Zines (not mags)

Grant for zine research

2024-01-10T03:41:23Z

Posted by: brainwane

https://library.barnard.edu/grants-and-awards

Apply by Feb 7th. Awardees will receive $3000. Found via https://glammr.us/@zinelib/111604439111842989 .

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Zine fest in Queens, NYC tomorrow

2023-02-24T21:33:03Z

Posted by: brainwane

Tomorrow, Saturday 25 February, is the Queens Zine Fest! Astoria Bookshop is one of the hosts.

A zine fest celebrates a mash-up of art, letters, stories, and emotions. The Queens Zine Fest includes comic book artists, makers of art ephemera (like stickers, buttons, cards, etc), and writers who might also make graphic novels or children’s books. Our Zine Fest on Saturday, February 25 from 12noon to 6pm includes events at Everyone Comics (41-26 27th St, LIC), Astoria Bookshop (31-29 31st St, Astoria) and Sunnyside Arts (45-18 Skillman Ave, Sunnyside). Zine Fest patrons who visit all three locations (and collect a business card from each) will receive a 25% discount off one item from each shop.

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KC Zine Con!

2020-09-05T07:23:09Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

It's KC Zine Con today, which means that I've updated my etsy!

Stand by for musings on true kvlt, festive monsters, magic realism, and a ton of other stuff.

Because it's a holiday weekend in the US, everything is currently on sale on etsy, as is our lovely t-shirt on threadless, so please come and take a look.

Thank you as always for your support, guys!

(alternate blurb here).

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KC Zine Con!

2020-08-01T12:49:18Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

Signal boosting: KC Zine Con are still accepting applications for their virtual zine fair in September.

I will be "there," and I'm super excited because even if this is only on the internet, I've never done a fanzine fair in America, so I'm excited about getting to talk to new people about the kind of nonsense that I like.

Pop up if you're also "tabling." Hope to see you all soon!

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Virtual Swansea Zine Fest!

2020-05-09T10:32:37Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

Signal boosting: It's half an hour until Virtual Swansea Zine Fest!

It'll be better than spending another day in lockdown watching Netflix, promise. :p

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Signal Boosting: #QuarantZine

2020-03-28T10:25:04Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

Tomorrow would have been the #NMLZineLibrary launch - let's mark the day with some zine-making at home!

Create a #zine or #comicstrip tomorrow, tag @MillenniumLib.twitter.com and we'll share. If you want to share one you've already made, or a favourite zine, that's fine too! #Quarantzine pic.twitter.com/vnSUikfl6K
— Norwich Millennium Library -Norfolk County Council (@MillenniumLib.twitter.com) March 27, 2020

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Kawaii Queer Fanzine Fair @ Canada Water Library

2020-02-29T10:07:05Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

Come and say hello to me at Canada Water Library where they are playing Belle and Sebastian in the background and I am sitting behind a table full of fanzines.

Come and be my friend!

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Kawaii Queer Fanzine Fair @ Canada Water Library

2020-02-22T06:57:03Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

Hello, hello!

A super quick mention to say that on the 29th February, as part of LGBT History Month, my work is holding a little fanzine fair at Canada Water Library.

If you have free time, please do come along and say hello, and if you have even more free time and want to spread the word, please feel free to retweet about it. It's going to be quite low-key, but I'm super excited for it, so please do come and say hi!

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Steno zine

2020-02-10T16:15:10Z

Posted by: brainwane

"Gotta Type Fast!: An introduction to hobbyist stenography" by Ewen Cluney is available (interior photo). "A lot of it is about the technical details of how to get started with open-source steno, but I also get a bit into the history and culture around it, which is pretty interesting if you're into that kind of thing."

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call for queer and trans zine-makers

2020-01-31T20:04:59Z

Posted by: brainwane

"dear queer & trans zine-makers: i would like to purchase your creations for the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the Univ. of Minnesota. (Especially interested in zines by QTBIPOC and midwesterners.) If you have a zine you'd like to tell me about, please reply to this tweet!"

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Monster Calendar

2020-01-01T10:44:47Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

Avast! Happy New Year! 🎉

I feel as if this is the last possible occasion that I can, in good conscience, plug my little fanzine of wintery festive traditions and monsters, so, ah, here we are. Fashioned on an old PC and a velobind machine, it contains all my advent calendar entries from 2008 - 2016, but, ah, if you want a more up-to-date version, there's also a digital version covering everything until 2018.

That's it. That's my sales pitch. I'll be quiet about this now until December 2020.

Gosh. Feels like I haven't spoken to you guys all year.

Boom boom.

/end dad jokes.

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Upcoming UK Zine Fairs

2019-11-18T11:55:48Z

Posted by: sonofgodzilla

Hi all! Hopefully there's still someone reading this!

So, just a brief post about two upcoming zine fairs in the UK: Norwich Millennium Library Zine Fair 2019 on the 23rd November in, you guessed it, Norwich, and Weirdo Zine Fest On Edge Edition on the 30th November near London Bridge in South London.

I will be there! So please come and say hello if you are so inclined!

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Gumroad Creators Fund

2019-02-25T17:28:36Z

Posted by: brainwane

"Introducing the Gumroad Creators Fund. We're going to donate upwards of $50,000 (10% of our profits) to creators and creative projects over the course of 2019. Anyone–including you–can apply."

They've "turned off new applications while we sort through this current batch" but it sounds like they intend to open up applications again in the future at http://creators.fund/ .

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NY Tech Zine Fair on 1 December

2018-10-10T18:09:48Z

Posted by: brainwane

Coming up on December 1st, 2018: New York Tech Zine Fair, currently calling for vendors. (I'm not involved - just signal-boosting.)

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Not Trans Enough! zine -- suggestions on where to find it?

2018-07-16T16:23:23Z

Posted by: brainwane

The compilation zine "Not Trans Enough!" came out a few years ago and the "how to get a copy" page points to an Etsy user who isn't on Etsy anymore. It looks like I could buy a PDF or ePub online, but if I wanted a paper copy, could anyone suggest where I could buy one? I live in New York City, USA.

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"So You Want to Be a Wizard" and zine PDF making program

2017-11-25T23:42:13Z

Posted by: brainwane

Julia Evans has a new zine out called "So You Want To Be a Wizard" about "how to learn hard things and get better at programming":

* debugging skills!

* how to ask questions!

* why learning to read code is crucial! (& tips for doing that)

* how to design/plan projects!

* how to build expertise with a complicated system!

She's also published a command-line program to help turn zine pages into printable booklets.

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Any advice for a first time perzine writer?

2017-06-29T10:07:03Z

Posted by: flowerfuck

I've finally mustered up the guts to write my very own perzine, after years of reading and admiring others. Now my only problem is I don't know where to start.

What have you written in your first issue? Do you talk about where you live, where you've grown up, what you love? Long term stuff or in the minute this-is-what-I'm-thinking-about-right-now stuff? How much do you think a reader wants or needs to know about you to be interested in reading your perzine?

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Newish zine: "Playing With Python: 2 of my favorite lenses"

2017-04-17T12:23:56Z

Posted by: brainwane

Late last year I made a zine to hand out at Maker Faire: "Playing with Python: 2 of my favorite lenses". That blog entry also includes page-by-page scans and transcripts, process photos, and thank-yous.

Feel free to view it in that blog post, view it as a PDF, or download and print the single US letter-sized sheet of paper and cut and fold it for yourself into an 8-pager! I'm such a fan of the format, because it doesn't require any stapling so it's simpler to reproduce, and because when I'm giving it away to someone they can engage in the process of making it. In 2015 I gave away a bunch of my zines at Maker Faire and passers-by really got into learning how to cut and fold them. In 2016 I remember at least one child coloring her "Quill & Scroll" after folding it, which, my heart just grew three sizes, you know?

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Quill & Scroll

2015-02-05T04:40:09Z

Posted by: brainwane

My friend and I made "Quill & Scroll", a children's book-style zine about a hedgehog who runs an all-night bookstore for other nocturnal animals. People call it "adorable". Feel free to view it as a PDF, or download and print the single US sheet of paper and cut and fold it for yourself into an 8-pager!

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Cat, Dog, and Badger Each Own A Bookstore. They Are Friends.

2015-01-21T23:02:03Z

Posted by: brainwane

I just came across this community and realized I had not yet joined it and let y'all know about "Cat, Dog, and Badger Each Own A Bookstore. They Are Friends." It's 8 pages including illustrations and has a children's-book vibe. At the link you can view it as individual images, read the text as plaintext, and/or download the whole thing to print on one sheet of paper and cut/fold. Enjoy!

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Null & Void (a zine about gender, or the lack thereof)

2012-09-02T15:06:45Z

Posted by: littlebutfierce

I'm very excited to announce Null & Void, the zine that wrdnrd & I have done talking about our experiences of gender & sort of... growing out of gender, or losing it, or something!

It's 38 half-sized pages of very text-heavy stuff & available for $2.06 plus postage to wherever you are here at Crabby Media. (There's also a full description & cover image there.)

(wrdnrd does Cipher zine; I used to do Sisu zine & No History, No Self but have done neither in years. Um, hi, zineland.)

We're also looking for distros in Europe (outside of the UK -- those are easy to find!) that might be good places to send the zine -- please let me know if you have any suggestions!

x-posted to zine_scene

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Recent zine recs?

2012-03-10T16:50:17Z

Posted by: littlebutfierce

It's such a tired cliche to spout something about how you haven't read any good zines in forever & back in the day things were different, etc. etc. Though the truth is, I've been drifting away from zines for a while now & I feel like part of that is that fewer of the types of zines I love are being produced -- that's partly because other zinesters I know are also sort of drifting away, so they're not making zines either!

I like political perzines: intersectional, not laden w/straight-up academic essays or anything like that. Got any recs?

I've been flipping through some zines I got at a zine fest here in London a few months ago & feel v. underwhelmed. Maybe I'm just missing some awesome ones?

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my zines, the distro i help run, blah blah ME ME blah blah

2012-02-20T21:05:09Z

Posted by: wrdnrd

I'll break the ice with an awkward promo post.

My most recent zine came out 18 months ago, but i haven't really promoted it anywhere and so it still feels new to me. I do Cipher zine, the most recent of which is #2. The table of contents is:

poem
prologue
the (not so) invisible piano
dance of the potato dumpling fairy
Cinderella takes herself to the ball
wordnerdery! — apparatus
poems
food of my people: vepro-knedlo-zelo (minus vepro)
student, interrupted
epilogue a: enjambment
epilogue b: finis
poem

You can read an excerpt at my website. It's about $2 and, since i also run a distro, is only available in the Crabby Media store. Cipher #1 is also still in print and available.

Oh, um, and yes, i also run (with raanve) Crabby Media, which is a distro, an information hub, and a discussion forum for all things zine-related. As a distro, we specialize in "Resource materials for zinemakers and D.I.Y. publishers — zines about zines and zine-making techniques, zine history, zine culture and community." Crabby Media is based in Seattle, so you may have seen me tabling at the Portland Zine Symposium or at Short Run.

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Welcome!

2012-02-16T00:08:22Z

Posted by: wrdnrd

Welcome to Zines (not mags)! This community is for all kinds of discussion about (paper) zines, whether they be SF fanzines, punk zines, political zines, perzines, cookzines, critzines, and so on and so on. This community is not the place for discussion about glossy magazines (hence "not mags"), nor is it the place for discussion of e-zines -- unless it's a magazine or an e-zine about (paper) zines.

Why is "paper" in parentheses in that 1st paragraph? While the community's focus is driven by our old-school preference for paper zines, we also realize that these days the idea of a traditional paper zine may be more in theory than in practice sometimes. For example, your SF fanzine may be a paper zine in spirit, but in practice it's actually a PDF at eFanzines.com. All conversation about zines that are paper either in practice or in spirit is perfectly welcome!

Other than the focus on (paper) zines, the sky's (almost) the limit on zine-related posts around here -- ask questions, promote your project, point out interesting zine news, share your favorite resource. Just a few guidelines for now:

Please limit your promotional posts to only once a month. No spamming!
Keep your bigotry to yourself. At the least, we may call you on it; at the most, an admin may remove your post.
A post that is completely off-topic for this community will be removed.

Any questions? Something you'd like me to clarify? Leave a comment here!

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