Who We Are & What We Do

One Beat Zines is a feminist zine & comics collective based in London. We produce bi-annual anthologies and also act as a zine distro mainly for female-identifying artists who are relatively new to the scene.

Our previous anthologies have been Double Dare Ya, a celebratory but also critical look back at the Riot Grrrl music movement of the 90s, Not A New Wave, a Sleater-Kinney fanzine, and Identity, which featured over 30 diverse contributors using comics, personal stories, illustration, and photography to talk about what their identity means to them (all profits of Identity went to charity). You can read Double Dare Ya for free here, see a review of it here and here, and a review of Identity here.

What We Need The £2000 For

As we wrote in our end-of-year blog in 2015, we are only planning to take on big anthology book projects if we can raise enough not just for printing, but also to pay our contributors. The £2000 we are asking for will encompass the printing of 200 copies of an A5 (or similarly-sized) book - and a page rate of £50 for artists, as well as a page rate of £30 for writers.

The Book

The book will be themed around gender, performance, and performativity and will be printed similarly to our last anthology, Identity - on nice matte recycled card and paper stock and will run to approximately 80 pages. It will include a mix of comics, illustration, photography and essays, which brings us to the most exciting part...

The Artists & Writers

Amber Hsu (illustrator/artist/writer/writer of one-pound-poems)

Amneet Johal (artist/zine-maker/member of the Alternative Press)

Bethan Mure (comic artist/illustrator)

Bridget Meyne (comic artist/illustrator) 

Brigid Deacon (comic artist /illustrator)

Carta Monir (comic artist/illustrator)

Hannah K. Chapman (comic artist/co-founder of Comic Book Slumber Party)

Higu Rose (comic artist/illustrator)

Julia Scheele (comic artist/illustrator/co-founder of One Beat)

Julie Rose Bower (performance maker/installation artist)

Jordana Globerman (illustrator/zine-maker)

Katie West (photographer/writer)

Marja de Sanctis (illustrator/zine-maker)

Meg-John Barker (writer/therapist/activist academic)

NotCathi (comics artist/illustrator)

Sabba Khan (spatial designer/artist)

Sarah Broadhurst (co-founder of One Beat/zine-maker/all-round DIYer)

Tegan Anice (artist/illustrator)

Have a look in our gallery to see examples of everyone's work!

The "I am Wotever" t-shirt in our Pitch Image illustration is a real-world thing from Wotever World and you can purchase it here.