область | Oblast
I. A Fable (December, 2009)
2. A Bicycle Trip – Vancouver, BC to Portland, Oregon (January, 2010)
3. A Ghost Story (May, 2010)
3.5. A collection of pieces printed elsewhere and nowhere.(February, 2010)
4. Laos
5. The Last Ten Videos I Watched on YouTube (April, 2010)
6. The Adventures of Clare Lane
7. tenpointfour
8. The First Midlands Zine Meetup (May, 2010)
9. The 2010 Eurovision Song Contest Finals Are On Tonight (May, 2010)
I0. Tuck Turn: Adventures in Lindy Hopping: Includes I0.5 a pull out mini-guide to lindy hop music and movies (October, 2010)
II. Places I have Slept January 1st - August 28th, 2011 (August, 2011)
I2. Potato Maze: Crisps/Chips Reviews (February, 2011)
I3. Ten More Videos I Watched On YouTube (August, 2011)

Автономная Область | Autonomous Oblast
I.5. A mix CD of songs from other mix CDs (and booklet)
2.5. A girl hip hop CD (and booklet)
4.5. A sci fi hip hop CD (and booklet)
9.5 A mix CD for the V Hive exchange
II.5. Songs I listend to on BBC Radio 6 (and booklet)
I2.5. A mix CD for the Reddit mix exchange (and booklet)
I3.5. The last mix before Canada (and booklet)

Matthew's Adventures in...
Russia: How I lost my passport and had a horrible time. Quarter sized.
Thailand/Cambodia: Backpacking fun! temples, etc. Quarter sized with fold out full size map.
Vietnam: Same trip, huge fold out map. Quarter sized with fold out 11 x 14 map. (Cannot currently make copies because of North American/Britain paper size differences.)

Other zines
Vancouver: Map/guide to part of the city. 11 x 14. (Cannot currently make copies because of North American/Britain paper size differences.)
Sugar and Snails/Slugs and Spice: A Vancouver Food Not Bombs Cooking zine. Half size flip zine.

I was also in Fine Literature #2, various issues of Stumptown Underground (which is also on ning), and the zine OW: Other Wo/Man.

More to come soooooon I hope.

Ask me if you want to trade!

I also make artist trading cards (ATCs). Here is my ATC blog, ask me if you want to trade some of those too. Though if you trade zines with me I will probably just send you one anyway.

I started the Vancouver Food Not Bombs blog last year, but nobody else seemed to want to update it, so it has just become about me going to Food Not Bombses wherever I travel.

Also: an article I wrote on zines at the Vancouver public library.