Halliday, Ayun. The East Village Inky.
The East Village Inky is a long-running, quarter-size, photocopied, text-heavy, handwritten, black and white mama comic-zine with delightfully haphazard, messy but simple illustrations. The East Village Inky has a distinct appearance with crammed pages full of text, pictures, and footnotes in the bottom margins of multiple pages. The zine features autobiographical stories along with movie reviews, recipes, travel tips, and photo-booth pictures.
The East Village Inky chronicles an accordion-owning, insomniac Hoosier mama and her husband, both actors, who live with their two children in a 340 square-foot apartment in Brooklyn. It is distributed through mail-order subscriptions and is carried at a number of independent bookstores. It has run consistently since 1999.
In, “Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community,” Alison Peipmeier describes how the zine’s format allows the “narratives to operate with a visual energy and fluidity that the linear typescript of a standard book or magazine cannot accommodate” (2008, 222). Peipmeier explains that readers of The East Village Inky find it delightfully personal, with an intimate quality, and found its smallness and messily handwritten style as being integral to their enjoyment of it (2009, 224). The ‘scrappy messinees’ of The East Village Inky functions, for Peipmeier, “in part, to create a sense of fondness between reader and creater, to create connection” (2009, 67).
Halliday is also the author of Big Rumpus (2002), No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (2003), Job Hopper (2005), Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste (2006), Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo (2009), The Zinester's Guide to NYC (2010), and the graphic novel Peanut (2012). Additionally, Halliday's teenage son Milo runs an active graphic novel and comics review blog The Graphic Novelologist.
The East Village Inky is included in the West Coast Zine Collection at San Diego State University, the New York Public Library's zine collection, Barnard College's Zine Library, ABC No Rio's Zine Library and the Sallie Bingham Center's Collection at Duke University. The zine is suitable to academic and public libraries, as well as various zine collections.
The East Village Inky is a long-running, quarter-size, photocopied, text-heavy, handwritten, black and white mama comic-zine with delightfully haphazard, messy but simple illustrations. The East Village Inky has a distinct appearance with crammed pages full of text, pictures, and footnotes in the bottom margins of multiple pages. The zine features autobiographical stories along with movie reviews, recipes, travel tips, and photo-booth pictures.
The East Village Inky chronicles an accordion-owning, insomniac Hoosier mama and her husband, both actors, who live with their two children in a 340 square-foot apartment in Brooklyn. It is distributed through mail-order subscriptions and is carried at a number of independent bookstores. It has run consistently since 1999.
In, “Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community,” Alison Peipmeier describes how the zine’s format allows the “narratives to operate with a visual energy and fluidity that the linear typescript of a standard book or magazine cannot accommodate” (2008, 222). Peipmeier explains that readers of The East Village Inky find it delightfully personal, with an intimate quality, and found its smallness and messily handwritten style as being integral to their enjoyment of it (2009, 224). The ‘scrappy messinees’ of The East Village Inky functions, for Peipmeier, “in part, to create a sense of fondness between reader and creater, to create connection” (2009, 67).
Halliday is also the author of Big Rumpus (2002), No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (2003), Job Hopper (2005), Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste (2006), Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo (2009), The Zinester's Guide to NYC (2010), and the graphic novel Peanut (2012). Additionally, Halliday's teenage son Milo runs an active graphic novel and comics review blog The Graphic Novelologist.
The East Village Inky is included in the West Coast Zine Collection at San Diego State University, the New York Public Library's zine collection, Barnard College's Zine Library, ABC No Rio's Zine Library and the Sallie Bingham Center's Collection at Duke University. The zine is suitable to academic and public libraries, as well as various zine collections.