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August 2009 Blog Posts (92)

August!

We just sent out this month's email update, so I thought I'd pass it along here, too!

New for August!

Conceptualizing Confluence (Zine)- Karl Blau's audio recording zine! ($2)

Dirty Sweet Experience- ST (CD)- dreamy, slightly fuzzy, goodness. ($5)…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 8, 2009 at 7:12pm — No Comments

Who'd have thought it, I finally wrote a zine?!

Finished my first ever zine!

Hop A Plane (somewhere else)

Made for the 24 Hour Zine Thing 2009.

1/2 sized, 24 pages.

A travel zine of sorts about my gap year between school and university.

Some of the things I write about:

- Travelling around for a few weeks in Canada and then later in USA.

- Ramblings about several zine festivals including Canzine East, Hotel Canzine and Portland Zine Symposium.

- Random observations from… Continue

Added by lizzy / marching stars distro on August 8, 2009 at 3:36pm — 2 Comments

Nightlife

Right before the second day of the July '09 Portland Zine Symposium, finished a dream comic called Nightlife. Basically a bunch of my dreams all strung together to almost make sense.

Added by Tom Lechner on August 7, 2009 at 4:51pm — No Comments

UPDATE: Destash crafting supplies

I have had a number of inqueries regarding the destash and I guess because i wrote my previous blog in a hurry, it has confused a lot of people...

So I am wanting to destash ALL of my craft supplies (it ranges from fabriks to beads, wires, found objects, wires, chains and other vintage things). I just REALLY need to clean them out so i can make room for a new prokect that iw ill be focusing on.

so here is a list of the things that I have FOR SURE. feel free to look to see… Continue

Added by Saling Pusa Distro/closed on August 7, 2009 at 12:13pm — No Comments

Byron Bay Zine Age Riot zine show on Today

Our Zine show is on today in Byron Bay, Australia — if you are in the area drop in between 11am and 4pm. If you are nowhere near Byron, you can check out the show online here — http://teeluxe.com.au/products-page/books-and-zines/zine-age-riot-exhibition/

Added by Teeluxe on August 7, 2009 at 9:17am — No Comments

Sign up for the 09 Philly Zine Fest now open!

Added by Philly Zine Fest on August 7, 2009 at 9:14am — No Comments

New issue of Absent Cause coming soon -- submit by Sept. 1

It’s almost that time again…

September 1 is the deadline for submissions for the third fun-filled issue of Absent Cause: Death, Dying and Undeath. The new issue will be available in October to welcome the season of growing darkness, decay and Halloween / Samhain / Day of the Dead.

Absent Cause #3 will feature a stunning wrap-around cover by Brandi Lee, centerfold poster art by Disdane, interviews galore, essays, poetry, fiction and artwork as we explore death… Continue

Added by redguard on August 7, 2009 at 8:34am — No Comments

Hi, If you'd like a copy of my zine, just send me a dollar (or 2 postage stamps) to: Heidi PO Box 5880 Chula Vista, CA 91912. The zine is two 8.5x11" sheets printed double sided and features an art…

Hi,

If you'd like a copy of my zine, just send me a dollar (or 2 postage stamps) to:
Heidi
PO Box 5880
Chula Vista, CA 91912.

The zine is two 8.5x11" sheets printed double sided and features an article about my favorite DJ, nice bondage images, an article on healthy eating and foods to avoid, and answers to a fun survey question, "What's your favorite sex scene in a movie?" . Continue

Added by Miss H on August 7, 2009 at 1:40am — No Comments

excerpt from my perzine "EXTRANJERO" #7 about my first trip back to the USA in 3 years By Kris

2 April: We arrive at Philadelphia International Airport & approach the long lines of people waiting to go through the immigration check point. There is an angry Hispanic woman shouting in English & in Spanish, “U.S. citizens to the left! Non-U.S. citizens to the right! Ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos a la izquierda! Todos los otros a la derecha!” I wish Lola luck & give her a kiss as she heads over to the immigration line for drug dealers, terrorists & child molesters. When I… Continue

Added by Kris M. on August 7, 2009 at 1:02am — No Comments

I found this on a net dive(search) ---------words are pictures

Added by AvantAfro on August 7, 2009 at 12:10am — No Comments

my little wonder -introducing Malik to we make zines

Added by AvantAfro on August 7, 2009 at 12:08am — No Comments

Hello!

Hello everyone,

I make zines! yay! You can find them at my Etsy shop: www.sprouthead.etsy.com. I am currently working on a new perzine called Minutiae No. 2 about my experiences in Richmond, Virginia. I moved here about 3 months ago. I don't lead a crazy life or anything, but it's just observations in drawing and writing about my day-to-day life. I also have plans on completing a zine about a trip to New Mexico that I took last July. It was such a magical adventure and I've been so… Continue

Added by Aijung Kim on August 6, 2009 at 6:48pm — 1 Comment

Shrouded no.4

I've just posted a review over at www.comicbitsonline.com of Vanessa Wells' latest issue of Shrouded. A great read and fantastic art.

Added by Terry Hooper on August 6, 2009 at 3:10pm — No Comments

Delays in Zine Printing.

Well yesterday I thought I was gonna be all hard core and go donate some plasma so I could get my second issue of Gestalt and Pepper printed up. The printers I go to charge a booklet fee to scan it all, so I went ahead and scanned all 36 images and put them on a jump drive to bring to them, and save myself the $20 for the booklet fee, figured I could make $25 selling plasma and get at least 10 copies printed. Well to start off, they still had tocharge me the booklet fee, they said because each… Continue

Added by Madrea Marie on August 6, 2009 at 7:23am — 2 Comments

How Mystery Science Theater 3000 Changed My Life is out!

My new zine, How Mystery Science Theater 3000 Changed My Life, has been out for about a week (I debuted it at the Portland Zine Symposium last weekend). Check out http://www.hotmilk.org for more details.

Added by Tyler Hauck/Hot Milk on August 5, 2009 at 4:02pm — No Comments

Chasing Faeries.

Although I'm half way through editing my second book [Some More Things Strange & Sinister] and need to get Merriwether copied and scanned,I am trying to up-date a book I wrote in 1994,up-dated in 1996 and which has been hanging around for quite a while gathering dust.

The Illustrated Field Guide To Elves is full of black and white illoes and I've just to retype the text and clean up a few of the old drawings. Then its working out the cover design. I'm hoping that it should be… Continue

Added by Terry Hooper on August 5, 2009 at 10:47am — No Comments

4 Monsters Photo Album

so i deleted the blog post with the pictures of the monsters i drew for the Lucky Creature Attacks coloring book. the in process photos of all the drawings are in the 4 monsters photo album, including a couple of scans. i've sent all the images to scott. i'm at the part of the process where i do not like looking at my work, which is another reason to move it off my main page.

now i'm experimenting with digitally darkening the lines of the faun drawing using Gimp.

Added by Monstress Zine on August 5, 2009 at 10:22am — No Comments

Radical Education Audio Documentary

While we've added lots of great zines this month, I wanted to mention how great I think our feature of the month is. It's not zine or music, but a double cd audio documentary called I Want To Do This All Day Long, which is about radical education/alternative education programs in the U.S.

Amber and Amina, who made it, traveled across the country and visited 22 different free… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on August 4, 2009 at 5:28pm — No Comments

Musea Art Contest 8/4/09 Zinesters Invited

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

our last contest question of:

Painting question. What is a camel hair brush made out of? And no its not that simple. Here's a clue, most are made out of what lives in my Dallas neighborhood.

IS

Squirrel's tails! (and sometimes horses, goats, sheep, bear hair, or some combination.) Meng T'ien invented the camel's hair brush in China in 250 BC.

We had no winner. Strangely enough y'all were not SQUIRRELLY enough on… Continue

Added by Tom Hendricks on August 4, 2009 at 2:22pm — No Comments

Stack and Wrap Format

I saw a really cool zine format in 'Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?' called "stack-n-wrap". It's when you do a bunch of quarter-sized pages but you don't print on the backs, and then you bind them with a rubber band (basically, they're not bound, they're just tied together.) This way, people can reuse them as post cards or you can print them on sticker paper to be reused as stickers. Has anyone else heard of this format? I want to try it sometime, it sounds really cool. And my art work would be… Continue

Added by Sophie Bee! on August 4, 2009 at 9:22am — 1 Comment