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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.

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Cheaptoys. a punk-per-zine loaded with reviews, vegan receipe, cut&paste layout. quite a cliché. in french, and sometimes english now.

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I make a zine called the Muse the News and the Noose. It began as a small short story, loosely autobiographical. The first 3 issues were about a relationship between a couple that has broken up, but still reflects upon the past.
Issue 4 was an interview with a band I grew to enjoy and become friends with. Issue 5 (newest as of June '09) is a collection of one off short fiction I wrote.

My writing is usually based on my own experiences, so it could be perceived as a perzine, but its written in the third person. And people usually say my stories are depressing.

So there's that.

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I did No Barcodes Necessary zine in the 90's.
I currently do Directhit zine, though haven't made a paper version in a couple of years as I'm too skint.

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I'm making a collab zine with some people on a forum and I'm working on a perzine that i hope to have out by the end of the year :D

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We'll Never Have Paris, a narrative nonfiction lit zine, 'for all things never meant to be'. Vol 5 out Sept 19.

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Currently two titles: Eclectic Domestic and Bohemian Housewife

Eclectic Domestic (which tends to chronicle my more positive side) includes things like:

Twenty-Four-Hours - an hour by hour chronicle of one day
Disorganized Librarian - thoughts about my big home library, why I have so many books, etc.
Education by Osmosis - about unschooling as a Christian, an educational philosophy that is generally maligned by Christians
On Gratitude and Contentment
I am Woman, Hear Me Roar - about the benefits of tracking your menstrual cycle to understand your moods
Off The Bookshelf - book reviews
Things I Say I Want to Do, Which I Actually Rarely Do - just what it sounds like
Some poetry
Some recipes

Bohemian Housewife (which is more philosophical):

War Between the Spirit and the Flesh - dealing with my sinful tendencies
The Doubting Side - times when I feel discouraged in my life
Phases I Have Gone Through - chronicling all the phases I have gone through since I was about 15 and how they have been integrated into who I am now
Various Vignettes - weird memories from my past
Writer's Block Rapidwrite - where I deal with a bunch of issues that were swimming around in my brain, from aging to WWI and the Depression, the relationship between freedom and evil, how psychology fits in with the Christian faith, integrating various thoughts about women as persons and regarding their roles, my place in the zine world
Adventures in Impurity - dealing with my unpleasant experiences with pornography and other things that affected my feelings about myself related to sexuality

I am percolating a new one called God Made Me, which will deal somewhat with the stereotypes Christians have of each other, and will be written by my four alter-egos - adding Fit Femina (who writes about vanity and fitness issues) and Aging Artiste (who writes about finally finding my creative voice in my late 30s) to Bohemian Housewife and Eclectic Domestic.

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i've made 3 zines, all pretty different.

the first is 'stories about bodies,' and is about being a radical feminist who deals with an eating disorder.
the second is 'menstrocity!" and is about period love.
the third is an art zine called 'my friends are hard to draw (but easy to love)' and it's just drawings of my besties.

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perfect mix tape segue - a concept zine about shit that happens in my life. health, travel, surgery, crisis.

cia makes science fiction unexciting - conspiracy theory and the wide world of shady gov't.

bipedal, by pedal - bicycling culture and theory

take off your fucking dress and go bowling - random contributor zine.

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I'm behind GENEROUS - a slightly quirky 'zine (and blog) geared toward not-so-beautiful women or have issues with size,relationships,etc. Not a fashion, celebrity (though we do rip on them from time to time - especially the ones that are the worst pretenders) or how-to-please-your-man-that's-probably-cheating-anyway.

We've been around since 2007 and though the recession has slowed us down a little, it's not time to fold just yet.

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I've done a few zines, the latest of which is my new bi-yearly SMOG CITY ZINE. It's a short fiction litzine (all my own stuff), and I think it's worth the $4 bucks I charge, but I'll trade with people on WeMakeZines if they ask nicely.

It skews in the "pulp" direction, so if you're hypersensitive to unflattering depictions of race, sex, class, etc...leave it alone. This is fiction. This is not a My Little Pony fanzine. Not that there's anything wrong with that sort of publication.

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I make a zine called List. It's autobiographical, diary style zine written entirely in Lists. Each list also has an illustration to go with it.

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I'm working on my first, called The Macrocosm. I haven't printed it yet, though.

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