Keeps Getting Petter And Petter

TIPS TO A NEWBIE ZINE AUTHOR! // 1. No skill level requirements! / The whole idea of zines is that everyone is allowed, capable AND has a right to make comics. / If you got something to say, say it! / But what if I DON’T have anything to say? (Or not enough material.) / Well, there are no length requirements to a zine either. HOWEVER… // 2. Team work rules okay! / Make a double-cover split with a buddy! When you brainstorm together, even small ideas can become big – even big ”enough” for a ”full-length” zine. / Come up with a mutual theme, share tasks on a single story (script, [sketch], drawing…), go nuts on an energydrink-soaked all-nighter… ANYTHING GOES!

What if my zine stinks after an hour or a year? / Let me tell you a story. // THIS is my first zine. Highschool copy machine, circa 2009. / It had high-brow humor about the human condition, as well as vulnerable personal stories about self-loathing and cynicism. // A year later, I DESTROYED every single copy. / Jesus Christ what EMBARASSING teenage angst garbage!!! // But I’ll tell you this! On that exact day in 2008 or 2009 or whatever, I was so damn PROUD of my VERY FIRST zine. / It was ham-fisted, it was inconsistent, it was, well, a zine made by a teenage boy. BUT THE WORST WAS OVER. NOW I HAD THE KNOW-HOW. THE EXPERIENCE. TO DO MORE, AND BETTER.

TODAY, my threshold to come up with, plan out and finish a zine is ZERO. / And just like I dislike my old work simply because I have grown as an artist, there will always be some asshole who dislikes your work, NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU ARE. // (Friend’s conservative father reads ”HeteroseXual Animals.” / A-hem!! // And just as certainly, in ten or twenty years, I will read my current zines amused, embarrassed and most of all PROUD that I started my journey SOMEWHERE, instead of waiting for the ”right moment.” The ”right moment” will never come, because EVERY moment is the right moment! / SO GET TO IT! YES YOU CAN!

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