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Zine of the Day: Frugal Vegan Holiday and Harvest Survival Guide #2 http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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The sequel to the original Holiday Harvest Survival Guide! Features drinks, entrees, soups, desserts, and a jumbo section about celebrating Valentine's Day on the cheap! Write poems, make lip gloss, soaps ...
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Zine of the Day: Ring of Fire #2 http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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This zine is so f-ing cool. It's from 10 years ago, but is still relevant. Hellery was 18 when she wrote this zine, and had just lost both of her legs below the knee while trainhopping. This zine is all about how her life has changed since she became an amputee. ...
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ZINESTER'S GUIDE TO NYC wants your drawings!
Greetings, artists! (Spalding Grey once said that he would go anywhere and do anything as long as the person with t...he megaphone kept referring to him as 'artist') I'm working on The Zinester's Guide to NYC, an illustrated, low-budget guidebook to New York City, heavy on D...IY and participatory events, to be published by Microcosm in the fall of 2010.Perhaps you have been to New York City. Perhaps you have even, gasp,lived here! If so, I would like to invite you to participate in this project. What I'm looking for are clean line drawings (the kind that reproduce well at small sizes) depicting NYC landmarks, eating establishments, drinking establishments, street scenes, fauna (pigeons,rats, chihuahuas, subway musicians), flora (Greek coffee cups, manhole covers, front bike wheels still attached to street signs long after the rest of the bike was stolen) ... you get the picture right? To this end, I've even pulled together an illustration wish list.The finished book will be 256 pages5 1/2”w x 7h”The illos can either be tall verticals, long horizontals, quarter pages or half pages.Most of the illustrations will correspond to the content...so if you have a great drawing of an obscure Bed-Stuy roti shack, please consider writing a 2 or 3 sentence listing, which will be credited to you! If you enjoy that sort of thing, there's a full-bore survey to fill out -I'd be thrilled if you'd fill it out as much or as little as you like (though i'm gunning for much)Previously published work is wonderful, as long as you have the rights to reprint it. Brand new work is also wonderful. Our one spot color for shading is sage green. Let me know if you don’t want your drawings shaded. If you want to determine the shading yourself, I will need two tiffs or jpegs – one showing the black lines, and the other that is shading only, in black, that will, through the magic of color seps,become green.It’s fine if your work is slightly skewed from a reality perspective.In the Zinesters Guide to Portland, there's an illustration of ducks browsing at Jackpot Records. Rock on, Donald.Deadline’s Thanksgiving, but smoke ‘em if you got em. I’d be delighted(and reassured) to get illustrations at your earliest convenience.Hey, does anyone love love love to make maps? Because there are a couple of neighborhoods that are going to need it.Given the low budget, labor of love-y nature of this project,contributors will not be paid in anything so bourgeois as cash money.In addition to Joe's and my undying appreciation, and a permanent link to any website you may have on the as-yet-unbuilt Zinester's Guide toNYC page of my sprawling website (www.ayunhalliday.com),your zines and comics will be plugged with contact info in a special resources section. Any illustrations and listings you supply will be credited to you. Please email me at Ayun@AyunHalliday.com if you'd like to be part of this project!Your spaniel,Ayun Halliday Chief PrimatologistThe East Village Inky zine
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Greetings, artists! (Spalding Grey once said that he would go anywhere and do anything as long as the person with t...he megaphone kept referring to him as 'artist') I'm working on The Zinester's Guide to NYC, an illustrated, low-budget guidebook to New York City, heavy on D...IY and participatory events, to be published by Microcosm in the fall of 2010.Perhaps you have been to New York City. Perhaps you have even, gasp,lived here! If so, I would like to invite you to participate in this project. What I'm looking for are clean line drawings (the kind that reproduce well at small sizes) depicting NYC landmarks, eating establishments, drinking establishments, street scenes, fauna (pigeons,rats, chihuahuas, subway musicians), flora (Greek coffee cups, manhole covers, front bike wheels still attached to street signs long after the rest of the bike was stolen) ... you get the picture right? To this end, I've even pulled together an illustration wish list.The finished book will be 256 pages5 1/2”w x 7h”The illos can either be tall verticals, long horizontals, quarter pages or half pages.Most of the illustrations will correspond to the content...so if you have a great drawing of an obscure Bed-Stuy roti shack, please consider writing a 2 or 3 sentence listing, which will be credited to you! If you enjoy that sort of thing, there's a full-bore survey to fill out -I'd be thrilled if you'd fill it out as much or as little as you like (though i'm gunning for much)Previously published work is wonderful, as long as you have the rights to reprint it. Brand new work is also wonderful. Our one spot color for shading is sage green. Let me know if you don’t want your drawings shaded. If you want to determine the shading yourself, I will need two tiffs or jpegs – one showing the black lines, and the other that is shading only, in black, that will, through the magic of color seps,become green.It’s fine if your work is slightly skewed from a reality perspective.In the Zinesters Guide to Portland, there's an illustration of ducks browsing at Jackpot Records. Rock on, Donald.Deadline’s Thanksgiving, but smoke ‘em if you got em. I’d be delighted(and reassured) to get illustrations at your earliest convenience.Hey, does anyone love love love to make maps? Because there are a couple of neighborhoods that are going to need it.Given the low budget, labor of love-y nature of this project,contributors will not be paid in anything so bourgeois as cash money.In addition to Joe's and my undying appreciation, and a permanent link to any website you may have on the as-yet-unbuilt Zinester's Guide toNYC page of my sprawling website (www.ayunhalliday.com),your zines and comics will be plugged with contact info in a special resources section. Any illustrations and listings you supply will be credited to you. Please email me at Ayun@AyunHalliday.com if you'd like to be part of this project!Your spaniel,Ayun Halliday Chief PrimatologistThe East Village Inky zine
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Microcosm's Joe Biel recently interviewed In Search of the Lost Taste vegan cookbook author/zinester Joshua Ploeg for an upcoming book. Here's an excerpt from the interview...
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Zine of the Day: Laterborn #7 http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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Jason is the author of Laterborn, and you get the feeling he's probably the nicest guy ever. Half of this issue is a short story about the evolution of college friendships. The rest is comics about his jobs temping in offices, and missing childhood buddies. ...
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Zine of the Day: Rad Dad #15 http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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Rad Dad is a radical parenting zine and editor Tom is often asked why a non-parent should read it. People want to know what it has to do with them? But Tom points out that his zine is as much about parenting, as it is about trying to live as an honest and compassionate human being. ...
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Zine of the Day: The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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Contrary to popular belief, the US prison system isn't a rehabilitative step to a safer world, or an altruistic desire to impart morality for the sake of a better society. This pamphlet exposes the ongoing ...
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Our very own Sparky Taylor was interviewed by ReadyMade about working at Microcosm! http://www.readymade.com/blogs/readymade
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Mondays suck. Especially if you hate your job. But the day doesn’t have to be a total waste. You can now look forward to reading about ReadyMakers who have worked their way into f*&%ing awesome jobs—and ...
We here at Microcosm often hear the question "has the internet killed zines?" This implication assumes two things: 1) that print is dead or dying, and 2) that blogs fulfill the same role as zines have in the past....
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Zine of the Day: Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Zine http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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A coloring book combating gender stereotypes! There are enough books that make girls think that they are not any good or that boys only play with soldiers. This time we are taught that girls take pride in themselves and boys can enjoy cooking and cleaning. ...
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Zine of the Day: BiodeiselSmarter #9 http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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This is a cool little journal for those who can't ever read enough about the fine art and science of biodiesel and straight vegetable oil diesel systems. Since most literature on the subject is geared ...
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Zine of the Day: Nine Gallons http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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Susie Cagle made a series of autobiographical comics about volunteering at Food Not Bombs, an organization that provides free food on a weekly basis. Her comics give an accurate portrayal of the dynamics that are present in many Food Not Bombs chapters. ...
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Zine of the Day: Rigor Mortis #2 http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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If you've still got your brains, you'll read Davida's Rigor Mortis #2. It's a thorough look at the undead in popular culture, in the form of movie reviews, book reviews, and comparative essays. This issue ...
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Zine of the Day: Kerbloom #80 http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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Kerbloom #80 is artnoose's views on straight edge, and why she doesn't drink. I don't want to say too much, and take away from the joy of reading this issue. But I have to agree, who doesn't want to be in a crew?
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Zine of the Day: Unemployment http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/z
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Unemployment is the newest zine by Aaron Lake Smith of Big Hands fame. "There's nothing quite like the nagging doubt that accompanies a period of unemployment," begins the zine and for the next 44 pages Aaron brings us along on his dark journey into the heart of the failing American empire. ...
