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2024
Contributor zine: Urban Legends: “Urban Legends” is a quarter-page zine that collects art and writing about urban legends, myths, and folklore. Eighteen people contributed stories, poetry, illustrations, and collages. Work was submitted from the U.S., Canada, Scotland, Belgium, and Germany. The finished zine is 36 pages …
03Sep2024: Just a couple notes for today. I added a few links to the Resources page. Now newly added resources have a sparkle emoji (✨). I started a new blog on micro.blog. That will be for short-form posts, like a companion to this site. If you want to follow those posts, you can use the RSS or JSON feed. No …
What's a zine?: "What's a zine?" is an 8-page mini zine that you can download and print on your own. It includes a brief introduction to zines: what zines are, some historical highlights, and common formats. The zine is available on Ko-fi for free (or pay what you want). Download zine on Ko-fi The PDF is sized …
2022
Original or the clone: The Philly Zine Fest is accepting submissions for their Anthology zine. I made a collage with a bit of text I've been waiting to use somewhere. The background is photocopied aluminum foil (for real!). I simply cut a piece of aluminum foil and made a copy of it. Then I crinkled the aluminum foil a …
Halloween collage: I contributed a page to Webs Across the Campfire, vol. 2, a special Halloween zine from Vlasinda Productions. Copies are available in their shop. For my page, I wanted to make a collage. I had paper from my ink color experiments to work with. I cut these into shapes for clouds, a moon, and pumpkins. …
How to lay out a zine in Canva: When I worked on my zine, “Timers for Travelers,” I finished the writing first. I knew I wanted illustrations throughout the zine, some hand-drawn and some digital. I decided to lay out the zine in Canva so that I could combine text, digital elements, and hand-drawn elements. I’m really happy with …