zoe loukia

help! developing a zine for trade

I've been really enjoying going to the zine library as often as they're open, and have scoured my way through most of their perzine collection, now I'm onto lit zines and art zines. After making several one off art zines, some bordering into a perzine-ish territory, I've decided I think I finally want to start a serial perzine!

I'm currently developing a little art piece that I'll feature in my inaugural issue, but as it's dependent on something developing in real time, I'll need to wait to put that in last.

Anyway, my point of shouting this out is that I believe that I've really come to terms with my artistic direction, at least in this period of my life. I know for sure that I never want to sell my work, however most of what I like to do involves getting things out in public, and into peoples hands. I think I'd love to start a rapport of trading with people on here, and anywhere. For the sake of the mutual sharing of knowledge!

By trading, I mean that I'll send a copy of my zine + maybe a little letter as I can't stop myself from writing if I tried, free as long as something finds it's way in my mailbox as well! This could be zines, postcards, a letter, literally anything. I could even trade pdfs for email back, lol. I'm thinking this might be my entryway into finally paying for bear so I can post the cover once it's ready.

I'm curious to gauge this platform's interest in something like this, as I know there are many fellow zine creators here as well!

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