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July 2009 Blog Posts (84)

Just a note about the next three weeks...

I just want to let everyone know that I'm having my tonsils and adenoids out next Thursday, so I'm gonna be down for at least a few days and not doing much for awhile after that. I'm not even allowed to go back to school or work for two weeks after the surgery, so driving myself to the post office is also out. If I owe you a zine trade, you WILL get it, but it may be a little delayed! Thanks for your patience!

Added by Mab on July 9, 2009 at 5:32pm — 1 Comment

Captain Heather Comics!

We just started carrying Captian Heather Comics, which is totally wonderful zine that you should check out.

Five dollars.

More along the lines of a graphic novel than a comic zine, Captain Heather Comics is stories from the life of Ms. Heather Dunn. All stories within are completely charming and written with the grace and wit that not many zinesters have just yet. Wonderful… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 9, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Portland Zine Symposium!!!

ZAPP will have a table at this year's Portland Zine Symposium, Friday July 24-Sunday July 26. We'll also be having a forum discussion with the folks from the IPRC (together we are the CASCADIA ZINE COALITION!) about sustaining zine libraries and supporting the zine community in the Northwest. Come by and say hello!

Added by ZAPP on July 8, 2009 at 11:07pm — No Comments

Invisible Kitten Zine Complete. Two more zines on the way....

Issue one of my zine Invisible Kitten is complete. I wrote it in one night. It's stream of consciousness writing. A lot about my feelings and descriptions of love, self image, resistance, and the paranormal summed up in and mixed up with dreams. I'll be making copies soon and I'll be at Sac Zine Symposium if you want to trade in person. Or you can send a dollar or trade or vegan cookies or anything else really to:

Natalie Stat

PO Box 54

Hood, CA 95639

I'm also in… Continue

Added by Natalie Stat on July 8, 2009 at 2:40pm — 2 Comments

Musea Art Contest 7/8/09

The answer to, and winner (if any) for,

our last contest question of:

With all those summer blockbusters, we have this question. What's the name of a device that lets a person drive a puppet from a distance? For extra credit what's it named after?

IS

The remote manipulator is called a "WALDO" named after Robert A. Heinlein's sci-fi short story "Waldo"

We had no winner, Seems y'all's brains had no manipulation at all!

I don’t

dumb… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on July 8, 2009 at 9:44am — No Comments

Best Zine Tip EVER!

In Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2, Alex Wrekk suggests printing on sticker paper. Once you're ready to lay out your writing, you just peel the backing off the sticker paper and stick it to your page. I just tried it for a page I am making for Jenny Archibald's artist zine, and it TOTALLY WORKED! Not only did it work, it was AWESOME! I didn't have to whip out my (almost empty) glue stick, and now I don't have excess glue on my hands, computer keyboard, and workspace.

I am so… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on July 8, 2009 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

ISSUE 34 - WITH TWO FREE CDs!

It’s here, and with TWO free CD it’s giving you more music for your money than ever before!

It addition to your regular sampler Issue 34 comes with a bonus 5-track CD from THE GREEN RIVER PROJECT, interviewed inside this issue. See www.myspace.com/greenriverproject08 for more info.

Inside you’ll find 80 pages of the following;

Interviews:

Anvil

Adrian Edmondson / The Bad Shepherds

Imelda May

The Only Ones

Ginger Wildheart

MC5's… Continue

Added by Alison B on July 7, 2009 at 8:31am — No Comments

Zine Age Riot zine show

Teeluxe is proud to curating an exhibition of zines at an event called Zine Age Riot. To be held 8 August 2009, in Byron Bay Australia, it will showcase a range of artists form around the world who have created zines especially for Zine Age Riot.

Artists confirmed in the exhibition include: Joe Allen (AUS), Craig Atkinson (UK), Kimberly Amos (AUS), Jody Barton (UK), Martin Bell (AUS), Pete Brower (US), Jeff Canham (US), Culture Vulture (UK), Ryan Heyward (AUS), Nick Chalmers (AUS),… Continue

Added by Teeluxe on July 7, 2009 at 4:56am — No Comments

ANOTHER old-new camera!

My uncle, seeing my sudden interest in photography, gave me ANOTHER old-fashioned camera and it was the one he started off with! It takes batteries that are pretty hard to find, but otherwise works great! It's a canon, and even has a zoom lens (my other one doesn't, you just have to aim and shoot). It came with two lenses, tons of black and white film, and a camera bag, but I'm not sure the magnification of the lenses. This weekend I'm gonna look for things to take pictures of; I'll most likely… Continue

Added by Sophie Bee! on July 6, 2009 at 5:58pm — 2 Comments

New Typewriter

i'm excited. i purchased a typewriter today. i've been using the typewriter at my desk at work to do most of the typing in my past issues, but i'm going to be moving offices soon and won't have access to it anymore. definitely time. i'm thrilled at the prospect of being able to type immediately at home instead of having to wait to type things i've written over the weekend on monday at work.…

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Added by Sarah C Frey on July 6, 2009 at 1:28pm — 5 Comments

Preston Hollow People Interview (Musea E-mail Club #478)

Readers,

Here's a link to a short Question and Answer interview of me by the Dallas weekly Newspaper, Preston Hollow People. They sent me a list of questions about two weeks ago, and took my photo last Tuesday.… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on July 6, 2009 at 9:23am — No Comments

old-new camera, issue #2 ideas, and asking for zine reviews!

Wow, you won't believe how excited I am!!! On Friday, at a farmer's market that's kind of near my house (it sells some cool antiques) I was looking through a bunch of crates of junk some guy was selling, and I found an old-fashioned camera that actually uses film! It looked like it was in working condition so I asked him how much it was, and he sold it to me for only $3.00. So I took it home, and asked my mom if she had any film from her old camera. She gave me a roll of colour and a roll of… Continue

Added by Sophie Bee! on July 5, 2009 at 8:54am — 2 Comments

Independence Day

I feel stupid for saying it--well, more for feeling it: I'm feeling homesick today and it's partly because it's the Fourth of July, a holiday I've always been kind of ambivalent about. Anyway, have some fun, some fireworks and watch the sunburn for me, while I celebrate my Independence. Maybe I can rustle up some Loyalists in downtown Toronto.

Wish I were there. (Martin Van Buren State Park, Lake Michigan).

Update: Independence… Continue

Added by Monstress Zine on July 4, 2009 at 2:00pm — 4 Comments

Home

I've been thinking about home more and more recently... like I said, the fact that I am away from home, family, and friends didnt really hit me until just very recently--which is over a year and a half since I made my big stupid move.

So anyways, a friend have made me realize that I haven't really experienced a lot of things back home. I mean heck, I lived in an archipelago, made up of thousands of islands, but I have never once gone to any of the beaches there. My university there… Continue

Added by Saling Pusa Distro/closed on July 4, 2009 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

I discovered mini zines!!!

Okay, so I didn't REALLY just discover them. I've known about them for awhile. But I always thought they were kind of limiting and I didn't see the point in making something that would only fit in someone's pocket. Wouldn't it get lost in the bustle of bigger zines?

But I made one today after my penpal sent me one and I think I might be hooked. It was kind of fun to make an entire zine in an hour and a half, and it was more challenging than I thought. I found I had to edit more… Continue

Added by Mab on July 4, 2009 at 11:25am — 3 Comments

PLEASE HELP!!

So I am tryuing to dtart a zine library but I cant because I only have a couple of zines so if you are willing to donate a zine to this library I am trying to start I will be really grateful thanks!!

Added by April Pacheco on July 3, 2009 at 6:09pm — 1 Comment

Weird Procrastination Inversion

So yesterday I planned on working on the monster drawings I am going to submit to the coloring book issue of Lucky Creature Attacks. And instead of drawing, I procrastinated by doing actual boring work. I unpacked this box that's been sitting in my bedroom since I moved over a year ago. It's not like I needed anything in that box, either. I think it's just that I want to draw something different and I want the finished… Continue

Added by Monstress Zine on July 3, 2009 at 11:52am — 2 Comments

ME.ME.ME

ME.ME.ME is a personal zine I started after receiving my undergraduate degree in 2008. Image heavy with text pertaining to life after art school, having very little money, working part-time jobs, moving, gay rights, commuting, and life in general.

If anyone is interested in a trade email SarahCFrey@gmail.com

Page from unfinished ME.ME.ME #3

ME.ME.ME #1

ME.ME.ME #2 48pg… Continue

Added by Sarah C Frey on July 3, 2009 at 7:36am — No Comments

New in the Poopsheet Shop: BEARD GROWING CONTEST by Raighne Hogan (2D Cloud)

Beard Growing Contest

Raighne (Good Minnesotan) Hogan's charming mini-comic about growing a beard!

Numbered edition of 100 copies.

More info and sample pages in the Poopsheet… Continue

Added by Rick Bradford on July 2, 2009 at 9:22pm — No Comments

off to china, sooon ---and back from china,

will be making three zines, as i will be in shanghai for three months---
will post them on this site when they are done.

www.avantafro.blogspot.com

peace and love

hello everybody,
my son was born on the 18th june..

all zine making on hault, but still open for trades, of some of my older stuff

FOWTOE@GMAIL.com

much love

Added by AvantAfro on July 2, 2009 at 3:23pm — No Comments