Hold on... wtf's a zine?

A zine (in this instance) is a handmade, independently produced, badly photocopied publication.

We want ours to be full of stories art and ideas!

Try making your writing sound more like a story than an article because it's not a magazine or newspaper we're making here and also be aware that sometimes we may not be able to fit everything we want into a single issue. Certain things might not work so well together so there is no absolute guarantee that your stuff will just go in the very next issue straight away, but it's very likely and we'll do our best!

Also, if you think you can write music (on paper), that might be kind of awesome.

Friday, August 7, 2009

We Got Reviewed by Some Goat Guy!

A moment ago, I pulled a 'Sticky Institute' email/newsletter thing out of my junkmail, (why it was in there, nobody knows) and guess who got the first review in it!? :O

A Fistful of Buttons
A5 28 pages, done by a total of 8 magic people.
comes in cool paper bag
I never knew how to start a review. There we go, much better.
Well, a Fistful of Buttons (aka FFB) starts in a little paper bag
with a sideways exit. In marker, the name is spelled on the front, setting the scene for this quaint, dirty, urban, teenage zine. Being a teenager myself, it struck many chords.
Inside the paper bag, you are met with a yellow-stained photo-cover of Hosier Lane (Melbourne) graffiti tourists.
Inside cover: flowersand butterflies and oddly cutesy drawings, which remind me ofthat old-school, kitsch wallpaper. The stories are all pretty genuine and interesting. 'Holidays' has to have pinned the feeling down of being a teen during summer vacation. Wonderful use of leet speak.
The photography really stood out for me, looking really grungy and photocopier-aholic-like. The poetry, well, I couldn't tell whether it was tongue-in-cheek or just plain innocent-naive-style. In general, I like this zine, although the magic 8 ball told me to do otherwise. A little cliche at times, but still, I would read another zine if you made one. Yep...
-GOATMAN

No idea who GOATMAN is but it's still cool :)

Thursday, August 6, 2009

All Gone!

Today, John's travels into the city confirmed that we have sold all 10 copies of Issue No.1 :D
That means a tidy profit of $12.50 for the FFB kitty and it is likely that we will print 15 to 20 copies of Issue No.2 :)

Get back 'ere!

ah-HA!

You all thought I'd neglected the blog!
(That is, assuming you even ever looked at the thing more than once... which you didn't but oh well)

The point is that the second issue is STILL hapenning!
It'll be put together with whatever we have before the Friday 7th (aka. tomorrow)

Also, sorry to all those people who handed their stuff in ages ago :\

But also thank you, because now this issue is looking really awesome!

(Quick! Go draw / write / photograph something else!)