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over 30 and still at it.…
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Your Thoughts About Christians and the Christian Faith
Agree that there is no point in arguing!
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What was your introduction to the zine world?
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I started making my own zine before I knew that anyone else made them, and the first zines I saw were actually just excerpts in the book Zine Scene by Hillary Carlip and Francesca Lia Block, and that…
Started this discussion. Last reply by Joe Biel Nov 26.
Your Thoughts About Christians and the Christian Faith
Sorry, Adam....didn't mean to sound so over the top...it was late and it is so rare to find another person who has considered a society without government schooling that I got overly excited. Forgive…
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Your Thoughts About Christians and the Christian Faith
Yee Haw...this is soooooo right! Abolish public education, public libraries and other things that are supposed to belong to "everyone", but which just become breeding grounds for dissension, because…
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My zines are cut and paste, but I like very clean layouts. I like the cut and paste though so I can use different fonts and typefaces - handwriting some things, typewriting some things, printing out some things. Cutting out paragraphs and pictures a…
my zines are cut and paste on 'plates' then scanned and reduced to digest size...i print only one flat...and ahem..well lets say working around so many 'unwatched' xerox machines...and viola i have my zines...
The first issue of Frothy was done in Microsoft Word. It was a pain in the ass to do the pagination that way. But I got it looking pretty much how I wanted it, which was essentially a ripoff of McSweeney's. Now I do cut & paste all the way. Frothy #…
A group where I can hopefully find other Christians who make zines...we seem to be a rare breed.
mostly cut'n'paste. my flats are not electronic. i do most of my text on my laptop and most of my drawings by hand with blue pencil and various fineliners and markers. i'm starting to experiment with a crowquill pen. i generally do the drawing large…
Combination of cut and paste and print out, my handwriting is of variable quality so I can't really trust that. I get friends to draw pictures.
Below is the answer I gave to the question on the WMZ group Political Zinesters. (This groups was apparently deleted shortly after I joined. I hope it wasn't because I was "creepy".)
Yes, I write a political zine, of sorts. It's called Rambles to T…
I started out cut and paste, and then started typing everything up on a computer and cut and pasting. Now, I mainly do desktop publishing. There's the problem of room and of me procrastinating and leaving everything out. Things tend to get lost that…
cut and paste forever. i've always liked the way bad typewriter font looks too, but my fingers could never keep up so i just use courier font and pretend.
Cut and paste!!
There's been some interesting research lately on the mental process of "finding". It's what motivates cats to walk laps around the house looking for other cats. It's what motivates squirrels to dig around in the ground. And it's been postulated that…
My is done on the computer. I love the look of the handwritten zine I see, but fear mine would be incomprehensible it I tried having my contributors all submit their stories like that.
I actually plan on doing a Christian-focused issue/book of my zine, Bumper Sticker Shine. Issue 4 or 5, maybe. We'll see.
i don't really remember the first zine i ever saw. i was a punkling in the 1980s and they were everywhere at shows. the first one i really liked was made by a friend of mine in the 1990s. i didn't make my own until i did madcow for the university of…
I started making zines in eighth grade. My girlfriends and I began making zines together and they primarily included short stories and music/movie reviews. I remember that we would walk around campus at school and hand them out to anyone who would t…
I can't actually remember when I was first conscious of zines, but I remember the first ones I ever read. One was given to me at a Unitarian church youth group and it was about women and their bodies, all hand-drawn and beautiful, and the other was…
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- At 10:26am on November 28, 2009,
Nick Cato said… - Hey Samantha. One of the great thing about the horror genre is there's very few borders. You don't have to have gore, deaths, monsters, or any of the genre cliches for it to be horrific. Some of the best horror novels (such as the Exorcist and T.M. Wright's A Manhattan Ghost Story) are purely psychological. And in the uprising "bizarro" genre (see bizarrocentral.com for some samples), it can be stranger than anything you've ever thought of before.
Thanks for the befriendment!
- At 7:29am on November 7, 2009,
James N. Dawson said…
- Thank you! I'm pretty much holding further comments until you digest my material, and I yours. I'm looking forward to that and may have a good-sized e-mail or letter of comment for you.
- At 9:28am on November 2, 2009,
James N. Dawson said…
- James N. Dawson
P.O. Box 292
Malden, WA 99149
No hurry in getting your zines to me. Whenever it's convenient for you.
- At 9:26am on November 2, 2009,
James N. Dawson said…
- James N. Dawson
- At 3:21pm on October 30, 2009,
James N. Dawson said…
- Thanks Samantha.
I sent this essay and a few of my other zines to somebody who wrote a "Jesus Christ Super Zine" I saw reviewed in Zine World and Xerography Debt. I've forgotten her name, and last time I looked, I couldn't find the record of my trade/letter to her, but I'm sure she was located in Olympia. I haven't heard from her yet. Maybe you've heard of her. I don't understand the extreme "hate" if that's not to strong a word that so many zinesters have toward Christianity and religion in general. I'm going to print out this discussion and read it. Maybe I'll understand better afterward. Looking forward to your zine.
- At 7:36am on October 21, 2009,
CocoaPuss Zine said… - all the pics of your zines look really good. where can i find ordering information?
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