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Some classic strips from that issue of KNAVE
TALES OF THE JOLLY ROGER by "JT Dogg"'...and a one-page panel gag, plus a two-page SLUG toon by "Randy"
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ZINE REVIEWS: “Who said zines are dead?"
MY MAILBOX doesn’t bulge like it did 20 years ago with zines, but my heart still skips a beat when a small package or envelope arrives filled with Xeroxed (or professionally printed) self-published...
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FOOTY AUTOBIOGRAPHY REVIEWS: "KB" and "Richo" - Five years too late, five...
WELL, another footy season is over and the mighty Hawthorn Hawks achieved a THREE-PEAT of AFL premierships over the hapless West Coast Eagles.Leading up to last Saturday's grand final, it seemed the...
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DVD REVIEWS "Unfriended" and "Cooties"
I got turned onto these indie horror fillum via the magic of YouTube where following one movie preview link can quickly send you tumbling down a rabbit hole of celluloid "delight".The problem with...
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Anyone for soup? The truth about Blank Room Soup
THE video is called Blank Room Soup and recently it’s been an internet sensation of sorts, believed by some to be some kinda perverted home movie. While it is genuinely unsettling, the video is fake....
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MOVIE REVIEW: Samurai Cop 2 (2015)
LAST year, I reviewed a dumb-as-fuck 1991 action fillum titled Samurai Cop. That should have been the end of the story, but no.While we were taking the piss – and ogling some fine boobage – a group...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Bare Behind Bars (1980)
FANS of “Women In Prison” (WIP) flicks will bloody love Bare Behind Bars, which is regarded by some critics as the granddaddy of this sicko genre.If you like lesbian sex – inmate-on-inmate,...
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Horror Block for April: The unboxing (or "This was nearly 28 days later than...
LAST month's Horror Block took its own sweet time getting to my Sydney PO box, but it finally arrived last Friday. Sooooooo.....let's get started.Ooooooh......the...
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Zines ain't dead.....just coughing up blood
Biblio-Curiosa #6: Bad poetry (William Nathan Stedman), sick perversion among the upper classes (Ride The Nightmare byWard Greene), murder and madness in Sydney (Twisted Clay by Frank Walford) and the...
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Horror Block for August: Psycho!
THRILL me, Nerd Block. Your horror sampler box sucked, but let's see if this box - the first of a new three-box subscription - has anything that grabs my attention.Pandora's box is opened.The house...
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Horror Block for September: Shit
RIGHTO, Horror Block. Wow me!Hmmmmmmmm........okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay................Fuck yeah! Leatherface! Can't wait to put this baby on. Oh....wait....I showed it to my wife and kids at home that...
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Memories of Max
I THINK it was THAT bowling action that first caught my attention as a child: the awkward run-in as he approached the bowling crease – limbs seemingly going in four different directions – followed by...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Boys In The Trees (Australia, 2016)
Boys In The Trees (Australia, 2016)Dir. Nicholas VersoCAST: Toby Wallace, Gulliver McGrath, Mitzi Ruhlmann I WANTED to like new Australian horror/fantasy film Boys In The Trees, I really did. There's...
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Horror Block for October: Got Sole!
My final box from NerdBlock. Oooooh.....I can't wait. It has a Stephen King theme!The anticipation builds....Oh.I wasn't into the book or movie. So I guess I'll sell it on eBay.Now THIS is better. A...
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Article 1
DEAR AMANDA,Please forgive me. I’m afraid I fell a little out of love with you for a while and I want you to understand why.I first became a fan of your punk-cabaret stylings in 2011 when I saw you...
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MARCH ZINES ROUND-UP
HARD-COPY zines - yes, they still exist. Obviously.I don't receive as many as I used to, but here are a couple that landed in my mailbox in recent months.SPRAK! Vol. 2 No. 12 (Kami McInnes, PO Box...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Colossal (2016, USA)
I’M NOT certain what sorta audience Colossalis aiming for. I think audiences COULD get behind a quirky mash-up of Godzilla-style monster flicks and small-town romantic comedies, but what will they make...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Raw (2016, France)
I WAS reminded me of a 1982 short story by Stephen King called Survivor Type while watching director Julia Ducournau’s shocking 2016 movie Raw. In the story, a crooked surgeon is marooned on an...
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MOVIE MONDAY REVIEW #2: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
I'VE heard much about this TV special that the Beatles put together themselves soon after manager Brian Epstein's death. I'd read that it wasn't very good, self-indulgent and lacking Epstein's critical...
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I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
AFTER three years......the new issue of BP is out now. Email me (or comment below) if you're interested in buying a copy. It's 24 A4 pages of adults only ziney goodness. :)
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ZINE/COMIX REVIEW: Stratu’s Diary Comix
Stratu’s Diary Comix #1, #2: I’ve known Stratu for nearly 20 years, but I didn’t KNOW him till I read the first two issues of this fascinating comic/zine. Through words and pictures, Stratu gives...
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Four-book review #1
LAST Christmas, me and the family made our semi-annual pilgrimage to the dry, dusty mid-north of South Australia to visit Peterborough – a once-majestic railway town, now slowly dying in this...
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Farewell to a briefcase
THE briefcase is battered and beaten. It has been smashed over large men's heads at wrestling events, splashed with beer and spirits during drunken benders in seedy pubs, and been carted over much of...
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Book reviews: Four-play revisited
THE last time we went to Peterborough was this past April to visit my dad in a nursing home in a nearby town and visit my mum as she prepared to leave the house they’d lived in for 25 years and move...
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The greatest issue of the greatest porn magazine ever!
BACK when I was a teenager - in the mid-80s - Knave was the bee's knees when it came to grumble mags. The English publication had hot pictorials, a sharp sense of humour, literate reviews of...
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