BE NOT AFRAID, by LSJM (short zine, 2025?)

[lb_lee]

(This one-sheet zine was purchased at the Massachusetts Indy Comics Expo in 2025. It is not dated, has no contact info, and it's unclear who LSJM is.)

This zine is Risographed, stark red background and black text on white paper. Its text is huge and off-putting, the imagery oppressive, as though the zine itself is screaming from its pages. Images are listed in parentheses; text is written as is.

Front cover: BE NOT AFRAID
(an eye with jagged small wings)

Pg. 1: THEY WANT US AFRAID
(red-eyed silhouette of a person's face)

Pg. 2: YOU CANNOT BE AFRAID
(text blurs from black into white as though being erased out from under the reader's eyes)

Pg. 3: FEAR WILL KILL YOU
(text blurs back into visibility, as though thwarting erasure)

Pg. 4: they want us
(no image)

Pg. 5 DEAD
(white text over a black skull with red eye sockets)

Pg. 6 WE CANNOT DO IT FOR THEM
(text blurs once more into white erasure)

Back cover: in times such as these, all we have is each other. Stay safe, fight hard, and love harder. LSJM
(redness blurs over the page. The text once again is smudged almost into illegibility)

Comments

[cheliceri]

I love this. I needed this. This was an excellent zine.

[lb_lee]

Mori: You see why I had to buy it!