I make a free zine. It’s called The Extra-Terrestrial Guide to the Galaxy, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: a pocket guide to our neighbours in the cosmos, and to what’s really happening down here on Earth.
What’s inside
Every issue is 20 A5 pages of pixel art, and mixes two very different things:
- The silly stuff: species dossiers, Galactic Federation announcements, horoscopes, and the adventures of Derek, a very tired Grey from Zeta Reticuli who works in probe logistics.
- The real stuff: anything under the lilac Earth Desk badge is real reporting. Dates, hearings, laws, named witnesses, famous cases and what the official files actually say, with sources at the bottom of the page.
The rule is simple: funny where it can be, true where it counts. When a page is reporting a claim rather than a fact, it says so.
The issues so far
- Issue 01: They’re here! The welcome pack: Roswell, Project Blue Book, Rendlesham, and meet the Pleiadians, Draconians and Greys.
- Issue 02: Derek speaks. Our first interview, plus the Tic Tac, the Phoenix Lights and how the Pentagon admitted it.
- Issue 03: Dinner with the Draconians. Undercover at a lizard dinner party (disguised as a fern), plus 2026, the year the files came out.
- Issue 04: Derek does Blackpool. Derek’s first holiday in 400 years, five tinfoil hats tested, and four famous British cases.
Read them free
You can flick through the first pages of every issue on the Zines page. Sign up to The Signal (my monthly-ish newsletter) and every page of every issue unlocks, along with the PDFs, a kids’ activity pack and a few other freebies. There’s a Christmas special on the way.
Stay curious. Check your colleagues for seams.
– TJ
