All Blog Posts Tagged 'first' (9)

My first zine - a colouring book for grown-ups. Featuring an octopus having a baking spree, rollerskates, maps and thoughtful rainclouds...

Well, hello there! Just in case you're interested, my first zine can be found online for free! So check it out, and let me know what you think.

first issue. half-size, 22 pages, $1, stamps, or trade. probably don't mail me a dollar because canada post employees like to supplement their wages where they can (just like anyone else). your best bet is to find me at a show (in brandon or on tour elsewhere in canada) or stalk me at work (please don't i'm paranoid enough as it is) or to mail some stamps, or to trade your own zine.

write to:

Matt

PO Box 22078

Brandon, MB  R7A 6Y9

there's a 7 month gap…

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Mine and your zine Absent Eyes will be about How-to advice for low budget DIY projects, found art and pictures/notes, random or strange stories, or anything that strikes you as really funny or odd!  I am taking submissions for the first issue at absenteyes@yahoo.com    [the zine size is half page 8.5/5.5]   P.S. let me know who or where I should give credit to when sending stories/pictures/music/info (if you created it, then you get the credit, I am just sharing!).  Thanks....xoxo   - Bender

So I've been reading zines and had it in my head that I wanted to make one for years. And today I finally sat down and started to do it. I had my glue stick. I had all the stuff I had written and wanted to include.



Then I freaked out. I got scared that I would mess it up and it would turn out horrible. Finally I got over myself and started making it, but I am scared that it won't be good.



Will someone reassure me that it doesn't have to be perfect? What was your first zine… Continue

Don't know if you get many people on here just entering into the whole dipping-my-toes-into-the-water phase of zine making/reading (i'm attempting to do both) but my first attempt at making my own zine turned out...let's just say, amateurish. Truthfully, i mishmoshed it all together collage-style (clippings from magazines and papers) in two days, and put it together with a paper-mache-like glue, and thread binding.

I tackle things headlong and without…

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Whooooo hooooo!!! I can cross it off of my never-ending 'LIFE GOALS' list: I have published my first real zine. Ya - i've done lots of those dinky ones to fill the boring summer days: reporting on the town's birthdays, giving reviews of the latest movie-release...nothing that packs any zest - nothing of this caliber. The FIRST INFINITE ZINE was great - it was amazing - it was inspiring - it was even a little smudged from the Xerox… Continue

I'm so happy I finally finished my first zine.

It was so much fun I have already started printing another.



but the first one is called

Zip Chips #1

the public restroom zine

available for $3 at



L. Velarde

PO box 1147

poway, CA 92074



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first blog posts always hold such hope dont they, like you will carry on blogging for months. Personally i never keep it up. This post is a testament to this.