My library's printing service is called princh (like the Grinch), which is very entertaining to me personally, but it's also very smooth and beautiful to use. You tap the special little screen attached to the photocopier, you check a preview of your image, and then you slam on the plus button and get yourself ten glorious copies. Perfect technology.
This is how I completed my new zine, a small poetry pamphlet with three poems inside, and some collage and illustration. I'll be honest with you, I only really like the last poem - but this was a challenge I set myself, to make a quick zine in one day, and I did it. So it doesn't matter too much how good the poems are, they just needed to exist. And one out of three ain't bad!
I read somewhere online, the other day, right after I had started crafting my zine, that it was zine month, but I can't find any evidence of that now, and I don't remember where I saw it. It just has to be zine year, zine life, zine minute in my heart, I guess. Somebody said this... it was real.
It's been some time since I've made a zine, so it's really nice to do it again and see that familiar, satisfying, grey photocopy texture. I used random words pulled from the newspaper (the Metro), to title each poem, which was a fun little prompt exercise, and the combination of newspaper cuttings, a few printed words, and of course, drawings... worked really nicely.
I have these transparent plastic sticky notes that I used to overlay some drawings on top of other elements, and that turned out to have a really nice layering effect. You can see the edges of these notes in some places, so they cast interesting little shadows of light texture.
Yeah. I like my zine. And I believe I should make more.
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