December 2012 Blog Posts (35)

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2013 Famous Faces Calendar (Wall Calendar) ($7)- A nice, mid-sized wall calendar with paintings of famous faces from a bygone era of music. Featuring early…

I'm making a 'zine entitled "A Real Witch: Our Lady of Golden Hill." It has nine pages of text. There is a color Xerox inside cover (front and back) with a multimedia image (relating to themes in the text). The outer cover is made of color Xeroxed marbleized art paper (outside) and one collaged design element and a color Xerox of black sparkle paper (inside). It is stapled in the center seam. 8 1/2 x 11 copy paper.





It tells the story of Nancy Ann Wood (1745-1833) who was…

Hello,

I am writing you because I have been asked by Microcosm Publishing to compile a book titled Alive With Vigor!: How To Be Healthy. The book will contain vibrant information on how people can be healthy, and specifically for youth, queer, and transgender. It's a lot, but I…

We eventually got driven out of the old house.I'll alway's remember the impact that moldy dump had on me though.The silk screened poster's that were everywhere,although corny and hippy dippy in retrospect,at the time seemed like the coolest thing in the universe to me.There were alway's cool psychedelic poster's hanging up on all the wall's.Probably my last discovery before we got evicted was a big washing machine in the hall.It was filled with old book's,by Edgar Rice Burrough's,L Sprague…

The old house in the wood's was a wreck.It was condemned-it was unfit for human habitation.People shook thier head's and went,"Tch-so sad children have to live like that".It was confusing to me-I didn't give a fuck-I was 5.It was actually being used to store old junk in when we moved in.It had racoon's,which I fed cherry tomatoes to so they would leave my room.The collection of comic's upstair's in the attic was enough for me.The copies of The Masses really intrigued me.The art was alot…

I alway's loved printed matter,from the earliest day's I can remember.Probably the first art I saw that I dug was printed.Mass communication,to me,instantly mean's your art is worth a shit.Obviously,I'm wrong,but this is just a core belief I developed somewhere along the way.My aunt,who lived up by Central Park had a book of old MAD magazines,and those were my first memories of comic's.In 1970,my mom moved out to the Catskill's,behind my Grandparent's house,to get away from my dad because he…

hey, im creating a zine called "Life despite Life" and im wondering if you want to contribute anything to it?

So far i've decided it will be about ways to relieve stress, blue thinking (depression) and ways to cope with life; like happiness tricks. haha so really its like a rough quide to life.

im looking for tips and stories you might want to share. maybe even some art or comics?

i'm just in the planning stages so im up for many suggestions or tips you may…

This year Chicago Zine Fest is gettin' too big for it's britches. They are growing and looking for avenues to expand which comes with needed community support. In doing so, the fine organizers (of which I am one), have opened an Indiegogo fundraising campaign. The great part is that anyone that donates gets a prize be it a CZF BFF button, tote bag, CZF thank you zine, exhibitor artwork and more. Check out…

The Clash - the Street Parade

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We need your support moving into the second year of our current exhibition series. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing self-publishing artists, who generally share their work through zines and other printed matter, with a platform for exhibition, experimentation and…

Piccola

(Musea version of a poem by Celia Thaxter. Note it was the custom for St. Nick to leave a present in the child's shoe. Piccola = pick-o-la)

Poor Mother, poor Father, house maid and share cropper

and both pockets empty, except for due bills.

What can they get their little girl for Christmas.

"Piccola! Piccola! Love of my life!"

Father wrings hands and mother cries.

The bells ring carols as the family walks to church.

A snowflake falls on Piccola's…

I run a small gallery called, Mødestedet( meeting place) --the next show i have is the concept of 20x20

20 artists using the dimensions 20x20 to make contributions, 20 are chosen --exhibited, A Zine made to celebrate the contributions and share the works even further than the…

bomb shelter forum volume one

is being compiled.....

it is a 1/8 size minizine, you may submit random short (very short…

As the holidays and the New Year is approaching, I just want to thank everyone for supporting the zine.  As some of you may know, the lastest issue of Cadillac Girl came out this year after an 8 year break. I'm so happy to have started it up again and I couldn't have done it without the support of readers, contributors, fans, reviewers, friends...everyone.  I have met some wonderful people and I can't wait to see what 2013 brings (issue four is in the making). So to…

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