01 // A zine in the post, four times a year
A print zine, mailed to you 📑
SSRZ is my quarterly print zine. Subscribe from £5 a month and I’ll post you a copy four times a year, just like it’s 1994.
No paywall, no bonus emails. Just a printed publication in the post.
I make SSRZ because I like making zines. A subscription means I can keep my other creative work going, print it properly, put it in an envelope, and send it to you four times a year.
02 // What turns up in the envelope
Printed 🖨️
30+ pages, A5, properly printed on heavy stock with thick covers.
Hand Finished ✋
Hand stamped twice — copy number and logo. Sometimes linocut prints, inserts, and stickers turn up in the envelope too.
Essays & Games 🎲
Long-form essays, solo RPGs, symbol dumps, and print companions to Permanently Moved — with material that doesn’t exist anywhere else.
Posted Worldwide 📮
Four mailings a year, wherever you are. Sent as printed booklets with full customs declarations where possible.
03 // The current issue
Monsters in the Mirror
The print companion to episode 302 of Permanently Moved. An essay about artificial intelligence and cultural mirrors — mirrors as magical surfaces, instruments of mastery, and habitats.
36 pages, A5, with an introduction and afterword that don’t exist in the audio. Subscribers got theirs by snail mail.
04 // Subscribe
Pick a way to support the work 💪
Both options get you the same zine, four times a year. Start whenever; cancel whenever.
05 // Every issue so far
Issues since 2019. Print runs are small and every back issue sells out — subscribers are the only people guaranteed to get each issue as it lands.
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Monsters In The Mirror
The print companion to episode 302 of Permanently Moved — an essay on AI and cultural mirrors.
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NOTICING
A solo mapping game for mindful exploration — the goal isn’t to travel far, but to observe deeply.
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Something Like This
An aesthetic preview of a new creative project, plus an update on plans at thejaymo industries.
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The Hows & The Whys
A double essay: what comes after 301 ends, and the state of licensing data sets to train AI.
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People Over Events
My most ambitious linocut yet — fan art of Zuno from J David Osborne’s God’s Fare No Better!
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How Are Things?
Five micro essays on struggling to be a tidy person, after a January spent sorting out.
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Jasper’s Ends
A play-by-mail collective storytelling game — a Slobbovia variant, loosely based on Carthage (1974).
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Your Attention Is Sovereign
Transcripts on the attention economy and device use, from Permanently Moved. Downloaded 18,000+ times.
06 // Thirty years of zines
I’ve been making and creating zines for myself and my friends since I was about ten years old. Putting ideas onto paper, assembling them by hand, and sharing them.
The Sega Club
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 someone’s hands.
On The Rag
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.
Zine and Not Heard
ZANH was started by Tommy and Joel in 2011 — a London zine at the forefront of the modern emo revival. I was a regular contributor: gig reviews, album reviews, live photos.
Floating Worlds
A semi-regular journal on the subject of worlds. Essays from Tonk, J David Osborne, AWTNMY, me, a manifesto from the Autonomous Culture Research Bureau, OPNPC, and Kitty Mayo — plus a games corner with a word search and a pastry-related solo RPG.
Geekzine & Poptastic
Geekzine was the semi-regular fanzine of the Margate-based Geekscene DIY collective. I need to dig out some old issues and photograph them.
Poptastic was absolute hipster bait. I don’t have a single issue despite running it for twenty-something issues. If you picked one up in Dalston, Shoreditch, Nottingham or Leeds between 2005 and 2007 and still have it tucked away, please send me documentation 🙏
07 // Still thinking about it?