Sofia Szamosi: Every Zine I Ever Made. 2018. Collection of 18 publications in a custom hand-painted box. 10 x 7 x 3 inches. Edition of 5.

1. The Everything Set Colophon & descriptive material
2. Psychic Menagerie
3. Are You Conrad? Know Your Choices!
4. Golden Bottles
5. My Mom’s Pregnancy Dreams
6. The Story of The Missing Zine
7. Girls and Their Bodies
8. Scapegoat Abormelle’s Adventures in Mutual Aid”
9. The Adventures of Scapegoat: An Exposition in Rene Girard’s Scapegoat Theory and Michel Foucault’s Abnormality
10. No Words Yellow
11. No Words Red
12. Girls Making Faces
13. The Thank You Book
14. Girls and Their Food on Instagram
15. Girls and Their Dogs on Instagram
16. Photo Booth Self Portraits 2005 – 2015
17. Every Photo Booth in Berlin
18. Rat Shoe

This is The Everything Set, a box set of every zine I ever created.

Inside you will find a mixture of paintings, drawings, cell phone photos, photobooth strips, poems and stories. Some zines came to me in dreams, conversations or bolts of lightning. Others were carefully mulled over for years or generations.

I love putting ideas into pictures and words, and then putting those pictures and words into manageable sequences, chapters and pages. Bound between covers, things that were scary become something else. Resentments and paranoias get transformed. Problems that seemed too complicated to solve begin to untangle. And tangles themselves become beautiful.

1. Psychic Menagerie, 2017
Edition of 50
28 Pages
4” x 5.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings
A catalogue of characters from within my psyche.

2. Rat Shoe, 2016
Edition of 20
15 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Color laser prints of scanned watercolor, marker, pencil and pen drawings
An illustrated anecdote about a strange and disgusting occurrence involving a New York City rat and a hot pink stiletto

3. Are You Conrad?, 2017
Edition of 30
13-sided Pamphlet
3.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings
A personalized self-help pamphlet for Conrad Jarrett, the fictional character in Robert Redford’s 1980 film, Ordinary People. The pamphlet outlines the many possibilities for treatment, recovery and healing that a person might choose from when dealing with a mental illness.

4. Every Photobooth in Berlin, 2014
Edition of 40
12 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of photobooth strips
A collection of photobooth strips taken in every analog photobooth in Berlin, Germany in 2014.

5. Photobooth Self-Portraits 2005-2015, 2015
Edition of 10
28 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of photobooth strips
A collection of photobooth self-portraits created in analog photobooths around the world between 2005 – 2015.

6. Girls and Their Dogs on Instagram, 2018
Edition of 30
12 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of digital drawings
A collection of drawings of girls, their dogs and their captions as found on Instagram.

6.Girls and Their Food on Instagram, Volumes 1 & 2, 2016
Edition of 30
8 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings
A collection of drawings of girls, their food and their captions as found on Instagram.

8. The Thank You Book, 2016 – Fourth Edition
Edition of 15
14 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings
A picture book about gratitude for all, large and small.

9. Girls Making Faces, 2015
First Edition
Edition of 20
10 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings
A collection of drawings of girls making faces as found on Instagram.

10. No Words Book: Book 1, 2017
Edition of 20
10 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings
A wordless story about image production and dissemination.

10. No Words Book: Book 2, 2017
Edition of 20
10 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings
A wordless story about failed communication, technology and hunger for connection.

12. The Adventures of Scapegoat,2016
Edition of 50
12 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Color laser prints of watercolor paintings
An illustrated exposition of René Girard’sscapegoat theory and Michel Foucault’s abnormality in which I address the nature of violence and power.

13. Adventures in Mutual Aid, 2017
Edition of 50
12 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Color laser prints of watercolor paintings
The sequel to The Adventures of Scapegoat ,which addresses the importance of community and diversity and explores the thoughts of Peter Kropotkin, Natalie Zemon Davis, Dorothy Allison, Leroy Little Bear and others.

14. Girls and Their Bodies on Instagram, 2018
Edition of 30
10 Pages
6” x 9”
Black and white laser prints of digital drawings
A collection of drawings of girls’ faceless mirror selfies and their captions as found on Instagram.

15.The Story of The Missing Zine, 2019
Edition of 15
8 Pages
6” x 9”
Black and white laser prints of pen and digital drawings
A zine in place of a “missing” zine titled Unretouchable (2018).

16. My Mom’s Pregnancy Dreams, 2015
Edition of 50
20 Pages
6” x 9”
Black and white laser prints of pen drawings and printed text
A collection of dreams my mother had while pregnant with me, which I collected chronologically and illustrated. The words are hers, as she wrote them in 1989.

17. Madypenguin’s Starbucks Cup, 2015
Edition of 10
10 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Black and white laser prints of pen and digital drawings
An illustrated essay investigating the phenomenon of posting Starbucks cup pictures on Instagram and the often adjoining hashtag, “basic.”

18. Golden Bottles, 2018
Edition of 10
18 Pages
5.5” x 8.5”
Color laser prints of cell phone photos
A collection of photos of plastic bottles filled with urine found on the streets of New York City over a two year period.