Happy ZineWriMo day 7, and happy Friday! I don’t know about you, but I am most definitely happy that it is Friday. I am ready for the weekend.
Today takes us smoothly into to the weekend with a little something to refill the creative well. Read some zines and enjoy your night and your weekend ahead!
The bits and bobs zinemakers use to create zines are almost as varied as the zines created. Haha. Today is about showing your stashes of markers, stamps, and/or anything else you have to create zines with it.
In the short below, I briefly show off my set of drawers that holds my washi collection as well as a few other frequently used goodies. If you’d like a closer look in a video at another time, please let me know.
We are well and truly off and rolling with ZineWriMo 2025 and are at our first WIP Wednesday. Square away whatever time you have today for all your creative endeavours. And if you’re posting on Instagram, please feel free to tag me!
Hello, zine friends! Welcome to day 4 of ZineWriMo. Today’s prompt is all about your ideas. Do you store them somewhere? Online? Offline? Both? I give you a peek at my ideas notebook in this YouTube short:
It’s a beautiful day for a new zine friend! And a beautiful day to meet a new-to-me zinetuber. Check out all the goodness from Phoenix Productions.
As always, thank you for watching.
My PO Box: Sea Green Zines / PO Box 378 / Murray Bridge, SA 5253 / Australia
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Do you have a call for zine submissions? Have you launched a new zine? Is there a zine event you’d like to shout out? I share all sorts of zine-related goodness here and at www.seagreenzines.com so be sure to email me at seagreenzines@gmail.com if you’d like a signal boost.
My goodness! I’m so sorry for cutting it so close to the line, dear friends. It has been a heck of a month, that’s for sure. But it is here now, and we can get prepared for ZineWriMo 2025!
What’s ZineWriMo then?
If you’re not familiar, ZineWriMo is the zine alternative to (defunct but now reviving?) NaNoWriMo created by Jasper @unclejasperilla. I am another happy participant who decided to dive right in and create a prompts list for the occasion. I try to focus on a list that gives a bit of challenge but isn’t too stressful.
In Jasper’s words:
“ZineWriMo is a new idea that came to me in wanting to combine the original NaNoWriMo and zines!
ZineWriMo is November! We focus on making one, or many, zines in November! Our only goal is to create zines, no word count requirement!“
Dive in, join up, and let’s get ready to zine!
Feel free to email me at seagreenzines@gmail.com if you’d like me to send you the list in PDF or larger .JPG form.
Hello zine friends! My goodness do we have some gorgeous stickers today along with some beautiful, colourful zines to check out.
As always, thank you for watching.
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My PO Box:
Sea Green Zines / PO Box 378 / Murray Bridge, SA 5253 / Australia
*Like what I do here? Please consider checking out my Ko-Fi page where I post links to videos as well as sell my zines: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines
Urban Legends is a quarter-sized black and white zine collection of art and writing about legends, myths, and folklore.
Tis the season for some strange, some spooky, and some otherworldly goodness. Plus in zine form? Yes please.
Urban Legends opens with an easy-to-read (ever more important as I get older and my eyes get worse) table of contents complete with links for most of the contributors for this issue. From there we launch into things with a creepy, sing-song sort of piece with ‘Strange Little May’.
The zine is filled with short pieces and art. I like how some of the pieces are short introductions that double as invitations to look deeper into the subject should the reader want to do so. (I may have done some nosing around about what a homunculus is.) I especially enjoyed Kali’s piece on The Fulton Theatre, as I’m always interested in a potentially haunted location.
I also love how some of the pieces come not only with who they are by but also with a location as well. I’m always fascinated by the different myths and legends from around the world, so it’s a fun detail to have that added in when possible. (Also, I found it curious that the UK has a superstition about magpies – “Mr. Magpie” by Kaci O’Meara – but Australians don’t seem to!)
The zine wraps up with an editor’s note that includes some facts about how the zine was made. Little touches like these are always fun to me. I’m always curious about how people create these zines.
Urban Legends is an interesting zine that gives a lot of tasters that make me want to take a lot of deeper dives into things. As far as I know, there isn’t a second Urban Legends, but I hope there is in the future. I need more zines like this!
Hello zine friends! I am happily back after an unintended break and have so many wonderful zines to share with you. Including a package that has made my completionist heart so happy!
As always, thank you for watching.
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My PO Box:
Sea Green Zines / PO Box 378 / Murray Bridge, SA 5253 / Australia
*Like what I do here? Please consider checking out my Ko-Fi page where I post links to videos as well as sell my zines: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines
