New Fancy Zines Out! (Patreon)

We've got some new Fancy Zines out! We have three new Fancy Zines out today! Although, one of them is a double zine, so it's sorta like it's four zines out. Find them all at www.tangledwilderness.org and as part of a Fancy Zine Bundle. And for $5+ Patrons, remember that your discount code applies!

Like Mushrooms After the Rain: The Jewish Anarchists of Bialystok

This half-letter sized zine was beautifully printed by Eberhardt Press with cover art and illustrations by Casandra Johns.

This is an incomplete history of some poor Jewish teenagers who spread a ton of anarchy from one small corner of the Russian Empire between 1903 and 1907. They identified the entire social order as their enemy and set about attacking it with words, daggers, bullets, fire, and bombs—lots of bombs. They believed in insurrection and the sanctity of the unrestrained idea. They despised the professional “revolutionaries” who suffocated revolt and the Jewish traitors who stood among their oppressors. They traveled restlessly, forged bonds across the continent, and convened large meetings under the open sky. They constantly reinvented themselves, claiming new names and formations when it suited them. They spoke in Yiddish, language of the unassimilated Jewish poor, and some of them knew how to write it. They called themselves terrorists. They loved each other.

Their rebellion was crushed by executions and reforms. From exile, one of them wrote: “It is necessary right now to create one contrary, antithetical spot in the huge picture which represents democracy. Just one spot. It will flare up and then be extinguished. But it will leave a trace.

Baba Yaga Burns Paris To the Ground

by Wren Awry

This is a half-letter sized zine that is a reprint of an old Strangers title. Cover art by Ben Passmore.

As the Paris Commune of 1871 fought desperately against its own suppression, much of the city was set ablaze. Conservative journalists, desperate for a scapegoat, invented the pétroleuses—torch-wielding women desperate to burn everything. In this text, fairy-tale critic Wren Awry ties the pétroleuses into a long line of mythologized fire-wielding devil-women—women like Baba Yaga, the youngest sister in the Grimms’ “Fitcher’s Bird,” and the women burned during the great witch hunts of early Modern Europe—as a source of revolutionary inspiration.

Hurrah for Anarchy/Anarchism & Its Misunderstanders

by Margaret Killjoy

This zine is a double-sided zine with two covers, just like a pulpy sci-fi novel. It features two zines by Margaret Killjoy, printed and bound beautifully by Eberhardt Press with black cardstock covers with silver lettering. Hurrah for Anarchy has cover art by Casandra Johns. Anarchism & Its Misunderstanders has cover art by @jesse.lee_art (on Instagram). Find this double zine as part of a bundle with some of our other fancy zines to save a couple bucks. Hurrah For Anarchy: a History of Haymarket, Mayday, and the Chicago Anarchists is a history of the the Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago who were tried and executed simply for being anarchists.

Anarchism & Its Misunderstanders is an essay on the history of anarchism and how it’s been misunderstood as a political strategy.