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heartland comic at chicago zine fest may 6, 2017
We are so excited to be tabling @chicagozinefest tomorrow at Plumbers Union Hall. Come say hi and grab something for free! #CZF2017 #zines #feminist #nkotbforever
bought some zines from @strangerdistro to make some self care packages for friends!
Zine pile at Our Comics, Ourselves Exhibition #interferencearchive #zines #comics (at Interference Archive)
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Just added to the catalog:
Black Women & Self Care – There is such value in taking care of ourselves & our communities, and this zine is a great tool in shaping that process. Specifically written for black women, Naomi explores the ideas behind self care & mental health, going through the ways that anger, depression, PTSD, and white supremacy can negatively affect one’s mental health. She also offers several ways of coping with these things, through suggestions of small steps to take in your daily life, a short list of DIY herbal recipes, and how to find help outside of yourself. Naomi’s writing is compassionate and valuable, and this zine is an indispensable resource.
Empower Yoself Before You Wreck Yoself: Native American Feminist Musings – This is the first in a series written by two Navajo women that digs deep into identity politics, cultural appropriation, familial relationships, and more. Amber & Melanie’s writing is explicitly feminist, and they note that they are hoping that this project will provide space to other Native women who are interested in decolonization & assimilation. The zine is packed with writing & art, it’s gorgeous to look at (which you can already tell from the bright, beautiful cover!), and it’s necessary reading.
In Our Hands #1 – The subtitle of this one is “Using a Community Accountability Approach to Address Sexual Violence, Abuse, & Oppression.” Compiled by a community accountability group in Pittsburgh of the same name, this zine documents the basic practices the group has taken in its formation: the language they use when discussing accountability & sexual violence, a thorough process map that guides readers through a community accountability process, and other helpful information on how to help survivors heal. This is a fantastic resource for folks looking to start an accountability process in their community, or even for those who are looking to simply support a friend who is in need of love during a time of healing.
The Nizhoni Beat: Native American Feminist Musings – After releasing Empower Yoself Before You Wreck Yoself, Amber & Melanie continued on with their Native American feminist series with a zine that has a new name but same purpose: “to inspire Native women to make a space for themselves in their own culture and in counter-culture.” They have help from a few other contributors, with each piece exploring things like decolonization, travel mishaps & adventures, and gender & sexuality, all written from a feminist perspective. The zine ends with an intense story of Melanie’s experience at a Don’t Shoot Portland protest, which I’m glad she shared because it’s so necessary to document & archive this resistance. Like their previous issue, this one is an essential addition to your zine collection.
PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship (Revised + Expanded Second Edition!) – PALS is one of my most favorite zines ever published, so I am overjoyed that after taking the first edition out of print, Lee decided to publish a second edition that is twice as long (!!!) as the first. Lee uses PALS to share why friendship is so crucial to them, along with the reasons why creating & sustaining friendships can be a radical act. They write about the love they hold for their friends, the friendship disasters they’ve gone through, and the ways in which we make room for those we love. This zine will make you think about your own friendships, and it will fill your heart right up. Highly recommended.
Small Bikes Big Trees – Jen & Benji created this zine to document a bike tour from Seattle to San Diego, or as the subtitle says, “Two Brown Folks Brave the Pacific Coast, From One Hometown to Another.” I’m not a cyclist, but the stories inside are so, so rad. Along the way Jen & Benji embrace adventure (even though it can be scary and hard), have run-ins with sometimes weirdo / sometimes helpful strangers, and push themselves in new ways. Their tales are written through a critical lens, with writing about how gender + bodies + race were wrapped up in their tour, because those things are tangled up in everything, always. Also included are tips for long bikes trips: what to eat, where to stay, how to tour for cheap, and more. I love this zine so much. Highly recommended.
Get ‘em over at Stranger Danger!
A comic about awkward coming of age tales by Jan Descartes and ROXY
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Hey Maggie! I heard you speak at NoVA Teen a few weeks ago and was really inspired by what you had to say. My senior project in college was a memoir, and it turned out... A little broken, actually. But what you said about art got me thinking and I've decided I want to try graphic memoir. I do intend to pitch this to publishers later on, and was wondering if there's anything (mechanical/formatting) that I should know. I tried Google with little luck. Thanks!
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OK yeah let’s get innit!
HOW TO WRITE A GRAPHIC NOVEL:
Googling will probably not help you much. The reason is that every single artist has their own process. Basically, you’re on your own. Which is super scary and daunting, but also exciting! It’s the wild west out here, and you don’t need to be a genius or an artistic savant. I did Honor Girl without having ever taken a single art class. You figure out your own deal, which will require much trial and error and tears of frustration. But don’t give up!
So here’s my process, which is pretty bare bones. I start by seeing the scene in my head as a movie. Then I sketch it out really messily on printer paper. Then I use this beat-up-as-hell template to draw the borders of my page (on water color paper), to assure that every page I create contains the same dimensions.
INSIDER SECRET: You can use whatever random dimensions you want. Honor Girl is a little wider than most graphic novels, because I knew I wanted a lot of horizontal space to show sprawling hills and sunsets and stuff. So after I’ve got my page ready, I use a ruler to divide it up into however many panels I need.
Then I ink, paint, and scan it in to Photoshop to clean up the edges (I suck at staying in the lines).
I usually plan about 4-8 pages ahead. Thinking any further than that is too overwhelming for me. I have really disorganized Word Doc full of snippets of dialogue, ideas I want to come back to, and an incredibly bare bones chapter outline. Planning and organizing can be helpful, but it can also hold you back. At some point you have to jump in and JUST DO IT, guyz.
PRO TIP: It’s a great idea to start with a webcomic! That what I did. It was called LONER COMICS and it’s sort of defunct now, but you can still check it out. The learning curve for webcomics isn’t as insanely steep as a full-on graphic novel, so it’s a great way to “train” for your book.
Good luck!! :)
-MAGGIE
great advice from maggie thrash!
Get excited, y’all!
I have a comic in 1001 Knights, an illustration anthology of feminist knights, kickstarting now! It’s crammed with amazing artists who totally blow the doors off my piece. Check it. @onethousandandoneknights
Cowboy loves The Lumberjanes and we do too!!!
I did hourly comics day yesterday, here are the results!
this is really cute!
A comic about awkward coming of age tales by Jan Descartes and ROXY
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we love my brain hurts by liz baillie and cowboy the cat loves it so much he passed out after reading.
Zine Comics! To wrap this whole thing up, I really really like Elvis Bakaitis’ Homos in Herstory: 1950s Edition! (2013). It has a very diy zine quality to it which makes it feel really accessible, as well its nuggests of true stories, first person accounts and historical-cultural narrative. These kinds of comics have all the potential to get people interested in their own history, other peoples history and the creative spark to make your own stuff. keep it diy!
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YAY! We love Elvis’s zines!
Comix themselves began as an all boys club. And with that, the objects of their desires were women’s bodies, splashed throughout the illustrated worlds of reversed roles where nerds got the girl and the sporto-square-cop was cut down, just not as badly as the woman of course. To really simplify, and without having lived in the time (I am aware of just how much out of context judgement I am bringing to this): the comix rebellion of illustrated sex, drugs and rock’n’roll was equally violent, misogynist and racist if not worse than the mainstream it resisted. Which was the point after all, to get the offended out in the open and force a reading that can’t be looked away from.
An all female team of comix creators had their own stamp of style and rebellion, represented here in Wet Satin, No.1, 1976. The well known women at the table included Trina Robbins, Aline Kominksy-Crumb, Catherine Millet and Sharon Rudahl to name a few. All-women’s comix attempted to bring their voice to the same table of comic book creation, equally pushing the censorship boundary and depicting sexuality of space and fantasy narratives. At times, the reader can’t tell the difference from the boy’s club and girl’s club, but the overall themes tend to be female centered and equaled in its revenge based violence like that of the underdog male centered violence.