Welcome to Spidertown! Straight outta the imagination of Claire KruΜeger and Sean Rose, “Spidertown” sorta feels like reading transcripts from an exceptionally strange public access television network. The zine features missives and thoughts from the residents of the eponymous town, adverts for local businesses (such as “Colonial Fumes”, tagline: “the only antique perfume for American Girl Dolls”), and even a page full of classified ads. One of my favorite parts of the zine was the centerfold: a full-color field guide to the stray cats of Spidertown that will make you wish you could adopt Junior Mint (described as having “the cutest little meows you ever did hear”) or Chonk (“will do anything for a hot dog.”) And while Spidertown-resident Cart might think that it “ain’t a place so much as a shitty state of mind”, I thoroughly enjoyed my jaunt through this imaginary place, and hope to return if/when another issue is published. π Details: 26 pages, b&w w/ color covers and centerfold, square-ishπ : $12 π : instagram β’ email |
Welcome to Spidertown! Straight outta the imagination of Claire KruΜeger and Sean Rose, “Spidertown” sorta feels like reading transcripts from an exceptionally strange public access television network. The zine features missives and thoughts from the residents of the eponymous town, adverts for local businesses (such as “Colonial Fumes”, tagline: “the only antique perfume for American Girl Dolls”), and even a page full of classified ads. One of my favorite parts of the zine was the centerfold: a full-color field guide to the stray cats of Spidertown that will make you wish you could adopt Junior Mint (described as having “the cutest little meows you ever did hear”) or Chonk (“will do anything for a hot dog.”) And while Spidertown-resident Cart might think that it “ain’t a place so much as a shitty state of mind”, I thoroughly enjoyed my jaunt through this imaginary place, and hope to return if/when another issue is published.
π Details: 26 pages, b&w w/ color covers and centerfold, square-ishπ : $12
π : instagram β’ email