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Participant Pins Sent

Sorry for the delay! The following participants’ pins were sent on Tuesday, capsule December 13th:

  • 1. Anonymosity, Australia
  • 2. Deirdree, CA
  • 3. Jen, NJ
  • 4. Crystal, AL
  • 5. Dennis, Netherlands
  • 6. Rory, OK
  • The rest of the pins will be sent out on Monday morning. Hope everyone has a happy holiday season!

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    The Pins and Zines Are In!

    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!

    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.

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    5 Questions for Rick Silva

    July is all about zines. With the 24 Hour Zine Thing (which is in its 6th year!) and International Zine Month issuing the challenge to create and celebrate zines during the month of July, more about a handful of bookstores, ampoule distros, and other individuals in the zine world has issued another challenge that will last the whole year.

    Revenge of Print 2011 started from all those stories about technology taking over and making print and publishing a thing of the past. The challenge presented is to put down that e-reader and bust out another issue of your zine! A Facebook group has been created along with discussion forums so you can interact and share your creation, ideas, and resources with others. Distros and review sites are encouraged to post contact information, and individuals are encouraged to contact these sources and share their zine out into the world!

    If you have already created your zine, then you have already completed this challenge as well! But don’t let that stop you from creating more. If you have not yet created your 24 hour zine, right now is a great time to start! And if you have not signed up yet, head over to the “signup” tab, fill out the form, and get started!

    The wonderful folks over at Rotherham Zine Library in Rotherham, buy more about
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    and asked some really great questions. You can read the interview here! Check out the rest of their blog, which features tons of great zine reviews, or if you are in the area, stop by!

    Rick Silva is the creator of the wonderful zine Caravan, and has participated in the event for three years now! Who better to ask about conquering the 24 Hour Zine Thing challenge?

    Why did you decide to participate in the 24 Hour Zine Thing challenge?
    It’s a great excuse to exercise some creativity. If not for the zine challenge, well, I didn’t HAVE to put a zine together this summer. It’s a great motivator to do something extra.

    What type of pre-planning, if any, did you do before starting on your 24 hour zine?
    My only pre-planning was to brainstorm a bit for ideas. With any kind of writing, I tend to mull it over in my head for quite a bit before I actually sit down to write it out.

    How did you get your idea for the topic of your 24 hour zine?
    My inspiration is right there (usually demanding that I play with him or feed him!). My wife did one minicomic about our first summer with our son. I wanted to do my own autobiographical piece. I also thought that I had enough fun material stored up from the past two years or so, that I could really do a fun take on “geeky parenting”.

    How did you come to the decision to use the type of binding method and size that you chose?
    I wanted to do some cartooning, so I knew I had to go pretty small or else I’d never get the zine done in time. I can’t draw at all, so I was using really crude stick figures, and I didn’t want to agonize over re-drawing them every time, so I knew I’d need to digitally copy/paste. Thus the decision for quarter-sized and to lay the whole thing out in MS Word.

    Was completing the challenge harder than you expected?
    Definitely harder. It took me longer than I thought it would to come up with dialogue for some of the situations. I also ran into a lot of technical problems with getting the images where I needed them to be. MS Word is NOT designed to be a layout program, but it worked for me because I’m very familiar with its functions, so I knew how to work around its limitations. It wasn’t always easy, though.

    What advice would you give to others who are attempting the 24 Hour Zine Thing challenge?
    Avoid preconceived notions about what the project needs to be. The really great thing about zines is that they can take any shape/size/form. So stretch the boundaries of your ideas. Don’t feel like your zine needs to look like other zines you’re seen or read. It only needs to look like YOUR zine.

    Be sure to check out Rick’s comic company at dandelionstudios.com

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    Zine Review – 10 Dirty Little Secrets by Shannon

    See the brave 2007 participants

    See the triumphant 2008 participants

    See the fearless 2009 participants

    See the courageous 2010 participants

    2011 Participants

    Name: Erica Albanese
    City: New York
    State/Province: NY
    Country: USA

    Name: Silverfish
    City: Hobart
    State/Province: Tasmania
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: Creating a zine scene in Hobart, more about by making as many local
    zines as possible, stomach connecting to the international zine community,
    teaching people how to make zines, learning how to make better zines,
    making zines…

    Name: Rae Logios
    City: omaha
    State/Province: ne
    Country: usa
    Zine Goal: just to finally participate this year. c:

    Name:Hannah Dostine
    City:Sunbury
    State/Province:Victoria
    Country:Australia
    Zine Goal:To make a rad zine before the end of July.

    Name:Vicki
    City:Yorktown Heights
    State/Province:NY
    Country:USA
    Zine Goal:24 pages on one of this year’s obsessions, TBD.

    Name:Toronto Zine Library
    City:Toronto
    State/Province:Ontario
    Country:Canada
    Zine Goal:to make even more zines than last year! Come join the TZL again, this time in the Tranzac’s Tiki Room, as we draw, cut and paste! There will be zine-making supplies on hand, tasty snacks, and good tunes. For details check out our blog at torontozinelibrary.org or email us! xo

    Name:Persephone Pomegranate
    City:Manitou Springs
    State/Province:CO
    Country:USA
    Zine Goal:A 24 page quarter issue of Reclusive Obscenities

    Name:Rob Bowen
    City:Manitou Springs
    State/Province:CO
    Country:USA

    Name:stephanie
    City:chillciothe
    State/Province:Ohio
    Country:USA
    Zine Goal:make one! (:

    Name: tough titties
    City: sydney
    State/Province: NSW
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: Create a zine with stories about women

    Name: Will
    City: London
    State/Province: England

    Name: Izzy Roberts-Orr
    City: Melbourne
    State/Province: Victoria
    Country: Australia

    Name: Doreen Baros
    City: Bismarck
    State/Province: North Dakota
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: Create a 1/2 page 24 page Black & White zine that
    incorporates hand-drawn images and text.

    Name: Nicole Harris
    City: Richmond
    State/Province: VA
    Zine Goal: 24 Page 1/8 size zine. I have never done a mini before so
    this will be a new challenge.

    Name: sbrc
    City: Halifax
    State/Province: Nova Scotia
    Country: Canada

    Name: ManDuh
    City: Liverpool
    State/Province: NY
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: As I’m starting back to school in August and won’t have a
    lot of extra time for zining, I’m shooting for doing a 24 hr zine
    every Saturday in July.

    Name: Mo Karnage
    City: Richmond
    State/Province: Virginia
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: Either write issue number 6 of my zine Cuddle Puddles and
    HOt Pants, or maybe write a political zine about some aspect of
    anarchism. We are having this event at the Wingnut Anarchist
    Collective and its being sponsored by the Richmond Zine Fest!
    www.wingnutrva.org

    Name: Rachel Kopel
    City: San Diego
    State/Province: CA
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: I actually made a 24HZ last July. Going for a second
    finish.

    Name: Miss Nico
    City: Milwaukee
    State/Province: Wisconsin
    Zine Goal: Either to:
    -Produce issue 7 of my zine Desensitized
    -Write a new sex zine
    -Let creation take me somewhere new!

    Name: Kirsty Win
    City: Auckland City
    State/Province: Auckland
    Country: New Zealand

    Name: ro grimes
    City: oklahoma city
    State/Province: ok
    Zine Goal: to make sure it’s better than my 24-hour comic!

    Name: Hen House Distro
    City: Birmingham
    State/Province: AL
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: Participate and host a 24 Hour Zine Thing event in Birmingham

    Name: Mike Fiftysticks
    City: Grand Rapids
    State/Province: Michigan
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: 24 pages of collaged, typed, written word, hand-drawn sweet goodness that drips into your brain like so much maple syrup that your brain is left hoping that on the next page I have written about my love of sweet and sour sauce just to complete the gourmet love meal I’ve just fed you. This is going to be one for the libraries friends, but alas, it won’t make it there, it will be so worn and wrinkled from its time spent on top of the toilet and traded with friends. Oh boy, here she comes…

    Name: RR
    City: Conway
    State/Province: AR
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: I’d like to try to do 1/2 size instead of 1/4 size this
    year.

    Name: Brandy Erdmann
    City: Athens
    State/Province: Georgia
    Country: USA

    Name: Chiara
    City: Canberra
    State/Province: ACT

    Name: Cass
    City: Sydney
    State/Province: NSW
    Zine Goal: Have completed something within twenty four hours that I
    can trade with other people!

    Name: Antonio Augusto
    City: São Paulo
    State/Province: São Paulo
    Country: Brazil

    Name: Kim
    City: Columbus
    State/Province: OH
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: To push the envelope – to free fall into ideas – to create
    zine content in a way I never have before.

    Name: Anna Cole
    City: Rochester
    State/Province: NY
    Zine Goal: Make my first zine ever.

    Name: Chani Asha
    City: Brisbane
    State/Province: Queensland
    Country: Australia

    Name: Andy Wesson
    City: Birmingham
    State/Province: Alabama
    Country: United States
    Zine Goal: To create a 24-hour zine produced off spontaneous
    inspiration with the intention of positive social change.

    Name: Raphael Kabo
    City: Canberra
    State/Province: ACT
    Country: Australia

    Name: Amanda
    City: Wollongong
    State/Province: NSW
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: To make it work.

    Name: Kristy Reagan
    City: Livingston
    State/Province: TN
    Zine Goal: To put my $ where my mouth has been.

    Name: Lindsay Payne
    City: Troy
    State/Province: Michigan
    Zine Goal: To create my first zine and learn how by doing it.

    Name: Blaxter
    City: Melbourne
    State/Province: VIC
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: Alaysis/review/rant/history/memories of 24 different vinyl
    records – Not sure how much text that should equate to? minimum of 500
    words each record?

    Name: E*phi
    City: Hart-Purgstall
    State/Province: Styria
    Country: Austria
    Zine Goal: Finally (!!) get my ass up and make a(nother) zine (and buy
    *enough* chocolate for the process). ;D

    Name: Mike Tolento
    City: Santa Barbara
    State/Province: CA
    Zine Goal: I made a minicomic from the mid 90’s into the 2000’s called
    Empty Life. I had great fun but it’s been a long time since I fucked
    around with a copy machine. I never tried to make a 24 hour comic
    because that’s too much of a challenge. There is no way I could
    produce a decent comic in one day, but a zine is different. Banging
    out 24 pages of any old writing will be a piece of cake…..I hope.

    Name: Kagey
    City: Toronto
    State/Province: Ontario
    Country: Canada
    Zine Goal: To incorporate autobio comics into my 24-hour zine. (Yeah!)

    Name: Yvonne
    City: Senhora da Hora
    State/Province: Porto
    Country: Portugal
    Zine Goal: had a lot of fun in last year’s 24HZT, so i’d love to
    repeat it again this year. besides, mostly i’m signing up to “push”
    myself to do another zine, cause i still haven’t done another issue
    since my first one last year!

    Name: Dandy Dextrous
    City: Richmond
    State/Province: VA
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: 24 hour epic on 24 pages of rock and roll sex metal
    power… or fail. Fully written and illustrated of course.

    Name: Shelly Brewer
    City: Lawrence
    State/Province: KS
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: To simply start and finish this zine in 24 h

    Name: shane bugbee
    City: astoria
    State/Province: oregon
    Country: usa
    Zine Goal: not sure until the second I start… talk about a
    challenge. usually my goal as a creator is to upset, disturb, laugh,
    think, learn all at once.

    Name: Samantha Retton
    City: Madera
    State/Province: California
    Zine Goal: To create the best zine I’ve ever done. 24 pages (10 more
    than I’m used to), color, and tons of art as opposed to my usual
    copious amounts of writing.

    Name: Jennifer Monroe
    City: Lynchburg
    State/Province: VIRGINIA
    Country: United States
    Zine Goal: This will be only the second zine I’ve done! My goal is to
    create something visually beautiful that makes people think about how
    hard it is to be human, and that can breed compassion for others. (I
    confess I’m not sure what you’re looking for here, but I’m rambling on
    anyway.)

    Name: Alex Wrekk
    City: Portland
    State/Province: Oregon
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: I will complete a zine at the Portland Zine Symposium 24
    hour Zine challege 7/16-17

    Name: Hannah Sheehan
    City: Springfield
    State/Province: MO
    Zine Goal: Issue #1 of my new perzine, Undestructable!

    Name: Maria
    City: Chillicothe
    State/Province: Illinois
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: to actually make a zine, please.

    Name: Jodie Christ
    City: Melbourne
    State/Province: Victoria
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: Ferocity & awesomeness

    Name: Michelle
    City: Collingdale
    State/Province: PA
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: To get back into writing, drawing, and collaging a zine
    together. I haven’t made one in over 10 years!

    Name: Eryca
    City: Los Angeles
    State/Province: California
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: I am going to make an 1/8 sized zine!

    Name: Kelly
    City: Iowa City
    State/Province: IA
    Zine Goal: Make it work!

    Name: Rachel Yorro
    City: Bristol
    State/Province: PA

    Name: Natalie
    City: Chico
    State/Province: CA

    Name: Anonymosity
    City: Sydney
    State/Province: NSW
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: To make my first zine… in 24 hours.

    Name: Werdy Girl
    City: Pittsburgh
    State/Province: PA
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: To actually do it this year. July was utterly insane for me
    last year– for personal reasons, so this year I’m going to see it
    through!

    Name: Patrick
    City: Portland
    State/Province: Or
    Zine Goal: to make a sweet 24 page comic zine.

    Name: Pharoah Bolding
    City: Portland
    State/Province: Oregon
    Zine Goal: To finish a complete 24-page comic of some nature in 24
    hours, complete with cover!

    Name: Jennifer
    City: Albany
    State/Province: WA
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: To explore my materials within 24 hours and create
    something of interest.

    Name: Kate Altermatt
    City: Portland
    State/Province: OR

    Name: Christina “Blue” Crow
    City: Portland
    State/Province: OR
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: To make a zine during the PZS 24hr Zine Challenge / fund
    raiser! http://pdxzines.com/events/24hrzinechallenge/

    I am going for a quarter-sized zine.

    Name: Yasmine
    City: Sydney
    State/Province: NSW
    Country: Australia
    Zine Goal: To create my first zine in 24 hours.

    Name: Jen Williams
    City: Highland Park
    State/Province: NJ
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: Hmm.. I have no idea… then again I guess that’s the point
    though? Maybe I’ll make something colorful?

    Name: sylvia
    City: los angeles
    State/Province: california
    Zine Goal: at least 16 pages of drawings and doodles. i don’t know how
    to draw, so this should be interesting.

    Name: Dixie Beaver (xox rachel e.)
    City: Bristol
    State/Province: PA
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: I used to write a lot…. and in fact, I wrote zines… My
    goal to to use this challenge as a way to unclug my creative block!
    Reclaim my voice! Engage myself with internal banter about nothing
    and everything! <3 xox rachel e. Dixie Beaver

    Name: isabel xochitl
    City: berkeley
    State/Province: california
    Zine Goal: collage, halfpage size zine! & i want to do it
    simultaneously with a friend!

    Name: Rick Silva
    City: Marstons Mills
    State/Province: MA
    Country: USA
    Zine Goal: Geeky parenting zine with stickfigure comics!

    Name: ImagineNot
    City: Copenhagen
    State/Province: Copenhagen
    Country: Denmark

    Name: Maranda Elizabeth
    City: Guelph
    State/Province: Ontario
    Country: Canada
    Zine Goal: To complete another issue of my annual 24-hour zine, Little
    Acorns. Content to be determined as it happens.

    10 Dirty Little Secrets

    Shannon was one of the organizers for the 24 Hour Zine Thing for a few years, and created this amazingly honest 24 hour zine for the 2007 challenge. If you participated in the 2007 24HZT Grab Bag exchange, you were lucky enough to receive a copy of this zine!

    Name: Shannon
    City: Dieppe, New Brunswick
    Zine Goal: Size: I’m predicting quarter size, or tall half size
    Personal Challenge: I’d like to make something more artsy as opposed to my typical perzine, or themed issues. But we’ll see when it all happens! My zines are usually only 16 pages, so 24 will be more of a challenge.

    For her 24 hour zine, Shannon decided to explore the idea of “dirty little secrets”, noting on her first page that “it depends on the person, to determine how horrible the thing that was done” truly is. She goes on to list her own top ten dirty little secrets, describing her own feelings towards each of the subjects and how she handles these secrets throughout her everyday life. The secrets range from past experiences that she now regrets, her own feelings about herself, as well as recent events that had posed a problem in her life. Probably one of the most personal zines submitted to the 24 Hour Zine Thing project, Shannon’s zine is definitely a must-read.

    10 Dirty Little Secrets by Shannon
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    Name: Shannon
    City: Dieppe, New Brunswick
    Zine Goal: Size: I’m predicting quarter size, or tall half size
    Personal Challenge: I’d like to make something more artsy as opposed to my typical perzine, or themed issues. But we’ll see when it all happens! My zines are usually only 16 pages, so 24 will be more of a challenge.

    For her 24 hour zine, Shannon decided to explore the idea of “dirty little secrets”, noting on her first page that “it depends on the person, to determine how horrible the thing that was done” truly is. She goes on to list her own top ten dirty little secrets, describing her own feelings towards each of the subjects and how she handles these secrets throughout her everyday life. The secrets range from past experiences that she now regrets, her own feelings about herself, as well as recent events that had posed a problem in her life. Probably one of the most personal zines submitted to the 24 Hour Zine Thing project, Shannon’s zine is definitely a must-read.

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    on Flickr”>10 Dirty Little Secrets

    Shannon was one of the organizers for the 24 Hour Zine Thing for a few years, and created this amazingly honest 24 hour zine for the 2007 challenge. If you participated in the 2007 24HZT Grab Bag exchange, you were lucky enough to receive a copy of this zine!

    Name: Shannon
    City: Dieppe, New Brunswick
    Zine Goal: Size: I’m predicting quarter size, or tall half size
    Personal Challenge: I’d like to make something more artsy as opposed to my typical perzine, or themed issues. But we’ll see when it all happens! My zines are usually only 16 pages, so 24 will be more of a challenge.

    For her 24 hour zine, Shannon decided to explore the idea of “dirty little secrets”, noting on her first page that “it depends on the person, to determine how horrible the thing that was done” truly is. She goes on to list her own top ten dirty little secrets, describing her own feelings towards each of the subjects and how she handles these secrets throughout her everyday life. The secrets range from past experiences that she now regrets, her own feelings about herself, as well as recent events that had posed a problem in her life. Probably one of the most personal zines submitted to the 24 Hour Zine Thing project, Shannon’s zine is definitely a must-read.

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    Shannon was one of the organizers for the 24 Hour Zine Thing for a few years, and created this amazingly honest 24 hour zine for the 2007 challenge. If you participated in the 2007 24HZT Grab Bag exchange, you were lucky enough to receive a copy of this zine!

    Name: Shannon
    City: Dieppe, New Brunswick
    Zine Goal: Size: I’m predicting quarter size, or tall half size
    Personal Challenge: I’d like to make something more artsy as opposed to my typical perzine, or themed issues. But we’ll see when it all happens! My zines are usually only 16 pages, so 24 will be more of a challenge.

    For her 24 hour zine, Shannon decided to explore the idea of “dirty little secrets”, noting on her first page that “it depends on the person, to determine how horrible the thing that was done” truly is. She goes on to list her own top ten dirty little secrets, describing her own feelings towards each of the subjects and how she handles these secrets throughout her everyday life. The secrets range from past experiences that she now regrets, her own feelings about herself, as well as recent events that had posed a problem in her life. Probably one of the most personal zines submitted to the 24 Hour Zine Thing project, Shannon’s zine is definitely a must-read.

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    and created this amazingly honest 24 hour zine for the 2007 challenge. If you participated in the 2007 24HZT Grab Bag exchange, you were lucky enough to receive a copy of this zine!

    Name: Shannon
    City: Dieppe, New Brunswick
    Zine Goal: Size: I’m predicting quarter size, or tall half size
    Personal Challenge: I’d like to make something more artsy as opposed to my typical perzine, or themed issues. But we’ll see when it all happens! My zines are usually only 16 pages, so 24 will be more of a challenge.

    For her 24 hour zine, Shannon decided to explore the idea of “dirty little secrets”, noting on her first page that “it depends on the person, to determine how horrible the thing that was done” truly is. She goes on to list her own top ten dirty little secrets, describing her own feelings towards each of the subjects and how she handles these secrets throughout her everyday life. The secrets range from past experiences that she now regrets, her own feelings about herself, as well as recent events that had posed a problem in her life. Probably one of the most personal zines submitted to the 24 Hour Zine Thing project, Shannon’s zine is definitely a must-read.

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    Ivana created a wonderful zine for the 2007 24 Hour Zine Thing Challenge. You can see an inside scan below:

    I Love This City by Ivana Stab
    Name: Ivana Stab
    City: Sydney, recipe
    Australia
    Zine Goal: Small perzine with a cute cover.

    Ivana’s zine is a lot like a list received from a friend of all the things to do in their hometown, filled with the insider’s scoop on where to go, what to do and who to talk to while you are there. She presents a disclaimer on the first page, insisting that “if you think I present the wrong image of Sydney please realize I’m not a travel agent, just an 18-year-old student having fun in her hometown…”, and she definitely aims her zine towards the type of audience that is willing to get lost in a new city and explore all the quirky things that make the city interesting. Her zine really could serve as a tiny travel guide, listing various restaurants, museums, and coffee shops pasted on top of black and white photographs with quotes by The Doors sprinkled throughout.

    I Love This City by Ivana Stab - Inside Scan
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    Final countdown…

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    (’24 hour zine aftermath’ by Miss Paquita [who completed the zine above for last years challenge])

    The last weekend of July is here, approved and that means that there are only a few days left to make a 24 hour zine! If you haven’t started yet, here are some great posts from the past week that will help start you off:

  • “Tutorial: how to make a one-sheet zine” – Keeping it simple
  • “How to make a zine: putting it on paper” – Which medium will you choose?
  • “How to make a zine: folding” – Binding techniques
  • “Procreate, duplicate, replicate” – photocopying is not your only option.
  • Four more brave participants have accomplished their goals and have managed to copy, assemble and send their zines already! Listed below are the latest zines received:

    1. Anonymosity – Green Power [a guide to eco-lifestyle]
    2. Jen Williams – The Power of Craft Compels You!!
    3. Persephone Pomegranate – Reclusive Obscenities
    4. Rob Brown – Zero hour! Printaissance Special Edition

    Congrats to all nine participants that have sent in their zine so far! If you have already completed your zine, be sure to send it in to this address to get your participant pin:

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

    Good luck!

    Have you ever organized a 24 Hour Zine Thing event?

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    (‘zine workshop’ by hellojenuine.)

    Each year, tons of 24HZT events are hosted all over the world by brave zine-loving individuals, encouraging others to gather together to create a zine within 24 hours. Some events are small gatherings with friends, while others are used as fundraisers for other great zine events. How do they do it?

    I have set up a discussion forum on the Facebook page so that we can start to build a resource for those looking to host a 24 Hour Zine Thing event. If you have ever hosted, or organized a 24 Hour Zine Thing event, share your stories and tips on what made that event happen! If you have ever attended a 24HZT event, what was your favorite part? What made that event successful, or not so successful? Head on over there and start posting!

    While you’re on the Facebook page, take a second to answer the “Question” on the Wall!

    Five zines received and events!

    Congratulations to the first participants to complete this year’s challenge!

    1. Food Issue by Rachel
    2. On A Sugar High one point five by Kirsty
    3. Missouri Jam Bomb by Michelle
    4. Pixelated issue 1.5 by Brandy
    5. Undestructable number one by Hannah

    There are over 70 participants signed up, viagra 60mg and there is still plenty of time to get started with making your zine!

    The Toronto Zine Library 24 Hour Zine Challenge is currently happening at the Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Ave). Check the Calendar tab for more information, look and the Toronto Zine Library blog.

    Speaking of events, have you organized or attended a 24 hour zine event? I’m looking to put together a resource for anyone interested in hosting/organizing a 24 hour zine event and would love to hear some stories about what worked, what didn’t, and any ideas on how to organize a great event! Feel free to post them in the comments on this post, on the Facebook page, or e-mail them to me at 24hourzines[at]gmail.com .