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ZINE BASH 06: ALL THE SMALL THINGS is happening all of this december!

zine bash is back baby! open to zinesters new and seasoned as always~! just make a mini zine, a small booklet made with a sheet of folded paper, using our prompt! post it - starting december 1st post your mini zines, tag us and use #zinebash06 so we can reblog and share submit it! use our submission form to submit it directly to zine bash so you can be added to the online gallery for viewing and download!

info doc 🌱 submission form 🌱 resources 🌱our discord

want some inspiration or just some cool zines? check out our previous events gallery!

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Pages 20-22 of Making Stuff and Doing Things by Kyle Bravo

Why Make a Zine or Artist Book? by Sue Clancy

haven't seen the maritime history zines yet? you really should! get zines in download & print forms, or view the gallery. last year's horror&monsters zines will also be leaving the shop at the end of november, so if you want copies, get em soon!

ready to get started on your next zines? zine bash 04: medieval is next month! there's a new info doc and everything. a whole lot of you voted in the polls to decide on this theme, so i hope you've got some ideas brewing and will be ready to share starting november 5th. but if you don't, never fear -- we've got a short sweet list of prompts to help get you going.

new here? check out our zine info & resources, and the galleries from previous events (polar, horror, maritime)

a comic/zine about coyotes

A page from my new foraging zine, Fruit For Free!

If you like this, you’d probably like the whole comic! It’s available here as a free or pay-what-you-want PDF. Check it out! https://ko-fi.com/s/bd38ecf5e4

SOON!

Zine Bash is a mini-zine fest that welcomes both original and fan works in all mediums and styles and genres. Zine Bash 03: Maritime History starts June 15th.

a new info doc will be up as soon as possible, but it's basically the same as last time: make a mini zine related to our (very broadly interpreted) theme, post it, & submit it so we can share it in our gallery and print packs too.

for inspiration, check out the galleries of polar and horror zines, and visit the resources page for zine-making info and assistance!

VERY VERY SOON!

slightly updated info doc to be found right here; new prompt generator + zine folding video + resources to be added asap

a quick zine about. ghosts?? cold ghosts??? for @zinebash

Been puttering away at this on and off for a year or so - made a major dent in my paper scraps collection.

put together a zine of I SPY illustrations with some pals and everyone knocked it out of the park, check out the full (free!) zine on itch.io!

Eat Your Weeds: a tiny zine about edible non-native plants of North America that are probably growing somewhere near you! This zine is formatted to print on a single sheet of printer paper to be folded into an 8-page mini-zine: find the file here and instructions for assembling a mini-zine here!

I think there’s a lot of potential for someone to design a small zine/pamphlet/flyer that can be put in sharing boxes and the like (little free libraries, free pantries, freedges, etc) that basically sows the seeds for anticapitalist thought using the sharing spaces as an example. Maybe a little definition of what “mutual aid” means, then going into how networks of projects like this could provide for people’s needs without having to rely on corporate, nonprofit, or government assistance, and providing first steps for getting involved with the larger mutual aid movement

People really love those sharing boxes, and I think they could be open-minded to having their political perspective widened if we use them as a starting point. I don’t really have the graphic design or writing skills to pull this off, but if anyone else makes something please send it my way and I’ll gladly promote it online and distribute it around my area

Seriously though, if someone makes this, please tag me or dm it to me, and I’ll boost tf out of it in my area! I don’t have the time right now, because I’m working and doing school, but if someone else does, I’d love to know!!

Wow…. I’m a graphic designer living in an area of Brooklyn NY, where I can walk to more than 10 community fridges/free libraries within TEN minutes… and I know of dozens more within a few miles from me….. I’m going to make a mutual aid zine tomorrow (02/10/2021).

DM me if anyone wants a pdf and PLEASE DM me if you have any stats, tips, or resources that should go in a zine like this :^)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uzc8xcEqs53BtBLcZ-oRgS504RhKZk4j/view?usp=drivesdk

I made a pdf zine! All u gotta do is print landscape and fold it in the standard 8.5x11 format. I left the last/back page blank for us to fill in our local resources by hand!

Here’s how to fold it! I find it helps with folding if you cut a little further than it tells you to here

Distribute these widely! Drop ‘em in little free libraries, free pantries, or community fridges, or give them away at Food Not Bombs meals or through your local mutual aid group! And share this design around!

After working an educational outreach event at the Soo Locks last year, I made a zine to think through the way my colleagues and I talk about invasive species, and how we might want to start reconsidering our go-to metaphors. Read it as an interactive mixed-media piece (or download as a traditional PDF) here.

Special thanks to @yesterdaysantiquatedchests for hosting this piece at Blue Swan, and to @suzirya, @puntless, and everyone else involved in the (very messy, very enriching) creation of this work.

Volume 2 of Nature Held Me Close is now available. 

Read and download it here.

Another call for submissions will be going out in early 2021. Thank you to everyone who shared their work!

Volume 1 of Nature Held Me Close is now available. 

Read and download it here.

Volume 2 coming soon: thank you to everyone who participated!