Category: International Zine Month

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?

Hello, zine friends! Today’s posts are brought to you by the power of zine love because, without it, I would probably sleep all day. Haha. My spoons are running away at a rapid pace. Today highlights a great zinemaker resource, though, so I could hardly stay in bed and miss it!

Today’s prompt is:

ZineWiki Day! Add to or update zinewiki.com

ZineWiki is what it sounds – a wiki site for zines, zinemaking, and zinemakers. There are directories that you can search by name, by country, and more. You can also search for individual zines and maybe find out more about the zine and the person or people who made it.

You can create and edit your own pages as well as add your pages to the various directories. It does take a bit of learning if you’re not familiar, but it’s not too difficult, and you can find help on the help page.

You can also ask for assistance in the comments as well. ^_^

Have you set up a Wiki page? Leave the link in the comments!

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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?

Hello, zine friends! I hope you’re well today. I apologise for missing out on yesterday’s IZM prompt. When you run out of spoons, you run out of spoons, right? That just means there are double the prompts today, haha. So let’s get to it!

Yesterday’s prompt:

Write a letter to a zinemaker you don’t know

I decided to write to Juli Jumprope, who rights the Homebody Herald. I’ve never actually read Juli’s zine myself, but Billy of East Coast Adventures recommended it and kindly provided a point of contact. ^_^

Today’s prompt is:

International Zine Day! Buy, share, or read a zine from a country different to your own

Today I am sitting down with ‘Let Your Fingers Do the Walking’ by Johnnie B Baker who lives in the US.

I do review a heap of zines from all around the world, though, so if you want to check out more zines from other places, be sure to look at the Zine Review Index.

What are you up to today? Have you written to a zinemaker you don’t know? What zines are you buying, reading, or otherwise sharing? Let me know in the comments.

Have a wonderful day!

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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?

Hello, zine friends! A bit of a late one today – at least in my time zone. But I am determined to get in the activities on the day.

Today’s prompt is:

Cook with a recipe from a zine

I love this prompt! I’ve come across quite a few recipes in zines recently. From easy-to-make recipes from Sober Bob’s $50 Minimum to Miss Muffcake’s The Stay at Home Girlfriend’s vegan recipes.

And, of course, I can’t forget the inspiration for my gorgeous peanutellas:

Unfortunately, I don’t have all the ingredients for any of the zine recipes I could find. Le sigh. So I’m afraid it’s a bit of a cheat day for me. If you are cooking up some good zine stuff, let me know in the comments!

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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?

Hello, zine friends! Happy weekend. I hope yours is going well. I miss having more sunshine, but rainy days are lovely for curling up and reading some zines. Or working on tweaking websites in my case. Ha!

Today’s prompt is:

Zine Distro Appreciation Day! Order zines from a distro to read during IZM2018

Distroooooooooo. If you’re curious, a ‘general’ definition of distro is:

Distro = sell zines from more than one author
Shop = sell only your own zines

As much as I would love to join in with today’s prompt, I can’t. So I decided to join in by posting up a list of distros. These are the ones I know of, but if you know of any I’ve missed, be sure to let me know!

Antiquated Future (USA)
Black Mosquito (Germany)
Brown Recluse Zine Distro (USA)
Doris Press & Distro (USA)
Food + Paper (USA)
Mend My Dress Press (USA)
Pen Fight Distro (UK)
Pioneers Press (USA)
Portland Button Works (USA)
Small Zine Volcano (Australia)
Sticky Institute (Australia)
Stranger Danger (USA)
Sweet Candy Distro & Press (USA)
Take Care Zine Distro (Australia)
Vampire Sushi (UK)
Wasted Ink Zine Distro (USA)

Enjoy! Let me know what you order. ^_^

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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?

Happy Friday, zine friends! I hope your week has gone or is going well. I actually got a little bit of sunshine to bask in today, so life isn’t all bad. Haha. Time for the IZM activity!

Today’s prompt is:

Zine Pride Day! Explore LGBTQIA zines! Buy, share, and read zines by people of marginalised sexual orientations and gender identities.

Because it is Friday, it’s a review day, so I have decided to take up the prompt with the review. Stand by for my review of…

Dirty Lesbian by Nina Echozina!

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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?

Hello, zine friends, and happy Thursday!

Today’s prompt is:

Review a zine online or write a review to share.

Hehehehe. Well this prompt just so happened to land on a Thursday – one of my regular reviewing days – so stay tuned because the review will be coming soon!

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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?

Happy Fourth of July, American friends! I hope you have an absolutely lovely day full of glorious fireworks. (Well, the night filled with fireworks, anyway. Hehe.)

It’s time to get our IZM on!

Today’s prompt is:

AmeriZine Day! Explore marginalised voices in America. Buy, share, and read zines about racial justice and zines written by people of colour.

There are two zines that popped into my mind when I read this prompt. One I read quite a while ago, and one I’ve read recently. Today it’s my pleasure to share:

Queer Indigenous Girl is a full-colour perzine that covers topics like introductions, O’Otham culture, reading recommendations, and Se’mana’s experiences living with ADHD.

Full review here.

This Asian American Life is a ½ fold full colour comic about Katie’s life and being an Asian American.

Full review here.

That’s me for today. If you have any recommendations for zines by marginalised voices, please leave them in the comments below.

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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?

Hello, zine friends! How is it going? It’s already nearing the end of Tuesday here in Oz, and I feel like it’s nearing the end of the day on Thursday. Yep, it’s been a busy week already.

The beat goes on with this beautiful month, and it’s time for day 3 of International Zine Month.

Today’s prompt is:

Teach a friend or family member about zines

In previous years, I have held little workshops with friends to introduce them to zines and later to have fun working on zines in ‘workshop’ sessions.

I think most, if not all, of my friends already know about zines now either through my introducing them to zines or from them asking me what I spend so much time doing. Haha. It probably sounds a little sad, but I haven’t really made a lot of new friends here in Murray Bridge, so…

I’ve decided for today to share my YouTube playlist: Zine Goodness

I have recently added a few videos (and am absolutely open to suggestions for more videos to add), so you can check that video list out for tutorials, zine haul videos, and even short documentaries.

Check it out, let me know what you think, and apologies for a bit of a ‘cheat’ day. (This won’t be the last. 😉 )

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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?

Hello, zine friends! I can already tell that this month is going to go by fast as. Hehe.

Today’s prompt is:

Zine Rewind! Re-read your favourite zines.

Favourite zines? All of them? In one day? Eep.

It’s hard to make zine reading decisions when you go throwing around words like ‘favourite’. Haha. However, I figured with it being IZM and all, I would jump in and reread a couple of my favourite zines about zines.

Meta Zine – Review here

Xerography Debt – Review for #34 here

What are you reading? I’d love to know what people’s favourite zines are.

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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 –
*You?