Group Zines - (A brief insight into what the other group members have planned)

After another group discussion, we presented our ideas into what our zines were going to be, and what they would entail. (As stated by the groups themselves at the time)

"Beer Mat"

• Writing and drawing based publication
• A game based meet and greet type of publication
• 1 Zine colelction the "games" at the end
• Handmade

"Exhibizine"

• Handmade
• A contemporary publication for a younger audience
• Concertina format
• Links between particular themes

"Have a Nice Day"

• Mixed audience
• A6/possible square format
• Risographed
• Not too computerized
• Theme of Anxiety and how to deal with it

"Ampersand"

• Open zine to everyone
• Responses to the "&" ampersand in visual formats
• Risographed
• A5 sized
• Any form of art style acceptable

"Misty's Mum"

• Open Zine
• Paranormal based fanzine of the 70s Misty comics
• DIY Handmade
• Interactive
• Funny
• Tounge in cheek style humour, magazine style
• Ghost stories

"Journey"

• Based around the word "Journey"
• open submission
• Any form of art acceptable
• A5
• Could be a personal response, or a tribute to anything named "Journey"

Various other zines were dicussed, including oour own group idea, which we were currently still ironing out in terms of rules and guidelines.

I have decided to submit work to the Ampersand and Journey Zines. Any way I can further responses to the zine culture discussed earlier, will benefit overall. I still want to maintain a "rough" or "sketchy" asthetic however, across all the zine work, for I feel that certain quality images don't particularly get the point I want to make across.

I want to create a single submission for the two extra zines, that almost tribute the old punk style that dominated fanzines in the past, but also keeping some contemporary traits available in the work.