I’m baaaaack. Haha. Happy day seven of International Zine Month and Zine Distro Appreciation Day!

Zine Distro Appreciation Day has a little extra shine this year for me with the Sea Green Distro being well and truly rocking and rolling. But today’s activity is to order from a distro and get some reading material…

The most recent issue of Broken Pencil caught my eye, so what better time to order?

About Broken Pencil: the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts

Welcome to Broken Pencil! Since 1995, we have been a mega-zine dedicated exclusively to exploring independent creative action. Published four times a year, each issue of Broken Pencil features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary on all aspects of the indie arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention.

So technically Broken Pencil itself is a magazine. However, they do sell zines in their shop.

My completionist soul is already stirring because you can order all the back issues of the mag too…

Hehe!

If you’ve ordered yourself some zine goodness today, where have you ordered from? I’m always interested in finding out about new-to-me distros around the world.

Until next time!

Others Joining In:

* Hadass: https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
* Phoebe’s Zines: https://www.instagram.com/phoebeszines/
* Feral Publication: https://youtu.be/trS6pVtjsjw
* Enter the Papernet: http://www.enterthepaper.net/

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Happy Zine Pride Day!

Technically, Zine Pride Day was yesterday Australia time, but this site kept dropping out on me, and I eventually got to the point of getting sick of trying to post. So let’s all it Zine Pride Weekend. 😉

For Zine Pride, we are encouraged to buy, share, and read zines by people of marginalise sexual orientations and gender identities. (And don’t forget to visit the Queer Zine Archive Project!)

I decided to to share an old favourite as well as a new favourite for the zine pride loooove. For the old favourite…

Dirty Lesbian by Nina Echozina of Echo Publishing (review here) is an amazing zine by an amazing person.

“It is a call for a more radical feminism, for a lesbian and trans revolution, for getting rid of cishetpatriarchy instead of cutely smiling in the hopes of getting some crumbs.”

Definitely check it out.

The new favourite comes in the form of a collaboration zine series: Concrete Queers.

Concrete Queers is a zine made by queer people for queer people. The zine is edited by Katherine Back and Alison Evans. The truck logos are by Claire Gunst and our header is the cover art from CQ6 by Kitty Chrystal.

Each issue of CQ has a theme.

I picked up the pictured issues (3 and 9) of Concrete Queers at Festival of the Photocopier earlier this year, and have had a lovely time getting into them.

More fun? They are open for submissions!

The next three themes for CQ issues and their submission call end dates are:

CQ15: Trash and treasure – November 30
CQ16: Growth – January 25 2020
CQ17: Magic – April 25 2020

Read more about submissions HERE.

Wishing you all a beautiful, happy, and celebratory Zine Pride weekend, dear friends.

Until next time, check out the others joining in International Zine Month:

* Hadass: https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
* Phoebe’s Zines: https://www.instagram.com/phoebeszines/
* Feral Publication: https://youtu.be/trS6pVtjsjw
* Enter the Papernet: http://www.enterthepaper.net/

Let me know if/where you are joining in!

Happy fourth of July, American zine friends!

Technically I’m still American as I still hold citizenship there, but I don’t really celebrate US holidays and haven’t for a long time. Let’s just say my Australian citizenship has taken over. Haha.

ANYWAY.

Welcome to day four of International Zine Month! Today is the day for exploring marginalised voices in America. Buy, share, and read zines about racial justice and zines written by American people of colour.

Today I’d like to share a zine I reviewed a while back called Queer Indigenous Girl by Se’mana Thompson. 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.

You can check out the review here.

I haven’t heard from/about Se’mana for a while, so I hope that they and their children are okay. If you know if they’re okay, I’d love to know.

Whose zines are you reading, buying, and/or sharing today? I would love to know.

Others Joining In:

* Hadass: https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
* Phoebe’s Zines: https://www.instagram.com/phoebeszines/
* Feral Publication: https://youtu.be/trS6pVtjsjw
* Enter the Papernet: http://www.enterthepaper.net/

Let me know if/where you are joining in!

PS. Zine reviews will resume next week!

Hello, and a happy mid-week wish for you, zine friends.

Today our activity is to spread the zine love but also the zine knowledge by teaching others about zines.

I must confess that in previous years, I have been a bit cheeky and used this site as the means by which I teach people about zines. If you don’t know, I have social anxiety disorder and, since moving to Murray Bridge, I don’t exactly have a lot of friends. (At least, not offline ones who don’t already know about zines.)

There is no cheeky bending of the rules this year, though, zine beans! This year, things just so happened to line up that I started counselling sessions, and so I introduced my psychologist to zines!

Zines are a massive part of my life – one might even go so far as to say they ARE my life – so I needed to show this new person in my life what my focus and passions are.

I’m very pleased to say that she thinks zines are absolutely brilliant, a great form of therapy for me, and a great time overall. Hehe!

Success!

I’m so pleased to have had the opportunity to share zines – and share myself, really – in a way that didn’t provoke my anxiety too much but that also had the potential to be spread to others.

So if today is a difficult day for YOU because of anxiety or other causes, believe you me when I write that I will be the last one to judge you if you want to bend the rules a bit or even substitute in a different activity. No stress here!

This is where I usually say ‘that’s it for me today’ but… I have a little bonus for you courtesy of my amazing friend Feral Publication:

Videos for International Zine Month made by the awesome Feral Publication!

Enjoy, wonderful humans, and I’ll be back tomorrow.

Much love.

Others Joining In:

* Hadass: https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
* Phoebe’s Zines: https://www.instagram.com/phoebeszines/
* Feral Publication: https://youtu.be/trS6pVtjsjw
* Enter the Papernet: http://www.enterthepaper.net/

Let me know if/where you are joining in!

Hello, zine friends, and welcome to day two of International Zine Month.

Today we re-read our favourite zines and remember why we love them. Of course, this isn’t always an easy task. Haha. Especially if you’re like me and have a hard time sorting out favourites. However, my mind has been in a certain space lately, and this is the zine I have chosen to remember my zine love as well as soothe my soul.

Today I’m reading Pieces 13 by Nichole.

I’ve read a lot of zines and have had plenty of ‘me too’ variety light bulb moments, but the moment I experienced with this zine was a huge moment for me. It made a large part of my life suddenly make sense.

You can read my full review here.

What are you reading today? Let me know in the comments. 🙂

Until next time…

Others Joining In:

* https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
* https://www.instagram.com/phoebeszines/

Let me know if/where you are joining in!

Happy International Zine Month, zine friends!

And so we begin. Today marks the start of celebrating and spreading the zine love and enthusiasm. Of course, I’m right here, ready and excited to get the ball rolling.

Today we buy, read, and/or share zines from Canada for Canada Day. Happy Canada Day to Canadian zine friends!

When I saw today’s prompt, one zinemaker immediately popped into my mind: Crash Reynolds.

Crash is a zinemaker, sticker maker, artist, and also the creator of the calendar that hangs on my Wall of Sunshine.

(And I’ve just now realised that I need to flip it over to July!)

So it is my pleasure today, at the end of a long day, to crash in my comfy chair with my warm blanket (it’s winter here in Oz), and read this zine from Crash:

https://www.instagram.com/indeliblecrash/
https://utopiabycrash.wixsite.com/hello

Want to know what I think of this zine? My review will come later in the month…

And there we have it, dear zine friends! A lovely start to the month – a month which is just barely starting for some in other time zones. Haha. My best wishes to you all for the month to come.

Until next time…

Others Joining In:

* https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
* https://www.instagram.com/phoebeszines/

Let me know if/where you are joining in!