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Happy Mail Monday – International Zine Month Edition

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Hello, friends, and welcome to the first HMM landing in International Zine Month 2020!

There is so much mail goodness that I’m excited to share with you from trades to orders to new distro stock! Check it all out in the video as well as checking out the show notes for all sorts of goodness!

Thank you so much for watching.

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Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*International Zine Month – https://stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/

*International Zine Month on SGZ – https://seagreenzines.com/category/international-zine-month/

*Don Leach – http://notmovingpictures.blogspot.com/ / https://www.instagram.com/notmovingpics/

*Johnnie B Baker/Budget Press – http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bpress/ / https://www.instagram.com/johnniebbaker/

*Martin Appleby – https://www.instagram.com/paperandinkzine/ / https://www.paperandinkzine.co.uk/

*Big Face Goods – https://www.instagram.com/bigfacegoods/ / https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfacegoods/

*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin/

*Stoner Zines – https://www.jacksonstoner.org/

*Portland Buttonworks – https://portlandbuttonworks.com/

*Wasted Ink Zine Distro – http://www.wizd-az.com/

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

*LP – https://linktr.ee/lp.like.the.record

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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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International Zine Month 2020 Day 4 – AmeriZine Day!

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?

AmeriZine Day! Explore marginalized voices in the Americas. Buy, share, and read zines about racial justice and zines written by BIPOC (Black Indigenous and People of Color) from the Americas.

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!

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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.

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Behind the Zines #10 – You’re Going to Love It!

Just when you think you’ve seen everything!

The amazing Billy has come up with what I think is a hilarious and fun informercial for his latest release: Behind the Zines #10

Check it out! I love the creativity. So cool.

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International Zine Month 2020 Day 3: Virtual Zine Events

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!

Day Three: Look up virtual zine events to attend this month!

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.

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International Zine Month Day 2: Zine Rewind!

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!

Day Two: Zine Rewind! Reread your favourite zines.

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!”

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Saying Goodbye to Patreon

Hello, zine friends!

In amongst the IZM goodness, I’d like to pause and make a small announcement:

I’m going to close my Patreon.

I’ve been on Patreon for quite a while now, and it has made a huge difference in getting the podcast onto a great host as well as helping the costs we zinemakers know all too well. Patron support has meant the world to me on many different levels.

That said, I’m not doing enough with Patreon. I’m not rewarding patrons in a way that I would like to, at levels I want to, and it doesn’t feel right to me to keep the page going with things as they are. I held onto the hope that I would get back to a place where I could have the time and energy to make a truly great page to show my appreciation for patron support… but it’s time I accept my limitations and accept that things will be as they are for a while in that regard.

With all of my heart, I thank patrons for all their support. I will be paying the kindness forward in every way I can.

Until next time…

Spread a little sunshine.

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Happy International Zine Month 2020 Day 1! What’s a Zine?!

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…

Day One: What is a zine? Come up with a definition in your own words.

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!***

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Call for Submissions: Coin-Operated Press’s LGBT BLACK LIVES MATTER Zine

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Applications are now open for Coin-Operated Press’s LGBT BLACK LIVES MATTER Zine!

We are a white-owned and operated company. We are here to listen and hold space for Black voices. We need to speak out while not silencing black voices.

This month’s theme is for our Black LGBTQ+ community.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!

100% OF THE PROFITS GENERATED FROM THIS ZINE WILL GO TO BLACK VISIONS COLLECTIVE.

Black Visions Collective is a Black, trans, and queer-led organisation that is committed to dismantling systems of oppression & violence and shifting the public narrative to create transformative, long-term change. 

We are looking for: articles, illustrations, short stories, photography, poetry, artwork of any medium, short essays, comic-strips, collage, and anything else you can put your imagination to. 

As we want to hold space for minority voices, this call out is for Black LGBTQ+ folks only – please do not submit if you fall outside of this community.

Please only submit work that will fit on 1-2 A4 pages. If you have work that is longer than this, please send us an inquiry email, as we would like to be open to including longer formats.

Be sure to send us the following details along with your submission:

  • The name/credit you would like printed in the zine.
  • Your pronouns.
  • The city and/or country that you live in.
  • Any contact details that you would like printed in the zine.
  • A short one-sentence bio.
  • A profile photo or image for your bio.
  • Title of your work.
  • A short description of your work and how it fits with the theme.

If you wish to remain anonymous, that is absolutely fine – just be sure to let us know when you submit your piece.

The deadline is midnight BST on Tuesday 30th June 2020.

Please send submissions to coinoperatedpress@gmail.com
For more information on the submission process, please visit our FAQs at https://coinoperatedpress.com/call-for-submissions/

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Hello, zine friends!

Bear with me and cross fingers that posting has been fixed…