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All Blog Posts Tagged 'zines' (233)

why do it, what's the draw, and somesuch

Hannah’s thread on putting zines out of print got me thinking about motives and…

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Added by sandy on May 12, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Finished the zine section of my site.

Since quitting my job in February, I have really begun to miss web design and development. There is just something so appealing to me about spending 8 hours staring at HTML, CSS and jQuery.

That said, I spent this morning and afternoon adding a zine section to my portfolio site. I think it looks pretty good!

CHECK IT OUT.

Waiting for my printing contact to come back so I can make copies of Delusion #2. I'm waffling between… Continue

Added by Nichole on April 30, 2010 at 1:00pm — 6 Comments

Zine Descriptions & Reviews

This blog post will be updated whenever a distro writes a description for one of my zines, or someone writes a review. If you've read my zine and would like to write something for me to post here, let me know - it would make me very happy!

Issue 4.

In my own words:

This issue of my perzine is loosely based around lists of 4. I write about…

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Added by Hannah (Not Lonely Zine) on April 24, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

About Sonia Dilla and her Distro!

Hello out there!

My name is Sonia and I used to work with a group of womyn from Maine called the Mimi Collective. For about three years, we dedicated ourselves to learning and providing resources and workshops about

reproductive and sexual health, consent, assault prevention, survivor

support, gender and queer and feminist hystory. The opportunity to

learn about our bodies, deconstruct oppression and grow in a safe space

will be an inspiration for my work for years…

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Added by sonia dilla on April 22, 2010 at 10:44am — 1 Comment

My zine, mélange, and what the hell I was thinking.

Heh, I'm a turd. After doing not very much promotion of mélange #2, I've started work on mélange #3. Yeah, the mood found me. I feel more confident about, well... myself, what I want to say, and how I want to say it.…

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Added by sandy on April 14, 2010 at 3:35am — 2 Comments

NEW DISTRO: currently accepting zines for consideration!

(x-posted on LiveJournal & Facebook, so I apologize if you've read this before!)

Hellooo!!

I'm starting a small distro/mail-order for zines, books, pins, stickers & other paper goodies - from Portugal to all Europe and the rest of the World!!!

I'm currently accepting zines for distro consideration! Help me build up the distro's catalog, will you? ;-)

Looking for zines written…

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Added by Yvonne G. on March 25, 2010 at 12:16pm — 3 Comments

Invicta Distro - New distro/mail-order

New distro/mail-order for zines, books, pins & other paper goodies - from Portugal to all Europe and the rest of the World!!!…

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Added by Yvonne G. on March 20, 2010 at 8:54pm — 2 Comments

Zines about music, being in band, that kind of thing.

Hey zinesters,

Just wanted to share that my band NIghtwood is thinking of embarking on a wee zine project and we've set up a poll to gather your opinions as to what we should write about.

We posted a blog about this today called We (heart) zines, do you? There's also info about a zine making workshop in Montreal that's happening over at the Ste. Emilie Skillshare… Continue

Added by Amber on March 18, 2010 at 8:45am — 3 Comments

Where Does the Staple Go: A Gudie on Making Zines

Hello all! I've written a new Examiner article! This time I dive into the how-to world of how to make a zine. Obviously, we all know that there is no right or wrong way to make a zine, but hey, there are lots of people out there who don't think so!…

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Added by Becca Darling on March 10, 2010 at 9:23am — No Comments

Call for zines: The Book Bike...

Dear Zinesters,

I've got a project in Chicago known as the Book Bike. I started it two summers…

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Added by Gabriel Levinson on February 28, 2010 at 12:37pm — 2 Comments

stars and birdies

mm, the finger pain of folding and stapling; nothing like it.

preparing a fat shipment to this saturday night distro. very excited. love it when people have the guts to strike out for themselves. :) good luck, brittney!

come march 2010, mélange and…

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Added by sandy on February 13, 2010 at 8:31am — No Comments

together we will conquer

just finished mélange #2. can't believe how much energy i've put into this one. it's nothing like what i pictured when i first started, and i'm tickled by what this might say about how the "creative process" works. thinking about where my head has been while making it is making me feel very tired. gonna sit on it for a bit, clear my mind. hope to have it in print and circulating in a couple of… Continue

Added by sandy on February 7, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

have i told you where i've been, and the things that really matter?

I won't lie, I'm still buzzing from the single launch. Months of sincere effort has now produced something to be proud of. Although, when I say "effort", I mean I just rocked up when I was supposed to when I was supposed to. DJ NU put in the real hard yards, and I'm so grateful to have been a part of it.… Continue

Added by sandy on January 31, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

oh wow, a whole section on blogs?

Hah. Spot the Ning noob. Only just found this entire section for blog posts. Woopsie.

Spose I should write a little bit in here. Been working on mélange #2. Almost 2/3 of the way through - hoping to have it finished in the next couple of months. Yeah, I know that's slack, but I like to take my time with zine projects - put some thought into them. Don't know if that comes across, particularly when the iterations of editing result in something minimal. But I suppose art is like a… Continue

Added by sandy on January 29, 2010 at 8:07pm — No Comments

My Zine is Now a Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that is correct. The Silk City Series is now a book, being published by Knickerbocker Circus Publishing, a small press out of Astoria, NY.

It's a collection of stories about the everyday lives of working-class people in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. The book has already garnered praise from publications such as Maximum Rock n Roll Magazine, who said "...the presentation is very beautiful and put together with an eye for the antique, forgotten, miserable and… Continue

Added by Eric Nelson on January 29, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

some olde reviews just to pass the time and revive the blogosphere

Z Gun – a yankee newsprint old school zine in a new world that had a great word up with Mike Doskocil about Drunks With Guns, has heaps of reviews for bands I’ll probably never hear cos I’m flat broke but has plenty of spirit, guts and leaves black ink on yr fingers. What more could you need in this new world of blogs and glossy personal zines and shite. I got mine from Big Star here in Adelaide which surprised the fuck out of me but then the world is getting’ smaller.… Continue

Added by kami on January 10, 2010 at 7:37pm — 3 Comments

300 Zines and Counting*

Here at QZAP 2010 is off to a roaring start. We've now got 300 zines, flyers, and odd ephemera online in the Archive! If this is your first time here or you're a regular reader, please take some time to browse and find something new-to-you to read.

There are the classics like J.Ds, Anonymous Boy, I ♥ Amy Carter, and Susan Mini Mag. There are more recent zines like the 2008 RMO Tour zine from our friends in the Rude Mechanical Orchestra,… Continue

Added by QZAP on January 9, 2010 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Bringing More Wrong

I can tell that somewhere deep inside me I've already begun "Good Night, Cephalopod." I've already got the text and have been kind of stuck on the drawings--and distracted by life. But I'm getting that drawing feeling. This will be my second zine done entirely in colored pencil.

Added by Monstress Zine on January 3, 2010 at 11:56pm — 2 Comments

UTNE READER praises Baltimore's "thriving independent literary scene"

Utne Reader profiles Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore!, and Mobtown's literary scene in general, in its January/February 2010 issue.

Baltimore's "thriving independent literary scene should serve as an inspiration to anyone, in any city, who feels the… Continue

Added by Eight-Stone Press on December 22, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

punks is hippies - the blog!

this website is awesome! it's 'sort of' a zine archive, mostly into punk zines.

they have lots of old zines, back from the 90s and 80s, but they also have some "contemporary" (aka 2000s) zines.

though i'm not that much into punk, it's amazing the work these guys are doing in scanning old zines and making them available online for… Continue

Added by Yvonne G. on December 13, 2009 at 5:43pm — No Comments