Burn Collector

Description

The expatriated Al Burian reflects on a year spent living in Berlin, Germany. His wildly free-range topics include: freedom, happiness, animal liberty, Aristotle, modern dentistry, riots as rituals, uncomfortable proximity to drunken teenagers, and how to best color co-ordinate an outfit that includes a Black Flag T-shirt and a baby stroller. Plus: "When You Realize the Freedom," an illustrated essay by Anne Elizabeth Moore. "Burian is one of our generation's great storytellers, a wily and insightful observer of the human condition," says Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine, and this zine is "the best one yet," says Al. Who are we to argue?

Al Burian has published two collections of his zines: Burn Collector andNatural Disaster.

"Al Burian's Burn Collector zine has been one of my favorite reads since I first came across it several years ago. It doesn't come out often and each issue is a surprise. . . . Generally, Burn Collector reflects on a myriad of topics that are fairly blase' by everyday standards. But there's a stream-of-conscious sort of way they are written about that asks much broader questions, looks at things from a skewed angle, and comes up with some really clever insights." --"Hanging Like a Hex" "Best issue ever, the epic comix will expand your cortex." --"Roctober" "Burian is one of our generation's great storytellers, a wily and insightful observer of the human condition." --Davy Rothbart, "Found" magazine "If you have read Burn Collector before, then you already know that Al is a really talented writer and artist. . . . This issue of Burn Collector is particularly heavy with comics and art, hallelujah!" --"Randy Spaghetti" "Many of you either know Al Burian from his columns in the now deceased Punk Planet or his great band Milemarker. You should also know him for Burn Collector. This is the 14th ion. A personal zine often gets too personal and doesn't offer insight. Al Burian shows you how to do it right giving great insight to the things that matter most to him." --"410Media" "This pocket-sized ion comes bearing full scale ideas that I read as a call to the Brave New Artists who will push the medium forward in the years to come. This is powerful and essential reading. Grade A+." --"Poopsheet" "While Burian's near-poetic true life tales have long been the selling point of his sporadic publication, there's a clear joy in the seeming abandon with which the author culled together the rather dissonant approaches into a single volume. . . . All the while, however, the pieces are supplemented with Burian's own crudely-drawn strips, sometimes complimenting the text, and other times simply playing out as their own contextual tangents." --"Daily Cross Hatch"