I made my first big zine! It's about the emo subculture :> I spent a lot of time working on this thing and I'm so proud of it! It'd mean so much if you guys checked it out.
I had an absolutely amazing time putting together this zine over this past month, and you guys can definitely look forward to more in the future. No promises on exact timelines though. I had originally intended to do this partially digitally and partially by hand, but found that the combination looked odd and out of place so I stuck with digital (or maybe I just haven't figured out the trick to it yet lol). But I'm really happy with how the final result turned out! And a HUGE shoutout to @necromancy-savant for sharing his sonnet with me for this zine and to @dopamineband for sending me over some info to work with for their page.
(P.S. I wanted to make it a full 8 pages so I could make physical copies too, but couldn't think of anything to add so you get a word search :D)
"Kathleen Hanna - the feminist punk icon" - a digital zine made by me!
this is my first digital zine - i have printed it and i love how it looks so I'll probably make more digital ones and it's just so much easier than printing out each individual image
If My Circuits Could Sing: A Sci-Fi Zine About Obligation is accepting submissions!
Hi everyone!
I've heard back from the last of the print shops I reached out to. I'm still ironing out specifics but I figure we've been too quiet, so it should be time to get things rolling.
(Not sure who we are? Check out our writeup here. )
For writing, we are looking for:
Stories in the neighborhood of 2000 words. Submissions over 3000 words are unlikely to be considered.
Poems no more than 4 pages.
We are not interested in nonfiction at this time.
For art, we are looking for:
Short comics in the neighborhood of five pages.
Art pieces that either stand on their own, whole page or half-page with backgrounds, or that text can be wrapped around
Feel free to send over many small pieces in addition to or instead of larger ones!
For all submissions:
Please include a list of content warnings if your submission contains any subjects that may be intense, uncomfortable, or triggering. For example, bone breaking, body horror, blood, gore, etc.
How to submit:
For text, we'll be using Google Docs for its extensive cooperative editing features. The simplest thing for us would be for you to simply Share a Google doc with the zine email; [email protected] . If that's impossible, we'll accept submissions as plaintext (in the body of the email), or PDF. In both cases your work will be copied into a Google Doc which will be shared with your email.
For art, simply email your submissions as a standard image file(s), or a link to a photohosting site like Imgur. Again, that address is: [email protected]
We will give each submission one editing pass, more for clarity than anything else. Any of our suggestions can be declined if you feel that they harm the integrity of the work, or otherwise don't fit with your vision. Whether we accept all submissions or only some will depend entirely on the number of submissions.
I am extremely excited to see your work! Please let us know in the server or to our email if you have any questions!
Foggy Doggy a song I wrote for the folkpunk band im starting :3 i made a lil zine for it since it helps me expresss myself and figure out the artistic direction of the song. This zine helped me figure out the name Foggy Doggy as I realised how present i liked the imagery of dogs and fog i like together :3
Photos from BITE ME, the premier zine of the late-70s UK Vampire Punk scene. The small but passionate scene was fueled by young vampires inspired by the rebellious anti-establishment themes of human punk music. Vampunks rejected old notions that their kind should not participate in human culture or make themselves known, or that their lives should be governed by ancient rules they felt had no place in the modern world. All of this irked the Vampiric Council, who saw “out-of-control” youth as a threat to the “traditional” vampire ways of life. Unlike their ethnocentric elders, vampunks practiced “radical tolerance” of other monsters, welcoming zombies, mummies, franks, golems, trolls, and other shunned creatures to their shows. But nothing infuriated vampire traditionalists more than the vampunks’ open embrace of lycans, rejecting the centuries-long war between the two species. Shows were often held on full moons so that werewolves could not only attend, but in some cases participate - seminal vampunk band Drac & The Bats famously had a lycan drummer. “WAR IS THE ONLY MONSTER” was a saying commonly scrawled on the clothes of young vampire and werewolf punks who saw their communal music as a political statement.
Ultimately, vampire punk ended as suddenly as it began, when the increasingly public nature of the shows lured long-dormant monster hunters out of retirement, prompting swift and aggressive joint action from the Vampiric and Lycan Councils that effectively banned unauthorized vampire gatherings. But the death of vampunk was not in vain: In coming together to address a common threat, a line of communication between lycans and vampires was opened that allowed for a new “cold war” era of relative peace. And vampunk’s musical influences lived on as well, with many of the same vampires reportedly moving on to secretly involve themselves very prominently in human music through the gothic and new wave scenes of the early 1980s. In this way, vampunk - much like its participants - will truly never die.
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NOTE: This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series (visit that link for a lot more). NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and interconnected alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.
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