Month: March 2019

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What’s Happening?

Oh dear.

Oh dear, dear, dear.

This has not been the ideal first part of Mini-Zine March.

Hello, wonderful zine friends. After two weeks with no Happy Mail Monday, few posts, and not much else, you’re probably wondering what’s happening. (If you don’t follow me on other social media, anyway.)

Here’s a little explainer:

On March 4th, I had a day procedure at the hospital. I’ve had this procedure before, so I expected a day or two of rest to recover, and then things would be right back to normal. Unfortunately, this time has been complicated, creating a need for a lot of rest. (I think I’ve been sleeping more than I’ve been awake this month.)

The good news is that I’m really lucky to have great doctors in my life who really listen to me, so I am recovering. It’s just taken a lot longer than expected.

The other good news is that things should be back to normal now as far as posting goes. One good thing about being stuck in a chair for most of the day is that, when I am awake, I have zines to read and review. 🙂

So here’s to health and getting Mini-Zine March going properly!

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Call for Submissions: The Rock N’ Roll Horror Zine

The Rock N’ Roll Horror Zine
Submissions Now Open

Looking for rock, metal and punk themed horror, sci-fi, pulp and bizarro fiction submissions up to 2,500 words. Also interested in visual art submissions that are on theme, especially cover art.

Accepted submissions receive $5 and a contributor copy.

Email submissions to doomgoat666@gmail.com

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Call for Calls for Submissions: Spread the Word About Your Zine/Distro/Library!

Zine Calls for Submissions

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.

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Zine Review: How We Met Dory-Bean

How We Met Dory-Bean
Dory-Bean’s Humans
https://www.instagram.com/dory.bean/

How We Met Dory-Bean is an A6 black ink on pink paper zine about how three humans met the adorable Dory Bean.

This zine was yet another case of love at first sight for me. Sewn binding? Rounded corners? A peeking cat on the cover? Yes, yes, and yes please.

How We Met Dory-Bean opens with Dory Bean falling out of the sky and, of course, then demanding some food. From there we read a very sweet story of cat food, notes passed via cat collar, and a cat who chose her humans instead of the other way around.

I love this zine to bits. The story is sweet, the illustrations are adorable, and the zine itself is so well made. Each page spread has text on the left page and an oh-so-cute illustration on the right. The interior page corners are rounded just like the cover. Plus, it’s sewn with pink thread that matches the pink interior pages.

I will definitely be getting extra copies to get for my cat enthusiast friends.

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Zine Review: Dog Drawns

Dog Drawns
Ellie
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Dog Drawns is an A7 one-page folded mini of dog drawings.

For anyone who doesn’t know, I love dogs. I couldn’t resist a cute dog mini. Heart squeeze guaranteed.

I must admit that the part that squeezed my heart the most is the note at the start of the zine. Ellie writes that they made this zine of drawings because they can’t have a dog of their own.

Six drawings of a variety of different dogs follow. I was also very happy to find an A4 dog drawing surprise when you unfold the zine. (I will never tire of the ‘surprise inside content’ of one-page mini-zines.)

One thing missing from this zine is any sort of social link. Not so much as an email. So if you know the Ellie who made this, let me know, and I will update the top info.

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Happy Mail Monday Delay

Hello, dear zine friends.

I’m afraid there’s no happy mail this week, as offline life requires my full attention today and possibly tomorrow.

I’ll be back to it before you know it, so until then, make some mini-zines! 💚

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Call for Submissions: Infidelity Zine

Infidelity Zine open call

Do you have a story to tell about infidelity? Perhaps you’ve experienced it because you were the person doing it. Maybe the person you’re with has done it whilst with you or in the past with other partners. Perhaps you witnessed your parents working through it. I’m looking to collect these into a zine to show the diverse spectrum of this part of human life. Please get in touch either by sending an email to sophie.a.w.sherwood@gmail.com or leave your story on the Sarahah page anonymously.

This is open to all ages, races, sexes, genders, and doesn’t exclude people in the polyamorous community.

Google says:

infidelity
/ɪnfɪˈdɛlɪti/Submit
noun
1.The action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner.
“her infidelity continued after her marriage”
synonyms: unfaithfulness, adultery, unchastity, cuckoldry, extramarital relations, extramarital sex; faithlessness, disloyalty, falseness, breach of trust, treachery, double-dealing, duplicity, deceit, perfidy, perfidiousness; affair, liaison, intrigue, amour; informalfooling around, playing around, playing the field, cheating, two-timing, hanky-panky, a bit on the side; formalfornication
“her husband never knew of her infidelity”

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Mini-Zine Review: What’s in My Travel Zine Kit

What’s in My Travel Zine Kit
J.E.M. Hast
https://www.jemhast.com/

What’s in My Travel Zine Kit is an itty bitty A8 black and white zine showing JEM’s zinemaker travel kit in words and drawings.

This is a very sweet mini-zine and the kind of peek into part of a zinemaker’s life that I enjoy. Small, cute drawings like the one found on the cover show pens, glue sticks, and other essentials in JEM’s travel kit. There are even a couple items I think I need to add to mine to spice up creating on the go.

My only wish is that I could see this zine in colour as well because I think it would be even more cute.

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Happy Mini-Zine March 2019!

Hello, hello, hello! It’s Mini-Zine March!

It’s the fourth year of me declaring the entire month of March as the time for celebrating the itty bitty creations in the zineverse with only reviews of mini-zines for the entire month plus bonus reviews thrown in as well.

There isn’t a prompts list as such (goals for next year!), but I do also encourage zinemakers to embrace the little things and set mini-zine making challenges for themselves.

And, of course, share the links so I can check out what you’re up to!

So here’s to another Mini-Zine March and celebrating the little zines in life. My first mini-zine review will be coming later today!