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In 2019, I published Tell Your Own Story, a workbook zine inspired by my workshop of the same name, featuring prompts to help you write your first (or fifth! or hundredth!) perzine. Instead of including a list of resources in print that could become irrelevant over time, I opted instead to post the list here. This page will be updated as often as I feel like with zines resources to help you write, consume and enjoy zines and zine culture. How to Make a Zine Zine Tutorial Videos Let’s Make a Mini-Zine Stolen Sharpie Revolution DIY Resources Do DIY Penfight Distro Resources Distros — Where to Buy Zines Neither/Nor Zine Distro […]

From perfectly-scrappy cut-n-paste layouts, to unexpected typeface choices and interesting paper stocks, zines are an innately visual medium, and I love how using video allows me to take viewers inside the pages and show off what makes each zine special. Check out some of the episodes below, then hop on over to Youtube to subscribe to the catmothcrow channel. Once you’re subscribed, you can hit the bell icon to be notified when new episodes drop.

I visited the Denver Zine Library a little over a year ago, during a time when I wasn’t blogging. But now that I’m back in the blogosphere, I wanted to re-cap my visit! The Denver Zine Library has been around since 2003, and is currently located in The Temple, an artist’s collective housed within a converted cathedral. Truth be told, the Library can be a little hard to find if you’re not in the know; the building doesn’t have a lot of signage, and the cathedral itself is a little intimidating! (Having not known about The Temple before I went, I expected the library to be in a storefront or house.) […]

Between the bougie plant names (e.g.: Madame Emile Debatene, Little Miss Daisy, Abraham Darby) and a seemingly never-ending list of “necessary” tools, gardening can feel like a rich man’s hobby reserved only for those with the money to “do it right”. It doesn’t help that books such as The $64 Tomato are contending that it costs upwards of $16,000 dollars to get a garden going! That’s bewildering—16k is over half of my family’s yearly income, and we aren’t spending anywhere close to that on our garden. Here’s the truth: gardening can be dirt cheap. Sure, at first the raised beds and heirloom seeds are going to set you back a bit, but in the long-run, gardening […]

It’s finally starting to feel like spring in Kansas City… rainy, bright grey, sweet-smelling spring. While March was warmer and sunnier, the regrowth and renewal were missing. It felt like we had skipped right into the comfy days of late May, the edges of summer. The air was warm, but the ground still felt dead. All that has changed! My city has been reborn: lush, muggy and verdant, floral-scented and noisy. While my daffodils are long gone, the tulips have bloomed, as did my grape hyacinth. The family of house finches that built a nest on my patio last year have returned. Each morning I awaken to the the cackle of grackles, the song of starlings, and […]