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May 2010 Blog Posts (71)

Suitcase Rummage - JUNE 6th -

Howdy all -

If your in Brisbane + want some hand made goodies for cheap
The suitcase rummage in King George Square is happening
6th June - 12 to 5pm

I will be there with zines + the like
Come say hello - or check it out for yourself
Its' free to register + sell you own stuff
I think it will be running once a month
The blog is here for more info

Added by Filka on May 31, 2010 at 7:26pm — No Comments

Comix Company Showcase Available Soon...

This is 24 full-colour pages of my naughty parodies of DC characters. I'll keep you posted as to when I've got it up on my shop! :)

Added by Dexter Cockburn on May 30, 2010 at 4:09pm — No Comments

2 more days of May Mayhem at Click Clack Distro!

MAY MAYHEM SALE! From May 1st until May 31st orders at Click Clack Distro over $20 will receive $5 off! Orders over $40 will receive $10 off! If you order your zines online, you will receive a Pay Pal refund in the appropriate amount. If ordering by mail, please take your discount off of the total.

http://www.clickclackdistro.com

Added by NicoleIntrovert on May 30, 2010 at 11:46am — No Comments

New Poems for this Week

Here's some new poems written within a week or so

POEMS

In the moonlight

we are all moths

Why is that waterfall

always so angry,

always roaring

never ending?

A nature of madness

with… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 29, 2010 at 8:41pm — No Comments

Lickety Split #8 Launch in Montreal on June 4th!

The lovely folks who’ve taken over the the noble smutty feat of publishing Lickety Split are launching their first issue, the zine’s 8th, on June 4th! So proud. Check out the Facebook event for more info!

I founded this zine…

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Added by Amber on May 29, 2010 at 7:48am — No Comments

New Entries to the Best New Music Big List: First, Only, Best.

Yes anyone can do a list of best NEW music from the net. But without these songs, it won't be the best. I don't think you can make a better new music list period.

Here are the TEN + ONE EXTRA, latest additions to the big list. Some are… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 28, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

waiting (im)patiently

I ordered some zines from marchingstars and vampiresushi. Oh and etsy. I haven't had any new zines in yonks. I've finished the children's literature course I've been doing since october last year, with the Open University. It will be october again before I start the next course (on creative writing) and I now want something different to read from children's books and text books.

I also plan to do the second issue of Estrones. So, if I promised you a copy of the first one, or you'd…

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Added by Eunice on May 27, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

epic fail-ish

so much for making a zine a month. where did april go? where did may go for that matter? in fact, i might have lost much of february somewhere too.....

i hope these missing months have gone somewhere good. i fear they fell into the dark pit that has formed in my mind. i'm losing a lot of things in there. birthdates, phone numbers, plans i made for a tuesday afternoon.

so i wrote a lot of single sentences. i don't know why, but i can't seem to pull them together into any…

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Added by Awkward Stage on May 26, 2010 at 7:48pm — 1 Comment

NEW ZINE- Get A Grip: Travels Through My Mental Health

After months of travel, printing mishaps, and superb procrastination I have finally finished my latest zine! Hot off the copy machines today!

Get A Grip is a mental health perzine on travelling Aotearoa/New Zealand as a queer feminist with depression and anxiety. I write about topics raging from consensual sex, comparing radical communities, surviving childhood sexual abuse, unemployment, anti-violence, social awkwardness, and cunt-like volcanoes. I write pretty raw so some of the topics… Continue

Added by sarah tea-rex on May 25, 2010 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

REGENERATION #7 -- OUT NOW!

REGENERATION #7

a lot like the sixth issue in the fact that it takes place in the same point in my life [18-23 years old], but with a new set of stories about alcohol abuse and addiction and the fucked up things i've gotten myself into as a result. starts off with a brief history, goes on to stories of being 18 and reckless, then 21 and stupid, a crazy…

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Added by ashlee swanson on May 25, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

New Issues of Shotgun Seamstress & Shortandqueer

Just got in the most recent issues from both SS and SNQ, both awesome.

Shortandqueer #15 ($2)- A compil ation of speeches and performances that Kelly Shortandqueer gave between 2006-2010. A couple different Tranny Road Show performance pieces, a speech delivered at the Transgender Day of Remembrance, and the keynote speech from the Colorado Gold Rush Conference.…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 25, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Potential Mode #3

Red Glare, Omnipotent Mandy, Tales of North Cumberland... Issue #3 is now available! 24 pages of comics, stories, and art. $2.00 in person, $3.00 by mail, or $3.40 through Paypal (make sure you put my email as potentialmode@live.com and don't forget to include your address). Contact me for more information. LOVE TRADES!

Added by Jeremy Scott Nichols on May 24, 2010 at 10:08pm — No Comments

Single Online Release" Kernels of the Popcorn Patrol / 2x I've Crossed the Muddy River

Single Online Release. Two originals from Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar, the only musician on the planet that has moved beyond rock to a new music. From Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar the OUTSIDE THE BOX SET

1. Kernels of the Popcorn Patrol

(extra serious song on the advantages of buying popcorn at the theater.)…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on May 24, 2010 at 9:48pm — No Comments

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

DEADLINE: June 15th 2010 (the date on flier is wrong!)

SUBMIT TO: undertherosezine@gmail.com

Added by Cynthia Ann on May 24, 2010 at 3:31pm — No Comments

NEW IN STOCK @ FALSE START!

Shotgun Seamstress #2 is back in stock at False Start, and Manderz Totally Top Private Diary Vol. 3 has just been added to the catalog!

Check them out at FALSE-START.COM

Added by False Start Distro on May 24, 2010 at 3:19pm — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts with this week's tough question

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

This art theory suggests that there was a major science development in the late 1420's and early 1430's that allowed painters to cheat. From then on this trade secret… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 24, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Send a song dedication to anyone anywhere

Have the need for Song Dedications? From anyone anywhere to anyone anywhere, and I'll perform it lively in box office concert and send it out in the wind. Maybe country music fan "Play that Country Music", or Beatle fan "Help", or spy "Secrete… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on May 24, 2010 at 9:14am — No Comments

zine review blog

just updated the reviews at sddzine.blogspot.com

send it in, I'll review it

-rs

thanks to everyone who sent in last month!

Added by Randy Spaghetti on May 23, 2010 at 5:32pm — No Comments

New Zines at Sweet Candy!

~ your secretary/Playing Victim #3

~ your secretary #2/Heaven Street

~ A Million Birthdays #10

~ Greenwoman #6 (which comes with a FREE copy of The Juniper #12 by Dan Murphy)

~ Mrs. Noggle #14

On the books page:

~ girls are not chicks - coloring book by Jacinta Bunnell & Julie Novak

From their website:

We have had enough of books that make girls think that they… Continue

Added by Sage on May 22, 2010 at 9:44pm — No Comments

Call for submissions: Eight and No Halves Fanzine #1

It’ll be in a similar vein to Brodsky & Treadway’s Little Film Notebook, but will also cover experimental/underground/avant-garde Super 8 filmmakers, rather than simply resources for small format filmmakers (most of which can easily be found online).…

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Added by Eric on May 22, 2010 at 1:13pm — No Comments