OLHO #0

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Details:: O Olho was published in 1978 by Fernando Augusto Rocha, during his student years at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto. This fanzine, of which only one issue was ever produced, has recently resurfaced in excellent condition, as though transported to the present day by a time machine, thanks to the editor's son.

The fanzine opens with a short story by Liseron, set at the end of a day, with Manuel overjoyed at having been hired as a factory worker. What follows are the nightmares that haunt his sleep, in which he imagines the mechanical and dehumanising world awaiting him inside the factory.

Poetry also finds its place in this publication, with contributions from Any and De Bruma.

As for comics, O Olho features two pages depicting planet Earth and life on it as a failed experiment. Liseron's artwork displays a sophisticated psychedelic style with strong science-fiction influences.

M. Correia contributes the essay Para uma desmontagem da "Pop" – Sobre a Delimitação do "Fenómeno Pop" ("Deconstructing Pop – On Defining the Pop Phenomenon"), in which he explores the commercial appropriation of music and the increasingly commercial direction taken by many artists and bands.

Finally, Prémio da Poesia ("Poetry Prize") is a comic strip by Sérgio, characterised by its absurdist humour.

Texts by Erradiador on the blog "My Nation Underground".

Details:: O Olho was published in 1978 by Fernando Augusto Rocha, during his student years at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto. This fanzine, of which only one issue was ever produced, has recently resurfaced in excellent condition, as though transported to the present day by a time machine, thanks to the editor's son.

The fanzine opens with a short story by Liseron, set at the end of a day, with Manuel overjoyed at having been hired as a factory worker. What follows are the nightmares that haunt his sleep, in which he imagines the mechanical and dehumanising world awaiting him inside the factory.

Poetry also finds its place in this publication, with contributions from Any and De Bruma.

As for comics, O Olho features two pages depicting planet Earth and life on it as a failed experiment. Liseron's artwork displays a sophisticated psychedelic style with strong science-fiction influences.

M. Correia contributes the essay Para uma desmontagem da "Pop" – Sobre a Delimitação do "Fenómeno Pop" ("Deconstructing Pop – On Defining the Pop Phenomenon"), in which he explores the commercial appropriation of music and the increasingly commercial direction taken by many artists and bands.

Finally, Prémio da Poesia ("Poetry Prize") is a comic strip by Sérgio, characterised by its absurdist humour.

Texts by Erradiador on the blog "My Nation Underground".