The Prism #1 – a Mindless Zine
October 5th, 2010
UPDATE: PLOK’S ESSAY IS NOW FIXED!
Finally, here it is. The Prism is the first and possibly the last (but by no means the least) Mindless Zine, beautifully designed by our Dan White.
We have:
Sean Witzke on Casanova
Amypoodle, Bobsy and Zom on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
Go Robo 4, a new strip by Dan White
David Allison on Brian Chppendale’s Ninja and Maggots
Andrew Hickey on comics and Christmas (that’s how late this little project is)
Plok on Kirby’s celestial dreams
The Satrap rogue reviews Kang
It’s a big file, 19 megabytes of non-stop, comics oriented, PDF action, but it’s worth it, because you’re worth it. Download from Mediafire here.
If you have any problems getting hold of the file let us know!
October 5th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Excellent stuff, look forward to reading the shit out of it.
The cover reminds me of this excellent piece of work, from charity shop staple ‘Hot Money’:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wqkIxzoRL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
I love prismatic horses.
October 5th, 2010 at 10:34 am
So do we. Specially flying ones
October 5th, 2010 at 10:57 am
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by James Baker, Kieron Gillen, joel, Duncan Falconer, Mindless Ones and others. Mindless Ones said: THE MINDLESS ZINE IS FINALLY HERE http://bit.ly/cKWI8J League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Casanova, Kirby, Ninja, Maggots, Kang, Go Robo 4 [...]
October 6th, 2010 at 1:47 am
looking over what i wrote about a thousand months ago, it’s rough and ready, badly punctuated, the syntax is fucked, but… bollocks. try to enjoy.
October 6th, 2010 at 7:56 am
I’m most of the way through the LOEG stuff. This is the absolute business. Oddly, I don’t care about the typos as I normally might; it actually makes it look properly ziney, like it’s critically important that you had to xerox this draft for me right now before we both get any older and possibly die. This is going to be the living and pleasantly tentacled definition of appointment reading if, AS IT MUST, it reaches a second issue. Thank you, Mindless Ones.
October 6th, 2010 at 9:23 am
This is a thing of rare beauty, yes. Thanks for letting me be a part of it!
October 6th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Hellz Yeah.
October 6th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Is there an alternate place someone could upload it? Mediafire doesn’t seem to work on my PC (probably because I’m at work and shouldn’t be reading about comics all day).
October 6th, 2010 at 10:11 am
There’s probably nowhere where we could upload from which you could download it at work. Try it when you get home, if you still have problems contact us by email and we’ll try to sort something out
October 6th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I have tons of server space on my blog. Would gladly upload it there tonight when I get home…
October 6th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
I could upload it to my wordpress account tonight if you want. I have tons of server space…
October 6th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
[...] I wrote a piece for it, but frankly my piece is pretty pathetic (it was towards the fag end of last year when I was going through writer’s block), but it also has Pillock, Sean Witzke, David Allison (who’s recently joined the Mindless) and the Mindless on board, so if you like good writing about comics, get it here [...]
October 6th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
That would be brill, Andrew. Let me know once you’ve done it and I’ll bung up an alternative link.
October 6th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Hum, and I’m sort of enjoying the dissonance-cut of it, but apparently my Acrobat can’t find the font Thonburi so bits of Plok’s piece are illegible.
Techy advices??!
October 6th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Ah, reading the comments on sexual violence in Moore’s work, and then Neonomicon #2 the next day… very interesting…
October 6th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Yankee cocktease!
October 6th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Yes, quite a few lines in the Plok article are completely illegible on my computer.
But otherwise, what a mammoth feast that I will slowly chew my way through.
October 7th, 2010 at 6:31 am
Oh, how unfortunate! But man, all those weird symbols interfering with my words look kinda cool, don’t they? Kirbyesque hieroglyphs! Probably some Cosmic Being’s genetic code downloading into Zine-Space.
Hey, I can’t complain! It’s saving me from suffering by comparison with everybody else’s amazing pieces. The sentimental favourite, unsurprisingly, being the freakin’ magisterial 1910 work, WOW…!
But it’s a real close field, ain’t it?
(Damn it, that’s my favourite Brit-Bat Villain Contest Winner on the cover, I’m sure of it! WOO-HOO!)
October 7th, 2010 at 7:00 am
[...] hustle on over, won’t you, to the land of the Mindless Ones, there to peruse a whole lot of perambulations around a point by me, fortunately bracketed by some [...]
October 7th, 2010 at 7:56 am
The font problem is easy to fix – just get whoever created the font to set the program to embed all fonts in the PDF. It’ll make the file size larger, but it’s the only way to get it viewable on every computer. I learned that one the hard way with PEP! :-/
I’ll save the reuploading til that’s done…
October 7th, 2010 at 8:14 am
I’m not the me-own-trumpet-blowing type, well, no more so than anyone, usually, but anyway, the fact that I nailed the Percy Paynter ref. in the King’s X section of 1910? (Which I have since double checked and am totally spot on certain about.)
Go me.
October 7th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Such sharp stuff!
October 7th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Plok, I can only apologise, mate. It worked fine on my work computer so I didn’t think there was a problem. Unfortunately we need Dan to intervene but he’s rather busy this week.
Once it’s fixed I’ll do everything in my power to get people to read it
October 7th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Don’t sweat it, Zom!
October 7th, 2010 at 11:15 am
A lovely thing God wot. The 1910 review was just enthralling. I thought I’d been paying attention, but you turned up aspects I’d never thought of.
Do let us know when there’s an edition up with the full Plok. Not that him being interrupted by cosmic static wasn’t a chuckle; I mean you naturally expect that if people keep enquiring into Kirby with the proper enthusiasm, eventually the alphabet will blow a fuse.
Applause!
October 7th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Thanks Jonathan. If we do it again we promise less typos, etc…
October 7th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
I think we should a massive annos for 1969 no matter what.
October 7th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
So do I
October 7th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
SO DO I…!
October 7th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Oh, I see I’m completely repaired! Awesome. Er…it’s written a bit turgid though, don’t suppose there’s anything you guys can do about…?
Oh right, that part was me, not the formatting.
October 10th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
[...] been very busy putting a PDF ‘zine together, and finally, it’s here! So go check out The Prism, which includes a Casanova piece by Sean Witzke, a comic strip, and a massive [...]
October 13th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
[...] to it here because the past week I haven’t been home (NYCC was a hell of a great time), but the Mindless Ones’ long-in-production PDF zine has finally dropped. It’s called The Pris…. It features a massive anti-annotations by Zom, Bobsy and Amypoodle on the latest Alan [...]
January 5th, 2011 at 2:10 am
[...] I wrote for David Brothers’ Booze, Broads, and Bullets week, the Casanova piece I wrote for the Mindless crew, the piece I wrote for Escape from Suicide Wolf Forest, and collaborating with Jog and Seneca. The [...]
March 31st, 2011 at 9:17 pm
i’d love to read this–is a repost possible?
March 31st, 2011 at 10:10 pm
There’s a link at the top of the sidebar, and…
Now the link in this post is fixed
September 5th, 2011 at 1:18 am
Re-repost? Would love to read the Casanova piece.
September 20th, 2011 at 1:50 am
Seconded. It would be dreadful to have a quality work like this disappear completely.
Why is it being taken down, again and again?
September 20th, 2011 at 8:48 am
I’m not sure what you guys are talking about. Click the link on the sidebar – works for me, anyway.