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For all the zinesters in Minneapolis and St. Paul -- including their friendly suburbs.

Website: http://zinefest.org
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Members: 21
Latest Activity: 9 hours ago

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Suitable 4 Framin' zine

Just wanted to introduce myself. I publish a zine called Suitable 4 Framin'. This zine is all about graffiti and street art. Please checkout our Flickr and Facebook pages here:…Continue

Started by Jujurocs Feb 20.

Hey yall,I just finished my first issue of my zine and was wondering if anyone knew of some minneapolis distros I can get in touch with. also if you have any input on where to sell my zine im all…Continue

Started by wilder mac burnham. Last reply by Merc Feb 12.

What's everyone working on / trades / neighborhoods? 3 Replies

I'm new to We Make Zines and pretty new to zines in general. I'm working on a couple things right now that might actually turn out cool but are more for practice than for selling or trading. I'm 20…Continue

Started by James Limm. Last reply by Synthia Nicole Nov 9, 2011.

Monthly Get Together for Twin Cities Zinesters?

Would anyone out there be interested in having a monthly meeting to get together and work on our zines, talk about what we're working on, share any great new finds like printing ideas, new zines we…Continue

Started by Merc Jul 27, 2010.

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Comment by Jujurocs on February 20, 2013 at 9:03am: Just wanted to introduce myself. I publish a zine called Suitable 4 Framin'. This zine is all about graffiti and street art. Please checkout our Flickr and Facebook pages here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/suitable4framin/

http://www.facebook.com/Suitable4Framin?ref=hl

http://suitable4framin.bigcartel.com/category/zines

Comment by Ursus malayanus on July 29, 2012 at 12:51pm: Go Car-Free, 7 Reasons to Start Biking

The Sweet Treat Press needs your help! We've written a biking advocacy zine but we need help to fund printing. We've launched a project on Kickstarter and it's mega awesome so go check it out.

Our Goals

We want to print 500 copies of the zine on 100% recycled paper and distribute those copies to independent bookstores to promote biking and zines.

You can check out the project page and video here

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/284406832/go-car-free-a-zine

We need to raise our printing money by August 15th or we won't get any of the funds pledged thus far. It only takes a few minutes and you can pledge as little as $1!

If you feel like you could contribute to my project, that's great! If not, maybe you can pass it on to a few people you think would be interested in it!

Thanks,

Ursus

Comment by Ursus malayanus on July 29, 2012 at 12:23pm: Go Car-Free, 7 Reasons to Start Biking

The Sweet Treat Press needs your help! We've written a biking advocacy zine but we need help to fund printing. We've launched a project on Kickstarter and it's mega awesome so go check it out.

Our Goals

We want to print 500 copies of the zine on 100% recycled paper and distribute those copies to independent bookstores to promote biking and zines.

You can check out the project page and video here

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/284406832/go-car-free-a-zine

We need to raise our printing money by August 15th or we won't get any of the funds pledged thus far. It only takes a few minutes and you can pledge as little as $1!

If you feel like you could contribute to my project, that's great! If not, maybe you can pass it on to a few people you think would be interested in it!

Thanks,

Ursus

Comment by Show Me the MONEY! on March 13, 2011 at 8:25pm: "Howdy"

from T. Hunnicutt (Show Me the MONEY!)

Comment by Betty on January 14, 2011 at 7:31am: LidFlipper - I'd love to look at your list. I don't know if I know much about the 90s, but maybe a little about the 80s. :)

Comment by Merc on January 13, 2011 at 10:53pm: I would be interested in helping, maybe I'd recognize some of those zines as I was writing and trading in the 90's. What is your zine going to be about?

Comment by LidFlipper on January 13, 2011 at 8:58pm: Hi everyone! I'm very slowly working on my first zine; I don't expect it'll be ready for awhile (I am happy with some of what I have so far, though). Recently I did some work for a friend and we discovered stacks of old local Twin Cities zines from the 80's and 90's, some Raygun Mags, ancient comics, and more! My interest is in seeing if anyone is familiar with the zines that I found....I'd like to know more about them. If I were to list the zines we dug up, could I trouble someone to take a look and see if they recognize them?

I would be eternally grateful!

Cheers,

LidFlipper

Comment by Merc on January 10, 2011 at 9:12pm: I'm teaching a Making Your Own Zine community ed class in Bloomington, MN over three weeks starting 3/2. Here's a link if you'd be interested:

http://www.bloomingtonrichfieldcommunityeducation.com/insight/regis...=

I'll be posting on my blog ( http://findingjimmy.blogspot.com )about it soon but basically it will be a start-to-finish making your own zine class, with lots of in-class writing exercises to get you out of your own way so you can write what you really want to write! I'll give you some handouts, and you'll have assignments of things to find/make at home to bring for the assembling class, and I'll always have oodles of zines to look at for inspiration.

At the end I'll get everyone's addresses, take your finished zines, then mail you a copy of each person's zine along with your originals so you can go forth and spread your creation!

Comment by Synthia Nicole on November 1, 2010 at 10:12am: hey there all!, i just found the group. i'd be up for a meeting. we could talk about printer's and such. i'm not so sure about monthly but i'm up to meeting you folks.

Comment by Merc on August 9, 2010 at 8:02am: Stevens Square is interested in hosting us if we have enough interest, which means enough people coming. Hey, zinesters, are you interested in a monthly meeting?