2 weeks ago
Cherry Bomb Zine needs your submissions! If you want to write something for the zine but don’t know where to start, think about how you feel about sexuality and the media’s portrayal, how you portray your sexuality, body image, how you found riot grrrl, what you feel is most empowering/discouraging about identifying as a girl/woman, role models, rape culture, harassment, girl love, or anything else you can think of. We want to hear your voice! Your opinion matters.
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9 months ago
New journal=new challenges. I won’t just write entries but try to draw some as well.
10 months ago
Observations on Becoming a Woman finally done. Just 5 made. I’ll probably make more but since they’re specially handmade, we’ll wait and see. (Taken with instagram)
1 year ago
Teenage Medusa is apart of an ongoing project, Observations on Becoming a Woman. First drawing came out OK so I’m sticking to it!
Taken with Hipstamatic
1 year ago
OYE MIRA!
Two amazing things came in the mail today. One: a lovely NYC postcard from the even lovelier Nastia! Her write-up of that adventure is here en español & sounds like a pretty awesome spring break. The thing I love most is that she seems to always travel with her mom and I love vacationing with my momma too. It makes me happy to get her postcards!
Second: A crazy good zine sent to me by my friend Sara Century in Denver! She plays music, she draws comics, and she’s on tour. Metropopopalyptico! is in its 3rd stage. It even came with a CD that I have yet to listen to but I’m sure it will be great.
Life seems to be going a little too right right now but instead of focusing on my inevitable downfall, I shall bask in being very happy with all the goodness around me!
2 years ago
Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Artist in the Office :: Etsy Blog
I loved this little article mostly because I kind of want a normal job at a cafe or at a little clothing store but I’d love to have art outside of that. This was really enlightening and I hope to get that book.
2 years ago
Zines: The Saviour of Print «
Sophie Knight made a zine for the recent Zine’s Mate book fair. Here she relates her experience and discusses how zines might just save print.
My original motivation, however, was probably similar to a lot of zine-makers; part sentimentality, part nuttiness and part confidence issues. Sentimentality because I have a certain fetish for paper and the printed format, and wanted to make something tangible rather than a mess of bytes. Nuttiness because only a control freak can be focused enough to make the whole of a zine themselves, beginning to end. And confidence issues because while you lack faith that any publisher would accept your work, you somehow trust yourself to make something readable and popular.
Absolutely amazing. I think she sums up why I’ve been wanting to do zines for so long and why I admire and collect many zines myself. Self-publishing is a beautiful thing and it takes a love of paper and book arts. I have a feeling that despite the digital age we live in, there will never be a day when people won’t want something tangible. It’s nice to reach out and touch something and call it your own.
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