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Stoked to get the Copy Scams songs on Soundcloud now. 4 of these are the old demo versions from the cassette tape. We rerecorded all the songs while we were on tour in the UK. We also recorded 3 new songs including Copy and Destroy (this is the demo version) We hope to have the new version out this year if we can scrounge up…

Have you checked out Portland Button Works and Zine distro? maybe you should.

2012 was a ridiculously active zine year for me. It started with creating the StolenSharpieRevolution.org site to be a companion to my book. The site includes a Zine Event listing calendar. In February I attended the first L.A. Zine fest and it was great! In March I attended the …

New issue of Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine Podcast! Issue #7 is about zine trades and was recorded in Sheffield in the UK with the Sinister Zinester tour! With Chella Quint, Marc Parker, Sarah Thomasin, Giz medium and me! There is also a new Copy Scams song at the end of the podcast. Download on itunes or listen here.

issue #6 of Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine Podcast is out now! We discuss International Zine Month and what we have been up to for the past year.

Also, if you haven't yet checked out my zine distro and custom button shop, Portland Button Works, you should do that too.

This started as a dream, literally a dream, that slowly invaded our sleeping and waking hours.  We’ve been working on this for what seems like months.  What started out as cross-continent online chats, turned into coffee filled breakfasts and Google docs full of ideas.  Now those ideas are becoming a reality.

Derek Neuland and I have joined forces to create Portland Button Works and zine distro!  With a collective 15 years of button making experience, we feel our custom button…

Released at the 2012 Chicago Zine Fest A split zine with Brainscan #29 and no More Coffee #4

Brainscan #29 - Ben Spies (no more coffee zine) threw out the challenge of fiction to my land of perzines and this is the grim result. These three short stories…

It is finally up! Go check it out!

http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org

Hello Zinesters and PZS fans!

The Portland Zine Symposium is looking for art submissions for the 2012 poster. This year's theme is "Sea of Zines." Your art submission should be your creative interpretation of that theme.

The Portland Zine Symposium is free conference and zine social exploring facets of independent publishing and DIY culture. The Portland Zine Symposium is a two day event held in Portland, Oregon every summer since 2001. It consists of two days of of workshops,…

Go Here:

www.stolensharpierevolution.org

Also, folks who run distros. I need yoour help:

I’m working on creating a continuously update listing of zine…

These are the two zines I created this year.They were each released already but have been repackaged and reprinted.



Brainscan #27

A tiny zine that reads like a snapshot. 1/12 legal sized (3"x4") 28 page mini zine, A single story wrapped in photocopier art. This zine takes place in an elevator between a 9th floor divorce lawyer and the ground and a bike ride home. It explores disappointments and the human inability to consider endings.



"We rode 9 stories down in…

Happy International Zine Month! I have a great way for you to celebrate and help out the Portland Zine Symposium!

The Portland Zine Symposium is hosting a 24 Hour Zine Challenge at the Independent Publishing Resource Center…

Hey, I turned Brainscan 21 into a digital format for people to read. This is not a zine. Zine are made of paper, this is made of 1s and 0s.

So, some of you may know about my history with Microcosm Publishing and Joe Biel. And, if you don’t, you can read this post here.

At the very end of last year a supposed public statement from Microcosm was posted here.

I posted my…

The new issue of Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine Podcast is ready here or through itunesor other podcatchers. …

1. I started a facebook page with lots more photos and updates and I finally started a portfolio of my custom button work.Go check it out.

2. i have a newsletter that I plan to send out updates every few months about zine projects and whatnot. I also offer discount codes for my Etsy shop! Sigh up for it here.

3. I have a blog where I…

I have a new zine! And it is basically the What's the Deal With You And Microcosm? blog post plus a little more including a paragraph from Cindy Crabb clarifying a bit of her request.…

The Copy Scams are a the band equivalent to a 24 hour zine!

Steve was visiting Portland from the UK and thought it might be fun to start a band while he was in the US. While he was in Portland he lived in a closet in the basement of the Spiral

house and tricked housemates Alex, paul and Marc to form a band in three

weeks before the 2010 Portland Zine Symposium.

In those three weeks they wrote, practiced, and recorded…