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I love getting mail!

I came back to school to find a huge pile of mail outside my door, including zines from Susy Pow, Heather, and Emma Stronach! I just opened them and am super-excited to get to read 'em all. One of my favorite things about this whole zine trading business is getting real mail almost every day. :)

So if anyone wants to trade, I've got a new zine out; it's called "Weird Things We Hang On Our Christmas Tree" and is exactly as it sounds. My older zines are still available as well... leave… Continue

Added by Anna on January 8, 2009 at 12:23pm — 8 Comments

Carrots and Condoms: A Review by Xerography Debt

This is a review of Carrots and Condoms on the Xerography Debt blog, posted by librarian666:

"On a personal note, this zine struck a chord of memory with me: that feeling I had just after college, where the working world was so repugnant, so horrible, it drove me mad with despair.

I didn't discover the desire to farm or to somehow create a Portland, OR where I was; I went down in flames of defeat.

So, to you, Coco, you go girl! Keep the passion alive and change… Continue

Added by Coco Negro on January 7, 2009 at 7:36pm — No Comments

the year we saw them all

for those who don't know, this is not your average zine. no interviews or reviews, but just a collection of stories about how i managed to see every single movie that came out during my first year of university... for free, and some other adventures that happened in the movie theatre. comes on glossy paper with pretty sweet illustrations

printed on glossy paper with heavy cover.

pictures are on my profile page!

more info about me here:… Continue

Added by the year we saw them all on January 7, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Absent Cause #2: DUALITY -- Now Available

Absent Cause #2: DUALITY

bisexual bipolar body-conscious dead or alive

dialectical doppelganger gendered

identified mirrored radical

schizophrenic vampires

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Featuring:

Amanda Palmer interview on music, madness and the ReBELLYon

And INTERVIEWS with:

* Walaa Quisay, Egyptian student activist

* Laura-Marie Taylor, Functionally Ill zine

* Breaking… Continue

Added by redguard on January 7, 2009 at 2:01pm — No Comments

NEW COURSES STARTING NOW!

Happy New Year from Ffotogallery!

Our Photography and New Media courses are recruiting now.

If you are interested in studying with us, then book your place quickly as courses are filling up.

We will be running the following classes this term:

* Creative Website Design 2. Wednesdays from 07.01.09

* Creative Website Design 1. Sundays from 11.01.09

* Intermediate Digital Photography. Day, Evening & Weekend classes available from 12.01.09

* Landscape… Continue

Added by Ffotogallery@TurnerHouse on January 7, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Call for Zine Exhibition

Hi,

I'm organising a zine exhibition for around March with various zinemakers - a collective, if you like - and I wondered whether you had a zine ready or something you'd like to make, which could be included in the exhibition?

There will be pages (or excerpts) from zines blown up to larger sizes and displayed on the wall in whichever creative form the zinemaker wants. For example, simple A3 or A2 sized posters or on canvasses or inside books hung on the wall... The… Continue

Added by Bird in the Hand Zine Shop on January 6, 2009 at 9:19pm — No Comments

Call for Writing about Fat Issues in Zines - new and old!

Hello,

I am working on getting together fat zines and zines that included articles about fat issues for a possible anthology. The zine would be a collection of fat zines over the last 10+ years.

I really want to do it and think it could be great, but am having a hard time finding the zines, especially some older ones. If you did one or had something about fat politics published in one in the last 15 years, please contact me asap.

Thanks!

Krissy

Added by Krissy PonyBoy Press on January 6, 2009 at 4:17pm — 1 Comment

New mini Zine: "The Sketchbook Adventures of Emmeline Stronach"

This is a mini zine that I created for the Mini Zine Folks group swap (09). It fits into a standard envelope, is black and white and 16 pages. Because it's shiny an new, I've put it in a foil embossed koi envelope I found at the asian grocery.

The zine features pages from my sketchbook drawn especially for the… Continue

Added by Emma Stronach on January 6, 2009 at 3:54pm — No Comments

One-Shots

I figure i don't have a steady zine. I do have poetry chapbooks and chap. anthologies. Then i have these one-shots. In comic world (a world i am so comfortable living in). A one-shot according to Wikipedia is:

In the American comic book industry, the term one-shot is used to denote a pilot comic or a stand-alone story created to last as one issue. These single issues are usually labeled with a "#1" despite there being no following issues, and are sometimes subtitled as "specials".… Continue

Added by Indelible_Ink on January 6, 2009 at 1:59pm — No Comments

ZINES! (re)make history!!!! Exhibit!!!

An Exhibit & Workshop On Underground Publishing

Curated by Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go, this is not just an exhibit, but an active exploration of zine culture and production, including a "Scrap Lounge" in which visitors can create their own zine. Zines are the print media of an "alternative" culture that turns out not to be so alternative after all. Self-published & without censorship, zines are raw culture, not mass media that relies on the… Continue

Added by Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go on January 6, 2009 at 10:08am — No Comments

Eddie Willson's short story featured in Fallyrag

Fallyrag was lucky enough to get its hands on Eddie Willson's collection of stories in his zine 'you are here' of which 'Punch' is featured in this issue of the creative journal.

http://www.fallyrag.com/ - as always, we're interested in featuring examples from the zine world so get in touch if you fancy this opportunity. A new ZIne review section is in the pipeline for next month.

Kind regards,

Jon

Added by Fallyrag on January 5, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Review of Let's D.I.Y. #2 by Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go

I wrote the following review for Zine World #25:

Let’s D.I.Y. #2: This issue of Let’s D.I.Y. is subtitled “Off the Page: taking zine-making to the community” and was produced by Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go. It tells why zine-makers should get involved with community groups and gives info on how to begin and maintain such partnerships. Once the basics are covered, there’s some more in-depth information on how to do it all better. The zine closes with a list of resources as well as questions… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on January 4, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Reviews of You Live for the Fight When That’s All That You’ve Got #1 by Ciara Xyerra

I wrote the first review for the Feminist Review Blog, and it can be found here

http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2007/06/you-live-for-fight-when-thats-all-that.html

The second review was written for issue #25 of Zine World.

This zine is the latest from the woman who brought the world five issues of A Renegade’s Handbook to Love & Sabotage. After her dad’s unexpected death in 2002, she took a break from producing zines because “the words just didn’t come out in a… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on January 4, 2009 at 3:21pm — 2 Comments

.: MWM Graphics

Q&A with Matt W. Moore {printed in Art Bureau 17}

Matt, you've been very busy. In the last year or so, you've moved from Portland, Maine to work for Burton Snowboards in Vermont, and now I hear you opened your own design firm in Boston. Can you give us a brief re-cap of what led you away from Portland and made it possible for you to start a design business in Boston?

Well, I finished school in Portland in 2005 and worked at…

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Added by Art Bureau on January 3, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

DOGEAR #0

DOGEAR #0 IS SOLD OUT.

I have a new zine available that I did for the MINI ZINE FOLKS GROUP ZINE SWAP.

DOGEAR #0 is a mini zine collection of super natural stories from my childhood.

22 pgs, 1/4 size zine, limited to 25 copies. I kept one for myself, 11 are gone in the trade, which leaves

13 zines left for trade only. I would prefer to trade for mini zines of the same size, but will be open to anything.

They are available on a… Continue

Added by Jethrobot Press on January 3, 2009 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Itty Bitty Hipster!!

It's finally here!

Written, drawn, and hand-stitched by me:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19285950

Thanks for looking. :)

Added by Carissa Halston on January 2, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Zinefest!

I am really looking forward to the zinefest in London, see my events bit for info, as I am part of the exhibition thats part of the fest. I havent had any of my comics in an exhibition before and Im really nervous that no one will like them or that they will seem totally shite next to all the very competant female comic artists. But I am also looking forward to being in an exhibit with fabulous women artists. Its just all so cool.

Anyway, I hope people will come and spend time at the… Continue

Added by Katie D on January 2, 2009 at 11:50am — No Comments

paper trail distro news january 2009

i've added some new zine to the distro catalogue!

* when language runs dry -- a zine for people with chronic pain & their allies, all about living with & supporting people suffering from chronic pain

* kiss off #13 -- mega-thick personal zine about moving to toronto, special punk rock moments, traveling in south africa, etc

*… Continue

Added by ciaraxyerra on January 1, 2009 at 2:02pm — 3 Comments

Reviews of Functionally Ill #1, #2, #3

I wrote these three reviews for GoodReads.

#1 Subtitled "adventures with mental health", this first issue is specifically about "becoming bipolar."

In her introduction, Laura-Marie writes, "I'm writing this zine so others can know what it feels like to be me. Also, it...more Subtitled "adventures with mental health", this first issue is specifically about "becoming bipolar."

In her introduction, Laura-Marie writes, "I'm writing this zine so others can know what… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on December 31, 2008 at 12:26pm — No Comments

reviews of Morganmuffel #16 and #17

These are the reviews of Morganmuffel #16 and #17 that I wrote for my GoodReads page. #17 actually just came out, so you can get a copy from Isy. She's on We Make Zines, so look her up.

#16 Morgenmuffel RULES!

Isy tells the stories of her life through super cool, super cute comics. She goes to protests, cooks a lot of food, and drinks a lot of beer. This particular issues includes lists of hated things compiled by a variety of people.

#17 I so appreciate Isy's… Continue

Added by Amazing Sunflower on December 31, 2008 at 11:48am — No Comments