April 2012 Blog Posts (43)

The third volume of my mini comic Stranger Two Stranger was recently reviewed by the Optical Sloth. Here is a snippet:

For those of you who haven’t been…

WISEBLOOD! 

i've been putting out wiseblood since 1986 . . . 

started as a punk zine and now it tells stories . . . 

just write to get free issues . . . 

i'm up to #57 . . .

don't care for computers . . . so this will be simple lookin' . . .

write me at:

fishspit

1304 175th pl. n.e. 

bellevue, wa, 98008

thanks!

I have a huge priority mail package full of 20+ zines that I want to give to a new home. It only costs postage. For US shipping it will be 8.00 For international shipping, it will be $12. I prefer to send it to a library. Just email me at youreinsanehoney at gmail dot com if you wanna get your hands on it. Thanks!

Just finished up this basic gardening zine with some folks here in Olympia and thought I'd spread the word! You can buy it over here:…

We All Love Cliches, Don't We? on Great White Appetite

Stories for ENCHANTED TIMES #5 have been collated, and due for release in May 2012.  Feature stories include interpretations of Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White. No space for additional stories in this issue but slots for related artwork and mini-features/snippets are still open.  Please get in touch if you have something you think might fit in.  

The fifth issue of Printaissance, Five by Five, has been scripted, snipp'd, and pasted together. A fun and fairly personal issue of the zine is full of original poetry and personal insights into my life. The tales and themes of the sections have all come from fives! You will have to arrange a trade…

Available now!!!

Stranger Two Stranger Volume 3

The third volume of my mini comic comprised of illustrations and stories of real Craigslist missed connections from the cities of Detroit, Chicago, New York and San Francisco.

You can purchase it…

Added: Sub Rosa #6 and Dear Shane, I Tried to Kill Myself.

Back in Stock: How Fucking Romantic.

• Title: The secret anarchist history of Newcastle / by Mike Oldglen
• Author:…

Featured article for April 2012 - Barnard Library!

Hi, I made you this: http://bit.ly/zinestock

It's a collection of pictures that zinesters can use for free for backgrounds and textures. I like to take pictures, and they may as well be useful for someone instead of sitting around stale on my hard drive.

I'll keep adding to this as I take more. Currently,…

This major known and celebrated American writer, said his favorite work was his biography of Joan of Arc. And that it took him 12 years of preparation and 2 years of writing to make. Name that author.

IS

Mark Twain! He said, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation…

I started to collect submissions last summer for a zine I wanted to call "lady bits." I got a lot of submissions, but once school started, I didn't have time to put it together. So, now I'm calling out for more submissions.

Premise:

I decided I wanted to create a zine about the female body, but more importantly, how those who…

Newness

Frida Kahlo Card (Postcard/Notecard) ($1.50)- A hand-printed stencil art image of Frida Kahlo. Made by (Olympia’s own) Sage, from the long-running Sweet Candy Distro. …

Sage is Once Upon A Distro's Zinester of the month. She was kind enough to answer some questions for me. Check it out!

So excited to get some words from our dear ex-pat (and everybody's favorite zinester) Alexis Wolf. Passing along moments of beauty from her travels.

Ilse Content, Vol. 11

"Written in…

Our first issue of the zine is complete. Get it for free or trade. Just send us a message.

Vacant Minds is a mix of text, doodles, ramblings and art.

It's 16 pages, black and white, A5…

Poems written in late March 2012

Comments welcome.

[poem notes in brackets like this]

POEMS

1. [Biblio-attack!]

Books to the left of me!

Books to the right of me!

I'm being attacked

in the library!

2.. (Kid's Poems for Spring]

Wake up! Wake up!

you sleepy plants,

Doff the winter night shirts.

Don your summer green shifts.

Don your budding gloves

Wake up! Wake up!

Spring is ringing it's clock!

3.[…

I'm putting together a little package of a pendant, a collage, a tea bag, and perhaps some other random art, all enclosed in a collaged box.  Would anyone be interested in trading this for a zine or two?  If so, email your address to creativeevolutionzine@gmail.com or message me.  I'll probably be able to send it out in the next two weeks or so.  
Liza