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February 2010 Blog Posts (72)

ZINE # 3 Bird_Habit.1 - 'Dreams of Dust'

A project long in the works finally comes to fruition

This zine was created using a different method to the first 2 in the Haich series

Haich.1 was 'cut + paste' method

Haich.2 was draw - scan then Photoshop method

zine #3 - Bird_Habit.1 - was draw, scan then figure it out with wacom tablet...photoshop method...teaching myself how to use a wacom tablet as i went along - so it took a while for it to come together...…

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Added by Filka on February 28, 2010 at 8:31pm — No Comments

Call for zines: The Book Bike...

Dear Zinesters,

I've got a project in Chicago known as the Book Bike. I started it two summers…

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Added by Gabriel Levinson on February 28, 2010 at 12:37pm — 2 Comments

horrible funk

i'm sorry i haven't been a team player lately.. i had to put my cat SidneyBear to sleep.. she was in my life for 19 years.. i'm heartbroken and a little lost without her.. i'm trying to work thru this but inspiration seems to have left me..

Added by twilight gecko on February 27, 2010 at 3:33pm — 7 Comments

What's all this, then?

Starting another thing online, I guess. I tend to spread myself thinly over the internet.

Great idea for Vegemite, but it's a shitty approach to gaining exposure.

Here are some websites I'm not quite happy with:

www.jamespencer.ca

Started it in 2008 as a portfolio site. Has some of my best work on it, but there are heaps that need to be added to it.…

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Added by James Spencer on February 27, 2010 at 10:57am — 5 Comments

Host-jumping

I recently found a new web host, Weebly.com. Hate the name, but so far there's nothing I don't like about the service. The interface is ridiculously easy to use and it has a lot of nifty features that I haven't seen with other hosts. So I'll slowly be transitioning all my online junk into one single Apocalypse Girl HQ.

Come by and check it out- Apocalypsegrrl.com

Added by Ro- The Apocalypse Girl on February 26, 2010 at 7:36pm — 2 Comments

2010-02-26 updates

well, my new blog is up! soon, i'll post zine reviews!!! YAY :D

And remember, share your ZINE ♥!

it's just another Zine Reviews blog!

since my first (and only, if any! lol) zine ever is still cooking and will take a while to come out, i've changed my personal blog's name & concept a bit... You can still follow me,… Continue

Added by Yvonne G. on February 26, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

New Blank Books and Zines from Eberhardt Press

Portland's Eberhadt Press is really great; they off-set print everything themselves, use all reused/recycled paper, and keep it real cheap. We're pretty happy to be carrying some of our favorites from them...

Criminal: Writings of Isabelle Eberhardt (Zine) ($3)

Free to Choose: A Woman's Guide to… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on February 26, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

presented and told

Been reading a lot of really good zines lately. Been tempted to start reviewing them, but then I wonder - do we really need another opinionated voice, tainted by personal taste; does anyone other than the zinester herself (or himself) care what I think about a zine?

Anyway, it's been refreshing and cathartic to read people's personal experiences, presented in a somewhat careful and artistic format, especially when they to some extent mirror my own sentiment. A copy of…

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Added by sandy on February 25, 2010 at 11:32pm — 2 Comments

More damn zines

have been added to the site over the past week and a bit. Check it out: takecarezines.org

Thanks to everyone who has ordered in the last couple of weeks, too! It's been busy, and good. Goodly busy.

I've also been doing more zine recommendation posts at Flying Machine, if that's of any interest to anyone.

Over and out, for now

x E

Added by Take Care Zine Distro on February 25, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

hell since everyone else is selling their goodies!!

i'm not organised enough to have zines for sale on line but the chapbooks i publish under the jazz from hell banner and the books i have written or have been lucky enough to be included in from paroxysm press are available via www.ozmusicbooks.com ; - the man behind this site has been doing zines for longer than most of us have been alive. and he's fast, efficient and takes no prisoners. check him out.…

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Added by kami on February 25, 2010 at 8:28pm — No Comments

the first 3 issues of 'young adventurer's guide to inanimate creatures' are ready!

let's learn about:

the plastic bag, the shopping cart and the payphone:

i really enjoyed making mini-zines. the photocopying is easy and low in cost, so bonus. i just might be on a mini-zine rampage. more guides to inanimate creatures will be built slowly until i don't find this amusing anymore…

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Added by Awkward Stage on February 24, 2010 at 8:52pm — 3 Comments

Things You Say, Sweet Candy, Microcosm and Ms Valerie Park

Are all places you can get issue #3 of Basic Paper Airplane. Somehow this issue has made its way into the world more than past issues. If you're interested...

Things You Say Distro (which also carries #2)

Microcosm

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Added by Joshua/Basic Paper Airplane on February 24, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

NEW ZINE! P!F!R!

Yup.

Milk Milk Lemonaid #14 "Drinkin' Whiskey & Doin' Pushups"

Strange trees, dive bars, moody bike mechanics, cowboy wisdom & relationships that never were.

P!F!R!

5.5 x 5.7

60 pages

Two bucks.

I accept well hidden cash & paypal.

Trades are better.

First 50 copies come with free "The Tick" stickers.

Starting March 1st you can get one at Quimby's or Chicago Comics.

If I owe you mail then you get…

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Added by Krystle Ratticus on February 24, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Arizona Zine Fest Anyone?

I have been searching high and low and have not been able to locate any zine fairs or zine communities within the state of Arizona. This brings me much sadness and frustration! So I have decided to take it upon myself and do some research regarding planning/organizing a zine fest/fair in the Phoeinix (Arizona) area. If anyone out there can offer advice, tips, words of wisdom on how to get this idea off the ground I am all ears.Or if you know of such events or communities within the State of…

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Added by riotgrrrlaz on February 24, 2010 at 2:25pm — 2 Comments

Brighton Zine Fest 2010

It’s always tough to write about zines without falling into self-referential piffle – we are afterall unsubbed and unvalidated – but events such as this genuinely does remind me why I bother, sporadically, to produce material. There were a number of events, including a gig featuring the wonderful Bobby McGees and a knees up at the Cowley Club, around the festival but I just managed to leg it to the London Bridge train down from London for the main Saturday sale the fest was centred… Continue

Added by Alex Lawson on February 24, 2010 at 1:04pm — 1 Comment

Tips for Musicians

TEN Plus TIPS FOR MUSICIANS 1 Try to stand out, not fit in. Your goal should not be to sound like everyone else. If you are not doing something that is the world's first in music - then ask yourself, "Why not? Show some courage. Do something new. Find your own…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 24, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Damn...

Nearing the end of February already. I have accomplished nothing.

The second issue of Hazel Harper has not yet been born. Maybe soon... maybe not.

It's the brain fog, you see. It seeps in, virtually unnoticed, making thoughts impossible to pull into focus. It is brought on by life. A mind numbing daily life of things that must be done. Wake up, feed the kids, shuffle them off to school, do what's necessary to keep the abode livable, talk to the necessary people, try to… Continue

Added by TheUnrememberedOne/MorbidiaDrekk on February 23, 2010 at 11:37am — No Comments

Zinester weekly quiz

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

This English fair began in 1133, and it was such fun, and such a big hit that they kept it going each year for, oh, say, 722 years! Name it.

IS

Bartholomew Fair, held in West Smithfield, London.

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Added by Tom Hendricks on February 22, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments