Looking at the Year Ahead
Hello, zine friends!
I intended to write this post much earlier in the month, but – as you may know – 2019 came out swinging.
Wanderer ended up for a short stay in hospital. He’s feeling back to normal now, thank goodness, but the days were stressful, as he dislikes hospitals at the best of times and was a bit of a medical mystery to the doctor. Financial stresses keep piling up, any my own medical issues are proving annoying as they butt into my focus while I’m trying to focus on other things.
However, I will leave all the negativity here and now. As I’m typing this. I have stressed, cried, wondered how it could all possibly work… and now it’s time to let go. Oh, the things are still there, but there’s a difference between dealing with the stressful things and focusing on them to the point where you feel like they will consume you.
When I watched Feral Publication’s video, I felt inspired to put my focus on the positives. To the things I’m working toward. And to put those things ‘out there’ into the zineverse rather than containing them strictly within my head.
Here are my goals for this year:
*Finish all zine projects still ‘open’ from 2018
*Make at least five zines
*Submit to at least ten collab zines
*Go to Festival of the Photocopier
*Open the Sea Green Zine Distro
*Read at least one book a month (I read heaps of zines but would like to read more books)
*Finish the first draft of my next story (not sure if it’s novel-length just yet)
There’s certainly a lot more that I’d like to accomplish this year, but I want my goals to be distinct from all the various things things on my to-do list. They are also ‘SMART’ – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely.
I’ll stop my ramble here, friends, as I’ve wandered a bit more in the writing of this post than I thought I would. Haha.
I wish you all the best in the year to come – whether you made your goals on New Year’s Eve, haven’t made them yet, or would rather not make goals. Should you be stressed or overwhelmed, I hope the universe provides you with everything you need to take it in stride.
Best wishes always.
Happy Mail Monday – Mac & Cheese Edition
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Happy Mail Monday, friends! This week’s mail is especially glorious with goodness from Belgium, Israel, and the US! Check out fun postcards, ZineWriMo goodness, funny pressies from the States, and some goodies that will be available at Festival of the Photocopier.
Thank you so much for watching.
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Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:
*Nina Echozina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/
*Drawings By Nina – https://drawingsbynina.wordpress.com/
*Guitarrr 1 Zine Review – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-guitarrr-and-bass-mini-manual/
*Nina’s Postcards – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/postcard-season/
*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
*ZineWriMo 2018 – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zinewrimo-2018-list/
*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/
*Latibule – https://linktr.ee/latibule_art
*Sticker Robot – https://stickerobot.com/
*Portland Buttonworks – https://portlandbuttonworks.com/
*Festival of the Photocopier 2019 – http://www.stickyinstitute.com/
*Brainscan 33 Review – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-brainscan-33-diy-witchery-an-exploration-of-secular-witchcraft/
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GoFundMe to Get to Festival of the Photocopier – https://www.gofundme.com/help-nyx-get-to-fotp-zine-fest
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PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia
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Call for Submissions: ‘You’re Standing On My Neck’: A Daria Fanzine
Call for Submissions: The Throwaway Account
The Throwaway Account is a brand new zine planning to debut in February 2019 interested in your poetry, micro essays, flash fiction, little interviews, postcard-sized art, mini-comics, and other forms of short-short stories!
The theme for the first issue is “Emotions,” which can be anything from sadness to gladness. While the publication will be mostly in English, submissions in other languages, especially for feelings and concepts that are untranslatable, are welcome.
Send all submissions and queries to editor Liz Tetu at throwawayzine@gmail.com by January 14th 2019 to be considered for the first issue. Non-themed submissions are accepted on a rolling basis (aka anytime) for future issues coming out May, August, and November.
“Throwaway” means an interest in anything you have! Old or new, unfinished or just unpolished, the embarrassing, too personal, and too weird submissions are considered just as seriously as any other. Reprints are acceptable, as well, as long as you note where it was originally published when you submit.
“Throwaway” also refers to the way the zine will be printed. The plan is to print most (and handwrite some) submissions and adhere them to napkins made of recycled materials borrowed from restaurants. Plans for a digital anthology of a single year’s issues are also in the works. We’ll see!
The Throwaway Account is 100% recyclable
Call for Calls for Submissions: Spread the Word About Your Zine/Distro/Library!
Share your call for submissions, let people know about your distro or zine library, announce your newest zine, let people know you are crowdfunding a zine project…
If you have an announcement to make that has to do with zines, do it here! Sea Green Zines wants to be your megaphone. Even better? It’s an automatic shout out on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr when your call is posted here.
Big fuzzy love hearts to those who have a .jpg call for subs, but all are welcome. Get in touch by emailing seagreenzines[at]gmail.com or comment below.
Call for Submissions: Topic 7: Candy +/- Revenge
Call For Submissions: Workaholic (Deadline Extended)
*Poetry submissions full.*
Zine Review: Inappropriate ABC’s
Inappropriate ABC’s
Ryan
https://www.instagram.com/_my_name_is_ryan_/
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/PocketThoughts
Inappropriate ABC’s is a quarter-sized black and white zine of ABCs that is a long, long way away from a child’s book of letters.
When I saw Warglitter’s review of this (and Ryan’s other) zines, I immediately put it on my zine wishlist.
I never claimed to have a mature sense of humour.
With this zine, Ryan seeks to give people “a new kind of alphabet book that they can relate to”. With entries like ‘A is for Abortion’ and ‘D is for Douching’, this might be a zine that you don’t want to leave lying around if you have readers that are a little young for ‘intermediate reader’ level. (Those are the only spoilers you’ll get from me.)
Each page features two letters (save for the middle spread containing six in total) each with its own word or phrase as well as its own funny rhyme. They might not always make things clearer definition-wise, but they always made me grin. The same goes for the illustrations to go along with each. (I’m looking at you, cheeky illustration for letter H.)
I love the way this zine looks and can’t imagine a better style for it. The fonts, Ryan’s sketches, the sarcasm, the words/phrases chosen for the letters – it all works together for a great zine. Especially for those of us with a less than mature sense of humour.
Grab a copy.
Zine Review: Found in Books 3 & 4
Found in Books 3 & 4
Karys
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/Loveandois
https://www.instagram.com/karysrhiann/
Found in Books 3 & 4 are full-colour A5 zine collections of interesting things found in/around books while working as the librarian at a public co-ed school in Melbourne.
Have I mentioned how much I love found things zines? A zine series featuring things found in a library makes for a zine series I don’t want to end. It’s one of the few times in life I’m at peace with knowing that I’ll never know the details/story of something.
And believe me – there are more than a few questions that come up while perusing these zines.
Photos, class notes, and – of course – the expected dick drawings have been found by Karys, the zine-making librarian. I noted with amusement that the cover description of the zines changes slightly from issue 3 to issue 4:
Issue 3: “I keep finding notes, lists, scribbles, drawings & photographs tucked into pages or in-between boks in the shelves.”
Issue 4: “I cannot stop finding notes, lists, scribbles, drawings & photographs tucked into pages or in-between books in the shelves.”
I knew I would enjoy these zines, but I did even more than I expected. I spent a lot of time pondering the various bits and bobs Karys has found. I love how some students left little anonymous notes for each other. Small book reviews, life observations… Seeing that kids are still reaching out and having fun in the same ways I did at that age is both funny and pleasing.
If you like found things zines, then these are must haves for your collection. I now have to get my hands on the first two.
