Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever

Fever [myspace.com/feverzine] is an A5 black & white lo-fi zine. That’s the cover of issue 2 up there. I asked the creator, Alex Zamora what’s it all about…

Boicozine What is it?
Alex Zamora Fever is a complete mixture of topics; music, art, photography, fashion, e-culture, zine culture, random stuff… We strive to provide an interesting and beautiful read and have started providing a platform for many talented individuals to get their work out there. Our contributors are a varied mix of established and upcoming creative talent.

B How’d you get started?
AZ I had published a limited-run zine at the end of 2005 called Barometer. It was the year before I came up with Fever. I put it on sale at a well-known zine hotspot in London’s East End and it sold out. It was inspiring to know that there was an audience for that kind of publication and it gave me a real zest to produce something more interesting. I started Fever off lo-fi and even though our production and design have improved we’re still lo-fi. This is definitely a positive thing and gives us a lot of freedom to do whatever we want to.

B Why call it Fever?
AZ I’m not entirely sure how the name came to me, but it wasn’t contrived. Once I thought of it I couldn’t help thinking that it was a pretty good name for my publication. It’s proven very popular with readers. I’m not sure how it relates to the content, but fans on Myspace like saying they have a Fever.

B Who did the cover for issue 2?
AZ When it came to choosing issue 2’s cover I contacted illustrator Andy Council [myspace.com/andycouncil]. I’d seen his illustrations on Myspace and admired his dinosaurs made out of everyday objects like trainers or cars. I approached him about doing something similar for Fever, but using the Fever font. As it turns out he’d never tried working with typography in that way and relished the opportunity. The resulting ‘Feversaurus’ as he called it was based on the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park 3 and has been a huge hit.

You can buy issue 1 & 2 from Fever’s MySpace page [myspace.com/feverzine].
Here are some spreads from the latest issue…