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Try out zine making, send a letter

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Swap Coordinator:nataliefox (contact)
Swap categories: Letters & Writing  Drawing  Illustration 
Number of people in swap:16
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:December 8, 2014
Date items must be sent by:February 1, 2015
Number of swap partners:5
Description:

I admittedly have never made a zine before, but it is something I am interested in. So I thought that I would make a swap where we could all have a go at making them together. I would like us all to make any sized zine we prefer, in any kind of style. As for the content I would like it to be an 'introduction' zine. I mean that it would be full of your own personal information, the idea being that it can be sent on other swaps, such an penpal swaps, to help introduce yourself. Of course if you have made a zine before you can still join, but you must expect that other swappers may be trying this out for the first time and so what you receive may not be a masterpiece! Please take this into consideration when rating. If a swapper has sent a zine and a letter please give them a 5.

Make at least five copies of a zine which contains your personal information. This can be your name, age, email, crafts you enjoy, books you read...really, anything you would like potential penpals to know about you.

Make the zine in any way, shape or form that you want.

As this is penpalling related please send a letter to introduce yourself.

I will set this to newbies welcome but I would like to see well filled out profiles. Due to the effort put into zine making I will remove members who I think may flake.

I'm giving a really long time for sign ups, and also you will have quite a long time to get this made and sent out. I think this will give everyone plenty of time to experiment.

Discussion

Steepandsleep 11/ 9/2014 #

I love this idea! I have always wanted to make a Zine as well, but just have never gotten around to it. This is one of the reasons I love Swap-Bot. It reminds me or inspires me to try new creative projects and the deadline works as a great motivator. My only question is, do we have to make it an introductory Zine? It makes sense as a first Zine, and I like the idea of sending along in future swaps, but i'm not a big fan of writing about myself. I'd much rather make a short comic or a Zine about tea. Would that be okay?

roadhousette 11/17/2014 #

To my partners - I will be traveling over the year-end holidays, and will be unable to rate your swap if it arrives between 20 December and 3 January... Please kindly keep that in mind :-)

Katti 12/ 2/2014 #

@steepandsleep for me it would be great to get a comic zine or one about a certain theme, like tea! But I think it's up to the coordinator. :)

nataliefox 12/ 8/2014 #

Yes that's fine really. My idea was to have something we could send penpals when we introduce ourselves, so they have a zine which would give them some kind of idea of who we are. So, if you love tea and want to express that in a zine that's fine!

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