Phase Zero #9
220 x 280 mm, 30 pages (staple bound & poster)
New York City, US
First published 2023
Editors: Maya Valencia & Sydney Maggin
Design & production: Maya Valencia & Sydney Maggin
Zine-y and DIY, Phase Zero is a self-published, experimental title on a mission to document the ever-evolving NYC counterculture scene. It’s built from submissions solicited by flyers posted around downtown Manhattan, the lively design and eclectic coverage marking it as a unique art zine that is part artefact, part treasure map.
For this ninth issue, founders Maya and Sydney contemplate their place in the grand, and by now well-oiled, submission-fuelled machine that is Phase Zero. Seeking to cut through the New York noise, you’ll find the pair crop up in miniature form (à la Where’s Waldo?) throughout the issue. Find inside: hand drawn comics and illustration, band interviews, poetry, short fiction, and an overall aesthetic homage to the distinct inky blurring of being run through the copier many times over.