I never had plans to make an Icelandic zine, it just kinda happened after I found myself helping linguistics students learn the language at a school I didn’t go to. And while I know it’s an unusual topic in the zine world, it’ll be a refreshing one.
Covers the basics of the language (from proper pronunciation to numbers to common phrases) and includes a bunch of interesting facts about Iceland.
32 (8 double-sided) pages, black & white. 3$ in person, plus a bit more for shipping.
I suddenly find myself with two new zine projects in hand. One’s almost finished after a few intense days of work, called “Icelandic for the Curious”. The other’s kinda stuck in the mud at the moment, but it’s on being happy and it’ll be awesome when it’s done. And when both of those are done and I get some courage in hand, I’ve got a Very neat idea for a little zine… the subject will not to be announced until it’s done =P. So yeah, “Icelandic for the Curious” will be out within the next week.
Sjámst!
The past few days have been quite exciting and sleep-deprived for me. I created 4 zines in the span of two months, one being a last-minute mini zine that was finished at 5 in the morning on the first day of ExpoZine, in hopes of sharing a table with others to get my stuff exposed. I got to sell a bunch of zines and made some nifty trades with some pretty awesome people. ExpoZine is a pretty darn awesome event and you should definitely go to next year’s if you’ve never been.
On to the new zines. The third one is called Cookin’ Up A Storm and includes a whopping 75 healthy recipes in a whopping 84 pages. Most recipes were created by me. It’s also the only zine I’ve created completely digitally (plus the text is readable but a little blurry) so I have to admit I’m not very proud of this one. I plan on fixing it up and making an old-school version of it eventually. I do have a few of these printed though, selling them cheaper for their size at 3$ a pop.
My last-minute creation was a fun adventure of realizing that I haven’t lost my drawing skills that I abandoned long ago; it’s a mini zine called How To Keep Your Cat Happy. Every page has a humorous tip accompanied by a slightly trippy cat drawing. I’m selling them for 1$ each. I almost sold them all at ExpoZine so I’ll be making some new ones this week, hopefully on different-colored paper.
I’ve got plenty of zine ideas in mind but I need to focus and prepare myself for all the craft fairs coming up in the next month. First up is McGill´s Market Cooperative Fair happening this Thursday November 21st from 12pm to 5:30pm. I’ll be selling my zines there along with one-of-a-kind jewelry and accessories.
Deviant Ravenhood 