If you’re looking for zines by Chris Auman, you’re on the correct page. Check out some of the titles I’ve published over the years.
Zines by Chris Auman
My longest-running title is a zine called Reglar Wiglar, established in 1993. More recently I have published a lit zine, and a review zine as well as other satirical publications.
Reglar Wiglar
Reglar Wiglar is a zine that was first published from 1993 to 2005. (Read more about Reglar Wiglar’s genesis here!) It existed in the print medium. We didn’t have all that cyber stuff back in ’93, not like now. Eventually, real interviews with real bands and comic artists started appearing.
Used Records & Tapes
For those who are unfamiliar,Used Records & Tapes takes an oftentimes funny, sometimes poignant, and mostly nostalgic look at records of decades past. The zine was started by myself and Mike Dixon back in 2020 with an issue published every year since. Since the first issue landed more contributors have entered the fray.
Gray Flag
From 1990 to 1993, I was enrolled in the Story Workshop program at Columbia College Chicago. Participants were required to keep a journal for writing exercises and story ideas. My Gray Flag zine series collects some of those entries along with various drawings and doodles.
Forgotten Music Masters
Forgotten Music Masters takes a satiric look at made-up music icons. It features contributions from myself and funny guy Deron Grams. This zine highlights bands, performers, and genres lost to history, if only because they never existed in the first place.
Ridiculous Fiction
I invented the Ridiculous Fiction genre to justify the absurdity of the short stories I wrote as a college student in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. The first issue contains the story “Old Joe” and a more recent comic “The Sheridan Park Massacre.”
“Old Joe” is a spoof of the classic Man vs Nature literary theme. Will Bill Billson become a man after a successful hunt with his father and grandfather? “The Sheridan Park Massacre” tells the tale of a rage-filled evening of insecticide. The horror!