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For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

diygifts
Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

cooking_club
A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

This is my first actual fanzine. It's 1/8th size, 16 pages on ivory paper, with a typewritten chronicle of my experience seeing Leonard Cohen perform at the beginning of November interspersed with handwritten lyric excerpts. 
( Interior, purchase information, and an offer of photographic services. )

Hello everyone! Just a little update about the new zines available at Black Light Diner Distro!



HELLO ALABAMA: A ONE-SHOT DISASTER (Tuscaloosa, AL)

Courtney's (Muse) anti-love letter to Alabama was written after she packed up and moved from North Carolina to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to attend library science school. The move came with an unexpected downside in the racist and conservative attitudes of some of her classmates. While certainly not indicting all Alabamans, Courtney describes the self-silencing she must go through to be safe in her new location, from being forced to tear a pro-choice sticker off her car to having to check her political ideals at the door in order to have at least a few friends. There's also a piece about the underfunded and underutilized recycling program in Tuscaloosa, and how its mismanagement by clueless city officials has had devastating consequences for the working-class community who must live next to the plant. I've never moved to a drastically different geographical location (yet), but as someone who grew up in a more conservative area the themes of alienation rang true, and I think this would be a great zine for anyone who feels out of step with their surroundings, whether they're a native or a newcomer.

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Also, I'm really on the lookout for some new zines to carry, in particular personal comics. If you have something you think I'd be interested in, drop me an email or send it to me!

Thanks for reading,
Erica

Hi Everyone!

My friend has a new project that you might be interested in. Right now, it's going into a blog, but could possibly be a zine. Here's the information:



Here is her first drawing so far.
To the blog!


Thanks in advance, cross posted sorry!

Sorry I've been absent from this particular community for so long, but I'm definitely still involved with zines and... I've decided to take that leap and start a distro! I've been spending many hours planning, writing, and trying my darndest to make a decent website without many design skills. Here's the description from the website: Mad Hatter Distro, named for Mab’s favorite character in the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, is a new distro in Pennsylvania that focuses on well-written perzines, litzines, mini zines, and fanzines, and aims to help new zinesters bring their writing to the world. The site is up and running now, though it's a bit sparse at the moment and the catalog is empty. You'll find the full submission guidelines, payment information, and the distro's blog there. The catalog will be updated periodically so you can preview what zines will be available, and I will begin accepting orders March 1st. Visit: http://madhatterdistro.weebly.com. You can also read my distro thoughts and see pictures of my new "zine space" (I dedicated an entire cabinet to zines today) on my zine blog: http://ratbratzine.wordpress.com.

Everybody loves to know what day it is.

This is the etsy listing http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37116274

I you are interested and don't want to use etsy you can send me $4 well concealed cash to:

ladypajama
po box 9354
missoula, mt 59807

*please include an extra dollar if you are from outside of the US.


Or you can paypal $4.50 to ladypajama(at) gmail . com
*please still add an extra dollar for outside of US.

I will trade, but only for other calendars.

Thanks! You guys are awesome!

Forever Analog, a zine about typewriters, vinyl records and film photography and the reasons why people still use them. Illustrated with paper cuttings and line-drawings.



A-Z issue one: Sweet tooth. Fully illustrated list of lots of yummy food.

Available here: Etsy | Dawanda

Woah, I'm so excited. I finally got around to doing this. Making copies and getting the packaging together. Also, I wanted to make some nice prints as a holiday gift. Whew.. and here it is, ta da!


This Includes:
Volthair #1: My intentions are Good
Volthair #2: The Crane Zine
One free print!
6 USD

Descriptions:

Volthair #1: My Intentions are Good: This first zine is about my first year of college, some of my tangent past, getting over my first boy attachment, meeting new and old souls, and searching for the sake of searching. Most of it's about trying. A dirty bathroom wall once said "my intentions are good." These are seamless intentions within us are just tumbling life's events, that's all. 1/4 size, 50 Pages

Volthair #2:The Zine Crane is about the hot Austin summer of 2008 to the 2009 cold spring. It is about the young throws of unlikely love, the life of a pbs intern, a long road trip away from Austin, happenings, more happenings, feelings of death, the age of seventeen and the search for quality. It is furthermore, what are attempts to remember details and stories. Whenever anything seems disorienting, please know these are my hands folding and unfolding a crane. I am trying to remember my history and my experiences, fold by fold. 1/4 size, 48 pages

Email me if you're interested at volthair at gmail dot com!
You can also order them on my website!

cross posted- my apologies

stepstomarrow
When granddaughter, Jada, was born with leukemia, a donor-match was located and Jada made a miraculous recovery. In honor of her grandaughter's health, Jeanna has decided to walk across the country (in the dead of winter) to raise awareness and build support for the bone marrow registry (all that's required is a cheek swab). Follow Jeanna's remarkable journey as she travels the United States by foot.

Hi guys,

I posted here almost a year back about a horror zine I was putting together. Unfortunately life got in the way and it never got made. Well, it's getting made now.

It's called 'It's Alive!' and it will probably be a one-off zine, hopefully out by February.

It's very much in the early stages at the moment, but if anybody would like to contribute that would be great.

As I'm only just getting started on it, I can't give an exact description of what I'm looking for, but I'm hoping it will turn out to be a fun and witty zine for horror fans, full of film reviews (classics, b-movies and modern), interviews and a few other horror related features such as reviews of ghost walks, the scariest places to visit in the UK, scary stories etc. Here's one of my film reviews that will be going in, to give you an idea of what to expect.

If you've got anything you think might fit in, please drop me an email to siobhanlouise@gmail.com and I'll get straight back to you.

Additionally, if you think It's Alive! sounds interesting and you want to order a copy or find out more about it, send me an email to siobhanlouise@gmail.com, or sign up to my blog for updates.

Thanks guys!

(x-posted, sorry!)

Hi guys,

I posted here almost a year back about a horror zine I was putting together. Unfortunately life got in the way and it never got made. Well, it's getting made now.

It's called 'It's Alive!' and it will probably be a one-off zine, hopefully out by February.

It's very much in the early stages at the moment, but if anybody would like to contribute that would be great.

As I'm only just getting started on it, I can't give an exact description of what I'm looking for, but I'm hoping it will turn out to be a fun and witty zine for horror fans, full of film reviews (classics, b-movies and modern), interviews and a few other horror related features such as reviews of ghost walks, the scariest places to visit in the UK, scary stories etc. Here's one of my film reviews that will be going in, to give you an idea of what to expect.

If you've got anything you think might fit in, please drop me an email to siobhanlouise@gmail.com and I'll get straight back to you.

Additionally, if you think It's Alive! sounds interesting and you want to order a copy or find out more about it, send me an email to siobhanlouise@gmail.com, or sign up to my blog for updates.

Thanks guys!

(x-posted, sorry!)

I'm working on the next couple issue of Candy or Medicine, the quarterly mini-comic anthology I publish, and I need submissions. Visit http://www.candyormedicine.com for guidlines or contact me at info (at) candyormedicine (dot) com. Submissions must be 300dpi, all ages appropriate and a maximum of 6 pages. I'll have a new issue out this month, one in March, one in May and one in June or July.

why do you love zines?

Hey everyone,

Issue #10 of DrunkenWerewolf Magazine is out now. You can get a copy sent to any British address for £2 or £3 internationally; go here for more details.

DrunkenWerewolf focuses on folk and alternative music but it also covers the music industry in general alongside other art culture that tickles our fancy. This time around we've interviewed OLO Worms, King Charles, Buffalo Clover, House of Strange and Filthy Little Angels, and we've had articles written by Jeremy Warmsley, Laura Simmons of Das Wanderlust and Lupen Crook. We've also taken a look at the most inspiring albums of the 2000's and reviewed releases and gigs of the last two months...all together it makes for a bumper edition with more than 50 pages of content!

If you're interested in swapping for any music/film/feminist related zine I'm game. Comment me here or email me at drunkenwerewolf@hotmail.co.uk.

Tiff xx

Howdy folks,

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat. But you've probably forgotten all about it as the Brighton Zine Fest is almost here! Well, almost.

Festive card-writing getting you down? We're just in the process of designing fliers so if any artists out there would like to make a flier/poster design for us then get in touch. All the info is on the website:

http://brightonzinefest.co.uk/

Or if you'd like to get involved or would just like a bit more info on any of the events, then just leave me a comment here, or check out our page on we make zines: http://wemakezines.ning.com/group/brightonzinesters/forum

Happy scribblin :)

Dani Tee

Following on from issue 1 in May, I'm proud to present issue 2 of Journeyman:



This issue contains photography, poetry, retro-computing, a Scottish travelogue and a concert review, and it has 24 A5-size pages. I hope you'll enjoy, and if you do, feel free to contribute to the next issue (which I hope will take less than seven months to make).

Available worldwide using the PayPal button below - prices include postage (please make sure you select the correct option).

Postage options

Postage to UK £1.50 Postage to Europe £2.00 Postage to US and all other non-European countries £2.50

If you'd like to trade or pay by another method, please leave a comment or contact me via LJ. I hope you enjoy!

Hello folks. Just letting you know I've just updated my free zine distro http://zinemonger.blogspot.com . There's new zines added including functionally ill and sexuality as hidden. I've also made the instructions for ordering much simpler and clearer. Please take a look and help yourself to some free zines!

Hello folks. Just letting you know I've just updated my free zine distro http://zinemonger.blogspot.com . There's new zines added including functionally ill and sexuality as hidden. I've also made the instructions for ordering much simpler and clearer. Please take a look and help yourself to some free zines!