#fantaisie zine

[asterjennifer]

Fantaisie Zine~

🎀 Some of us got to make multiple pieces for the Zine as well. I was one of these participants that decided to make another little piece for the Zine… Can't do any Mystic Messenger related work without Saeran~ 🎀

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Have You Seen Paradise?

My piece for the Fantaisie Zine, which was a collective fashion zine filled with articles and dynamic aesthetic choices for our favorite characters from Mystic Messenger! If you're interested in seeing the artwork depicted for this piece, be sure to check out my collab artist, @itscatbell on Instagram. It was a real pleasure to work on this Zine!

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FANTAISIE ZINE.

A daffodil blooming in shadows is a sight to behold. It may surprise you to hear that a flower can come to life without the light of the sun to spur its growth, but perhaps you haven’t thought to see beyond the reality handed to you by society. Flowers can be found even in the darkest places, surviving against the elements to prove their worth despite the expectation that they’ll wither and die within weeks of coming to life. 

Have you felt it? Have you felt the judging eyes of people on your back whenever you decide to wear the clothes that make you feel like yourself? As if people have preconceived notions about you before they know the person underneath the surface? Are you tired of that feeling of eyes watching you as if they know who you are when they could never know the real you? 

For the misunderstood members of society who feel shunned for surviving against all odds, don’t you wish there was a place in this world where you could be yourself without being removed from the darkness you’ve cultivated your identity? Wouldn't it be lovely to be yourself instead of erasing your personality and style to fit in with what they want? 

It may sound too good to be true for such a place to exist, but Mint Eye is more than meets the eye. It's a space where all your dreams can come true if you're willing to take a chance on being yourself; For someone to be able to live a life where they are allowed to show every aspect of themselves without being afraid means that they have to be willing to open the door. 

What better place to open that door than inside Magenta, the heart of Mint Eye? 

It is a place where you are allowed to be yourself through and through. You can show who you are on the inside and find people who understand what it feels like to be shunned by society for being who they’re meant to be. Everyone in Magenta knows what it feels like to be scoffed at and driven away. You never have to be afraid of the wandering eye judging your appearance inside or out. 

That’s because Magenta is where you belong. 

Have you ever imagined what it’s like to step foot inside a castle? That’s what it feels like to walk inside Magenta. You’re transported to a place beyond space and time where fantasy and magic seemingly come alive. Some say if you dive deeper into the building, you may just find an eternal party where the masquerade beckons you to don a mask and feel alive with the power of moonlight pouring down onto you from the skylight. 

It’s a fairytale moment for those who want to feel like Cinderella finally has their chance to shine in front of a crowd that sees them for who they are. Isn’t that what everyone craves deep down, anyway? A chance to feel like they’re the one that matters for once in their life? It’s something even I would be envious of if I saw someone take their first breath of freedom. 

There is no judgment in Mint Eye by those who cultivate the sea of a paradise for the outlier understanding and compassion for their fellow man stands. Won’t you consider taking a chance on the opportunity to be secure in your sense of style? Don’t you want to show yourself that you’re worthy of all you desire as the person you truly are? 

Those that take a chance on finding their way to Magenta undergo a transformation that allows them to feel like the person they’ve always wanted to be but were too afraid to let out of their closet. You will discover things about yourself that you never dared to think of, as well as realize the true potential you’ve always known was inside of you. 

Illuminate your heart with Magenta’s open arms, and you will find the person you never realized was missing. Mint Eye is more than something that can be limited to words. It’s an experience that you don’t want to miss. 

Take a risk, walk on air, and let your desire free as a bird released from its cage. 

You won’t regret it. 

[jinjinranran]

My full piece for the Fantaisie Zine - Jaehee in fairycore fashion 🧚‍♀️✨️🐇

[darkta]

Apps are open for Fantaisie Zine! we are looking for page artists, merch artists and writers! You can find all of our info in our Carrd

[rosariumpublishing]

The Rosarium Publishing September 2018 Newsletter

Read any of our works lately? Post a review on Amazon or Goodreads! We’d love to hear from you!

What’s been on your to-read list that you #finallyread? Tell us on our Twitter!

Levar Burton (Star Trek: TNG and Reading Rainbow) read aloud the stories of two Rosarians

Jaymee Goh’s (@jhameia) ghost story "The Last Cheng Beng Gift"

Carlos Hernandez’s "Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66” from “The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria”

Upcoming events with Rosarians:

Bizhan Khodabandeh (@mendedarrow) will be at the Richmond Zine Fest on October 13th at the main branch of the Richmond Public Library located at 101 East Franklin St!

SPX @spx (September 15th-16th) attendees include

Bizhan Khodabandeh (@mendedarrow) at the DC Comic Conspiracy G8-10

Marguerite Dabaie

Whit Taylor

Also attending will be Rosarium Head Bill Campbell and Marketing Manager Melissa Riggio!

John Jennings, Damian Duffy, and Stacey Robinson will be at SolCon The Black and Brown Comix Expo at The Ohio State University September 27-28th!

J.M DeSantis at Baltimore Comic Con September 28-30th

Maurice Broaddus will be on The Writing Excuses Cruise September 22-30th as well as the following library events:

Meet an Author, Be an Author

Indianapolis Public Library

October 13, 2018

Indiana Sci-Fi & Horror Writers Festival

Indiana State Library

October 20, 2018, 10a-5:30p

Writing Out Loud author series

Michigan City Public Library

October 27, 2018

Jaymee Goh (@jhameia) will be at The Gaslight Gathering Steampunk Expo, October 5th - 7th

 And AfroComicCon in Emeryville, CA, on October 20th.

Marguerite Dabaie will be at MICE Oct 21-22 in Cambridge

Sunspot Jungle is open for PRE-ORDERS!

Throwback to one of our older comics - Manticore by Keith Miller and Ian Gabriel!

“The Aryan race warrior. A Colombian drug lord. A Korean hit man. A career stick-up man.

The wrong guy at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The puke Cho-mo-kiddy-toucher.

And you!

This ain’t the Breakfast Club and these are ain’t your new friends. Welcome to the Protective Housing Unit (PHU), home to some of world’s worst criminals—many of whom so reviled they must not only be shielded from the American public, but the general prison population. This is your new life.

Simon, a white-collar criminal, is a new transfer to Pensacola Federal Prison Camp. He’s having a hard time adjusting to prison culture, and his newfound “friends” aren’t all that interested in making his new life any easier. Everyone in the PHU has his own agenda; alliances are, at best, temporary; and even the notion of friendship is laughable. But all that is about to change. This brutal yet familiar life they’ve all grown accustomed to is about to come to an end as a mysterious stranger is transferred to their unit and these hardened inmates start to die… Horribly.

One at a time.”

 Rosarians in the Wild

We at Rosarium like to say that we've been "introducing the world to itself since 2013." This past weekend, Dutch author, Corinne Duyvis, and Dutch artist, Aimée de Jongh, met for the first time in Amsterdam. Here, Aimée is holding up her illustration for Corinne's story, "The Applause of Others," which will appear in SUNSPOT JUNGLE, VOL. 1.

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UNSEXY EROTICA: QUICK QUARANTINE QUESTIONS WITH JORDAN MARZUKI

We conversed with graphic designer, illustrator, filmmaker, and cat activist Jordan Marzuki about his upcoming uncensored, non-fiction, fantastic, bizarre, unsexy erotica zine series, Fantaisie Érotique. The zine is accepting story submissions until May 25, 2020—scroll to the bottom of this page for more information.

1. Throughout history, erotica has always held the power to confront current conventions or the acceptable norms of its time. The fact that this genre of work is always considered controversial, obscene, and subject to censoring by authorities have shown that even after decades, sex is still not accepted as something normal, an inevitable and natural part of humanness. Why is that so?

This is a very hard question, based on my personal experience, it's peer pressure and conformity. I thought it was all from the cultural norms and religion of the place that I was born in, but it is more than that. Watching movies such as Orgazmo, or Netflix's Naked Director convinced me that even the first world countries had gone a long way of history to change the perception of sexual taboos. Everywhere is the same—except some places are ahead of the others. 

2. Any favorite Japanese (or non-Japanese) pink film?

I never forget the super wild Underwater Love, it is an embodiment of musical, surrealism, and sexploitation. And a non-Japanese one was a 1992 short film called Gayniggers from Outerspace. I believed this was a parody of Plan 9 From Outer Space, but oh boy... I was wrong—it is one of the most eye-opening culturally diverse themed films ever.

3. As a genre, erotica captures raw, bare expressions of human carnal desires. What do you wish to portray by highlighting comedy, camp, and unsexiness within the genre?

The best part of erotica is that it is not porn. Erotica as I remember mostly depicting a fantasy—that always involve almost impossible scenario or even to the most fucked up situation, this never succeed to tingle my desire but always gives me a good laugh. We should praise erotica authors and they deserve a Man Booker prize. However, I want to break the convention of Erotica. Without fantasy, sex is gross and eerie—realness is the aspect I want to capture. I don't want to arouse the reader, rather give them a new perspective on erotica.

4. Garo, the alternative/avant-garde manga magazine you mentioned as one of your sources for inspiration in the making of Fantaisie Érotique, is dubbed "magazine rebelle", with an artistic dynamic of no other as it collects manga artists of diverse, underrepresented genres— surrealism, absurdism, erotic-grotesque, punk, leftist samurai dramas. How has it influenced your work, particularly in regards to this upcoming zine?

Indeed I could imagine Adolf Hitler's face if he finds out about Garo Magazine, as he despises modern arts. Garo Magazine is like a wet dream of mine—yes, there are many wild magazines around the world—but Garo was totally different. It was like the hub of underground culture that's taboo made normal by being sold in mainstream bookstores throughout Japan. This might be because of the distinctive curation of manga artists, photographer ranging from Toshio Saeki, Suehiro Maruo, Nabuyoshi Araki, etc. whose works are known for their explicit sexual visuals—yet the magazine's eclectic direction is what makes it charming.

Garo was basically a monthly comic magazine, but it was against the convention of typical Shonen Jump Weekly. The addition of social and political context in their manga inspires me to create Fantaisie Érotique, by breaking the convention of erotica booklets—that we can find on bus stop's magazine stalls back in the 2000s.

5. Current artistic muses from any discipline.

Yorgos Lanthimos (film director), Toshio Saeki (Illustrator), Pieter Hugo (photographer).

6. Based on your observations, what's your take on the interrelations between sex, politics, and social class?

Can I say that sexual freedom is like freedom of speech? But felt that one's sexual freedom is based on how privileged they are? The less fortunate you are, the more oppressed. 

7. If you didn't know the art of illustration and design, what kind of work do you think you would be doing today? 

I'll probably focus on making pink films about cats.

8. What would be an interesting plot for a cat erotica? 

I made this fake film poster back then in 2010—titled The Man who Sexually Attracted to Handicapped Cats. The summary of the plot is about a man, who is shrunk into the size of a Lilliput, whose attracted to handicapped cats. He helps, rescues, and makes love with them, the end. 

9. Three things you're looking to do right after quarantine.

Definitely doing another book launch for Jordan, Jordan Édition as we are currently preparing two books on progress, pat all the stray cats in the streets, and go to the cinema, which I miss the most.

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Fantaisie Érotique is an uncensored non-fiction extraordinary, bizarre, and unsexy erotica zine series that exposes multi-layered society issues, sexual orientation, and politics. It is inspired by the Garo (ガロ) magazine and Twilight Zone. The idea was conceived when Jordan went to a 'pink' movie theater in Osaka, Japan, where he experienced hard to describe, absurd situations that scarred him psychologically. The zine series is looking to exhibit a collection of funny, shocking, eerie erotic stories from all parts of the world.

VOLUME 2 IS CALLING FOR SUBMISSIONS Do you have interesting stories—fantastic, bizarre, unsexy erotic stories based on your personal experience? – Form: Essay/text – Any language is accepted—however, we will also ask for an English translation – Stories will be reinterpreted into a full illustration graphic—along with your submitted text. Send your submission to jordan@jordanjordan.co or click here for more details.

[asterjennifer]

Fantaisie Zine~

🎀 Welcome welcome to fun and amazing news that I'm able to share with you!

Many talented artists, writers… have come together to make a brand new Zine in the regards of fashion for our favorite game Mystic Messenger <3

The best thing is we all participated voluntarily and the profit will be used for a good cause; settled on the LGBT community

If you're interested to read, see and get to play a little dress up game – check it out! 🎀

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Have you ever imagined what it’s like to step foot inside a castle? That’s what it feels like to walk inside Magenta. You’re transported to a place beyond space and time where fantasy and magic seemingly come alive. Some say if you dive deeper into the building, you may just find an eternal party where the masquerade beckons you to don a mask and feel alive with the power of moonlight pouring down onto you from the skylight.

That’s right! You heard it here, folks. The Fantaisie Zine is up for Pre-Order until the 15th of June! This Zine is focused on Fashion styles and how our beloved characters of Mystic Messenger flaunt those aesthetics in countless avenues. If you’re interested in reading my collaboration with @/IScatbell about Rika as well as seeing how wonderfully mysterious our Savior appears, be sure to head over and order your copy today!

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