zine dump

Here on this page, you'll find a download for all the zines that I made throughout last year (though it feels like these are ancient, lol). 

Some of the zines here were made in the span of one day (???), most of them using MS Paint and Powerpoint. I might try to make another one in this sort of way, it was very rewarding and also really crazy to do. 

I haven't really gone back to reread these so apologies if there are typos or anything that looks kind of dumb. 

I'll go ahead and list some details about the zines contained within here.

• Teeny Tiny Smol Video Game Zine #0 (title WIP) [labeled as "my very first zine"] - March 2022, 8pgs

This is the very first zine I've ever made! I made it on a whim after seeing a diagram saying how easy and quick it is to make a small physical zine. Wow, were they right! It felt so awesome to be able to make a nice 8-page physical little booklet and it left me with this itch to make more somehow. This zine is mostly about the games I was playing/looking forward to (mainly Ratchet & Clank 1, Kirby and the Forgotten Land). It's the only physical zine that I've made to date and I treasure it very much. I need to make another physical zine, maybe one day I'll make one and spread it around town. :3 

• (unofficial) gob bunk movie zine - June 2022, 8pgs

With Summer finally here, I had more free time on my hands. What better way to ring it in than finally making another zine? This zine is all about recent movies that I've watched at the time. The main article of this zine is Highlander and my thoughts on it, followed by 1 page thoughts of 3 other movies. I'm not really much of a reviewer but I just thought it would be neat to put my thoughts into a small little zine rather than just typing it out into a Letterboxd review. I could see myself doing more movie focused zines in the future.

• Virtual Reality, with the oculus quest 2 :) - July 2022, 14pgs

When you get something as fancy and awesome as a standalone VR headset for yourself for the first time, you just gotta write down your thoughts on it. This feels like my attempt at making something semi-serious? I am bad at writing. I feel like this kind of captures my initial thoughts on being able to really dive into VR anytime I want to and the various games that I've played. I feel like I could definitely make a kind of sequel zine to this, I've experienced a lot more VR in the past month alone. The cover of this zine might be the weakest of the bunch (maybe tied with my very first zine, though I'm giving that one a pass because it was my first one).

• bunp's Final Fast & Furious X - July/August 2022, 30pgs total

Oh mannnn. I burned out hard with this one. I went too ambitious! Flew too close to the dang sun, it feels wild that I was able to make 2 issues of this in the first place! I'm sure that you've noticed that all of the zines, I mention this "goblin bunker" in some capacity. The goblin bunker is a cool little discord server that I'm in and there's a bunch of really cool people there that inspire me to watch new things and get out of my comfort zone a bit. They were starting up a cool game club and it was focused on Final Fantasy X. Something that got lodged into my head was that "the 10th fast and furious movie is going to be in two parts, final fantasy X has two games, what if I made a series of zines documenting my thoughts on all of the fast and furious movies released alongside my thoughts on playing through final fantasy X with this game club".

Obviously, this is a lot. Watching a movie and taking notes, grabbing screenshots, playing through the game, grabbing screenshots, writing down what happened, it's a lot! Feels like I was making two zines in one with each issue here. With some proper time management, I probably could've somehow done it but I like flying by the seat of my pants too much sometimes. I think that is what did me in here. That, and the tight schedule of the game club (some people are bonkers though, completing the game in the first week, good on em x_x). This is a really cool idea to me still and maybe I'll try to go back and do it justice one day, at my own pace. I still haven't finished Final Fantasy X, really cool game from the 20+ hours I've played though. (I think the covers that I did for these two issues might be my favorite out of the bunch.)

• The End Of The Year, 2022, A Retrospective - December 2022, 11pgs (unfinished?)

By the end of the year, I was feeling like I had done A Lot. I had a bunch of thoughts bouncing around about how this year went and how maybe next year should go, how I should go about trying to improve my capabilities and try to get out of my comfort zone even more. I made all of this one in one day and I felt tired by the end of finishing the movies section so I just kinda stopped. It's just a kind of personal retrospective on what I got up to in 2022 and what kind of media I interacted with. Hopefully, I can make this a sort of tradition and make more end of the year zines as I grow older. Maybe it could showcase my artistic growth (or withering). 

• The 1st Crusade - October 2020, 28pgs

Now, this is something really ancient. I made this as my final project for a history class in college (which was, of course, all online). I got an A+ on it but I don't know if that's super indicative of its quality. Partly inspired by Extra Credits and their Extra History series, this comic goes over the 1st crusade in an awkward kind of fashion. I made it all in MS Paint and I looked up all of my resources online. This isn't an accurate depiction of the 1st crusade and this comic is probably a bit embarrassing but I'm putting it here anyway!

Phew, sorry for the wall of text. Wanted this to act as a kind of small retrospective on the earlier zines that I've made. Maybe this is a kind of filler? I have a small decker e-zine in the works but I haven't really worked on it too much. There's also the Wario Land zine, I'm still playing through 4 right now but I haven't gotten started on actually writing anything/making anything for it. :p

Making things is hard! It is also very fun :) 

My one hope is that someone can look at the stuff I've made and go "hey, maybe I could make something cool." That fills me with something that I can't really describe, a sense of pride about these dumb lil things I've made and posted on the internet. It's really nice :3

I hope that you've enjoyed reading this essay of a description and that you like going through these old zines I've made, maybe you'll like them ;)