Month: January 2021

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Help Save Wasted Ink Zine Distro

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXQ0-Ewr9uU&w=560&h=315]
Read more on the Go Fund Me page

Detailed Information on Closure by Charissa:

“It’s with a heavy heart that I announce this news. I’m closing the storefront of Wasted Ink Zine Distro at The Hive.

I was given less than 24-hour notice that construction would be taking place in my store. I informed the owner I was disabled and needed more time to get help moving items. She assured me I would have a week to move my items but the construction took place the next day which resulted in paint splatter on my furniture, broken furniture items and decor items, and a thick film of dirt and grime on many of my zines. I’m still assessing the damage of my property and merchandise and will be contacting creators.

Additionally, I was told my rent would increase 25% and after nine months of financial difficulty due to the pandemic, that rent increase isn’t feasible for me.

I want to thank the community for providing such support in the last 5 years and please know this isn’t the end, just a change of plans for Wasted Ink. May we celebrate the wonderful art events, poetry readings, and conversations that took place inside our space at The Hive. Our online store will remain live and we will be looking for a new location when COVID-19 has eased next year.”

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Artist Call Out & Exhibition to Raise Money for Vietnamese Charity Combating Child Trafficking

My amazing friend Iestyn of Zine Love fame let me know about this awesome charity sale and call for submissions happening! Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, a charity working in Vietnam to help rescue and care for victims of human trafficking, street children, and other young people, is putting on a charity sale to help raise money.

The event is being organised by Livy Nelson.

The call out is asking for artworks that can be sent digitally and reproduced as A3 prints, although it is possible that they will also accept physical items through the post, but it’s best to talk to the organiser before arranging that.

Here are the details:

If you are on Instagram you can follow her account here or on Facebook here

all content copy right their respective owners

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Call for Submissions: Pre-Existing Zine

Pre-Existing

In a year still plagued by disease, those with chronic illnesses and other health conditions have faced blatant disregard for our lives and worth. PRE-EXISTING is a zine about living when others don’t care if you die.

*Deadline is March 31, 2021*

Submissions should be between 100-750 words. All conditions, from chronic illness, disability, & mental illness are welcome. Contributors will be paid $15 USD to be paid via PayPal or Venmo.

[Two stickers: one is a circle sticker of a rainbow. The other is a square sticker of a unicorn that says “Uni-Can”]

Send in email or as .doc file to: OleandrsStudio@gmail.com

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Zine Review: Things My Cat Will Definitely Attempt to Eat When I’m Not Looking

Things My Cat Will Definitely Attempt to Eat When I’m Not Looking
Connor Ovenden-Shaw
https://linktr.ee/connorovendenshaw/

Things My Cat Will Definitely Attempt to Eat When I’m Not Looking is a tiny palm-of-your-hand sized black and white zine about things Connor’s cat will eat when Connor isn’t looking.

This tiny zine is super cute and super relatable me, who lives with a cat that loves to nom on everything. Each page features one naughty nom with an illustration to go along with it.

There is a level of cuteness and humour that goes along with this zine topic in and of itself. Yet Connor adds in a bit of extra humour on top using the zine itself!

But I won’t spoil it.

I really enjoyed this zine and think anyone who loves cats will as well.

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Zine Review: The Drawn Me Like One of Your French Girls Only Don’t Draw Me Draw Something Else Please Zine

The Drawn Me Like One of Your French Girls Only Don’t Draw Me Draw Something Else Please Zine
Anna and Ray
lightswitchtrigger@gmail.com

The Drawn Me Like One of Your French Girls Only Don’t Draw Me Draw Something Else Please Zine is a black and white US-sized half-fold zine collab between Anna and Ray in which Ray suggests a theme and Anna draws it out.

Collab time!

The Draw Me zine opens with Anna and Ray each taking a page to introduce themselves and the zine. This had me smiling from the get go because you can easily pick up some of the friendship dynamic between them.

After that, we get into the prompts and drawings. However, it’s more than a simple back and forth – it’s an often-funny conversation between two friends that happens to involve drawings.

As Ray mentions in the beginning, Anna doesn’t always do things in the way Ray would envision them. Anna’s imagination is wild and funny, which is well reflected in her art. The drawings more often than not go in directions I never would have imagined (enjoyably so).

As I mentioned, this zine is more a conversation that involves art. A Couple of times the page order within a spread confused me briefly (right to left instead of left to right) but it didn’t make me pause for long. Bolded versus not bolded writing lets you know who is ‘talking’ save for one page where I think Anna is actually talking with her drawing rather than Ray.

The conversation takes a bit of a turn at the end, but Anna brings it back to a very nice place and ends the zine on a sweet note.

I enjoyed every element of this zine: friend collab, prompts, wild art… It’s a lot of fun to check out.

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Happy Mail Monday – Time Capsules & T-Shirts Edition

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDE9T1kqd4w&w=560&h=315]

It’s Happy Mail Monday time once more, gorgeous zine beans, and there is such fun mail to share this week. A lot of new inspiration for future zines, too!

Thank you so much for watching.

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Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*Erica – ?

*Antek – https://www.etsy.com/shop/pleasetakeonebooks/

*Don Leach – http://notmovingpictures.blogspot.com/

*Anna Gecko – https://www.instagram.com/oleandrsstudio/

*Call for Submissions ‘Pre-Existing’ – https://seagreenzines.com/call-for-submissions-pre-existing-zine-2/

*Izalixe Straightheart – https://www.youtube.com/user/izalixe

*Ken Bausert – https://www.instagram.com/passcribe/

*Billy – https://www.patreon.com/iknowbilly

*Feral Publication – https://linktr.ee/FeralPublication

*Adel Souto – http://adelsouto.com/

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My PO Box:

Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/seagreenzines

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Help Save Wasted Ink Zine Distro

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXQ0-Ewr9uU&w=560&h=315]
Read more on the Go Fund Me page

Detailed Information on Closure by Charissa:

“It’s with a heavy heart that I announce this news. I’m closing the storefront of Wasted Ink Zine Distro at The Hive.

I was given less than 24-hour notice that construction would be taking place in my store. I informed the owner I was disabled and needed more time to get help moving items. She assured me I would have a week to move my items but the construction took place the next day which resulted in paint splatter on my furniture, broken furniture items and decor items, and a thick film of dirt and grime on many of my zines. I’m still assessing the damage of my property and merchandise and will be contacting creators.

Additionally, I was told my rent would increase 25% and after nine months of financial difficulty due to the pandemic, that rent increase isn’t feasible for me.

I want to thank the community for providing such support in the last 5 years and please know this isn’t the end, just a change of plans for Wasted Ink. May we celebrate the wonderful art events, poetry readings, and conversations that took place inside our space at The Hive. Our online store will remain live and we will be looking for a new location when COVID-19 has eased next year.”

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Call for Submissions: Pre-Existing Zine

Pre-Existing

In a year still plagued by disease, those with chronic illnesses and other health conditions have faced blatant disregard for our lives and worth. PRE-EXISTING is a zine about living when others don’t care if you die.

*Deadline is March 31, 2021*

Submissions should be between 100-750 words. All conditions, from chronic illness, disability, & mental illness are welcome. Contributors will be paid $15 USD to be paid via PayPal or Venmo.

[Two stickers: one is a circle sticker of a rainbow. The other is a square sticker of a unicorn that says “Uni-Can”]

Send in email or as .doc file to: OleandrsStudio@gmail.com

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Zine Review: Angry

Angry: A Review of ‘The Fiorenza Forced Marriage’ by Melanie Milburne
Angry Romantic
dear.angryromantic@gmail.com

Angry is a one-page-folded A6 black and white zine review of ‘The Fiorenza Forced Marriage’ by Melanie Milburne.

I feel like I’ve found an established series with Angry reviews: I’m not completely sure what’s happening, but I like it, and I’m excited.

In this one-page zine, Angry Romantic breaks down this novel in many funny and, indeed, angry ways. There is even a review of the back cover blurb, which is apparently quite the tease that doesn’t exactly deliver.

Angry Romantic gives us a bit of a plot run down in the first middle spread by giving us twelve different plot points/elements rated on the A.N.G.R.Y. scale. What is the A.N.G.R.Y. scale? I don’t know, but this book didn’t do well on it. Negative ratings are possible.

When you fully open the zine, you find an ‘ad’ for 2009 horoscope book, a spotlight on the author, fun ways the author refers to genitals, and the final verdict on the story from Angry Romantic.

As a writer, I would be a touch horrified to have my work reviewed in such a way… but I absolutely laughed reading this. Plus, even with the humour, Angry Romantic makes points that make it clear a little criticism is warranted.

Even better? This is a free zine!

I absolutely need more of these in my life. I think anyone who has read a romance novel needs it in their life, too.

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Zine Review: A Brief But Intense Infatuation

A Brief But Intense Infatuation
Karys McEwen & Samantha Riegl
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/Loveandois
https://samanthariegl.com/

A Brief But Intense Infatuation is a black and white A6 zine about crushes of various natures and durations.

There is something about stories of love and crushes that gets me every time.

A Brief But Intense Infatuation opens with a definition of ‘crush’ in verb and noun forms (the latter providing inspiration for the title). Then we launch into a collab of crushes. From first crushes to worst crushes, each page is dedicated to one crush story in that person’s chosen styles. Some are cringey, some are sad, and others are oh, so easy to identify with.

I liked the variety of cut and paste styles in this zine, but the stories are really what drew me in. I love that Karys and Samantha had different types of crushes in this zine. I’ve never had a celebrity crush, but I’ve certainly had a brief crush and a ‘WTF Was I Thinking?’ crush. Crushes can be funny (and a myriad of other things) bonding material.

I think this is one of those zines where you’ll have a good idea of whether you’d like to check it out given the subject matter. If you’re interested in crush stories and the like, then pick this one up.