Zine names

[Weepy Gonzales]

What's your zine called? Where did the name come from?

[Bethany]

Lone Sock is GREAT!

Amy said:

I'm trying to decide between

-The Other Shoe (as in 'waiting for the other shoe to drop')

-Lone sock

-The Macrocosm (There's a microcosm publishing, so this probably won't work)

-Nine Paper Planes

-ISO 1600 (reference to cameras; you can have the fastest shutter with an ISO of 1600)

-Frozen Time.

Any suggustions?

[Carol@Swallowcliffs]

Each one of my zines have had a different name. The last one I called "Paper Rat C" as a play on the word poperatzi. It was/is all about paper.

[Amy]

yeah. It's between Lone Sock or ISO 1600. The problem is Lone Sock only works if I do a collection of one shots, and I might not do that.

Bethany said:

Lone Sock is GREAT!

Amy said:

I'm trying to decide between

-The Other Shoe (as in 'waiting for the other shoe to drop')

-Lone sock

-The Macrocosm (There's a microcosm publishing, so this probably won't work)

-Nine Paper Planes

-ISO 1600 (reference to cameras; you can have the fastest shutter with an ISO of 1600)

-Frozen Time.

Any suggustions?

[Tom Hendricks]

Musea, it's a zine on the arts, so its based on the 9 Muses.

[Amy]

I think I'm going to call mine Lone Sock Digest, just for fun.

[Gordon Gordon]

My pinball zine is titled Skill Shot because that is a feature on many of the newer pinball machines. It's also based on some of the earlier pinball zines like Multi-Ball and Drop Target. Plus it's a catchy phrase.

Chicken With Penis first started out as a series of flyers. I wanted something that would catch peoples attention as they were walking down the street (it worked). So the name came first and inspired the comics (zine).

Dreamy Vs Sucks began as a working title for a comic/joke for the Chicken With Penis but took on a life of its own and became a one-shot zine. Now we are working on another issue but this one is going to be titled Amazing Vs Asshole, so now the zine name is Vs since we have other issues planned after this one.

[Dan 10things]

My old zine was "10 Things Jesus Wants You To Know." The night my friends and I were planning out our zine and picking a name, I went and bought beers. Some Jesus freak handed me a pamphlet on the street entitled "4 Things Jesus Wants You To Know." We liked to make fun of religion a lot, so we decided to poke fun at the pamphlet by making a zine with a similar title. But 4 Things just didn't sound cool enough, so I decided 10 Things worked better. Totally stupid way to name a zine, but it stuck and years and years later everyone still calls me Dan 10 Things.

PS to Gordon Gordon - Skill Shot is my favorite local Seattle zine right now!

[APFuchs]

It's called Bumper Sticker Shine, but it's origin is secret for now.

The first in the series, Dry Ice Dreams, was named after the pursuit of writing and publishing fulltime, which, though once a dream, is now a reality, but one needed to be handled like dry ice: carefully or it won't work.

[ocean]

my zine is named "high on burning photographs" because of a strange day i had when i was 20. a good-friend-at-the-time wanted to burn all the remnants of her past & invited me along. we set fire to all these polaroids & then i went to work all woozy from the fumes. very dramatic & poignant at the time.

[Harley R. Pageot]

My new zine is called I Was A Teenage Boy!

It's supposed to be an homage to the titling of '50s b-movies and comics, while also referencing the fact that highschool can be scarier than any horror movie for some kids. Plus: all the contributors are male and over the age of 20.

[Catherine Elms]

"so when you go solo you hold your own hand, and remember that depth is the greatest of heights..."I looooove that poem. :)

kelley said:

the greatest of heights
which is a line from a poem by fiona apple. it's actually the title of her second LP. i just think the poem is beautiful, and that line really stands out to me. google it if you've never read it.

[Catherine Elms]

My zine is called Here. In My Head. It's a lyric from a Kate Bush song:
"Everytime it rains, you're here. In my head."

It's also the title of a Tori Amos song, but I know she's a big Kate Bush fan, so she may have had the title from the same place.

I did really like the title when I first started but I'm not sure if it's too long-winded; I've been thinking of changing it. Hmm.