I’m representing Sober Bob by one of my favourite zines by Sober Bob. 🙂
Amazing artist and zinemaker Sober Bob Monthly will be on 4ZZZ chatting about zines and all sorts of goodness – and you can listen in!
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The Little Things
Lily C
www.lilliancuda.bigcartel.com
www.instagram.com/lilliancuda
The Little Things is an A6 black print (mostly) on blue paper zine about mental health and self-care techniques.
If you’ve been reading here for a while, you know I love a good self-care zine, and Lily really takes it to a new level in The Little Things.
The zine starts off with an introduction to self-care and how a suggestion from a psychologist helped to create this visual self-care list. This isn’t a text-only list, however. Each self-care suggestion is given its own page, but more than that, they all come with a drawing as well to illustrate the list item.
Lily’s art style is very realistic and detailed. There are so many little things that made me smile as I looked through. The Sailor Moon drawing in ‘Drawing for Myself’ and the roses on the teacup in ‘Drinking Tea’… The suggestions are good in and of themselves, but the art adds a different dimension. I feel calmer and in a nicer space just paging through and looking at the pictures.
When I finished this zine, I realised how much I liked the details included in the introduction of how this zine came to be. Whether intended or not, this has inspired me to make a list of my own.
If you’re interested in self-care and/or an artist you may not be familiar with, I recommend checking out this zine.
Weird Dudes
Bianca B & Hollie F
Bianca: @flossytit77
Hollie: @latibule_art
Weird Dudes is a black and white A8 collab zine of weird dudes. Bianca wrote descriptions for Hollie’s weird dudes, and Hollie wrote descriptions for Bianca’s weird dudes.
This itty bitty zine is full of very cute and funny itty bitty drawings. Each drawing comes with its own often-amusing description of the weird dude pictured.
I really love this idea and wish I had some drawing talent so I could do something like this. This whole zine feels like a lot of fun, and it’s clear the artists weren’t taking themselves too seriously.
Grab a copy for a smile.
Hello, March, and hello autumn. Bring on those cooler temps.
And bring on the mini-zines!
That’s right, my zine friends. It’s March – the month of the mini-zines!
It’s only in its third year, so it’s not a huge event by any means, but it is the month I dedicate to my love of the mini-zine. (For definition, I’m going with anything smaller than a half-fold/A5 zine – usually 1/4 or A6 size and the one-page mini size.)
For the entire month I will *only* be reviewing mini-zines – with a couple of bonus Wednesday reviews thrown in for fun. I also challenge you all – whether is your first zine or your fiftieth – to make at least one mini-zine this month.
If you have a mini-zine, make mini-zines, like mini-zines, or are happy to talk about mini-zines, you can go ahead and grab the banner above if you like. Let me know about your post(s) so I can check it (them) out.
Happy zinemaking!
