Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Zine Archives


ISSUE 1, SPRING 2003
THE MAMA BEAR ISSUE

  • She's Coming Out of Hibernation, and Boy Is She Pissed!
  • What to Do When You Have Kids and Feel Overwhlemed by How Fucked Up Everything Is
  • Daily Humiliations: How It Came To Be That I Swallowed a Vaginal Suppository
  • Deconstructing Babe by Grace Maselli
  • Voyage of the Damned: A Christmastime Train Ride through Hell at the Narrow Gauge Railroad
  • Maternal Guilt Trips
  • People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
  • Shopping with Kids: Or Why Valium Appeals
  • Interview with Brenda Surabian, Homebirth Midwife
ISSUE 2, FALL 2003
HOME RENOVATION

  • Day-to-Day Coping in a Squalid Construction Site
  • Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Sat in Cat Diarrhea
  • Hausfrau Survival: Delegate Housework by Grace Maselli
  • Daily Dilemma: I Need to Pee But How? How Can I Void My Bladder?
  • People Who Need to be Severely Punished
  • Interview with Ayun Halliday and Ayun's Tips on Surviving Long, Cold, House-Bound Winters with Kids
ISSUE 3, WINTER 2004
THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF PARENTHOOD

  • A Journey of Pestilence: The Hausfrau Guide to Lice Eradication
  • Reflections on Motherhood: Art by Deborah Klotz Paris
  • My Li'l Guru: Why My Kids Are My Spiritual Teachers
  • The Power of Frau!
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night (with a newborn) by Christine Murray
  • Getting Religion by Peggy Moss
  • People Who Need to Be Sternly Talked To
  • Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Cleaned Maggots Out from Under the Cover of My Toddler's Car Seat
  • MONSTERFRAU!: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Hausfrau with No Serotonin
ISSUE 4, SPRING 2004
THE HAUSDADDY ISSUE

  • I Stay Home with My Kids, and You Suck! by David Hilton
  • Hausfrau Confessions: How It Came to Be That My Two-Year Old Gave Herself a Bath in the Sink
  • Bed-Time Banter: The Birth of Sire Magazine
  • Little House in the Suburbs by John Bliss
  • Hausfrau Expose: The Portland Flower Show--Fragrant, Bizarre, Unfun
  • Being Around by Stona Fitch
  • HomeDad Outlaw: A Cartoon by Chip Edgar
  • Interview with WMPG's HomeDad: Chip Edgar
  • People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
  • How I Became a Stay-at-Home-Dad by Carl King
  • What Is True Co-Parenting? An Exploration of Bean Counting, Gender Roles, and Male Lactation by Sam Stegeman
ISSUE 5, FALL 2004
THE UNSPOKEN ISSUE

  • I Hate My Playgroup by Anonymous Murray
  • Miah Drowning by Brenda Surabian
  • A Letter to My Son by Sharon DeFala
  • Fast Walking and Other Parental Crimes by Lee Snodgrass
  • Our Favorite Troublemaking Homedad Takes on the Boy Scouts by David Hilton
  • Hausfrau Holiday! Chock Full O' Dead Critters!
  • Pro-Choice Tear-Out Coloring Book
  • The Anonymous Interview
  • Every Stick a Gun
  • Trends in Modern Fiction by A.K. Adams
  • But I Wanted a Girl! by Kate Haas
  • People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
ISSUE 6, WINTER 2005
THE BLAAAAARGH! ISSUE

  • A Post-Pneumonia, Post-Election Sputum Fest
  • How W. Ruined My Sex Life by Leah Coplon
  • Cher! A Hausfrau Photo Essay
  • Parenting as Performance Art by Chester Nashvegas
  • Hausfrau Holiday Bake-Off: Another Portrait that Norman Rockwell Forgot to Paint
  • Interview with the Sketch-a-Chick, Marijane Brink
  • Hausfrau Thanksgiving
  • People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
  • Regrettable Parenting Moments
  • What I Wouldn't Give for My Old Body by Sharon DeFala
  • Centerfold by Tanya Boggs
ISSUE 7, SUMMER 2005
THE (LACK OF) SEX ISSUE

  • There is Nothing Sexier than Doing the Dishes...Except Vacuuming by Stacey Greenberg
  • The Soundtrack of Your Vasectomy by Misha Angrist
  • A First Date for Hausfrau
  • A Period Piece by Jen Marvelous
  • People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
  • Four Phases by Sharon DeFala
  • Daily Humiliations: How It Came to Be that I Cleaned Cat Diarrhea Off a Hammer
  • Milk by Raye Tibbits
  • The Anonymous Poll (for Lynne)
  • Gallery of Hausfrau Turn-Offs
  • The Best Freakin' Mac 'n' Cheese in the World
  • No Sex Please, We're Reading by A.K. Adams
Centerfold by Lisa Bowe
ISSUE 8, THE DARK MONTHS 2005/2006
LOSS AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS

  • Heritage Days by Raye Tibbits
  • The Apocalyptic Hausfrau: How It Came to Be that My Head Nearly Exploded Whilst I Drove South on I-95 During a Deluge
  • Photographs, Cover, and Centerfold by Tanya Boggs
  • Losing the Delusion of Permanence (or How We Got to Sri Lanka) by Peggy Moss
  • People Who Need to Be Severely Punished
  • The Adventures of Lobotomommy by Christine Murray
  • Regrettable Parenting Moments
  • Mass Murder in the Bathrom Sink by Jennifer Lewis
  • Like a Steam Locomotive by Tom Davies
  • My Li'l Guru
  • The End: A Carton by Jennifer Lunden
  • The Year of Magical Thinking: A Book Review by A.K. Adams
ISSUE 9, SPRING 2006
THE BAD MUTHAH ISSUE

  • My Mother's Gift: The "Must Beat Romo" Supplement
  • "Coffee" by Raye Tibbitts
  • "A Heart that's a Whore: The Beautiful, Devastating Patricide of Martha Wainwright" by Misha Angrist
  • Cover art and illustrations by Leticia Plate
  • Centerfold photograph by Tanya Boggs
  • The (Not Completely) Anonymous Poll
  • "New Orleans Update" by Vanessa Torres
  • "Me Time" by Stacey Greenberg
  • "Pot 'n' Kettle" by Sharon DeFala
  • "Parenting Challenges" by Kelly Burns
  • "From Sri Lanka" by Peggy Moss
  • "Rage" by Grace Maselli
  • "The Accidental": Do Bad Mothers make Good Fiction? by A.K. Adams
ISSUE 10, FALL 2006
THE UN-HIP MAMA ISSUE

  • Unhip piercings & tattoos
  • Daily humiliations
  • Regrettable parenting moments
  • Big, floppy tushies
  • Tales o' urinary incontinence (super sexy!)
  • Cover by Leticia Plate
  • "I bought an SUV" by Kate McDade
  • Centerfold photos by Lisa Goodfellow Bowe
  • "My nightmare flight across the country with two small children" by Sharon DeFala
  • "Dianne" by Delia Macdonald
  • "Ode to my breastpump" by Raye Tibbitts
  • "Goin' with the flowbee" by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo
ISSUE 11, WINTER 2007
THE FEEL GOOD ISSUE

  • "How it Came to Be that I Was Bitch-Slapped by the Parenting Gods in the Seasonal Aisle of CVS"
  • "Pump and Drive" (a breastpump fiasco) by Lindsay Sterling
  • "The Mother of Poetry" by Raye Tibbitts
  • Cover art by Jeremy Hutchins
  • "It's All Part of My Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy" by Misha Angrist
  • "Regrettable Parenting Moments"
  • "Feelin' Good about Vomit" by Leah Coplon "Soccer Mom! A Celebration" by Bess Welden
  • Book reviews by A.K. Adams: Bad Faith, Suite Francais, Lovely Green Eyes, and A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in a Conquered City
  • "Feeling Bad about Not Feeling Good" by Cree Hale Krull
  • Movie Reviews by George Chaison-Lapine: Charlotte's Web, Austin Powers, and It's a Wonderful Life
ISSUE 12, SPRING-SUMMER 2007
THE SIRE! MAGAZINE ISSUE

  • Man Kamp! The Men! The Meat! The Mayhem! (an exclusive interview with Mike Dank)
  • Frank Sex Talk with Lynne
  • Hausfrau Redux! I Take a Bite out of the Big Apple!
  • Weird Food Combos at the James Beard Awards!
  • With writing by favorite dads: Stona Fitch, Cree Hale Krull, Rob Wilder, Alan Parowski, and Bruce Triggs
  • Dreams from My Father -- Hausfrau's first color centerfold by Jeremy Hutchins
ISSUE 13, FALL/WINTER 2007 - 2008
THE MESSINIESS OF LIFE ISSUE

  • Cover by Jen Judd-McGee
  • Lice Redux!
  • "If You Give a Mom a Cup of Coffee" by Brooke Williams
  • Unhappy Lice-Ridden Snowman, photo by Amy Winton
  • "The Strange Case of Dr. M""My Life. My Mess. My Chaos. My Choice. Is Chaos" by Peggy Moss
  • "It's a Miracle! Bra!"
  • "Losing My Pseudo-Religion" by Misha Angrist
  • "Hausfrau Holiday Bake-Off: Another Portrait that Norman Rockwell Forgot to Paint"
ISSUE 14, FALL 2008, THE BIRTH 'n' SEX DOUBLE ISSUE
  • "How It Came to Be that I Gave Birth in a Utility Closet"
  • Interview with China Marents: She Gave Birth to the Mama Zine
  • "How It Came to Be that I Gave Birth in a Cattle Trough"
  • Stories by Brooke Williams, Dan Kolbert, and Raye Tibbitts
  • "How It Came to Be that I Attempted to Give Myself a Six-Month-Long Epidural"
  • Centerfold comix by Jeremy Hutchins
  • "My Knuckles Brushed Bill Clinton's Junk" by Jake McNally
  • "Hausfrau Fantasies"
  • Interview with Sex Goddess, Susie Bright
  • Gina Rourke of Nomia
  • Man Kamp Redux: Interview with Mike Dank
ISSUE 15, MARCH 2009, THE EUROPEAN ISSUE
One humungous hausfrauian comic (40 pages long, folks) about our trip to Europe.

Chock full o':
  • bacon
  • hot EMTs
  • Italian soldiers
  • a man with pumpkin-colored pants
  • horse meat
  • saints and shiksas
  • cliffhanger action and with special guest stars Leslie Oster and Ms. A.B.

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