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As a witchy zinester, my ears always perk up when I learn about magic, tarot, or spellwork zines. I’ve read a couple lately that I’d love to share with you. Here is Twenty Two Zines tarot series, and “Many Gods, No Masters” by Elliott Stewart. And while we’re talking witchy zines, maybe you’d like to pick up some of mine? “Sigils for Self Care” and “The Witchy Zinesters Book of Spells” are my bestselling mini-zines about the craft.

What a month September is shaping up to be! A whirlwind of zine fests, long weekends, bucket list concerts, and bike rides. Now I’m on the precipice of one more adventure to cap off this brimful month, but before I leave town and the sun sets on this month, I wanted to share a bit about the zines I’ve been reading. There’s a little bit of everything here: history, photography, writing, art. Take a gander, then pick up some of these titles, give ’em a read, and form your own opinion.

Once you’ve been the zine scene for a while, you’re bound to make a mini-zine, and then you’re bound to show other folks how to make one. There is something a lil’ cool and lil’ magical about making a six-page booklet outta a single sheet of paper with just a couple folds and a snip. So here is my *official* mini-zine tutorial.

I checked my P.O. Box and these cool zines turned up! So here are some reviews: introducing the high-contrast body horror of “PYXIS” by Jonas Campe, the cat fanzine “Taco Sophia” by Vanessa Capshaw, and volume 4 of the “Life Next Door” compzine, compiled by artist Karine Rupp-Stanko.

That’s a wrap! International Zine Month 2021 has come to a close, and what a month it has been. All told, I read dozens of zines, wrote nine #IZM posts on Instagram, made some trades, posted two new zine review videos, distributed some flyers, taught two workshops, and learned about lots and lots of new-to-me zines. This was also the month when I got the news that some of my work had been accepted into a museum’s collection, and that I was accepted to table virtually at the 2021 Bay Area Queer Zine Fest. So many zine-y things have happened in just 31 short days, and I had a great time […]