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March 2011 Blog Posts (77)

Zine exhibition in Sydney, tonight (23rd March)!

Paper Planes Gallery is a new space at 747 Darling St, Rozelle. They're having a zine exhibition tonight, featuring Fayroze Lutta (Chiaroscuro) and Emma Markala (Dept. of Forgiving) among many others. On the final day of the exhibition, Sunday the 3rd of April, there will be a market where you can but the zines that were on show. Support Sydney zine makers!

Added by Take Care Zine Distro on March 22, 2011 at 6:21pm — No Comments

it's been a while...

As usual, my ability to keep track of my various online presences has failed. Oh well. I have made a number of new zines, including Nearly Healthy and Tomorrow's Machine Today, which are both available from Take Care. Trades are always welcome, so get in touch.

Added by Emma D on March 22, 2011 at 6:15pm — No Comments

WMZ weekly art contest for fun 3/22/11

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

This children's book author and illustrator was also an accomplished

biologist who was drummed out when she supported the idea of lichen as

being symbiotic algae and fungi. The men scientists couldn't tolerate

such original thinking, let alone from a woman. Name her and her most

famous work

IS:

Beatrix Potter known for The Tale of Peter…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on March 22, 2011 at 10:13am — No Comments

Call for zines - Zine Show at Asheville BookWorks

Asheville BookWorks Gallery is putting together a zine show for the this summer, May through June. Zines can be mailed to:

Attn: Zine Show

BookWorks Gallery

428 1/2 Haywood Rd.

Asheville, NC 28806

Please mail in entries by April 26th and send with a return envelope with postage if you would like to get your zine back after the show. If no return postage is included, we'll add…

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Added by Jessica C. White on March 21, 2011 at 7:04pm — No Comments

Listen to These Things that People Make Interview : A How to Guide to Manarchism

These Things That People Make is an interview based radio show about things people make (crafts, zines, home-made museums,films, shows and books, among other things) that are not considered fine art. We talk about the politics,ideas and stories associated with these projects.

These Things that People Make most frequently features work by queer people, women,and people who work from radical feminist perspectives.

Things that People Make doesn't care whether people are famous or…

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Added by sarah mangle on March 21, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Listy list zine!

SO GUYS I HAVE THIS IDEA.

Basically, it involves the following:

1. anyone who wants to e-mails me a title of a list (that they come up with). (clara.lipfertATdresden.us)

2. I write all the titles everyone has come up with on pieces of paper and draw them out randomly, assigning each list title to one of the people who has contributed one. (you give a title, you get a title.)

3. you write out your assigned list on a 4.25" by 5.5" (that's a quarter of a regular…

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Added by Clara Lipfert on March 21, 2011 at 2:19pm — 1 Comment

New artzines and magazines!

Hi there,

I've got a lots of new zines and magazines in my "dienacht"-distribution shop.

Take a look here: www.dienacht.bigcartel.com!

Zines like: Angst #2, WEST Photozine (my new personal Photozine), Waterfall, Nude Paper…

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Added by Calin Kruse on March 20, 2011 at 2:00am — No Comments

New zines and more!

Things You Say zine distro

http://www.thingsyousaydistro.com/

I just added a bunch of zines to the catalog!

Basic Paper Airplane #4
Comics and Beer #1
Breakfast at Twilight #3
Marked for Life #6
Tattooed Memoirs #7
When Language Runs Dry #2
When Language Runs Dry #3

There's also a ton of new zines on the way, and you can see that…

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Added by Erin H on March 18, 2011 at 9:49pm — 1 Comment

Zines zines zines [email me if you want one or two or three]

So I've been clearing my room for new hobbies and such, I've donated most of my zine collection t zine libraries because I figured there was no point in hoarding them.

[this week I mailed out a zine pack and a package for bird's nest zine library]

- i still have some zines left over from my recently closed zine distro, so email me at denise.denies@live.com if you're interested. Just pay me s&h :)

- one more zine pack left! and random zines at hand

Added by Saling Pusa Distro/closed on March 18, 2011 at 4:00pm — No Comments

another zine I did art for

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/megaera-25/291125?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/3

Added by Human Artist Vending Machine LTD on March 18, 2011 at 10:22am — No Comments

Magera 27 artwork I did for this poetry zine

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/megaera-27/488006?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/4

Added by Human Artist Vending Machine LTD on March 18, 2011 at 10:19am — No Comments

Xerox Debt & Payin' Dues

Xerox Debt & Payin' Dues

As anyone with even a sliver of ethics would feel, I want to state right up front that I feel a tad bit awkward about writing a review of the most recent issue of Xerography Debt. This because the latest issue contains two reviews of my…

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Added by Paco on March 18, 2011 at 3:30am — No Comments

What should I do next?

If I have to ask that question, should I give up making zines?

Added by Ryan Mishap on March 17, 2011 at 3:07pm — 4 Comments

Been gone so long!

So, wow. I moved to Philly, and dropped out of zine making. Why, you ask? Job, relationship, etc. All of the stuff that usually get in the way.

So I have this best of zine that I made right after I got here, but never really distributed. Does anyone wanna trade? I think I have ten copies or so. I have a bunch of material surrounding my pretty serious drug addiction, deciding to get clean, and move away from my hometown. So I'll probably put all that in the next ish, but…

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Added by Sarah Arr! on March 17, 2011 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Poems Written Up to the Middle of March

Poems Written up to the middle of March 2011

POEMS

I wrote a novel

of the sea

so realistic

that I insisted

each copy sold

was sopping wet

"Ahoy ye salts

feel the spray!

Ahoy ye salts

get on board!"

2. (Head brain and Enteric Nervous System)

more and more

it seems to me

we are creatures

of two…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on March 17, 2011 at 8:58am — No Comments

FruitYoga! - An Illustrated Yoga Guide

Fresh off the press: It's FruitYoga!

It's 20 pages of total fun with fruits demonstrating yoga asanas or poses.

All illustrations were done by moi, in watercolor, with English and Sanskrit yoga asana terms.

Pages/cover were hand-sewn together.

Limited edition of 50 copies.…

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Added by QueensBee Zines on March 16, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Looking for Brooklyn Zines

I am starting a zine collection at Brooklyn College! The collection is going to be focused upon Brooklyn, and thus will include works made within the borough or about it, as well as any zine made by a current or former Brooklyn College-affiliated person, and zines about zines.

Do you know of something that we should add to our collection? Get in touch! Send me a line at zinecollection at brooklyn.cuny.edu. I'm following Barnard's model and trying to collect 2…

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Added by Alycia on March 16, 2011 at 2:11pm — No Comments

why you bringin up old shit?

freedom of speech is more than just a tune by ice t.its what makes our shitty country slightly cool,and it is constantly under attack.thats why it constantly needs to be tested,by me.it doesnt get as much attention as other laws,and thats some fucked up shit.zines were a product of free speech laws that were established by hippies in the sixties.also,dollar bill picture motherfuckers wrote that shit into the constitution.plus,its the reason wymyn fought hard in the 70's for the right to not… Continue

Added by bobby madness on March 16, 2011 at 1:38pm — 3 Comments

WMZ weekly art contest for fun

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

This fashion historian devised a famous 'fashion cycle' in 1937. Name him and his law.

IS:

James Laver. Laver's Law first appeared in Taste and Fashion in 1937. His cycle starts with INDECENT = 10 years before its time, and ends with BEAUTIFUL = 150 years after it's time. See the full cycle here:…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on March 16, 2011 at 11:10am — No Comments

The Electronic Wall

An hour or so again I sent Fate magazine a (belated) e-mail in response to their Sept.-Oct. 2010 issue. It was at fate@fatemag.com. About 15 minutes ago I got a "Maeler-Daemon" failure notice saying they couldn't deliver it. I've got the magazine right in front of me and I can't see a single letter out of place.

So I went to their website, www.fatemag.com, to see if they had a more up-to-date e-mail…

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Added by James N. Dawson on March 15, 2011 at 4:59pm — 3 Comments