Yikes I think this is the biggest zine I’ve ever seen. A clearing house of music, stories, comics (Jimmy gets his period), and more about Cornwall’s homophobic freak of a mayor (I never get tired of that crazy dude). Besides the serious stuff — an interview with three young men who are HIV positive, protest form letters to clip and send, and a dialogue about the nature of racism — there are indie band interviews and pages and pages and pages of record reviews. While almost everything in Saucy is readable, the fiction, poetry and collage fragments capture that dark time when people try to figure out how life might be livable and dreams sustainable although rarely viable. Maggie’s story Pavement is a brave adventure into the mind, a grey pastiche of urban destruction. Reading it is like entering another world that mirrors the confines of the word by applying the trapped permanence of concrete to the impermeable moment of precious sweet youth. Forget the three bucks: The price of admission to Saucy is a mind split open and a few hours of your well spent time.
zine / #2, 90 pages! / main creator: Maggie / $3 / 320 York St., Cornwall, ON, K6J 3Z3