Zine names

[Weepy Gonzales]

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

[Mony Nunez]

"A guide to blissful solitude"
when i started it, 3 issues back, last summer, i thought it would mean the world to spread some cheer, but turns out that i was really still trying to figure out meanings for my own existence. so really, the 'guide' made me realized im still fucked up, so the whole thing's pretty ironic. haha

[Chris Rose Taylor]

Sure, I'd love to. Once I get this new issue finished I'll give you my information.

kitty magic said:

this sounds awesome! like Teenage Riot or something! we could trade if u like?

Chris Rose Taylor said:

Aina Adolescenta Kakumei [translated to Always Adolescent Revolution], which me and my friend created. It kind of just came to us after a bunch of brainstorming and looking over our influences.

[Nielzine]

Nielzine: I bastardized my last name one night while sitting on the toilet and thought it was the funniest thing in the world...I was the only one who laughed.

[Alice Palmer]

My zine, Midnight Party Glitterati was at first a joke band name that just came to me. I say joke band because none of my friends played any instruments whatsoever, but the name got some use after all :)

[Isabel Xochitl]

my perzine- somewhere over the rainbow. because when i started it, i was doing a lot of grass is greener thinking.
my compzine- chintz. because we wanted to make something like nylonmag, but uglier, rougher, cheaper, less hip. chintz is cheap granny tablecloth fabric. my mom came up with it. perfect fit.

[Brian V]

Imitates Art. Alot of people say that life imitates art, or that art imitates life, but I think the truth is a little more complex than that, so I called the zine "Imitates Art" because, well, alot of things imitate art and vice versa.

[Becky the Evil Flower]

Evil Flower. When I was a freshman I used to draw Evil Flowers on my notebooks because I was obsessed with not being sweet and I didn't want my doodles to be cute. I thought Evil Flowers were "edgy." Ha! But I still sometimes draw them and the phrase sounds good in my head so I keep it.

[Weepy Gonzales]

Apple9 is the name of my newest ADHD zine. It comes from the auditory test that they give you to find out of you have ADHD - they give you words and numbers out of order and you sort the words first and the numbers last, for example, cat, 9, oatmeal, rabbit. It'd be cat oatmeal rabbit 9. 

[Nick Calavera]

I named my minicomic Delirium because I wanted a name that would reflect both the strange visuals that appear in the art and also my own state of mind as I was working on it. I also chose Delirium because I felt it helped set a tone for the type of material I wanted to showcase without being so specific that certain stories and art just wouldn't work.

I was originally going to call it Delirium Comix but I felt the "comix" part was a bit redundant.  I mean, once you're holding it I think it's pretty evident that it's a comic book.

[Fergus]

My zine, Fergus, was named after the pet duck at I had in the late 1990s. The first dozen issues, back in the day, had drawings of Fergus (the duck) on the cover. I can't do that anymore since Fergus is no longer around for me to draw, so these days I just include some sort of duck image somewhere on the cover. The actual content of the zine is only rarely duck-related. I don't really know what the content is, I just write shit ... sometimes observational, sometimes personal, like a letter I suppose.

[Danyell]

I've just begun working on one, called Real Fun, which is an anagram for "funeral". It will be cartoons and writings about my experiences of being a multiracial girl working in funeral service.

[Chrysothème A.]

My zine is called The Itinerant Postcard. It comes from an Edward Gorey postcard illustration of people scrambling after a flying postcard with wings, which I used for the front cover of my first issue.