Boats, Bikes & Bars: Drunk Confessions & Gay Chatter on the Gulf of Mexico by Zinefandel, USA
Purple Myrtle Squeegy #6 by Hadass, Israel
It’s About Time by Rachel Kopel, USA
Booklyn Takes On The Twenty Four Hour Zine Challenge by Booklyn Artists Alliance, USA
My Book of Personal Prayers by Theresa Williams, USA
Congrats to these six brave souls who kicked some 24 hour zine butt! I am putting the finishing touches on the 2013 Participant Pin design, and pins will be ordered this weekend. If you don’t see your zine listed above, send me a Tweet to let me know you’re done!
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24 Hour Zine Thing
PO Box 2001
Abingdon, VA 24210
USA
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Before last years event, approved I had dreams of making the 24 Hour Zine Thing 2012 the best year yet. And then life happened. Which brings us to one year later, thumb with a wrap-up post of the 2012 event being posted in mid-July and participant pins just now being sent out.
Which brings us to an apology. The 24 Hour Zine Thing has been held each July since 2005, treatment and since 2008 I have had the honor of receiving tons of 24 hour zines and getting to know each of you through handwritten letters, e-mails, Facebook posts and tweets. The sweet comments and little “thanks for everything you do!”s attached to your zines make hosting this event worthwhile, and I want to continue to make this event the best that it can be. Over the next few weeks I will be rolling out some new updates and surprises to make the 24 Hour Zine Thing even better!
And with that said, let’s wrap up 2012!
Congratulations to all 32 brave participants who completed a zine, from start to finish, in only 24 hours for the 2012 event! Here is a listing of all the zines received (and links to their blogs, Etsy shops, etc.):
24 Thing to Love About Turning 24 by grouchymama
9 Views of The Arbrary by Rachel Kopel
A Sea of Islands Versus Islands In A Far Sea by Kaden J
Adventures in Sky Mall by Rachel C-H
And All The Rest Is Talk #3 by Lindsey
Batgirl Was A Librarian by Bear Bahoochie
Bloomigrant by Bloomurder
Cherry Blossoms by Jessica
Cinnamon Insanity #1 by Anonymous
Dirty July #2 by Melanie
Fragile Like A Rubber Ball by Betty Rae
Gag (The 24H Edition) by Jade
How to Kick Yer Boots Up: A Short Ditty About Country Music by Miss C. Bean
Jazzhands #0: Kitty’s Guide to Urban Golf by Kitty Kerosene
Lady Teeth by tarynhipp
Lights Go Out (Issue 18) by Mr. T
LP’s Lists: A 24 Hour Zine by LogPoes
Madam Acne by Chiara
Mental Masturbation: 24H by Niila!
Mythologising Me 6: Change and Consumption by Ingrid
Nullium In Verba #1 by Calili
Power’d By Play! {4 Ways to Read} by A
Purple Myrtle Squeegy #4: A PMS Zine by Hadass Ben-Ari
Scary City Vol. 1 by +SCARE CITY+
She Had Black Hair by Christopher Felling
Summer School and More… 2012 by Stephen
The Routes We Wander: Issue 2 by ‘Larry’ Lee Taylor
The Universal Specific by Anna Vo
Things I Did During Int’l Zine Month by @lagina
Things That Work: A Zine About Things That Work by Lifeguard of Love
Tragic Boffin 4 by Donna
We Are Adventurers #1 by notpilgrim
Pins Already Sent:
Niila!
Anna Vo
Donna
Bloomurder
grouchymama
Kaden J.
Lifeguard of Love
Stephen
Rachel Kopel
Rachel C-H
Betty Rae
Pins to be sent on Monday, July 15, 2013:
Chiara
Calili
Jessica
Kitty Kerosene
Anonymous, Germany
LogPoes
Mr. T
Ingrid
Bear Bahoochie
Lindsey
If you have sent in your 2012 zine and do not see it listed, please contact me at 24hourzines(at)gmail.com. I have contacted all of the authors of the zines I have received in order to confirm mailing addresses before sending out the pins, so if you haven’t heard from me but see your zine listed above, shoot me an e-mail with your mailing address and I will send you pin out along with the others on Monday morning (or as soon as I hear from you).
Thank you to all of your continued support, and Happy International Zine Month 2013!
Name: Chiara City: Canberra State/Province: ACT Country: Australia Zine Goal:To complete a zine in 24hours, nurse and to not chop off any content when photocopying.
Name: Stormy City: Robina State/Province: QLD Country: Australia Zine Goal: to experiment…
Name: Tee Rex City: Brisbane State/Province: Queensland Country: Australia Zine Goal: To make a zine
Name: Calili City: Sydney State/Province: NSW Country: Australia Zine Goal:I want to complete the zine challenge for the second time, cure and pick my topic out of a hat when I start the challenge.
Brazil
Name: Antonio Augusto City: São Paulo State/Province: SP Country: Brazil Zine Goal: Music + Art
Canada
Name: Ren Allspark City: Edmonton State/Province: Alberta Country: Canada Zine Goal:The Goal for my 24hour Zine is to incorporate a loose narrative with mixed media content, sale collage, experiments with illustration, comics and painterly styles.
Name: Dana City: Vancouver State/Province: BC Country: Canada Zine Goal: I’d like to do a zine with a better blend of image, design and words. Mine tend to be wordy.
Name: Jessica City: Vancouver State/Province: BC Country: Canada Zine Goal:To make my first zine.
Name: Veronica Roth City: Vancouver State/Province: BC Country: Canada Zine Goal:Make my first zine as a birthday present to me to say I could do it.
Name: Christopher Felling City: Victoria State/Province: BC Country: Canada Zine Goal: Make something that’s as much a thing as it is a zine. Something that can’t quite be read – it has to be felt, deciphered, maybe even eaten. Think a mix of HP Lovecraft, Jack Chick and the Principia Discordia.
Name: Connor City: Winnipeg State/Province: Manitoba Country: Canada Zine Goal:have fun make cool things
Name: Kent City: Sackville State/Province: NB Country: Canada Zine Goal: I want to make some minizines! Maybe 6 8-pagers? Probably some art or photo ones as a break from my text-heavy perzine thing.
Name: Matthew Murray City: Halifax State/Province: Nova Scotia Country: Canada Zine Goal:Make a zine?
Name: Sarah Henderson City: Truro State/Province: Nova Scotia Country: Canada Zine Goal: To finish something so rad I won’t even believe I’ve done it!
Name: Saffity City: Cambridge State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada Zine Goal: I have yet to make a zine, so I think a challenge like this would be really good for me to get out of my comfort zone and be creative. I’ve recently gotten into art journaling, and it will be neat to add that to my writing and create a publication.
Name: FeministPug City: Ottawa State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada Zine Goal:To write a zine about my grad school musings. To include things about self-care, baking, crafts, angry rantings and loving excitement about feminist theory, and the importance and challenges of community organizing and how this informs my research…oh and cute pictures of (feminist) pugs, obvs.
Name: Sarah City: Ottawa State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada Zine Goal: Finish a cookzine!
Name: Alison Lang City: Toronto State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada Zine Goal:My zine goal is to create something funny and truthful and BITCHIN’!
Name: Noelle Geniza City: Toronto State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada Zine Goal: To make a (hopefully light-hearted) comic zine!
Name: Kitty Kerosene City: Toronto State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada Zine Goal: My goal is to include hand-drawn (by me) illustrations on at least 1/4 of the pages (1/2 if I go with a less-than-24 page count). My drawing skills are rusty, so I am giving myself deadlines which for me to draw more.
Name: Penny Organ City: saskatoon State/Province: SK Country: Canada Zine Goal:To make a zine this July, and hopefully having other contribute.
Name: Lydia Beardmore City: Bristol State/Province: Avon Country: England Zine Goal: To create the best zine the world has ever seen!
Name: Lola City: London State/Province: England Country: UK Zine Goal:to give people something to think about, and to make people happy
Name: Mnon City: Paris State/Province: Ile-de-France Country: France Zine Goal: I will do my 24h zine right after I finish and print out my first zine ever so I’m doing this 24h project to speed up my spontaneous creativity and to stop of being scared i’m not arty enough to do zines.
Germany
Name: Anna Vo City: Berlin State/Province: Berlin Country: Germany Zine Goal:next issue of per-zine, called The Singular v The Universal
Indonesia
Name: Bagi Bagi Zine City: Pontianak State/Province: West Borneo Country: Indonesia Zine Goal:To explore more more more and more about zine making. And to distribute zine from all over the world as much as i can. Open a zine distro and library place.
Israel
Name: Hadass Ben-Ari City: Jerusalem State/Province: Jerusalem Country: Israel Zine Goal: I want to make a perzine, completely different from the other zines I have!
New Zealand
Name: Kirsty City: Auckland City State/Province: Auckland Country: New Zealand Zine Goal: To make something funny and fun.
Scotland
Name: Donna City: Edinburgh State/Province: Modlothian Country: Scotland Zine Goal: To focus on one topic in detail – all my zines so far have been ‘a bit of this and a bit of that’.
The Netherlands
Name: LogPoes City: Amsterdam State/Province: Noord-Holland Country: The Netherlands Zine Goal:I’m looking forward to making a good old cut and paste zine from scratch! :-)
United Kingdom
Name: Mr. T City: Newbury State/Province: Berkshire Country: UK Zine Goal: I’ll make a special edition of Lights Go Out (a UK DIY punk zine) for this event…everything done in the 24 hour window of course!
Name: Angry Violist City: Cambridge State/Province: Cambridgeshire Country: UK Zine Goal: To make a 16 page zine
Name: Cath Elms City: Swansea State/Province: Carmarthenshire Country: UK Zine Goal: My goal is to make a fun, fluffy issue of my perzine. I spend so much time worrying about writing serious ‘proper’ content, so it’ll be nice to just splurge my thoughts on the page and ignore the critical voice in my head!
Name: Bettie Walker City: Carlisle State/Province: Cumbria Country: UK Zine Goal: To write about hopes and dreams.
Name: Ele Little City: Exeter State/Province: Devon Country: UK Zine Goal: To make something chaotic, full of collage and mythic mess, a tribute to everything that inspires me, unedited and barely decipherable.
Name: Sophie Sherwood City: Plymouth State/Province: Devon Country: UK
Name: Sasha Curran City: Manchester State/Province: Greater Manchester Country: UK Zine Goal:To complete a 24 page perzine (my first ever perzine).
Name: Lizzy City: Nottingham State/Province: Nottinghamshire Country: UK Zine Goal: To make a 24 page zine. Not sure on what yet!
Name: Chella Quint City: Sheffield State/Province: South Yorkshire Country: UK Zine Goal:I have absolutely no idea, but I shall do my level best.
Name: Sarah City: Stafford State/Province: Staffordshire Country: UK Zine Goal: To write a 24page mini zine around a theme chosen by a friend, which I will not know about until I start my challenge.
Name: notpilgrim City: Guildford State/Province: Surrey Country: UK Zine Goal: To make my second ever zine!
Name: CaitlinBeth City: Swansea State/Province: Swansea Country: Wales Zine Goal: To FINALLY finish the second issue of my zine, and produce something I’m happy with :)
Name: tomatosardine City: Newport State/Province: Wales Country: UK Zine Goal:I want to make my first recipe zine. I love baking and am doing a baking challenge for my blog; Festive Forty, and am about halfway through! I’ve only made one zine before so I can’t promise that this zine will be perfect but I CAN promise that you’ll have a lot of fun baking with it.
Name: Lindsey City: Birmingham State/Province: West Midlands Country: UK Zine Goal:This will be my 3rd zine ever, I hope the result will be good enough to be the next in the series
Name: ‘Larry’ Lee Taylor City: Kingswinford State/Province: West Midlands Country: UK Zine Goal: To finish another 24 hour zine that uses more cut ‘n’ paste / hand-rendered methods than the zine I usually make…
United States of America
Name: theskyyends City: Chico State/Province: CA Country: USA Zine Goal: It’s been 17 years since I last did a zine. I’d like to change that fact
Name: Amber Garza City: Fontana State/Province: California Country: USA Zine Goal: I want to make at least one fully assembled, fully written zine of my new series, Lady CereVellum.
Name: +SCARE CITY+ City: Fountain Valley State/Province: California Country: USA Zine Goal:To accomplish the lofty goal of actually finishing the project. (woo hoo)
Name: Kim Burly City: Fresno State/Province: CA Country: USA Zine Goal: To create a love letter to M. Theo Kearney, the raisin prince of Fresno.
Name: Sam City: Fresno State/Province: California Country: USA Zine Goal: My goal is to just finish this thing!
Name: Ashley Honaker City: LA State/Province: California Country: USA Zine Goal:To finally finalize my first solo zine that has been in the making for nearly a year now and to distribute all over the place.
Name: champoy City: Los Angeles State/Province: California Country: USA Zine Goal:im gonna try to to make a zine documenting a road trip and my observations on the road while we are doing in this church bus all across the pacific northwest.
http://crafttour2012.tumblr.com/
Name: @lagina City: Los Angeles State/Province: California Country: USA Zine Goal:Make 3 pocket zines* to send to my snail mail friends.
*that way I’ve made 24 pages.
Name: id City: Los Angeles State/Province: CA Country: USA Zine Goal: write and illustrate an original story
Name: Kelly Dessaint City: Los Angeles State/Province: CA Country: USA
Name: Samantha Retton City: Madera State/Province: California Country: United States Zine Goal: Since my Jawbreaker art/perzine came so easily, I’d kind of like to do something text-heavy this time. I’d like to fill at least half my 24 pages with writing.
Name: Arsenic Alyss City: Oxnard State/Province: CA Country: USA Zine Goal: I usually make nonfiction or political zines, so this time I am going to write a fun fiction story. Probably about zombies.
Name: Aurora Lady City: Pasadena State/Province: CA Country: USA Zine Goal: To bring you to tears, Baby.
Name: Rachel Kopel City: San Diego State/Province: CA Country: USA Zine Goal: Once again, to start something and also to finish without it becoming a long drawn-out procrastination party.
Name: Emily Tareila City: San Francisco State/Province: California Country: USA Zine Goal: careful drawings and pleasing words
Name: Michael Mostachetti City: Santa Cruz State/Province: California Country: United States Zine Goal: Giving life to my anxieties. Never made a zine. Seems like a fun crash course. Pretty excited.
Name: Brittany S City: Simi Valley State/Province: CA Country: USA Zine Goal:To actually do it, and to make something i’ll be proud of.
Name: Persephone Pomegranate City: Manitou Springs State/Province: CO Country: USA Zine Goal:Documenting the Waldo Canyon Fire that is still impacting my community.
Name: Inky Rasoulia City: Amelia Island State/Province: Florida Country: USA Zine Goal:my goal is just to finish this. i haven’t made a zine in a looooong time :)
Name: Brandy Erdmann City: Athens State/Province: Georgia Country: USA Zine Goal:My goal this year is to step out of my comfort zone a put together a zine unlike any of my previous creations.
Name: Noner City: Athens State/Province: Georgia Country: USA Zine Goal:To finish a zine. Any zine. I have 4 different “in progress” and keep putting off finishing them, so…brand new and fresh, 24 hour deadline. Lets GO!
Name: Jo Ann J. A. Jordan City: Whitesburg State/Province: Georgia Country: USA Zine Goal:To complete a zine and do it well.
Name: Felicia City: Chicago State/Province: IL Country: USA Zine Goal: To make my first zine! I’ve never made one before, and I want to try it.
Name: Amber Renee Amick City: Indianapolis State/Province: IN Country: USA Zine Goal: To create a zine inspired by my blog, Miseducated.
Name: Kelly City: Iowa City State/Province: IA Country: USA Zine Goal: To follow up on my 2010 24ZT zine, I’ll be making Guestess With the Bestess.
Name: Rachel C-H City: Frederick State/Province: Maryland Country: USA Zine Goal:I’m still new to making zines so I have yet to make a 24-page one. I just want to see if I can finish and have fun!
Name: Brian S City: Ann Arbor State/Province: Michigan Country: USA Zine Goal:I work in comics, so my goal is to have a completed 25 page zine in one day.
I have no idea what I am going to do a zine about.
Name: Luke Allen Hackney City: East Lansing State/Province: MI Country: US Zine Goal: To create a zine that will interest someone other than myself.
Name: Ethan Tate City: Lansing State/Province: MI Country: US
Name: grouchymama City: Troy State/Province: MI Country: USA Zine Goal:I’m fairly new to zine making, so my goal is a 24 page quarter zine! I just finished a zine that took three+ months to put together, so I’m excited by the challenge of doing one in 24 hours!
Name: Zola Sassafrass City: Tupelo State/Province: Mississippi Country: USA Zine Goal:To make my OWN first zine! I’ve been a piece of zines before, but this will be my first creation.
Name: PeonyBlue City: Norfolk State/Province: Nebraska Country: USA Zine Goal: It’s been a LONG time since I made anything remotely resembling a zine. (Like, a decade.) So I’m going for *done* rather than perfect. Hopefully to have the physical edition, but also a downloadable one. Whee!
Name: Hannah Neurotica City: Keene State/Province: NH Country: USA Zine Goal: Another zinester and myself will be making a zine about our experience doing the NH 48 Hour Film Project!
Name: Chelsea City: Accord State/Province: New York Country: USA Zine Goal:To make some kind of art-ish comic zine that I actually like, and try new techniques!
Name: Jaye City: Albany State/Province: New York Country: USA Zine Goal: I’ve always wanted to make a comic zine, telling a whole (short) story from start to finish…so this seems as good a time as any. Thanks!
Name: Vickie Trancho City: Glen Oaks State/Province: NY Country: USA Zine Goal: just to see where this takes me…i like to wander.
Name: Seffers City: Lake Katrin State/Province: New York Country: USA Zine Goal:My zinester mom is passing the pen onto me in this project.
Name: ManDuh City: Liverpool State/Province: NY Country: USA Zine Goal: One zine each Sunday in July, each in a different format.
Name: soloerescris City: New York State/Province: NY Country: USA Zine Goal: A zine about the intersections between my race, mental disorder and territory.
Name: Inbal Newman City: New York State/Province: New York Country: USA Zine Goal:Hand letter the pages! Not knowing what the theme will be, I’ll decide later if it’ll be drawn or collaged…
Name: Jenna Freedman City: New York State/Province: NY Country: USA Zine Goal:My bestest zine friend Celia and I are going to do the 24 hour zine thing together over the weekend of Zine Library Day. I don’t have a specific goal, just to get the thing finished in a day and to have fun with my homie.
Name: ElizaSquared City: Rhinebeck State/Province: NY Country: USA Zine Goal:Im going to have (all in zine form) the final round of a long standing, multi faceted internal conflict dealing with zines, the evolution of the art from my teen years into adulthood, the place of the internet in all of it and just how high I can/should/would set the bar. 7/7/2012 12:01am-11:59pm
Name: Doreen247 City: Bismarck State/Province: North Dakota Country: USA Zine Goal: My goal is to complete the 24-hour zine challenge this year, 2012. I will work on it either on my July 4th day off from work, or on Saturday, July 21st. It will contain hand-drawn art, pen & ink sketches, cartoons and Zentangles as well as original written material that fits whatever theme I chose to design it to fit.
Name: Catherine Pelican City: Columbus State/Province: OH Country: USA Zine Goal:This will be my first zine ever
Name: kathryn keister City: Columbus State/Province: OH Country: USA Zine Goal:I put out a comic zine last fall but have hardly drawn since. I’d like to put together another comic to get myself going again.
Name: Molly City: Columbus State/Province: OH Country: USA Zine Goal:Never made a zine all by myself, slightly intimidated, no inspiration or ideas yet, gonna see what comes out the day of!
Name: Colleen Reinhart City: Dayton State/Province: Ohio Country: USA Zine Goal:I would like to create a narrative zine that also uses found objects to tell the story along with drawing and text.
Name: Kate Thomson City: Fairlawn State/Province: Ohio Country: USA Zine Goal: From about 1994-99 much of my life revolved around making and reading zines. I’ve wanted to make another zine for a long time but haven’t gotten around to it. I think this may be the inspiration i need.
Name: Deidra K City: Edmond State/Province: Oklahoma Country: USA Zine Goal: Make my first Zine! 8)
Name: Ro Grimes City: Oklahoma City State/Province: Oklahoma Country: USA Zine Goal: Make a 24-hour zine I’m as proud of as last year’s effort!
Name: Alex Wrekk City: Portland State/Province: Oregon Country: USA Zine Goal: I’m hoping to create two 24 hour zines this year! I’m hoping one of them is a new issue of brainscan! The past two years I was never sure how what I created would turn out, but I’ve been really happy with them!
Name: Carlene City: Portland State/Province: OR Country: USA Zine Goal: I have never actually published a zine. I’m hoping this challenge will get me to do that!
Name: Michelle City: Collingdale State/Province: PA Country: USA Zine Goal: Make a new zine! Make it more upbeat!
Name: tarynhipp City: Hatboro State/Province: Pennsylvania Country: USA Zine Goal: I want to attempt a more cut & paste style of zines than my perzine, Sub Rosa which is very text-heavy!
Name: Aaron Weber City: Philadephia State/Province: Pennsylvania Country: USA Zine Goal:Maybe a crazy collage of thing I find in my bedroom, maybe a poor attempt at comics.
Name: Alyssa City: Philadelphia State/Province: Pennsylvania Country: USA Zine Goal:Taking care of business.
Name: Charlene City: Philadelphia State/Province: PA Country: USA Zine Goal: To make a zine about standardized testing.
Name: Sarah Rose City: Philadelphia State/Province: Pennsylvania Country: USA Zine Goal:Make something good. Preferably something funny. I feel like all of my other zines are super serious and very issue oriented. I am not a total bummer in real life, I promise!
Name: Sara Smaha City: Nashville State/Province: Tennessee Country: USA Zine Goal: To complete a perzine with at least a handful of drawings and/or art pieces to go with various stories.
Name: Whitney Billings City: Gatesville State/Province: Texas Country: USA Zine Goal:Since I move off to college August 10th, I want to make a survival zine for myself (and others) about growing up.
Name: Kym City: Nolanville State/Province: TX Country: United States Zine Goal: Make a zine that doesn’t suck and break the 16-page barrier.
Name: Olympia Timberland Library City: Olympia State/Province: Washington Country: USA Zine Goal:This year, participants in the Olympia Timberland Library 24 Hour Zine Thing event will be making a collaborative zine about why we love our hometown, Olympia Washington. We aren’t hosting our event until August 4th, but I think we may actually finish this year with some collective effort!
Name: Miss C. Bean City: Seattle State/Province: Washington Country: USA Zine Goal: I am going to challenge myself to make a fun, pop-culture specific zine and make a little zine about country music.
Name: Emalie Soderback City: Seattle State/Province: Washington Country: USA
Name: Betty Rae City: Eau Claire State/Province: Wisconsin Country: USA Zine Goal:My goal is to do one 24 hour zine between noon July 4 – noon July 5. That is all.
If you have been following along with the International Zine Month, meningitis
you know this week is dedicated to showing your appreciation for the postal system! Without this great system, zines would not be able to travel all around the world to find their way into our mailboxes and into our hearts.
To celebrate Day 9 of International Zine Month, why not purchase some stamps, envelopes or postcards? Or check out these great tutorials on how to create your own personalized envelopes and stationery?
How to:
Make an envelope without tape or glue (Horizontal Bar Design)
You may have noticed a few changes around the 24 Hour Zine Thing website lately:
The Participants page has been updated and rearranged by location! Now you can find others in your area that are also participating in this year’s event.
After tons of questions, ambulance participant response, and a lot of thinking, the official rules for the 24 Hour Zine Thing have slightly changed. Check out the brand new Frequently Asked Questions page for the latest updates.
Check out the Contact page for links to the Twitter and Facebook page, as well as buttons that you can use to tweet us questions and stay in touch with other participants using the #24HZT hashtag.
And more great changes are coming soon! Do you have an idea on how this site/event could be even better? Tweet it, post it on our Facebook wall, leave a comment on the blog or e-mail it, and I will work to put it in action!
This year’s 24 Hour Zine Thing is right around the corner, syringe and it will be here before you know it! Participating in the 24 Hour Zine Thing is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. Sign-up as a participant!
Head to the Sign Up page and complete the brand new form.
Want to see who is already signed up? You can view this year’s current participant list (and find links to past participants) on our Participants page.
Find us at https://twitter.com/#!/24HZT, and be sure to use #24HZT to join the conversation and keep everyone posted on your progress!
And that’s it! Now all you have to do is sit back and wait for July 1st to roll around. In the meantime, check out the interviews, zine reviews, and tutorials we have throughout the site to get the creative juices flowing!
2011 has been a great year for zines. The year was filled with zinesters all over the world working on the Revenge of Print 2011, more about and 21 participants successfully completed the 2011 24 Hour Zine Thing by sending in their completed zines, not to mention the many others that completed their zines for local challenges and events.
I already have a feeling 2012 will be just as great. Quimby’s in Chicago is already planning their First 24 Hour Zine Challenge for January 14th through January 15th. July is such a long time away so this is a great opportunity to ring in the new year with some other creative individuals and work on your first zine of 2012.
If you are a zine library, bookstore, distro, etc. and would like to start planning a 2012 24HZT event in your town, please keep in touch! I am more than happy to help in any way possible. Buy lamisil.
Thursday was the deadline to have your zines in for the 2011 24 Hour Zine Thing event, shop and I have received some beautiful submissions this year! This was the 5th year that I have hosted this event, and it’s amazing to see how different the zines are from year to year. 2011 was all about handmade touches and color copies. Here are the triumphant participants that finished their zine for this year’s challenge!
1. Rachel – Food Issue
2. Kirsty – On A Sugar High 1.5
3. Michelle – Missouri Jam Bomb
4. Brandy – Pixelated 1.5: Attack of the Oil Pastels (Of Doom)
5. Hannah – Undestructable #1
6. Persephone Pomegranate – Reclusive Obscenities
7. Rob – Zero Hour! Printaissance Special Edition
8. Jen – The Power of Craft Compels You!
9. Anonymosity – Green Power [A Guide to Eco-Lifestyle]
10. Deirdree – Elliot Smith Stabbed Himself In The Heart
11. Rory – Posture #2: Create or Perish
12. SBRC – Forget Me Not: A 24 Hour Zine
13. Rick Silva – Caravan #28: Adventures in Geeky Parenting
14. Dennis – Amina
15. Samantha – Unfun (a jawbreaker fanzine)
16. Philip Dearest – Being Brave Is One Thing
17. E*phi – The (almost 6x) 24hrs in Berlin Zine
18. Crystal – Teachers
19. Wes White – Villanelle
20. Jenn – Jacks Heart
21. Alex Wrekk – Brainscan #26.5
If you do not see your zine listed here but have already sent it out, or just completely forgot, send me an email at 24hourzines[at]gmail.com and we will work it out!
Things are beginning to wrap up around here for this year’s event. I have spent the day addressing envelopes, so if your zine is listed here your Participant Pin (pictured above) will be sent out on Tuesday. The sign-up sheet is open, so if you like to be an early bird go ahead and sign up for next year’s event!
Thank you to everyone who signed up, sent in their zine, organized or attended an event, and even the ones who attempted but did not finish. No worries! All that matters is that you helped to keep zines alive and going, which is what this event is all about.
We have a winner! The wonderful pin design featured on our 2011 Participant Pin was created by Katie of Hen House Distro! Katie is extremely active in her town’s zine culture, resuscitation and successfully hosted an event in her apartment in Birmingham for the 2011 24 Hour Zine Thing Challenge! She was gracious enough to take time out of her busy schedule to answer a few questions for us about her involvement in zines, sick how to create a zine culture in your hometown, hygiene and more! You can read the interview and see pictures of zines completed during the event below the cut.
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.
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