Month: June 2020

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Call for Submissions: Quaranzine

ZINE CALLOUT: Coin-Operated Press Quaranzine!

Applications are now open for Coin-Operated Press’s first ever collaborative zine! We are super excited to make our first zine with you, and we cannot wait to receive your submissions.

This month’s theme is all about the COVID-19 crisis, and our current Lockdown situation. We would love you to respond with your thoughts on the crisis, social distancing, how you have been affected, what you are looking forward to once we start to return to normal, your future predictions, and any other responses you may have to this pandemic!

We are looking for: articles, illustrations, short stories, photography, poetry, artwork of any medium, short essays, recipes, comics, collage, and anything else that will fit into a zine!

Please send us the following details along with your submission:

The name/credit you would like printed in the zine.

Your pronouns.

Your contact details that you would like printed in the zine.

A short one-sentence bio.

A profile photo or image for your bio.

A short description of your work and how it fits with the theme.

The deadline is midnight (GMT) on the 12th of June 2020

Please email submissions to coinoperatedpress@gmail.com

For more information on the submission process, please visit our FAQs.

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Mini Zine Review: Weird Sh** Out of Context

Weird Sh** Out of Context
Latibule
https://linktr.ee/latibule_art

Weird Sh** Out of Context is a black and white, primarily text A7 mini-zine full of out-of-context quotes.

I was in the mood for something fun, and this zine really hit the spot. Full of plenty of strange – even in any context I can imagine – statements, each in their own speech bubbles, you can spend as much or as little time as you like pondering the strangeness. Latibule makes full use of the space, too, so there’s plenty to ponder.

Usually with a mini, I wouldn’t share any quotes because there’d be so few, but Latibule has filled this mini right up with strange and wonderful quotes. So I think it’s okay to share the quote that made me wonder the most and chuckle the most:

“Gooey, gooey children.”

Hilarious or horrifying – which way did your mind go?

My one nit pick is that Latibule didn’t include any socials or the like anywhere in the zine. Not a huge thing, but, in Latibule’s case, a lot of things that aren’t her come up when you google “Latibule” so I thought I’d mention.

Pick up this mini and other minis like it. It’s a fun reminder of what strange creatures we humans are.