zines

Listings of mail art projects, exchanges, and a bit of info about how to participate.

Listings of mail art projects, exchanges, and a bit of info about how to participate.

Info and resources about zine making put together by the Walking Distance Zine Distro using parts of other zine making zines.

"I spent two years working in the public school system in California with "high risk" teenagers and while I'd love to write a zine about my own adventures, I find it's more important to write about what I learned from them. When someone tells you a story, it doesn't become yours, especially in the social service sector... but my relationships with the students and the public school system became my life, and thus, my story."

"Riot Wife started as a joke, then not, then a blog, and now a zines (because zines kick blogs' heads in). The Riot Wife series of zines will serve to document the intersection of these identities. Sometimes it's really hard, but it's always worth it."

Preserving cumquats, preserving zines, cumquat marmalade recipe, beetroot chutney recipe, studying zines.

"It is a very basic introduction to zine-making and zine resources. There are lots more ways to make zines, and special techniques you can use to make your zines stand out. But this is just the starting point, and the more zines you make and the more different ones you see, the more ideas you will have."

A how-to about writing, making and distributing zines. Also includes zine history and contributions from well known zinesters. Illustrations are pretty informative.

Typewritten personal rants and protests. Interesting typography. Recap of controversy with zine distributor over second issue.

Fall 2009
The original writing says :do it. Queer Zines get it done!