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.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

To Newcastle!

Just sent 10 copies of Issue No.1 off to Bird In The Hand this arvo via the Post Office :)

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Sellouts

Sticky just emailed me to say that we have finally sold all of the 10 copies of Issue No.2 that we put on their online mail order service.
That means that people bought 10 of our zine off the net and paid extra for postage and all... That's pretty impressive if you ask me.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Sean says:

Well I did it. Finally. I made it onto the cover of a fistful of buttons. This is amazing. No words can properly begin to describe the feeling I'm feeling right now. You know that Andy Warhol saying that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame? Well this has got to be at least 27 minutes.
I feel like I should be hiding my face when I go out in public, for fear of being mobbed. There are a lot of people who would kill to get a look at this face. I should know, I've seen it first-hand.
I know a guy who knew a guy who got a letter published in the paper. I think he said some negative things about an article or something. I dunno. Point is, some guy stopped him in the street and was like "HEY! Aren't you that guy who wrote that letter in the paper?". Long story short, some stuff went down and he ended up naked and in the gutter.
I don't want that happening to me! Maybe I'll just hire a bodyguard. I'll have the money to afford one what with all the offers for big parts in movies I should be expecting to get soon. I should get a publicist too! And a makeup guy and... what else do all those famous people have? It doesn't matter, I'll let my assistant figure that out.
Maybe I could score some hot Fistful of Buttons groupies! Who I could meet at the sweet Fistful afterparties. I must email Carl about these parties immediately. Nothing shall get in the way of me and my fame.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be in my trailer.

Woa

Just finished uploading Issues 3, 4 and 5 to this thing and man there is a lotta stuff down the left hand side of the page now...

Enjoy!

Also I did recently recieve an email from someone at Three Stories Artspace in Healesville who is interested in stocking the zine, so I'm trying to follow that up and get some more information from them.

If all goes well, we'll end up in the Melbourne CBD, Newcastle and Healesville all at once :)

Monday, February 15, 2010

Sticky sent this around:

Hi Everyone,

We at the institute just want to thank you for making the fair so damn ace. The Love Secretary wrote the best thank you letter to you all personally on the day but in the ensuing chaos I fear I may have lost it. The second I find it, I'll send it out as a pdf to everyone.
Special shout outs to all those who made their table look so fantastic, especially Amanda Panda and The Fetus and the Fistful of Buttons crew. And Tango for sharing the balloon love.
We will be posting pics on our facebook page very soon - if you have any pics to share we'd love to see them.

Zine on.

Eloise, Luke and the Sticky Family.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Zine Fair Enjoyed By All


Yesterday, between 3pm and 8pm, we found ourselves sitting in the Degraves St Subway selling zines like there was no today.
I'd been collecting people's work since last October and spent the whole week putting together three brand new zines at once. After hours of aranging pages in photoshop, spending all my free periods in the library with the guillotine, and way too much time at officeworks, everything came together as we set up our table crammed full of zines, brown paper bags, buttons, stickers and posters.
All in all we sold over 50 zines, with only around 20 going to people we actually knew.
The leftover zines will be going to the Sticky Institute to be sold as well as a Newcastle zine store called Bird In The Hand. A few will also probably be sold around school.


Thanks to everyone that contributed, helped put them together, and came to keep us company in the subway. It was a great success!



Issues 3, 4 and 5 will be uploaded to the blog shortly :)