What Zine do you produce?

[Gigantor]

In order to familiarize myslf with more of you quicker and hopefully become more social/active on here.I thought I would ask you what zine(s) do you produce and what kind of zine is it.

[tim scannell]

mini poetry...20 poems on one sheet of 8.5x11

perzine...the life and times of MOI...one sheet of 11x17

how about you??

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tim scannell
port angeles, wa
usa

[Becca Darling]

I've done a few zines. Started when I was 13 with Just That Good. I think that got to either 16 or 17 issues. Perzine and it got me through high school

Did a few one-shots called Paper Clips. That's actually got two issues because it's my 24-hour-zine zine...yeah. I save Paper Clips especially for that event, though I missed it last year. I've done another one shot called The Marvelous Disaster of Revealing Your True Feelings. Paper Clips is a perzine, mostly random, though. TMDoRYRF was a really, raw zine. I talked about my first love for the first time ever. Most of my friends didn't even know about all the details of it and the fact that it was still affecting me years later.

Now I have started a new zine called Darling Disasters. She is my baby, my true, true baby. She has one issue out, and I'm currently working on issue two.

[kami]

how do i get a hold of this baby? sounds right up my alley...
Kami

Zacery Nova said:

I'd never made a zine or anything like that until this month.

I made a horror newsletter called 'Why Do I Like Stupid Horror Movies?' which was movie reviews, and my second newsletter is called the same thing - but is more of a perzine/article newsletter

[sacraWOMENto zine]

We make sacraWOMENto.
A feminist//riot grrrl zine based out of Sacramento, Ca. Everything we do is something that has to do with our town. Our town lacks any type of feminist/riot grrrl scene. We want to get the word out there to let people know what a zine is, and what riot grrrl means to Sacramento women.
We do band reviews, featured artist, monthly polls and lots of art.
We are going into our 2 issue, and it's going smoothly so far :)

[Monstress Zine]

thought it'd be good to bump this thread.

my current zine is monstress. each issue is organized around a different monster with homemade pulp fiction, comics, movie and concert reviews, letters and historical material. i've done some one shots, including a recent monster coloring book. my last two issues were kind of paired, "the thing from another world 1," with 1950s style science fiction and a venusian space lady threat and "the thing from another world 2," featuring 1930s lovecraftian space horror in lake erie and on mars. monstress is feminist, anti-racist, queer and trans-positive but not directly political.

(and if any of you are old enough and toronto GTA enough to remember MadCow, i used to do that).

[Adrian Fynch]

I used to make a zine called Graceful Suicide, but it's now turned into Beautiful Mess, and it's a perzine about struggling to get through life to the best of one's ability and dealing with the many slipups, as well as just a place for me to vent in a creative way and have fun with scissors and glue.

I also make Sleeps With Ghosts, which is also very personal, but geared towards body and sexual issues. It features nudity, abortion, drugs, sex, affairs, romance, relationships, dealing with insecurity, and so on and on and on.

I also make occasional one-off zines for different things. The only one I still have available right now is called ZINE: Zeniths Integrate Neuveau Effervesences and it's a DIY how-to guide for...making zines! It's geared towards a younger audience because I made it to give out at some zine workshops I did a few summers ago with younger kids.

[Colin Tedford]

I make a zine called Square Dance that collects my comics (variously silly, surreal, and socially-conscious), co-edit two comics anthologies a year for the Trees & Hills Comics Group of VT, NH & west MA, and am co-editing a third this year for new group Offshore Comics. I edited Keene Free Comics before we had T&H, edited T&H's free comic Twig & will be co-editing it when we revive it soon. I used to have a zine called Before Sleep that collected strips from my daily sketchbook comic exercise & am working on a book to collect that stuff. I'm also working on a series of small one-off free comics that I'll later reformat for use in Square Dance.

[W. Alan Fare]

Right now I'm working on the first issue of "The Tumultuous Times". It's my first perzine, but I've been putting out zines since 1983. I also put out "Film Geek", and it's been around since'98.

Here's the front and back cover of TTT:

[Monstress Zine]

ooo, gort!

W. Alan Fare said:

Right now I'm working on the first issue of "The Tumultuous Times". It's my first perzine, but I've been putting out zines since 1983. I also put out "Film Geek", and it's been around since'98.

Here's the front and back cover of TTT:

[Robin Layne]

I'm new, so I don't have much yet, but I'm working on it. I made my first zine, A Character Sandwich, this past spring. It's a collection of my own short fiction pieces sandwiched in between short pieces about myself. I'm working on a second zine, and I intend to continue the food metaphor through a series for I don't know how long. My next zine will be called Turtle Soup, and I don't think this one will have any fiction. It's a perzine about finding my voice and hoping to speak to others who can identify with turtles, hiding in their shells and agonizing about coming out.

Before either of these, last year, I was part of an anthology called Repeat Offenders, which was a hodgepodge of good fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art produced by a Write Around Portland (Oregon) Seasoned Writers Class.

Thanks for asking.

[Shannon]

I write Sapphire Tiger - the 1st issue is basically a perzine about all things grrl, queer, music, art - and me travelling over Canada and the States and encounters of love and loss; it's kinda cute and colourful - next issue is moving away from the perzine style (although I dare say it will feel quite similar since I am making it!) to a more accesible zine for women with a focus on music, queer issues, DIY, art n' craft, rock'n roll, love, spiritituality, yoga, cupcakes, unique recipies etc, with an intention to empower, and inspire women (and guys) to do whatever they do. I am seeking writers - anyone that can comment on the Montreal art/alternative scenes, and everyone else will have to be Australian as I am from Melbourne! please check me out if you're interested...good luck with yr zines everyone, i think this site is awesome :)

[kath]

I just finished my first one for the 24hour zine project. I've read them for years but hadn't written one. tended to write in notebooks or letters to friends. I think it's a little plain but it was a quick one to ease into it - called "24 Things I've Made...". we had to do 24 pages so I had one page per thing. I think really it was me trying to (partly) answer the question 'what have I actually done with my life' - perhaps part of a mid-life crisis again. I tend to think I'm defined by my job, so I was happy to discover that work was only one thing on the list and the other 23 things were outside-of-work projects. (sub-conscious at work!) so even though it was plain & simple, it's partly answering some of the questions about myself, so I'm happy to have finished it :)