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Captain Heather Comics!

We just started carrying Captian Heather Comics, which is totally wonderful zine that you should check out.

Five dollars.

More along the lines of a graphic novel than a comic zine, Captain Heather Comics is stories from the life of Ms. Heather Dunn. All stories within are completely charming and written with the grace and wit that not many zinesters have just yet. Wonderful… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on July 9, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Use Yr Words!

Use Your Words (Press) is a new art collective here in Olympia that we have the pleasure of being a part of and helping start in the last month or so. We are real excited because this Sunday is our first event! If you are in/near/around/passing through the Olympia area, you should come! It goes something like this:

Zine Readings!: Alexis Wolf (reading from her new issue of… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 26, 2009 at 7:54pm — No Comments

Almost gone!

Just noticed that there are only a few issues left of the first issue of Basic Paper Airplane and thought I'd put that fact out there. It comes with a totally weird mix CD and a fully functional paper airplane.

Also noticed that we're also down to our last copy or two of:

Ilse Content #6…

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Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 24, 2009 at 12:54am — No Comments

What do you think?

So, while the options are limited on what you can do with a blogger page, we did some layout work to try to make the distro easier to read/use, a little prettier... Any thoughts? Anything you'd like to see?

I 've been wondering if people would like it better if the side links were separated by what type of thing they are (zine, handmade book, cd, tape, record), or if that would just get jumbled and confusing.

Would love to hear what people think. Thanks! -MVP/JJ...… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 13, 2009 at 1:38pm — No Comments

New for June (and free music)

So, as always, this is an abbreviated version of our mailing list update, but thought I'd include the free sampler zipped mp3 cd link: http://drop.io/mvpdistrosampler

And, of course all things can be found at www.msvaleriepark.blogspot.com -MVPD/JJ

New!

*52 Card Pick-Up (Zine)- A personal memoir of dealing with great amounts of chaos, all at once. ($2)

*Annabeth- Extra Orchard (CD)- Wonderfully mesmerizing folk epics. ($8)

*Groves- EP (CD)- For those of us who… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on June 3, 2009 at 8:09pm — No Comments

Join mailing list?...Yes.

We at Ms Valerie Park Distro are putting together a fun email newsletter thingy for June, with a bunch of links to fun things and a bunch of free mp3's and we think you should join. We're not in the business of pressuring people or being weird, but just wanted to let y'all know that we think it's fun and maybe you will, too.

send us yr email! msvaleriepark@gmail.com

P.S.- Also, that free-zines-for-zine-libraries-if-you-can-pay-a-few-bucks-for-postage offer still stands and I… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 31, 2009 at 6:55pm — No Comments

Dear Zine Libraries...

(or home zine libraries/personal zine libraries), I realize I have a fair amount of quite good zines in multiple copies that I don't distro and I'm a little unsure what to do with. I've donated to all the local zine libraries, so thought I'd throw it out there that, if anybody wanted an envelope of random zines to add to their collection, I would totally send an envelope like that yr way. I would just need a couplefew dollars for shipping. It would probably be 5 or so zines...let me know if… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 28, 2009 at 1:28am — No Comments

Utne Awards?!

We at the Ms Valerie Park Distro are headed to Boulder, Co in the morning to attend this weekend's Utne Reader awards ceremony because our very own Ariel Birks got nominated for Zine of the Year for Jesus Christ Superzine! Kinda weird, we're totally going to be the only zinesters at the thing, but how often do you get invited such a thing? For us, not very often. We'll keep y'all posted on the… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 14, 2009 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

New for May!

(this is a less personal version of the one we send to our mailing list, which you can join by sending an e-mail to us: msvaleriepark@gmail.com, all these things can be found at www.msvaleriepark.blogspot.com/)

New for May!

All the Ancient Kings (Zine)- The wacky comic adventures of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Hunter S. Thompson, Leonard Cohen, and Warren Zevon. ($4)

Funwater Awesome #1 (Zine)- What might at first seem to be all about the wonders of Tumwater, Wa,… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 6, 2009 at 10:25pm — 1 Comment

New Issue of Ilse Content!

Ilse Content is one of my favorite zines. It has been around for six years and someday should get put in book form like Doris, Invincible Summer, or Cometbus- it's just as good as any of those. Until that day comes, we have a new issue out to satisfy our hungers. It just came out this week and I just put it up on the distro, you should check it out:
http://msvaleriepark.blogspot.com/2009/05/may-feature-of-month-ilse-content-vol-8.html
♥ MVPD/JJ

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on May 4, 2009 at 5:39pm — No Comments

More Zines!

...are (finally) being added. And more on their way.

I've been a little confused on how to go about shipping charges and have been doing this $2 flat rate (in the U.S.) that allows people to buy as much as they want and it will just be two bucks of shipping, which seemed great for people who wanted two records, a cd, and a zine, but kinda sucked when someone just wanted one zine. So, now there's no shipping on zines and the price just kind of includes shipping. It's hard to keep the super… Continue

Added by Ms Valerie Park Distro on April 28, 2009 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments