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Dang, has it really been 4 months since I last posted on the blog? Sometimes life gets away from me and it’s hard to sit down here and just type away. When 2024 began, I told myself that I wanted to write at least one blog post a month, recapping all of the zine-y things that I’ve been up to. But every time that I scribble “write a blog” on my to-do list, the actual writing feels like it gets father and farther away. I plan, I procrastinate, I feel bad about myself, so I make a plan again to do the thing… but often, the cycle just starts again. Plan, […]

Well, this post is coming out a bit later than I had planned! Little did I know when I set out to create a loose IZM schedule for myself that I would be laid out by an especially brutal head cold just a few days into the month. Instead of reading, writing about, and filming zines, I spent most of week one curled up on the couch with a hot cup of chamomile, watching comfort content (Twin Peaks and Halloween). It all sounds pretty dang cozy, albeit for the congestion, headaches, snot, and the awful raked-coals feeling in the back of my throat. I’m glad to report that I’m feeling better, […]

Happy International Zine Month 2023! ✂️🖊 IZM was inaugurated in 2009 by the one-and-only Alex Wrekk of “Stolen Sharpie Revolution” fame. Aside from encouraging folks to read and make lotsa zines in July, the month-long celebration features a prompt list full of ideas for zinecentric activities. 2023’s list was designed by @zineville, and I’ll be posting weekly recaps of how I fulfilled each prompt here on the blog. Day One‘s prompt is to define “zine” — I’ve always said that “zines are handmade, diy publications, typically printed on a copy machine, then folded and bound/stapled by hand.” To expand on that, I think zines are inherently non-commercial, tactile (not digital; I […]

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.

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 […]