I chose a zine by Austin Kleon titled “ My Gratitude Zine”. Kleon got a powerful message through in a couple pages using his artwork to either format an exercise or to show the meaning of what he’s trying to say. I think he made it most likely by hand. By simply writing out his thoughts on paper and designing it as he goes. I like that style a lot within the zines that I have seen, the simple but powerful ones. He shows a couple of exercises to help him cultivate gratitude. He starts by explaining that one can both have everything and feel nothing as well as being alive but also feeling dead. “Being alive but feeling dead” is a phrase that I have heard more than I want to but honestly is true with some people. Walking around looking like themselves but beneath the surface is a losing battle. He then creates a list of everything he is grateful for to remind himself of what he can be happy about in life. I believe he thanks other people to remind himself that he is not alone in the world, that he has people willing to help and teach him. Naming activities that you can honestly say you enjoy doing can show you what you haven’t fully realized. What you find out you enjoy doing now can potentially show you how you will spend the rest of your life. If you can’t name anything that you like to do, how will you enjoy anything later on in your life? Gratitude and optimism can be hard to reach but fulfilling once achieved. It is very hard to pull yourself out of a negative cycle, so take a step back, breath and focus on what you want to do with your life and how you can be happy doing it.

Before starting my zine, I wanted to find a good example that I could use to help me when creating my own zine. I tried to find a zine that was somewhat similar to what I am trying to do when creating my own. I have looked and looked for a zine that has a good structure and that I can mimic with my own. I used a couple that were medical and science related to help get ideas from them so I can use things that I saw that I can make my own and recreate pretraining to mine. I want to do a zine about the sciences behind whitetail deer and how to hunt them, and just everything about them. My zine is very different from a lot of the ones that I’ve seen online, and I want mine to be balanced and have it as informative and visually appealing as I can get it. So for some of the zine’s I’ve seen, I tried to find medical zine’s which show and talk about anatomy which is one of my topics in my zine, so I found a couple and it helps to see those as a reference. I also wanted to find zine’s that had something to do with other wild life and use that as well. My zine is going to be a lot different from the ones that I’ve seen, but I am going to try and make it as well endowed as possible for all those who read it. So my goal like I said is to make it as informative as possible so that if people who read it, especially the ones who don’t know anything about deer or hunting, can have a general since of what the animal is about and what the sport is about.

I chose the zine titles, “Like the Tide”, by Isabella Rotman. This zine stuck out to me with the striking cover, that was yet subtle enough to be looked over, if one was not paying attention to the different covers inside the gallery. This zine is classified as a zine, because the author is passionate about the ocean and exemplifies their love in a short story.

I think the author made this zine was created using some sketching , with an app like ,”Procreate”, then digitally edited online with an online software , to enhance the colors and images used. The words are obviously typed , and not hand written, for the most part , but the authors uses some hand-drawn words , when describing actions. The author enhances the detail of hand-drawing , with the woman “gasps” for air when coming up for air.

I think this is a pretty awesome zine, this proves that zines do not take much effort to be creative. All that is required for a zine is the dedication , or love for anything. This author chose on of my personal “safe spaces”, the water. I love being near the water , just laying beside the water , or swimming , makes me feel like I am connected to every wave, or motion.

My zine will be on the battles many of us face everyday as college students. Many of us face silent battles hidden beneath a smile. For me , personally , I battle a major case of anxiety , and some days it is hard for me to even remember what my name is. This is heightened when I have to engage in contact with my peers, and I want people who face similar battles, to know they are not alone. We crave things to help us ease the tension , for many of us ,that supplement is nicotine.

zine link -https://www.loveyourrebellion.org/zine-archive/?www.loveyourrebellion.org&gclid=CjwKCAjwur-SBhB6EiwA5sKtjrYxaWbJHNHtREcWz7a9Lee3Ab1i0IcjBMPbhK13rsKM7GO8wW5WAhoCbUkQAvD_BwE

I found a Zine online that is about Star Wars. It has drawings of different characters and different scenarios involving different characters are inside. There’s a video in which someone is flipping through the book to give you an idea of what is inside.

It’s about the size of the Zines we are going to be making for class. There’s lots of creativity within it, and while it has aspects of a comic, it’s not entirely a comic. It also has pages and pages of art. It’s really a fan-made book about Star Wars characters. I think these make it a Zine.

I think they made a lot of it digitally, especially the art. There may be more than one artist, so I’ll refer to them in the plural sense. The people who created these drawings must’ve done it digitally because the art is too precise and fine for it to be done with pens or painted. Also, it would make more sense since all the pages are clearly ink-printed.

The whole Zine is about Star Wars characters and is thus obviously inspired by the franchise. However, from what I can tell, all the scenarios within the Zine are original, they’re like fanfiction or head cannons about these characters. So, as far as media goes, they used Star Wars and their own imagination.

Zines in general are pretty cool and give people a huge chance to explore. People can make Zines about what they’re passionate about, interested in, or want others to know about. They can make Zines like the one I talked about, making short stories involving their favorite characters. Zines can be a way of sharing part of yourself with other people if that is your goal or desire, and I think that’s cool.

My own Zine is going to be about the only book series I’ve ever been invested in, The Chronicles of Narnia. They are children’s books, but I’ve been interested in the series since I was a child, and it would be great to share what I know about it with others. I think it would especially be great because I think reading is wonderful and sharing what we’ve read is a wonderful thing to do as well.

Here is the link to the Zine I was talking about: https://worldbetweenworldszine.tumblr.com. Scroll down to one of the posts posted on March 4, 2022 to see the pictures and the video.