Westside Angst

Westside angst #1

Westside Angst (2001-) is a zine by Adelaide, South Australia based zinester and writer Ianto Ware, featuring personal writing, illustrations and hand-crafted covers. Westside Angst has been said to be identifiable by distinct phases; comical, personal, 'pseudo academic', and romantic.

Ianto Ware also produces the zines The little nerd band that could and Das Papierkreig.

Issues

• Issue 1 (2001): "...focuses heavily on my experiences with toilets and lengthy diatribes about my time in primary school."
• Issue 7, the longest issue to date, clocked in at 23,121 words - longer than the honours thesis the author had, at that point, only just finished writing.
• Issue 10 (July 2005) 'The quarter-life crisis issues', came with a collectable wooden spoon, and 'took an average of seven minutes per copy to assemble'.

External Links

• Nicht Das Papierkrieg Ianto Ware's blog
• Ministry of Zines
• Ianto Ware's website