#Goth zines

[borninwinter81]

All day gay goth Pride event!

Annoyed by how commercial Pride events have become, yesterday on the day of Pride in our city, two of my best friends (a gay couple, one of whom is also trans) who run a regular goth night called Last Rites decided to put on an alternative gay/goth all-dayer (they missed a trick, should have called it an all-gayer!), 3pm until 2am, with guest DJs.

There is no door charge so they never make any money from this, they do it purely because of the lack of goth and alternative music nights in our smallish city. As long as enough people turn up and buy drinks, the bar where it's held doesn't charge them anything, and the guest DJs were all friends of theirs who volunteered.

They're a very talented and generous couple, and often put out free gifts on the tables. One of them sometimes brings home-made Ouija boards that he prints onto bits of hardboard, and in honour of this event being for Pride he'd made them rainbow tinted.

The other one often hands out a zine that he writes and prints himself. It contains anything and everything that might be interesting to him. There are usually some music and book reviews (the books could be anything from esoterica to sociology, history or politics, he has wide ranging interests), but he usually includes some weird and funny/silly stuff too. I haven't read my copy yet, but my favourite thing about it right now is the balloon stapled to the front 😂

Again in honour of Pride you can see he's included a review of a book called "Bad Gays" by the authors of a podcast of the same name.

Here's the back which is an advertisement for their Pride event. The picture in the middle and the quote "do not fade, do not wither" are from the movie Orlando starring Tilda Swinton, based on the book by Virginia Woolf. As a young man Orlando is told that he must never become old.... so he simply doesn't. He lives from the Elizabethan to modern era, and during that time also wakes up one day transformed into a woman. It's a rather strange movie but very queer and with a lot of commentary on gender roles in society. I would highly recommend it. Worth watching for Tilda if nothing else! They had it playing on a TV screen in the bar whilst we were there 😁

We didn't have the stamina to be there the full day, but the few hours we spent were awesome! My personal highlight was when one of the guest DJs played "I Still Believe" from the movie The Lost Boys, and I realised I was dressed almost exactly like Star in that scene!

[spoilsofthedead]

Quick phone sketches at work to show my love for all y’all who show so much love for my art. It makes incredibly happy :)

Anyway, this is the announcement that Delinquency Vol. 3, over on @delinquencyzine , is coming out this week (basically was supposed to come out in august but my iPad keeled over) and I can’t wait to see all the lovely responses <3

[omoulo]

GOTHSTUCK

[explicette]

[loktauri]

Drew Qifrey in my summer/spring clothes wahooo

[viceversa-zine]

Some of my fav pics from the shoot!

Thank you Jamie for taking photos for me!

Where you can find them: jambsphoto and sssoulpolice

[nakachokos]

hey everyone. i wrote some stuff and drew some things about my favorite mountain goats songs and it’s free to download. your mountain goats source of the future… now!

[lashketchup]

However far away

I will always love you

[pythonmelon]

The Bats! Zine is here!

Bats! The mixed media artbook/zine I've been working on for a long time about punk bats and parasites is finally available!

"Inspired by 90s, 2000s, and 2010s goth, punk, and otherwise niche animation, music, games, and comics. It started as pen doodles inspired by the works of Johnen Vasquez and a lot of Deviantart comics I read in middle school and much of the artwork was done in notebooks with ballpoint pens.

It's been more than two years in the works and includes monsters, shitty poems, harsh palettes, recipes, a guest piece from the incredible artist Kelly C, and dozens of full-page, colored illustrations."

[bamb-procrastinates]

More Pyun Pyun art

That zine of emo Ron got me good ngl

[doggishness]

from back in march 2023 :) & part of the technojoy zine!! it was an absolute pleasure to be a part of <3

[vampirehunterdzine]

⚔️𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖇𝖚𝖙𝖔𝖗 𝕾𝖕𝖔𝖙𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙⚔️ Welcoming our first page artist, @madbrake ! 🥀🖤 Can't wait to see what they'll make!

[artbyifer]

Gothstuck Tavros for the Gothstuck Zine of 2023′s Zinestuck Jam

He ended up a bit more grunge/punk/fairycore, but I think it suits him :)

[bacht123]

a zine I made about Victorian Goth

[fratboystrider]

9/20

strangers

[emberintayson]

9 steps to make your own fancy paper. With the magic of editing, you can do it in 90 seconds, too! Now, make some zines! Or whatever you want with your fancy paper.