Start Select Reset Zine 📑
Start Select Reset Zine (SSRZ) is a print zine, mailed to supporters four times a year.
No inbox clutter, no algorithms, just real thoughts on paper.
I don’t believe in paywalls, and the “support my email newsletter and get more email” model feels like part of the problem, not the solution. Instead, I want to send you something real. A physical artefact in a world of digital noise.
This zine exists because I would make it anyway. Your subscription keeps my creative work flowing—funding Permanently Moved, Experience.Computer, and keeps this blog’s lights on. But more than that, it supports an experiment in independent publishing, in making and sharing outside of the algorithmic churn.
Latest Issue ✉️
SSRZ #014
You Can Just Do Things
[IN STOCK]
Past Issues 📮
SSRZ #013
Symbol Dump
[3 Left!]
Issue #013 is a zine about about kpop symbols, a groundbreaking Microsoft font and the woman who helped designed it.
SSRZ #012
Shadow Boxing
[All Gone]
SSRZ #011
Noticing
[All Gone]
Noticing is a solo mapping game encouraging mindful exploration. The goal isn’t to travel far, but to observe deeply.
SSRZ #010
Something Like This
[All Gone]
This issue has an ‘aesthetic preview’ of a new creative project and contains an update on future plans at thejaymo industries
SSRZ #009
The Hows & The Whys
[All Gone]
A double essay issue. On the matter of what’s next after 301 comes to an end, and the current state of licensing data sets for training AI.
SSRZ #008
People Over Events
[All Gone]
The interior of the issue contains my most ambitious linocut print yet. Fan art of the character Zuno from J David Osbornes cyberpunk series: God’s Fare No Better!
SSRZ #007
Quiet Quests
[All Gone]
Quiet Quests is a solo RPG / Lite-LARP crafted for workplace play, inviting you to undertake a covert journey of compassion.
SSRZ #006
What!? SSR is Evolving?
[All Gone]
Includes a series of 5 hand made/cut/stamped linocut prints made my me. Newsletter reflecting on the first year of the zine and where I want to take it in future.
SSRZ #005
How Are Things?
[All Gone]
A zine inspired by a period of ‘sorting out’ in Jan.
Includes 5 short micro essays on my stuggles to be a tidy person, how Marie Kondo changed my life, losing things, labelling things, and how using a tool competes it.
SSRZ #004
Six Short Things
[All Gone]
A per-zine containing short fragments, image macros, and black and white photography.
A very personal document that captures where I was in the winter of 2022.
SSRZ #003
Jasper’s Ends
[All Gone]
Test run of a play-by-mail collective story telling game I am designing. A Slobbovia variant, loosely based on the rule’s for Carthage (1974).
Includes an essay on the power of imaginary maps to create the territory.
SSRZ #002
Return of the Real
[All Gone]
Includes an essay about *real* things.
“A return to the real is the re-integration of natural daily rhythms (where possible) into one’s life. Do you know what the moon is doing tonight? The day begins when the dawn breaks the night, not when a clock strikes midnight. The sun sets, the day ends and the night begins.”
A collection of transcripts on the attention economy, social media, and device use taken from my weekly podcast Permanently Moved.
Since its release in Sep 2019 it has been downloaded over 18,000 times. I’ve received 100’s of emails from people who have found its contents hopeful and motivating.
Past Zines
The Sega Club – Mid 90s
I’ve been making and creating zines for myself and my friends since I was about ten years old. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed—putting ideas onto paper, assembling them by hand, and sharing them.
My first ever zine came together during the summer holidays of 1994 or 1995. My friend Ben and I had a typewriter, some pens, and access to his dad’s workplace risograph machine (which we absolutely abused—an important early lesson in how zines get made!). We managed to put out three issues before moving on to other things.
Nearly thirty years later, I still get the same thrill from seeing a zine I’ve made in someones hands.
On The Rag – Early 00’s
I was a regular contributor to the RIOT GRRL / feminist punk zine – On The Rag.
Published sporadically in Margate for several years. Next time I’m at my parents I’ll dig out some more issues and take photos.
Geekzine – Early 00s
I need to dig out some old issues and photograph them.
Geekzine was the semi-regular fanzine from the Margate based Geekscene DIY collective.
Poptastic Zine – Mid 00s
Absolute hipster bait. I don’t have any issues of this at all despite running for 20 something issues 🙁
If you picked up any copies of this zine in Dalston/Shoreditch/Nottingham/Leeds between 05-07 and still have one tucked away, please send me documentation! 🙏
Zine and Not Heard – 2011-15
ZANH was started by Tommy and Joel in 2011. A London based zine on at the forefront of the modern emo revival. I was a regular contributor to issues: Gig reviews, album reviews, live photos etc.
Floating Worlds
Floating worlds is a semi-regular journal/zine on the subject of worlds. Made by a group chat.
The zine included essays from Tonk, J David Osborne, AWTNMY, Me, A manifesto from the AUTONOMOUS CULTURE RESEARCH BUREAU, OPNPC, and Kitty Mayo. And includes a games corner with a word search and a pastry related solo RPG.
