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Time flies. I can’t believe it has been just over a month since I tabled KC Zine Con #8 on June 3rd. It feels like it happened last weekend, and I’m still riding that good, good zine fest high, all inspiration and motivation. Time fucking flies. I can barely begin to comprehend that I’ve been involved with this event in some form or fashion for close to a decade now: I tabled the first-annual KC Zine Con at the Uptown Theatre in 2015 and the second iteration a year later on the UMKC campus. Then, in 2016, I volunteered to help plan the event, organizing and tabling each year until KC […]

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 […]

May was a pretty sweet month. I saw a lot of great bands: Radkey, and the Slackers, and the Blast Monkeys, and True Lions, and Mint Fatigues, among others. The highlight was probably MO Executive Order 44, Multicult, Kal Marks, and Weaponize Chomsky at Farewell — 4 deliciously loud bands, a night quivering with energy, the sort of music that fills you up and leaves you whole. What a show! It was a month of bike adventures and game nights. I took first place at bar trivia (team Nancy Druid FTW), and had some time off from my day job for a little staycation. I worked on a lot of art […]

Okay, so I know it’s a big zinester cliche to start a zine (or in this case a blog) with some variation of an apology, a “sorry for taking so long to get this out into the world”, but here we are. I’ve got a backlog of zines I need to post and write about, and a backlog of zines I’ve already posted on the ‘Gram but needed to share here. So I’m tackling the latter now, and the former with once-weekly reviews, bare minimum. (On the @zinereviews Instagram… the Zine Review blogs will remain monthly roundups.) Maybe if I post that promise here, in public, I will hold myself accountable […]

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.