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Happy Mail Monday – Happy You Exist Edition

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Hello and Happy Mail Monday! This week I have some gorgeous mail from gorgeous people near and far. Be sure to check out the chock-full-o-zines description.

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Thank you to the wonderful people who sent me mail:

*True Zine Marin
*Latibule – https://www.instagram.com/latibule_art/
*Billy – https://bunnyears.bandcamp.com
*Keira – https://www.instagram.com/k.huolohan/

Zines & Distros Mentioned:

*Zippity Zinedra ‘Strawberry Leaflets’ – https://www.instagram.com/zippityzinedra/
*Sober Bob – $50 Minimum – https://www.instagram.com/soberbobmonthly/
*Friday Night in West Ealing – fridaynightinwestealing@gmail.com
*Wasted Ink Zine Distro – https://www.wizd-az.com
*Drawn Poorly Zine – https://www.instagram.com/drawnpoorlyzine/
*Drawn Poorly: Identity Review – https://www.seagreenzines.com/zine-review-drawn-poorly-zine-identity/
*The Live Journal Obsession – https://www.wizd-az.com/store/p97/LiveJournal1
*Blunt Talk – https://www.wizd-az.com/store/p127/BluntTalkZine
*Drawn Poorly: Relationships – https://drawnpoorly.wordpress.com/store/
*Gay Trans Boy Things Vol 1 & Men Do Bleed Too – https://www.instagram.com/aubreydillonsinclair/ or @drawnpoorlyzine

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My PO Box:

Jaime Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeaGreenZines/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seagreenzines/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zineninja
Etsy: https://www.seagreenzines.etsy.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seagreenzines

Want to listen to The Zine Collector Podcast? Find me at: https://shows.pippa.io/thezinecollector

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Call for Submissions: Tender Zine Distro

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.

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Call for Submissions: Weird Mask Zine

“Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari”
D 1919/20
R.: Robert Wiene
Conrad Veidt

Weird Mask Zine is open for submissions!

Looking for: Stories that are 1k-3k words – the weirder the better. Genre fiction is a plus!

Payment: Contributor copy

Deadline: June 30th

Send submissions to: paperbackjunkymick@gmail.com

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Zine Review: Precious Pearl

Precious Pearl
Veek
https://www.instagram.com/veek1313/

Precious Pearl is a ½ fold full-colour comic about the creation of a pearl. A precious pearl.

I laughed out loud. Oh, how I laughed. This says things about my level of maturity – none of them good.

This zine is going to be a tough one to review because I really don’t want to give anything away. There’s a twist to it that has me chuckling even as I type this.

Precious Pearl is a comic set in the ocean (as you probably imagined), and has a very sweet start full of nice colours and pretty fish. However, because this isn’t the first one of Veek’s comics that I have read, I started getting the feeling that it was a little too sweet.

I was right. Ha!

The art of this comic is a fun combination of hand drawing/colouring and cut out pictures of fish/aquatic life. I thought the cut outs were a fun addition to this comic that sort of set it apart from Veek’s other comics and put it more in line with the ‘children’s book’ that the back cover claimed it to be. The few words involved also played into this aesthetic.

All of it combined together to create an even funnier twist than it would have been with words alone. (Just to be clear, this one probably isn’t for kids.)

I apologise if this review is a bit frustrating because of my attempts not to give anything away. I will say that if you have a sense of humour that’s more on the immature side like mine, then grab a copy.

PS. I had Wanderer read this, and even he had a chuckle.