From 1990 to 2001, I was with many who jumped on this “zine revolution” deal, putting out xeroxed
stapled tombs for some to review in the pages of Factsheet Five and a bit more to read. Whatever
artwork, comics and cultural deconstruction I had in me head was plastered in digest pages and the
world was going to pay for it…in more ways than one.

I unconsciously stopped my zine production soon after my third Josie & The Pussycat zine. Reasons for this
was that FS5 had folded, 9/11, the main subject in the said Josie zine just died and the internet revolution
was spreading sloth amongst the members of the previous revolution, effecting my readers, my enthusiasm
and, finally, myself….say ‘hello’ to the new boss, sucker!

Finally, old age and the boredom that cripples you when you move to a small town got the best of me
and I returned to the zine-verse with a quarterly zine title named after a cool Swing Out Sister song:
TWILIGHT WORLD (zine version).

It’s a per-zine of random slices of my life and god-knows-what that currently falls into me head. When
blog entries get too repetitive and redundant in these overexposed days of the internet, you might as well
chuck it, write it down and go broke xeroxing it…..and that’s what I did.

To borrow an excuse from Neil Innes, “I suffered for my art, now it’s your turn.”

Don-O
#1 (left)
This issue starts off by detailing my zine life up
to my sorry-ass return to the fold. There are
also a couple of dream journal comics that
make no sense and a lengthy piece about
autobiographies by Charles Bukowski and
Hillary Carlip and how they unearthed a
chapter of my sorry-ass days of junior high
school
#2 (right)
Welcome to one of my many pointless
cultural obsessions: Las Vegas!...and its
current survival status is shaky as ever,
followed by a slice of one of my on-line
comic strips, The Jolly Pineapple.
#3 (left)
Welcome to one of my many pointless
cultural obsessions #2: the 1980 movie
Xanadu with a couple of stories of yours truly
dealing with the fandom surrounding this flick.
Then there’s a failed comic about my favorite
band, Negativland.
#4 (right)
There’s a two page introduction about my
then recent travels to South America and
Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Then there’s my
pathetic story of trying to work in a record
store, followed by my version of the Sub-
Genius’ Short Duration Personal Saviors.
#5 (right)
Zine trading is the theme for the
intro piece. More zines again with
‘Don-O’s Zine Dump O’ Fame’,
where I go though my old zine
collection and make highlights of
some of my faves. Then I take a
drive down nostalgic highway
near Disneyland and I find out I
don’t have a drivers license.
#6 (left)
This is the all New Orleans issue with a
notes from my first NO trip from 2004 with
all the Bourbon St. smell, off-season Mardi
Gras beads, Southern Decadence,
Christian angst and humidity to shake a
empty go-cup at! Plus there’s notes from
my second Mardi Gras trip.
#7 (right)
Being that I normally don’t do year end
lists, I push my luck to a migraine
headache with a 20-year end list of
musical favorites from the 90’s and 00’s.
Plus there a humble tribute to those failed
millennium conspiracy freaks with ‘Happy
War- On-Christmas, Dumb-asses!’.
All issues contain the usual reviews and are 8 ½ x 11, B&W and 12 pages (except #1, which is only 10 pages)
and come with a price tag of $2. Trades are okay, but I don’t read poetry…just warning ya! No prisoner
trades. All issues are available at the following address:

Don Fields
266 Ramona Ave.,
Grover Beach, CA 93433
Dump Home
#8 (left)
First, there’s a small tribute to Harvey
Pekar which includes my own encounters
with the Splendor, an examination of
fanboy of my non-youth of the early 90’s
and a visual tour through parts of the
unknown and forgotten Las Vegas . Why?
I don’t know. If I have to deal with THAT,
so can you.
#9 (right)
Ponder your mortality as I question mine as
I continue this musical list habit from the 20
Years of Noise from TW #7 into The List Of
The Lost, a grab bag of some faves from
the 70’s. I manage to pull out some LP’s
that still makes sense these days. I added
two bonus pages just for this ish to fit in
some art in the form of a two page cover.
To make mater worse, I ended up making
a mix tape out of this project and scared
some friends with it!
#10 (left)
In this issue, I sadly relive my brief time
working at a comic book store (two weeks
tops) and pay the price of watching The
Gong Show. Plus, there some brief notes
about surviving another round of Mardi
Gras and the vortexes at Sedona, Arizona.
#11 (right)
This time, I wonder through the mine field that
is 1980's music and dig out an old diary of my
New Orleans trip that took place just six months
after Katrina. ON the plus side, there a great
cover drawn by the great Marc Schrirmeister!
#12 (left)
After months of delays and butt-scratching,
the newest issue of my perzine Twilight World
rolls off the xerox machine with more of the
usual: brief trip highlights, reviews up the
whazzo (including the return of 8-Track Mind)
and more drawings of buildings (the
butt-scratching part). Oh, and I final drag
Shmuck-O Rat out of the beer-soaked
mothballs.