Author: Nyx

And we’re back for day six in this day of catching up!

Today’s prompt:

Happy Zine Pride Day! Belated, of course, but that’s no reason to not celebrate! There were so many glorious creators to choose from (I wish I could support everyone all the time!), but I decided to pick up a couple of things I have had my eye on created by Zappix Art.

Zappix are are very cool. Along with zines, they make super fun plushies, stickers, and all sorts of awesome things. Not to mention their store is where I got my lovely bright green gummy bear earrings! Definitely check them out.

The second part to today is visit the Queer Zine Archive Project! From their site:

“The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.”

Please keep in mind that QZAP is run partially on donations from visitors, so support them if you can. It’s super easy to donate and you feel great supporting a great project. ^_^

You can pop over here for the 2020 IZM list of daily activities by Alex Wrekk. (Pssst! Go here to download your own printable IZM 2020 poster!)

Also be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you’re joining in. I’ll keep a growing list on each post so we can all check out what each other are doing.

Hello and happy Thursday, zine friends! Let the catching up on IZM commence!

As always, these things are meant to be fun rather than stressful, so it’s always okay to skip a day, join in late, and otherwise do whatever you need to do to make the most of the zine goodness for the month. I am going to try to catch up in my own little ways though. Key phrase being little during super busy times! Hahaha.

Today’s prompt:

Sea Green Zines got rolling years and years back on zine reviews, and here we are today! There are plenty of zine reviews to be found in the Zine Review Index or checking out the zine review category as well because the index isn’t fully up to date.

However! Sharing is caring, glorious friends, and there are many other zine reviewers around! Please allow me to point you to three awesome people who not only review zines, but they do so on YouTube! (They’re also awesome, so…)

*Rich of Feral Publication – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkHGWfc44M5znpDg5adSog
*Ryan of Pocket Thoughts – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOIgwk4qcATCn4pawkuB_cw
*Craig of Five O’Clock Zine – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe3FsK3mf3K624FxA1JEnrg

**If you are a zine reviewer! (Or do anything zine-related, really.) Please let me know! I’d love to add you to my resources page.

That’s all for me for the zine five prompt. Usually Thursdays around these parts are zine review days, but I have more catching up to do. The next post to come soon!

You can pop over here for the 2020 IZM list of daily activities by Alex Wrekk. (Pssst! Go here to download your own printable IZM 2020 poster!)

Also be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you’re joining in. I’ll keep a growing list on each post so we can all check out what each other are doing.

Happy 4th of July to the zine friends who are celebrating!

It’s still the 4th in some parts of the world, so this still counts as on time, right? Hehehe.

Welcome back to another beautiful day in the zineverse (well, I say beautiful but the rain…). So what do we have for today’s zine activity?

I’m going to second Alex’s recommendation on the Alex Wrekk Does Stuff and Things Facebook page and point you at Brown Recluse Zine Distro as a great place to start.

I’d also like to point you to my review of A Problem With Your Background by Feral Publication. It’s a zine that really got me fired up at the time and fires me up whenever I think about it.

If you have any recommendations, please feel free to leave them in the comments!

You can pop over here for the 2020 IZM list of daily activities by Alex Wrekk. (Pssst! Go here to download your own printable IZM 2020 poster!)

Also be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you’re joining in. I’ll keep a growing list on each post so we can all check out what each other are doing.

Hello and happy Friday zine friends!

We’re already on day three of International Zine Month, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it will keep carrying along at this rapid pace! But you’re never too late to jump in and join the fun. You can pop over here for the 2020 IZM list of daily activities by Alex Wrekk. (Pssst! Go here to download your own printable IZM 2020 poster!)

Also be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you’re joining in. I’ll keep a growing list on each post so we can all check out what each other are doing.

Onto day three!

The zine community is well and truly a versatile one! While it has definitely been sad and difficult to see so many in-person zine events need to be cancelled for the safety of everyone, a lot of people have picked things up and run with them in a new direction. The virtual direction!

Already this year there have been a number of virtual events and shows of the zine awesomeness variety as well as a few ‘zoom type’ group chat events for hanging out and getting creative. They’re popping up all over the place, but I’ve seen most on Facebook. I don’t know of any off the top of my head right now, but you can check out the resources page for a few places around the internet that may be holding virtual events or have connections to virtual events.

Of course, if you are holding a virtual zine event or know of one happening – please let me know! I’d love to help spread the word.

That’s me for today. Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Hello, zine friends! Welcome back to day two of that wonderful month of the year featuring all kinds of zine goodness to enjoy. If you’d like to jump in, check out the 2020 IZM list of daily activities by Alex Wrekk. (Pssst! Go here to download your own printable IZM 2020 poster!)

Also be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you’re joining in. I’ll keep a growing list on each post so we can all check out what each other are doing.

Onto day two!

Every year I have trouble with this one because I don’t like picking favourites. Hahaha. I want to pet all the zines!

Because it’s Thursday, which is a review day, I’m going to be a bit cheeky and post two zine reviews from the past – one mini-zine that makes me smile and one perzine that really introduced me to a part of me that I didn’t realise had a name. So here we are…

Continue reading “International Zine Month Day 2: Zine Rewind!”

Hello, wonderful zine friends! It’s so lovely to be back once again for that lovely month of the year with a zine focus of all sorts of zine goodness happening in the universe. As I mentioned yesterday, the awesome and amazing Alex Wrekk has posted 2020’s list of daily activities!

(Pssst! Go here to download your own printable IZM 2020 poster!) For this fresh and lovely first day of the month we have…

I’m going to be a little cheeky with this one, dear zine friends. I’m going to borrow my definition of what a zine is from my mini-zine on that very topic! It’s a very flexible definition, which gives me a giggle, but what are zines if not a myriad of things! So here we go:

A zine is a creation that is DIY, (often) self-published, (often) copied on a photocopier featuring any topic and/or art, and/or photography, and/or any number of combinations often made into some booklet type form.

Hahaha. That’s about as clear as soup and could include so many more things, that’s for sure. Trying to define zines as fun because I think anyone who really understands zines knows that we can try but we’ll never truly cover a full definition. And that’s absolutely okay.

That’s going to be it for me today, zine friends. I’ll be back tomorrow with the next activity!

***Note: I’m running behind as per usual but should have the full set of Instagram-friendly daily activity prompts ready by the weekend, if not before!***