Today marks the end of the first week of the 2010 24 Hour Zine Thing. Where is everyone with their zine making process? Tell us how you are doing in the comment section, along with any questions and tips for others working on their zine.
As a special treat to wrap up week one, here is an interview with Ainsley Yeager, the extremely talented artist who designed the 24 Hour Zine Thing Participant Pins, and a review of her 2007 24 Hour Zine Thing submission, “Desk Play”.
1. Why did you decide to participate in the 24 Hour Zine Thing challenge?
At the time I didn’t exactly have many zines done. I had just started getting into the community and zines in general and I saw the 24 hour zine thing as a way to both connect with other zinesters and start figuring out what kind of zines I wanted to make in the future.
2. What type of pre-planning, if any, did you do before starting on your 24 hour zine?
The only pre-planning I really did was learn how to do stab binding. I may be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that my goal for it was to just make x amount of copies of a zine that was bound in a more unique way than saddle stitch (stapling).
International Zine Month celebrates zines created all over the world. The event/site is run by . She posted this list of ideas to get in the International Zine Month spirit during July:
Set up a zine reading, a zine swap, a cut and paste party, a zine fest, or even a simple zine workshop at your local library or community center. Write a letter to every zine you read, leave your zine at random places around town like buses, bathrooms or universities. Order zines directly from the creator, make a shirt with iron on letters that says “ask me about zines”, make buttons with phrases like “zines saved my life” or “do you read zines”. Send out zine fliers with your mail or leave them around your town. Approach shops in your town about carrying zines, donate to zine libraries…..
There is also a page to keep up with all the International Zine Month updates.
An additional 5 participants have been added to the Participants page, making for a total of 58 participants signed up this year so far! The set had been set up so that you may view larger scans of all the submitted zines. Interviews and tutorials are in the works for later this week, so in the meantime check out this review of Jo Cook’s artsy zine “Double Never”.
Whether you are deep into your 24 hour zine making all-nighter or just waking up with your morning coffee and gathering your supplies, now would be the perfect time to get inspired by Anke Wehner’s zine “Spelunking”, a journey into the mind of Anke filled with black and white images and a clean, crisp layout.
Today marks Day 1 of the 2010 24 Hour Zine Thing! To get your creative juices flowing and help with all the bumps in the road throughout the month, we will post helpful tips, interviews, and reviews of zines completed for past 24 Hour Zine Thing challenges.
To start out Day 1, here’s Keet’s zine “Hurl”, completed for the 2007 24 Hour Zine Thing challenge:
The 24 Hour Zine Thing 2010 is just one week away, with participant sign ups coming in rapidly. Today, 27 participants were added to the Participants Page! If you haven’t signed up yet, head over to the Sign Up Page and answer the 7 simple questions to get yourself signed up.
There is already an event planned over in Olympia, Washington (USA). Here are the details:
24 Hour Zine Thing with special guests Broken Water @ Northern!
DATES: Saturday, July 31st @5:30pm-Sunday, August 1st @5:30pm LOCATION: Northern, 321 4th Avenue, Olympia.
The Olympia Timberland Library & Northern | The Olympia All Ages Project want to keep you up all night for the second annual 24 Hour Zine Thing workshop. Your challenge: make a 24-page zine from conception to completion in 24 hours straight. Take a break from zine creation at 8 p.m. to enjoy the musical stylings of Olympia’s own Broken Water. The event culminates with willing sleep-deprived zinesters reading from their shiny new zines on Sunday, August 1 at 3:30 p.m. Note: feel free to drop in at any point between July 31 at 5:30 p.m. and August 1 at 5 p.m. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring materials to use or share.
The month of July is quickly approaching, which means the 2010 24 Hour Zine Thing Event is almost here! The Participants page has been updated to include a link to the 2009 participants, as well as a list of all the 2010 participants that have signed up so far. If you haven’t signed up for this years event, get to it!
Also, if you know anyone that is planning on hosting a 24 Hour Zine Thing event, or if you are interested in planning one, drop an email with some details at 24hourzines[at]gmail.com and I will post the details on the site.
Check back for more details and other event news coming soon!
I hope everyone who signed up had a chance to write their 24-hour zine. Things always come up, they always do, so if you didn’t finish (or start) your zine, just think – you’ll have a chance to do it next year!
For those of you triumphant zinesters who have finished your zine, send a copy to:
Avocado Tree Distro
PO Box 2001
Abingdon, Va 24212
We’ll scan covers to add to the website, and send you back a zine and the 24hzt pin.
With more daylight, you’d think we’d all perceive summer days and months as taking longer. I’m not the only one to think the opposite is true.
Somehow the month of July has blurred by, and we’re left with just a few days before August. I know this is exactly the environment for zinesters with a procrastinating gene, so I’m hoping we’ll get some more sign-ups before the end of Friday.
We currently have 41 participants who’ve signed up – although remembering to sign-up does not preclude you from writing a zine. The sign-up is more for the camaraderie and opportunity to set an intention for the zine.
Much like an NPR/PBS fund drive, I know some people are driven by the Special Gift. We have a pin and zine for you in exchange for you finishing your zine and sending us a copy.
So, get your asses in gear! There’s enough time yet!
The teen librarian over at the Greater Victoria Public LIbrary are putting on a !
They’ll be meeting up on July 15th to crank out le zines, en masse. Zinesters around the world, you could choose the 15th in solidarity! Everyone, everyone!
They’ve promised to report back about how it went, which should coincide nicely with the kicking-it-into-high-gear that will be happening for everyone else!
The 24 Hour Zine Challenge asks zinesters to create a 24-page zine
from conception to final product in 24 hours straight.
Zines should be of suitable size and technical difficulty
so that this truly is a challenge for individual zinesters.
