August 2011 Blog Posts (68)

Yes, it's true. I just started a Kickstarter for my latest issue. I'm curious to see if I can make the goal. And even if I don't, well then, at least I tried.

All of the information is here: Syndicate Product: META-COMICS Issue.

I hope you'll head over there, watch the video, and consider contributing!

The Weekly Troll, Issue 8

So last month was jam packed with zine stuff in my city. The organisers of Auckland Zinefest and other ziney people put on a full calender of fun things. These are the things I attended.

24 Hour Zine Making Workshop

Held at Tangleball and starting at noon Saturday, going through til noon the following day (Sunday).

I got there around 11.30am and registered while my partner played some…

Just a little introduction for my first blog post here. I'm Sam Beasley, and my partner and I run an online magazine called L'Allure des Mots (www.lalluredesmots.com - the mag itself contains some NSFW content). We're a mixture of literature (poetry, flash fiction, and short stories), art, and fashion. We're considering going print, but for what we want to do it's a little costly at the moment.

Anyway, looking…

I've got an upcoming deadline to write a cookzine review article for LibraryJournal.  I've got a couple, but I'm looking for a few more.

Criteria:

• Currently available

• Real zines, not cookbooks that started as zines

• Pretty much any style as long as it's about food and has recipes.

Additional wants:

• Diversity!  I'd love to see POC cookzines, queer cookzines, and non-vegan cookzines in addition to the awesome vegan and…

“Juggling the Rainbow“ is a collection of 13 personal writings about non-monogamous relationships, made in Aotearoa/New Zealand 2010.

The PDF is available as a download on www.qzap.com or www.indymedia.org.nz, but if you would like to buy a hard-copy (or pdf per email) please contact me via:

Juggling_the_rainbow@yahoo.co.nz

A second zine is in…

A country girl takes the world of Cambodian rock'n'roll by storm!  International intrigue!  Horrifying slaughter!  The Golden Vioce of the Royal Capital!

It's 20 pages long, about 6,000 words. It comes with a CD-R featuring 50 minutes of quality material by the incomparable Ros Sereysothea.  http://www.hotmilk.org for more deets.

We have a whole string of events coming up in september.We will be holding a mini/exhibition/zinefest in mid september and would love to have as diverse a collection of international zines for the event as possible. We hope to get the zines in as soon as possible as international postages are unpredictable, it may take up to 3-4 weeks.. (eeeps, forget to mention that we're from Singapore)... & we will cover the cost for zine + postage (hopefully!) let us know if you're a zinemaker/distro…

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

This word has the meaning of a word loosing end sounds and being abbreviated. Example saying glam for glamour or cred for credibility. IS: apocope from the Greek word for cutting off. Ex. Curio for curiosity,We had no winners. No one got the right ANS -I don’t dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED ‘30′! – (first anti-band CD) or my NEWER cd CALLED ‘NEXT”(‘06) or…

Absent Cause zine was established in 2008 as a venue for people from myriad cultures and selves, pushed to the outskirts and into the underground, to find each other, draw connections between their experiences, and gain strength for their struggles.

The term “Dangerous Gifts” is usually associated with the special contributions of people with mental illness / variance. But there are many kinds of dangerous gifts we experience and share: the person who chooses to wear…

Our very favorite zine.

Ilse Content Vol. 10 (Zine) ($3)

This, the tenth issue (!) of Ilse Content is the “home” issue. Places lived, the home you carry inside, travel,…

(slight edits, btw not posted at 9:30 pm it's 5:43 in the morining here - uk BST)

 a) catching up on pending zine trades, I should get them in the post this week.

Got zines dug out of the box ready (had hassle putting everything back again), found charity/activist flyers etc (& a lost pack of stickers & badges). Need to get /trade for some zine/distro/more radical type activism ones etc. flyers & need some American/non-British ones. 

Managed to get flyers…

not afraid of ruins #3 as well as all my other zines (that i'm not too embarrassed to show anyone) are now available for download on my blog: http://notafraidofruins.wordpress.com/zines.

they're all pdfs imposed for printing on A4 paper, so all you have to do is print, fold, staple and read.

you can also order hard copies from rebel press:…

Hello FNBers,

Thanks very much for the great meal yesterday.

I've hesitated to do this, but I'd like just to make a few comments on your local FNB and my involvement with it.

I had the sense that my attempts at a face-to-face inquiry about FNB met with some discomfort from some members, so I thought it might go over better in writing.  We libertarians tend to be rather blunt and direct in our discussions, and maybe I came across as overbearing.  If so, my…

Pandora Press is now looking for submissions for its second issue!  The theme is sex.  Here are some suggestions in which you could go with this theme:

Sex in culture

Sex in the media – literature/music/zines/mainstream press/film

Sex and religion

Gender and/or sexual identity

LGBTQ issues

Sex and…

I´m interested in zines about travelling, queer, sexuality/relationships, poetry, decolonization, feminism - and whatever else my brain can´t think about right now.

I´m curious to meet other zinesters, swap zines, network!

Once I got a bit more time I will write about the non-monogamous zine I made - and post the call out for a new one.

Hailing from Long Beach, California, Gag Me With A . . . is a pic’n'mix of counter-culture, essays, collage, photos, poetry and music. Featuring a roll call of far-flung contributors, the result is a colourful miscellany of topics. There are musings on Cab Calloway’s hair, comic strips, an intrepid account of cycling around the world and some short fiction pieces — my favourite being ‘Crispin, Prudie & The Flamingos’ which is like Mills & Boon penned by the Angel of…