#mcrzine

[razorsharpzine]

CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS :33

ZINE APPLICATIONS FOR THE MCR FANZINE ARE OPEN 🩸 ARTISTS, VOLUNTEERS, WRITERS WELCOME :33 DUE: 25th July 2025 Zine acc : @razorsharpzine If you are selected, you will get an e-mail :3 Link: https://forms.gle/L8Zaxug29mMhsyzg7 #mychemicalromance #mcr #mcrzine #mychemicalromanceart

[angstics]

5 songs i wish my chem played on the swarm tour ZINE | kofi

"top 5" is a classiccc zine prompt - make your own!

none of photos/art mine. src: public domain, mags, diversion zine

[mcrswarmzine]

Aaaaand we're LIVE! SWARM zine & merch back stock is now on sale at our BigCartel shop. We have very limited quantities of some items, but we do have at least a few of every merch item for sale! There are only 150 copies of the SWARM zine left–grab yours before they sell out!

We know our accounts were a little slow to respond during our hiatus, but we're back in business now. If you have questions about your order or issues, let us know. Please note that some shipping fees have increased slightly due to an overall increase in USPS shipping costs.

[mcrzines]

Zine topic prompt list! 

I'm partnering with the wonderful @void-flesh to bring you the My Chemical Romance Zine Challenge! Get creating with some DIY zine-ing and share your art and words with your friends! Use the tag #MCRzine or @mcrzines so that we can boost your work!

You can create a whole zine solo, or partner with friends for something collaborative :)

We encourage physical zines, but in order to make work accessible as physical copies even for people in places where shipping ain't cheap, we also encourage PRINT IT YOURSELF zines, with files set up for readers to print at home! 

Some notes: 

This is not a contest, or a time limited challenge! This is just to spark people's creativity! 

Related to above: you don’t need to submit anything to us - these are your personal projects! - but we’d love to be tagged so we can see what you made and boost your work!

Polished and professionally printed zines may be cool, but we are encouraging more DIY kinds of work. It's okay if you just have sharpies, glue, and your grandpa's busted xerox machine! Or perhaps the copy machine at your school is unattended? 

Wanna find more examples of others' MCR zines? At @mcrzines I aim to archive My Chemical Romance fanzine history through reblogs and sharing information. Feel free to take a gander! And @void-flesh is working on collecting and archiving physical zines, so get in touch there if you want to add your paper copy to the archive!

Resources

There's many ways to make zines! Here’s just a few ideas for getting started

What’s a zine

How to Make:

A mini zine

An accordion zine

How to make printable half page zines + Canva Template 

Places to Host Digital Zines

Itch.io - Mostly hosts indie games but has a great interface for any kind of downloads, including zine PDFs

Flipstack - An option to display digital only zines 

Other resources

Barnard Zine Library

Stolen Sharpie Revolution

[autumnleavesrevisited-mp3]

a zine on how I became a mcr fan, inspired by @mcrzines zine challenge! anyone can print and fold the scan :]

[operationtables]

last two inner pages. very much work in progress. going to write "IN THE FACE OF EXTERMINATION SAY FUCK YOU" over these two :]

[mcrswarmzine]

*smacks the SWARM backpack* You can fit so much My Chemical Romance in this thing!

But seriously, how gorgeous is the logo printing on our SWARM clear stadium bag? They’re hard to photograph, but we did our best with to covey how slick and clean the logo looks. This bag will fit all your essentials—including the zine! Also, how cool is our “GET UP COWARD” magnet? 👀

We’ll be releasing an official date for shipping out items sometime soon as production wraps up. As always, our line is open if you have any questions!

[mcrswarmzine]

Curious about where your SWARM dollars went this year? We're shipping out orders in 2024, but before we do, we wanted to pull back the curtain and review our finances from the past year and answer any questions you had about where the money goes!

The big headline–we're donating $10k to Black and Pink this year, and will be donating any remaining profits in 2024 after orders ship out. This project has been a huge success, and although it's taken time, we believe it's been worth it.

So in summary–THANK YOU for sticking with us for every step of this project, and we can't wait to get SWARM in your hands in the new year!