ADULTS ONLY! 32 pages, digest size, by Carrie Q Contrary & Dexter Cockburn - www.carrieqcontrary.com + thecomixcompany.ecrater.com 
This issue is a team-up between Carrie and Dexter. Carrie has one side, flip the book and Dexter's got the other half including the other cover.
Carrie's story, The Kitty Sisters, features Milly and Jilly waking up to a new day. They don't get outta the house, hell no, there's too much fun to be had together! And they sure seem to get along well!
Dexter presents another tale of The Adventure Club, actually The Mystery of the Haunted Sea Part Two (Part One appeared (I think) in Oh My! Comix #2) - this one is an extended sequence between Pop and Scooter lost at sea. Alas, Pop will never see his pet hamster again, but Scooter takes his mind away from such concerns. Ah, Scooter!

  
ADULTS ONLY! 32 pages, digest size, by Carrie Q Contrary - www.carrieqcontrary.com 
The first strip here follows a young woman's busride. She manages to have fun without the aid of iPhones or iPads. Unheard of! (I think there's a Wii or two in there though.) Next up, 'Sexy Librarian' just loves to read. Yet, it's a strange kind of reading. Perhaps she has an eyeball in her vagina? Then a young man arrives and ask her where he can return his library books. She shows him, but if you ask me, it's an unusual place to put library books. The final story involves two schoolgirls ostensibly going to a schoolboy's house to study math. They shortly get rid of him and proceed to not study math, but rather one another's anatomical delights.
For 'hot 'n' sexy' comix, Clam Juice has got it going on.

  
Here's a really great envelope from Brent Moore that arrived today. A good mail day after a very shitty work day (boss told me that if she had to give me a reference for another job she would have to say that I required constant supervision. What a morale booster! Thanks boss! Manager of the Year!) ... Anyway, back to Brent's envelope, I like the false sense of peace implied by the postage stamp. However! This tropical locale harbours multitudes of inky black, menacing horrors! Yikes!

  
Another great envelope from Dexter Cockburn, somewhat belatedly posted here on account of all the Blackguard 4 preparations of late. Nevertheless! here it is! But who is Coogee Bear? Is he related to Humphrey B Bear? We have a Coogee Beach here in Sydney - maybe Coogee Bear was from there? ... This envelope contained four new Comix Company comix which will be reviewed here very soon! Thanks Dexter!

 
16 pages, Dale Speirs, Box 6830, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2E7, CANADA. Available for $3 cash for a one-time sample copy, trade for your zine, or letter of comment.
I thought my eyes were deceiving me when I took this out of the envelope. What! A whole number? No decimal points and letters? Sure enough, Dale has gone whole numbered issues from this point forward, due to changes in his writing habits.
This issue's got another 'State of Zinedom' - a table showing how many zines and from which countries Dale received zines from, going back to 1998. His conclusion: "The total decline has levelled off. Those who are going to abandon the Papernet have already done so. The brave few survivors keep going."
Then there are letters to the editor; comments on FAPA #298; and a bunch of zine listings (the shortest review this time around being that of Apricot Blossom V2#1 - "Collage zine, in full color.")

 
Good timing to receive this great postcard from my friend Kapreles, since Blackguard #4 should be back from the printer any day now!

   
40 pages, digest size, $? [send a few bucks or email for trade], Chris Mikul, PO Box K546 Haymarket NSW 1240, AUSTRALIA + cathob[at]zip.com.au 
It had to happen sooner or later I guess, with Chris's obsession with Australian eccentrics and characters, and his prolificity with zine-making (I've said before that Bizarrism only comes out every three years or so but forget that he publishes other zines, and has books published, all at quite an impressive rate!), and since he's been living in Newtown since 1981 it was surely only a matter of time before the arrival of this zine.
Inside read all about the history of the area, local characters (for example The Mad Butcher (he rode buses for free and rearranged passengers' seating positions) and Chelsea Kovic (she waged war against the council from the window of her dilapidated boardinghouse shopfront), local landmarks now gone, street scenes, a terrific centrefold tryptych by Glenn Smith, and still more. There's also many photographs throughout. Wonderful! A really great zine which you certainly require!

 
Huzzah! Chris Mikul's Eccentropedia has just been published [by Headpress] with dozens of terrific illustrations by Glenn Smith.
Containing 266 entries, including William Blake, Captain Beefheart, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Cindric (Sydney's 'Trolleyman'), the Collyer Brothers (Uber Hoarders), Antoni Gaudi, Howard Hughes, Oofty Goofty (the human punching bag (!)) and, uh ... 255 others! You've probably stopped reading by now to zoom off and order your copy, nevertheless I'll continue by assuring you that you will absolutely treasure this book, savouring every page, and not only that, you will return to it again and again, then hand it down to your children and grandchildren. Why not splash out and order the hardback? Otherwise, wait a short while for the paperback's release on 26 June.

The Eccentropedia [Special Edition Hardback] from Headpress
The Eccentropedia paperback pre-order from Mighty Ape 
The Eccentropedia paperback pre-order from Amazon

My zine pal Gianni Simone asked me to post this:

"Former zine maker John Adams is doing time in a Texas prison. He is currently in isolation and would love to get correspondence.
John is a wonderful person full of wit and humor. He is very well read, and a dedicated letter-writer.
Please send your letters and zines to:"

John Adams 768543
Wynne Unit
810 FM 2821 Rd. W
Huntsville
TX 77349
USA

 
Jim Hayes
PO Box 1459
Marietta GA 30061
USA