The Toronto Zine Library sent over this information about a free event they are hosting tomorrow, July 28th:

Happy International Zine Month!

To celebrate, the Toronto Zine Library is participating in the 24 hour zine challenge and we would love for you to join us! We are hosting a kick off event this Wednesday, July 28th starting at 5pm and going strong until the Tranzac Club closes.

What is the 24 hour zine challenge, you ask?
A yearly event where one attempts to make a 24 page zine from start to finish in 24 hours. From initial idea right through to photocopying/collating/stapling your zine. More information, list of this year’s participants and sign up can be found here: http://24hourzines.com/

(Please note that you dont *have* to register and/or send your zine in when its finished. We encourage you participate to whatever degree you are most comfortable with. Or, you are welcome to just come and hang out at the TZL and cheer participants on!)

Bring your ideas and if youre able a snack to share while we hang out, listen to music, and get a start on our 24 hour zines! Some supplies will be available (paper, glue, scissors, magazine clippings, a couple of typewriters, a long arm stapler) but please do bring your favourite or necessary zine making supplies. Conveniently, there is a 24 hour Kinkos a half-block away!

Also, similar to the event folks at the Independent Pubishing Resource Center (http://www.iprc.org/) in Portland Oregon held a few days ago, we will be streaming our 24 hour zine challenge event live! If you’re unable to join us, bookmark http://www.ustream.tv/channel/toronto-zine-library-24hr-zine-challenege and tune in on Wednesday starting at 5pm EST and participate alongside us from wherever you may be.

Ok, to recap:

WHEN: wednesday july 28th, 5pm EST until close
WHERE: the toronto zine library — 2nd floor of the tranzac club — 292 brunswick st. just south of bloor. close to spadina subway station
COST: free!
WHAT: 24 hour zine challenge kick off
BRING: yourself, your friends, snacks, creativity, zine making supplies, ideas

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=138008569562984&index=1

Holler at us if you have any additional questions or concerns. We regret that the TZL is not a wheelchair accessible space.

The Toronto Zine Library
292 Brunswick Ave, 2nd floor
torontozinelibrary@gmail.com
http://torontozinelibrary.blogspot.com

24HZT Consignment Form as Word Document
24HZT Consignment Form as PDF

Cook This! #1 by Nicci
Name: Nicci
City: Cincinnati, OH
Zine Goal: to finish a fun, funky little zine as per the
requirements. not sure of the topic until i begin!

I absolutely love to cook, so Nicci’s zine was such a treat for me to receive! Filled with 12 mouthwatering recipes, Nicci’s zine provides easy to follow, handwritten instructions on how to make each dish, with cute drawings of mixing bowls, ingredients, and techniques sprinkled throughout the pages. Recipes include white chicken chili, mini pita pizza, cinnamon chips, and shrimp scampi!

Raven / 24 Hour Zine Thing
PO Box 2001
Abingdon, VA 24210
USA

and then head over to the Mail Box Page to track when your zine has been received and when your button has been sent out. The official deadline for all 2010 24 Hour Zine Thing zines is Friday, August 20th, 2010, which should give international participants time to get their zines through the mail.

Also, please remember that you can submit your zines for consignment in the 24 Hour Zine Thing Distro, which is currently under construction while all the zines are being uploaded and added. If you are interested in consignment, please fill out the form found on the Consignment Page and include with your 2010 24 Hour Zine Thing completed zine, as well as the extra copies that you would like distro’ed.

Here’s a zine review for all you night owls, and check back within the next hour for another one!

[outside cover - black felt]

[inside cover]

Goat Farm by Kim Riot
Name: Kim Riot
City: San Diego, CA
Zine Goal: A docu-mini style zine dedicating my years living and
breathing heavy metal as a girl.

Kim’s zine “Goat Farm” is the first zine I have ever received that featured felt as the cover, which really makes her zine stand out, and ties in perfectly with the overall theme. Staying true to the subtitle, “musings of a metal muff”, Kim retells of her experience as a female in the metal scene, and memories of the mindset and behavior of the ladies at shows she attended. Kim also includes an awesomely collaged “The Five Most Metal Animals” section, and includes a guide for spotting “The Types of Metal Heads”. Kim combines musical experiences with personal writing to create a unique, informative 24 hour zine.

Be sure to check back later for more reviews!

Summertime (& The Living Is Easy) by Dina
Name: Dina
City: Mill Spring, NC
Zine Goal: Genuine writing. Clean, 1/4-sized layout. An actually
FINISHED zine.

Dina’s zine perfectly embodies the carefree feeling many associate with the lazy days and warm nights of summer. Her black and white zine incorporates free-flowing text, with subject matter jumping from present tense adventures to daydreams of a life as an artist, with journals, notes, and music filling each day of her life, pasted over high contrast images and photographs. Dina’s zine is the perfect read to get you into the summer feeling.

Paper Clips #2 by Becca
Name: Becca Confidential
City: Fort Worth, TX
Zine Goal: I want to write a second issue for the 24hz I wrote last
year.

A lot of thoughts cross your mind within a 24 hour period, and Becca has used her zine to capture the little segments of information and memories that pass through her mind throughout the day. Becca uses magazine cut outs and handwritten text to work through a variety of subjects, such as her boyfriend Chris and his recent departure for Basic Training, building feelings of pressure and anxiety, and finally, how she and Chris first met. Featuring many clippings of newspaper comics and a call for submissions for a new zine logo, Becca’s zine will constantly keep readers engaged.

Little Acorns #1 by Maranda
Name: Maranda
City: Guelph, Ontario
Zine Goal: There is no particular goal in my mind. I have never made
a 24-hour zine before, so I just wanna try it out and see what all the
fuss is about! It will likely be a perzine, as is my usual style, but
obviously it will be much more spontaneous, as is the nature of the
challenge.

Maranda explains on page one of her zine that this is “an attempt to put something honest and sincere into the world…”. Also serving as her first attempt at a 24 hour zine, Little Acorns #1 features writing in which Maranda explores her feelings about her current living arrangements, as well as an encounter with a big brown bat while walking home one night. Her zine combines scanned collages and bits of personal information that really is honest and sincere, creating a comfortable medium through which Maranda is able to express herself.

Hope those help you on your 24HZT journey!

Check out the new Mail Box Page to keep track of what zines have been received, and when pins are sent out!

I will be posting some new scans and zine reviews later tonight and throughout the weekend, so be sure to check back often. Also, stay completely up to date with everything happening at the 24HZT headquarters by becoming a fan on Facebook!

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Finished with your zine and can’t wait to release it to the world? Send your zine to:

Raven / 24 Hour Zine Thing
PO Box 2001
Abingdon, VA. 24210
USA

Good luck to everyone and leave a comment with how you are doing with your 24 hour zine!

Calling all ambitious zinesters! You’re invited to the 2nd Annual, 24hr Zine Challenge, presented by the Portland Zine Symposium and the Independent Publishing Resource Center…

Who: The Portland Zine Symposium and awesome zinesters like you!
What: The 2nd Annual 24hr Zine Challenge
Where: The Independent Publishing Resource Center, 917 SW Oak St. #218
Why: To make zines and support PZS!
When: July 24th at 10:00am until July 25th at 10:00am

Zines are awesome and July is International Zine Month! Get yourself one more zine finished for your PZS table, make some new friends over the dizzying madness of staying up too many hours, and help support the Portland Zine Symposium!

We will be providing some supplies (paper, glue, scissors, etc), snacks, and drink - anything you can bring will help. Bring any supplies you normally like to make zines with that you just can’t live without! Also, you might want to bring pillows, snacks, and blankets… We are also asking registrants for a $5 donation which will help us cover any costs for supplies and food that are not donated, so we can make sure your well fed and fully supplied. The IPRC has two copy machines on hand to help you create your fabulous zine, available for 5 cents per side for members (trial membership is $25) and 10 cents per side for nonmembers.

In addition to being a quite awesome challenge, this event will also be a major fund raiser for the Portland Zine Symposium

If you can’t make it to the event, you can find a list of registrants on our website (here: http://www.pdxzines.com/writing/128/) and pick one to sponsor, marathon style! Once you’ve chosen a lucky challenger to back, we’ll list you under their name as a supporter and you will only be asked to make the donation you’ve pledged if the challenger completes their zine. If you pledge more than $10, we’ll provide you with a copy of the zine they’ve created! You pledge helps us raise funds to keep PZS affordable to table at for zine-makers (half table at the symposium are $20 for the whole weekend) and free to attend for zine-appreciators. To support a 24hr Zine Challenger, just email pdxzines@gmail.com with the name of the lucky participant you want to back and the amount you’d like to pledge.

If you’re a challenger, request a form to print out to ask people to sign up on if they’d like to sponsor you, or you can direct them to our website (specifically here: http://www.pdxzines.com/writing/128/) from your blog or website and share the link on your favorite social network (email/facebook/twitter/etc.) to allow your friends to pledge. Your amazing creativity and endurance will really help us make the event a success!

We will also have a live video feed set up at the 24hr Zine Challenge, just like last year, so zine supporters anywhere can encourage the 24hr Zine Challengers and so 24hr Zine Sponsors can check in on who they’ve backed!

Are you a local business? The 24hr Zine Challenge is just another outreach event brought to the community by PZS that you can help out with. If you’re interested in donating any food or treats to help keep our zinesters going their full 24 hours. You donation would be listed here, right on our front page, and on our 2010 Sponsors page!

Please call Katie (804-514-8413) if you would like to make a donation to this event or to Portland Zine symposium.

Preregistration is REQUIRED as space is limited! Email pdxzines@gmail.com or call Blue at (503) 453-5839 to register before time runs out!

If you are in Portland, take advantage of this great opportunity and sign up! If you are not in the area, consider sponsoring a 24 Hour Zine Challenger and helping the Portland Zine Symposium at the same time!

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).

3. How did you get your idea for the topic of your 24 hour zine?
I was starting to pack up to move out and I noticed that during the move I was really attached to most of the stuff on my desk. Some of the things had interesting stories, and others were just there. Plus, I always think it’s interesting to see what people put on their desk. i mean, you really are sacrificing working space for personal items.

4. How did you come to the decision to use the type of binding method and size that you chose?
I’ve always been somewhat interested by book binding. I was introduced to Japanese stab binding as something easy, fast and good for beginners. As for the size, well I picked quarter letter sized because it fit into my hand fairly well and it was easy enough to fit a fair amount of content into it.

5. Was completing the challenge harder than you expected?
Oh yes. I had a really difficult time getting to the 24 page minimum. It was a little easier coming up with pages considering that I just had to look around, find something and ask myself “is this interesting or is there a story there?”

6. What advice would you give to others who are attempting the 24 Hour Zine Thing challenge?
Keep at it. I know it’s pretty difficult to get something done start to finish, especially in one day. Even after you finish it, it’s easy to beat yourself up saying that you think it’s unpolished or that you felt too rushed to make anything good, but that’s the point of the challenge. It’s to see just how creative you can get with a time limit.

Name: Ainsley
City: washougal, WA
Zine Goal: All I know is that I want my zine to be stab bound and for
the paper to be 1/4 sized. Not sure on my topic but all I really want
to do is get the thing done.

“Desk Play” is a bit more text-heavy than Ainsley’s usual style, but still offers a great example of her creativity as an artist. Bound using Japanese stab binding, Ainsley’s zine is filled with handwritten stories about the objects that inhabit her desk, the center of mess making and artistic endeavors. Ainsley’s trademark drawing style is still featured in the zine, with an illustration of the object accompanying each story, allowing for this simple black and white zine to burst with personality.

You can find out more about Ainsley and see her artwork at her website.

Just as a reminder, all completed zines may be submitted to this address to receive a Participation Pin (designed by Ainsley!), and will be featured on the website to inspire others to create their own 24 hour zine!

Raven / 24HZT
PO Box 2001
Abingdon, VA 24210
USA

Good luck!