#silly zine

[bismutharts]

'tis the season. happy april fools, and thanks to everyone whose jokes i copied down, so thanks to:

@toastyglow @ehlers-world-problems @streetlight-spam @spidermanifested and @fwizard

i have decided to do a zine challenge this april. a zine a day, hopefully, inspired by @koddlet's zinetober last year, so there's more to come, hopefully. i'm typing this on the 31st of march, so i'm giving myself a headstart

[atomicraft]

Shittily Drawn Cat Affirmations: A Zine

[cicada-guy]

zine i made to give as a gift to some kids i know for christmas

[b33viemm]

see i also scrolled past this post thinking well what would i even put i have nothing to say or educate people on then im like. that person thought the exact same thing and did it so why the fuck not.

i took a blank paper and made one, then had this idea and made another one

full thing!

before and after stamps

and no the backwards letters were not on purpose lmao

make zines! literally please just at least follow the folding and youll get something

the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

[nutnoce]

I've been laying down the lines again

[isjasz]

Of the Heart🌄

Writer: @zipzapzooooooom Editor: @onawhimsicot Assistance: @gingermaple @kunehokki @corvidaearts @/mybrotherjoso7

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PART TWO!!!!!! <3333 Can you spot all the different moments on the cover from previous pieces of the zine? ;3

These two comics were one whole ass long comic before I decided to draw the cover tbh LMAO. I had such a wild time doing these fr tho. ARGH I can't express how much I love this project. Again go check out the whole zine here!!! 💥🫶

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[ START | PREVIOUS | NEXT ] [ MERCH ] [ MISC ]

[owllooker]

I’m starting a collection

Credit to: @/cornpapers @/concidineart @/tibby-art @/kitsuneisi

[kkoct-ik]

yttdisms now im moved in

[ruporas]

secret santa [ id in alt ] 🎄

a festive warm comic made for the giftorangezine!

[heelturndeux]

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

All Hail West Texas, 2002 Jenny From Thebes, 2023

[bismutharts]

thanks to @littlenosie for reminding me of some things i enjoy saying

this was inspired by me saying thumbsupsing in a discord voicecall, which i don't say with great regularity but i did enjoy it very much. the rest are regular occurrences in my vocabulary

this is part of my project to make a zine a day in april

[blondie-drawings]

that one meme but they're both having a shit time

[insufferablemod]

My redraw of 1863 for the @hsprzine !!!!! go check out the whole zine here!!

[everywaythatmatters]

RotE dragons my beloved

[pineappical]

there's always going to be atleast one dad who's proud of you. happy pride! 🌈

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

this is not directed at anything in particular so much as a lament ive made in private several times over the years and am thinking about again now but. i wish that fandom had not conflated the term "zine" with "artbook". because 99% of the "zines" i see are in fact artbooks, chapbooks, or art/writing anthologies. which to me are just so so different as products!!! instead of being fully handmade they are all being professionally bound by an outside company, often come with stickers/keychains/other perks that are 3rd party manufactured, etc... and to be clear i love these and have bought several, but!

they are to me kind of the antithesis of what the word "zine" should actually imply, in the traditional sense. a zine is something you make by hand and then photocopy for the dozen or so people in your circle. a zine can be just a single sheet of paper you folded up into 8 pages and scribbled on with pencil. they can get fancier than this but once you move from using a stapler (or if you're feeling fancy needle & thread) to needing to have things perfect bound & glued by a separate industry then!!!! we have moved up the sliding scale in terms of product, towards art/chapbook and away from zine. that's what those terms meant initially we just have... kept calling them zines anyway i guess, and now i think most younger people don't realize that the origins for "zines" were things you handmade and maybe snuck your school/work's photocopier to help produce for your friends. And they were made by one person, or maybe a small collab of 2-3. Once you start adding more artists/authors, and they're all making separate things (even if on a theme), now we have hit an anthology. you know?

because i would LOOOOVE fandom zines in the traditional sense of the word, just posting photos of short scrappy handmade art/comics and mailing them to mutuals for fun like you would a christmas card. idk. like i've made i think 8-10 personal little zines on all random topics in the past year just for fun and my friends, because they're rewarding and people LOVE getting something like that in the mail. they're little visual shitposts like "rating the 16 crayola crayons i found in my drawer" and "plants i have eaten while taking walks in the desert" and it would be really fun to have fandom equivalents of those too... but fandom these days has moved away from silly rough stuff towards everything being really polished + professional and it takes some of the charm out of it i think