B-SIDE [Sydney]. Further information welcomed.

BACKYARD PRESS Located in the 80s in Greville Street, Prahran. Entry in development.

BANDIT FOX [Melbourne] The comics and design label of Alice Mrongovius.

BANK ART OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN UNDERGROUND [Melbourne] [1996] A small, free, anonymous zine produced in Melbourne in 1996 dedicated to documenting scribble and doodles drawn on bank withdrawl slips that had been abandoned in banks.  Collated using single sided photocopies stapled back to back to create double sided pages.
L.S.

BARCODE THE WORLD Entry in development. Described as 'harsh, punk and intimidating'
Lou, ‘On the Magic of Mail, and the Exchange of Photocopied Scraps’ in Heat 11 'Sheltered Lives' 2006 pp29-31

BARRICADE BOOKS [Melbourne] Legendary anarchist not-for-profit bookshop run by a volunteer anarchist collective.
Originally situated on 115 Sydney Rd, Brunswick between 1995 and 2003 and then at Irene’s Community Arts Warehouse 2003-2006.
The collective continue to meet on a regular basis, and Barricade Books do stalls, organise meetings and host an extensive anarchist and activist resource library.
PO Box 199 East Brunswick Victoria 3057 Australia

BARWICK, KANE Author/editor of 'Sure'.

BEAT MAGAZINE [Melbourne]. Free street magazine on the music industry distributed around the streets of Melbourne including a classifieds section.

THE BEAST [Melbourne] circa 1990s
A Dead Xerox Press comic anthology about Satan and the apocalypse designed and executed in the dimensions and house-style of Christian ‘gospel tract’ comics by Chick Publications.
Keeping parts of the original gospel tract intact, comic artists Gerard J Ashworth, Neale Blanden, Toby Neal, Tonia Walden, David James, Damien Woods and Rod Tokely have subverted the original contents to convey the game of golf as evil.
The original artwork of the gospel tract is reworked, replaced and overwhelmed by various illustrative styles as well as appropriations of other comic genres, and the text is selectively reworked and sometimes completely overcome by the artwork.
Credit is given to the list of original artists ‘misused and abused in order of appearance’ with the parting sling, ‘Thank You! Don’t Sue!!!’

BERRY, VANESSA [Sydney] Prolific maker of zines since the mid 90s. Titles include 'Psychobabble', 'Laughter and the Sound of Teacups', 'By the Velodrome/Jetty I Sat Down and Wept' (with Tim Wright), 'Vinnies', 'Suggestions for  a Better Name Would be Welcomed' , 'Shopping List Stories', 'Adjective Stories', 'Dictionary Stories', 'Things Cut out of Other Things', 'I Am A Camera' and the newsletter 'News of the Vanessa Berry'. She is the author of 'Strawberry Hills Forever', a book of autobiographical stories taken in part from her zines published by Local Consumption Publications.
Berry was interviewed 02 August 2007 on Radio National's The Book Show about zinemaking and Strawberry Hills Forever.
PO Box 1879 Strawberry Hills NSW 2010 Australia

BETTY PAGINATED. [Sydney] 1992-1997
Originally based in South Australia, the zine was based in Sydney from 1997 onwards. Betty Paginated spanned thirty issues issues from 1992-2007, focusing on Bettie Page, beer, pro-wrestling, porn, offbeat bands & films, TV, comics and various other pop-culture phenomena. Was loved by some, loathed by others. Axed due to impending fatherhood, but subsequently revived inspired by the Chris Benoit tragedy, as "BP Jr" in the Summer of 07/08. BP Jr lasted two issues, followed by an unknown number of "Son of BP" issues.
D.L. and E.P.

BEYOND THE PAGE: ARTISTS' ZINES AND THE SPOKEN WORD
[Melbourne] A forum held at the State Library of Victoria April 12 2007 featuring Luke Sinclair from Sticky, spoken-word performer Sean Whelan; Jessica Tuckerman from City Library Street Press; and Steve Grimwade and Lisa Greenaway from Going Down Swinging.
Listen to the forum here.

BIG STAR CDs & RECORDS [Adelaide] Adelaide's only surviving independent music store, which first opened in 1988 and now has four shops in the metropolitan area. Stocking music of all genres in all formats (both new and secondhand), it has always strongly supported local bands. Big Star accepts music & fanzines for sale on consignment.
H.B.

BLACK RAINBOW [Victoria] Environmentally responsible printing processes.

BLISSETT, LUTHER Satirically invented as a Catholic Priest and father of the Australian zine movement according to the New Pollution's 'A Brief History of Zines In Australia', [1997] whereby Father Luther is said to have utilised his church's printing press to make the first pornographic zine in Australia which he then distributed in page 669 of the bible at the back pew of the church along with other innovative circulation methods. Luther Blissett has also been attributed with many other acheivements.

BOGGED DOWN IN HATRED [Melbourne] circa 1990s
A simple, vitriolic one-off A6 text-only zine by 'Mr Bogged' attacking individuals within Melbourne’s music industry for their overtly commercial motivations, as well as extending attacks to other figures in Australia’s mass media on the grounds that those who ‘live by the sword of public opinion…all deserve to die impaled upon it as soon as possible’.
'Bogged Down In Hatred' includes items such as, ‘How To Suckseed and Get A Head in Australian Pop’ and ‘I Sold My Soul To Satan and All I Got Was A Column In Beat’ (referring to free Melbourne street magazine).
The credits are as follows;
'Editor: Mr Bogged
Design: Nobody
Publisher: Nobody
Contributors: We Don’t Have Any
Distribution: None
Advertising: We don’t have any of that either
Subscriptions: You can’t
BDIH is non-copyright. Any material may be freely reproduced but may not be sold or traded for profit without the express permission of the editor or editors (as the case may be). This could be difficult to obtain as we don’t exist’.

BREAKDOWN PRESS [Melbourne] Tom Civil and Lou Smith produce the Breakdown Press Poster Series, posters, books, stickers and zines.

BROWN CARNATION [Melbourne] 90s. Entry in development.

BUTLER, HARRY [Adelaide] Legendary author of Australia's longest running fanzine, 'DNA', the man behind E.C Productions label and distro, and once part owner of the 'semi-legendary' "Thrash Grind Grunge" music store, Butler swears that he won't resume performing music: the 14 years he did in bands 1979-1993 were more than enough for both himself & Adelaide audiences.
H.B.

THE BURNING TIMES [Melbourne]. 90s. Zine devoted to a new positive queer culture edited by Richard Watts. The title was a reference to the Middle Ages, a time when discriminated citizens (including witches) were burnt at the stake and also a time when 'faggot' referred to a bundle of wood. The title is also a reference to antithesis British newspaper The Times.

BUZZCUTS [Melbourne] A woeful zine produced out of Express Media to accompany the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

BYRON, PAUL [Newcastle] Author/Editor of numerous zines, member of Octapod and Director of the National Young Writers' Festival with Tom Cho in 2003. Byron has produced the following zines;
'Ventricle' [five issues, c90s];
'Internal Bleedings' [three issues, c90s] A submission based zine with the premise that people were to send things [including anonymously] that were not written for publication, such as diary entries.
'Starzine' [six issues, c2000s] including the 'Break Up' issue, mainly about a relationship break-up but also including an account of a job interview for the position of Editor with magazine 'Voiceworks'.
'Delectable' [c2001], a one-off collaborative zine with Kylie Purr, described by Byron as 'kind of our Newie [Newcastle] Pride zine'
'Love, Truth And Honesty' [c2003] a zine about Byron and Bananarama, and 'Caution' (2005) a zine with a small print-run between 20-30.
[Quotes sourced from correspondence with the author June 2007]