For the love of zines
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
Mail submissions to : sullenhearts@gmail.com
Deadline: August 31st
*Rolling Call for Submissions*
All you need is zine love, la la la lala. Hehe. Hello, zine friends!
Today’s prompt is:
ValenZines Day! Give yourself some zine love in whatever way it means to you (read zines in the tub? Buy some new scissors?)
When I first saw this prompt, I thought about a bubble bath zine reading session or curling up on the recliner. But today the sun is shining, I’m in a lovely mood, and I have plenty of zine-related tasks to tinker with. For me, this is a lovely zine way to spend the day.
What are you up to today?
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List of activities: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/internationalzinemonth/
Others Joining In :
*Echo Publishing – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com
*Feral Publications – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dA2HTUon0
*You?
Mail submissions to : sullenhearts@gmail.com
Deadline: August 31st
TZD is a zine distro created to erase stigma around chronic illnesses (including mental illness) and to educate people about what living with chronic illness is like.
One zine/print a month will be featured and all money raised from each work will go to a different charity.
Facebook: facebook.com/tenderzine
The first work featured is by me (Amber is Blue) and it focuses on my battle with major depression. All money raised goes to Lifeline Australia.
We’re looking for submitters: email amberisblueart@gmail.com for further information.
Pet Hates
Confetti
http://www.confetti.ooo
https://www.instagram.com/confettiooo/
Pet Hates is an A6 black and white comic zine about pet hates. Or rather, pets’ hates.
I’ve identified with a lot of zines over the years, but this is the first time I’ve identified with a zine on behalf of my dogs and cat. Haha. Definitely a first for me!
Pet Hates contains twelve comics – one per page with each one featuring a different pet with a different reason to be annoyed. From a camera shy bunny to a snake with dreams of shoes, each comic will make you feel sympathetic while chuckling at the same time.
Confetti’s art style is very cute (as the cover gives you a taste of) and that is also matched well by the font choice. The comics are detailed just enough to set the scene but not distract from the actual pets or their thoughts.
Pet Hates had me hooked straight away with the camera shy bunny. My lovely dogs really don’t like cameras of any sort. I love how Confetti features a different kind of pet each comic. Your ‘traditional’ pets hates would have been (and would still be) welcome, but the variety of pets kept me curious about what I would find in the next comic.
This is such a gorgeous little zine. I hope it’s the first of a series, and I hope you check it out.
Happy Friday, zine friends! We’re lucky to have an absolutely gorgeous sunny day here in Murray Bridge. It’s easy to forget that it’s…
Friday the 13th!
Today’s prompt is:
Friday the 13th! Make up a zine superstition and share it (skip the 13th issue? Spin 3 times to prevent copier jams or avoid paper cuts?)
Now I haven’t tried this myself, so I can’t speak to whether it works or not, but I have heard of a little zine superstition ritual for zinemakers who make a physical master copy before scanning/copying.
What you need to do is take your master copy and – this is very important – before you do ANY scanning, copying, or even editing, you wait for the next full moon. Just before midnight on the next full moon, you take your master copy outside into the moonlight. Place your master copy in the moonlight on nature in some way. Be it putting it on the grass, a rock, leaves, etc.
At midnight, take three deep breaths and put all of your good wishes and thoughts toward the zine until one minute after midnight. If you do that, then your copying will go smoothly, your binding will stay strong, and your master copy will never go astray.
Or so I hear.
Happy Friday the 13th!
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List of activities: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/internationalzinemonth/
Others Joining In :
*Echo Publishing – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com
*Feral Publications – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dA2HTUon0
*You?
let your fingers do the walking
Johnnie B. Baker
https://www.instagram.com/johnniebbaker/
http://budgetpress.net
let your fingers do the walking is a black and white 1/2 fold perzine about drugs, eating disorders, and disastrous results from trying to fit in.
This zine is one that pulls no punches. There are no pauses for dramatic effect or time for coddling. Johnnie pulls you into the story on page one and doesn’t let up until the story is done. There is no gentle lead up to the horrific (in nature, not gruesome description or otherwise) events that happened because of Johnnie’s eating disorder.
Johnnie writes about being a fat kid and how that led to drugs and drinking in an effort to fit in. From drugs and alcohol, he moved on to more severe behaviours that ended up leading to more than one health incident that could have easily ended Johnnie’s life.
I wrote my notes for this zine as the wind was howling and the rain was pelting down outside, and I couldn’t help compare it to fast, hard-hitting storm. I felt shocked and concerned, but I couldn’t stop reading. While there are a few pictures in amongst the text, the words were what kept me turning from page to page.
Without a doubt this would be confronting and perhaps even triggering for some people, but I found myself feeling grateful that Johnnie wrote this zine. That he shared the stark, awful reality of what can happen if you abuse your body with eating disorder behaviour. That it is a male story of something that is more often thought of as a female problem could help other male and male-identifying people to share their stories and get hope.
This may be a faster read than zines I’ve been reading lately, but it has certainly stuck in my mind quite vividly. If you are curious, feel confident that you can handle the content, and/or, like me, could use that all-too-real reminder that it’s not worth it, then this is a zine to read.