Did you see my new zine bundles?

If you didn’t already see it, my new mini-zines are out! I’ve made a bundle with them and my newest postcard and it’s available in my webshop. The zines discuss my amulet collection and the stories behind them, cosy ideas to fight Autumn blues, where I find joy, bunny witchcraft by Chainsaw Bunny, how to celebrate a zine anniversary, and more, plus there’s a mini-game zine: a queer choose your own adventure!

I also have “spell bags” available in my shop! These home-sewn sachets are filled with lovely-smelling herbs, colourful beads, and magickal sigils, and are meant to encourage your confidence, joy, and power. I’ll soon disclose how I made them! Find them here.

Postcard bundle

As you may have already seen, I created a new postcard for New Year. I have 14 cards in total now which are available as a bundle in my webshop. Of course, if you prefer, you can also buy them directly from me, individually or as a bundle (1 euro per card + postage) by emailing me.

The postcards depict all kinds of subjects such as a feminist protest, witches, reading with cats, a tree house, home-recording musicians, an octopus at a typewriter, and various settings featuring Chainsaw Bunny. Some are focused on the (winter) holidays but most can fit any season or occasion.

FYI: I’ll add a bundle with my upcoming mini-zines and the new postcard in my webshop soon too.

PS: It’s my name day today (Holy Nina, yep) and I love postcards, hint hint. 😉

New self-care & feminist activism zine bundles in my webshop!

To do something special for December’s Bandcamp Friday, I assembled two new bundles! These zine/postcard bundles are now available in my Bandcamp webshop.

Self-care bundle

Take a look

Feminist activism bundle

Take a look

HOW TO ORDER?

These bundles are only available in my Bandcamp webshop. Go to the shop to place an order.

(PS. I can’t promise that they will arrive on time for the winter holidays!)

Pre-order: Confined #3 + #4 (quaranzines)

The pre-order for the new issues of Confined launched today! Scroll down for all the zines and DIY merch that’s available…

Confined is the title of the ongoing zine series of my lockdown diary comics in which I document my daily life and reflections during the covid-19 pandemic. They are a mix of a quaranzine, perzine, and comic zine. I started drawing the first issue in April 2020 and am releasing two new issues on September 14th. Today I’m launching the pre-order of issues #3 and #4 of Confined. These two the diary comic zines continue telling the story from August 2020 until July 2021. Issue #3 has some collages as well and #4 contains interviews with two amazing creative friends: Shei of God Save the Queer and Clémentine of MandApunk and Judith Judah.

The Confined series is one of the biggest zine projects I’ve ever done. If you count all the pages of the zines of this series that I’ve made so far together, it can become one big comic BOOK! I’ve never drawn that many comics / comic pages in such a short time but I feel an urgency to document everything that’s happening at the moment. This also means that this zine series is not done yet and there will be at least one more (5th) issue that I’m already working on, and maybe more.

The pre-order helps me to print the two new issues of Confined and to re-print the first issues. To fund this big project I’ve also created some extra surprises: one-of-a-kind hand-made pieces of embroidery and a zine-themed button set, and you can even acquire a test print of Confined #3 and #4 (for the real collectors among you)!

So… how can you get ahold of the zines and merch?

HOW TO PRE-ORDER:

You can pre-order in my Bandcamp webshop. When you order any Confined zines or merch on Bandcamp you will receive a download of my Lost Luna EP “Shadow Play” as well! The home-recording process of this EP is mentioned in the zines.

(You can also mail me if you prefer to order from me directly – each issue separately costs 3 euros + postage. This will not include the Lost Luna EP.)

The release date for the zines and merch is planned for September 14th!

BANDCAMP OPTIONS:

Quaranzine Bundle:

Bundle of all the zines I made and released since March 2020 until August 2021. This bundle contains the diary comic zine series Confined (#1-4, each zine A5 size, between 44 and 32 pages), the second issue of the diary comic zine Scissors & Chainsaws (36 pages A5 size) the perzine Same Heartbeats #18 (a 24-hour issue of my feminist perzine, 32 pages A6 size), Do it Yourself Care #3 (mini-zine about self-care during winter holidays and family gatherings), Witches’ Brew #1 (mini-zine about herbs), and all three issues of Lost Luna Zine (mini-zines that accompany the “Shadow Play” EP). Plenty of reading fun! This bundle also includes a digital download of the Lost Luna EP “Shadow Play” to which I refer in the new issues of Confined.

  • Confined #1
  • Confined #2
  • Confined #3
  • Confined #4
  • Scissors & Chainsaws #2
  • Witches’ Brew #1
  • Do it yourself care #3
  • Lost Luna Zine #1
  • Lost Luna Zine #2
  • Lost Luna Zine #3
  • Same Heartbeats #18

More info about each zine at: https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/zines/

The two new Confined zines only:

This bundle contains Confined #3 + 4, the newest issues of my lockdown diary comic zine series. This bundle also includes a digital download of the Lost Luna EP “Shadow Play”.

  • Confined #3
  • Confined #4

Each zine: A5, hand-tied, 32 pages on recycled paper with cover on coloured paper

More info about each zine at: https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/zines/

Test print of the two new Confined issues:

Test print of Confined #3 and #4 (only 1 available!)

I did three test prints of both issues of Confined, one for myself, one for a dear friend, and one for… you? This test print contains some things that were changed in the official release (from typos to a slightly embarrassing  mistake) so it’s really unique! You could also get the test print AND the official print and play spot the difference. 🙂

Each zine: A5, 32 pages

More info about my zines at: https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/zines/

Embroidery:

I’ve made a few unique hand-sewn pieces of embroidery inspired by themes that appear in my Confined zines such as zine culture, self-care, the pandemic, and Chainsaw Bunny.

Available designs:

  • “I’m conFINEed”
  • “Take care”
  • “Bunnies rule”
  • “Hug hug”
  • “I ❤ bunnies”
  • “You rock”
  • “Make zines”
  • anarcha-feminist heart

(I may be adding more soon)

They are hand-embroidered and one of a kind! This embroidered art can hopefully offer some comfort and beauty in these difficult times.

Materials used: cotton fabric, cotton embroidery thread, polyester sewing thread (and felt in some designs)

Zine-themed button set:

Button set that includes buttons/badges with the following designs:

  • Echo Zines
  • I made a purrzine
  • Zine Queen
  • Typewriter Octopus
  • Make your own media
  • Chainsaw Bunny with birthday cake

All pre-orders support me in getting the zines printed so they are greately appreciated! Thank you!

Zine Month Surprise Bags!

To celebrate International Zine Month (IZM) and my 20th zine anniversary I’m assembling surprise bags filled with zines, postcards, and buttons! I’m even including some zines you may never have heard of as well as brandnew zine-themed buttons!

 

Zine Month Surprise Bag

This surprise bag is filled with goodies and contains:

  • 2 zines
  • 1 mini-zine
  • 1 button
  • 2 postcards

Price including postage within Belgium: € 9

Price including postage within Europe: € 12,50

Price including postage worldwide: € 13

How to order?

Do you want to buy a Zine Month Surprise Bag or give one to a friend?

Mail me to place an order. Also get in touch if you have questions.

Thank you! ❤

Only available until end of July 2021! So hurry to order one!

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Summer Solstice Zineversary Bundle

Hi there! As you may have heard if you’re a regular reader of this blog, this summer I’m celebrating my 20th zine anniversary or “zineversary“. For this occasion I’d like to offer some special zine/merch bundles and surprise zine bags. The first one on offer is the “Summer Solstice Bundle”!

 

Special Summer Solstice Zineversary Bundle:

This anniversary zine bundle includes:

Price with postage included to Belgium: 5,50 euro*
Price with postage included to Europe: 6,30 euro*
Price with postage included to worldwide: 6,50 euro*

*Only valid until June 30th 2021

Mail me to place an order or if you have any questions.

 

  

Same Heartbeats zines on Bandcamp

Hello and happy Bandcamp day! Today, like all first Fridays of the month in 2020, Bandcamp gives their share of the sales to the artists and bands. So I thought, why not add some zines to the Lost Luna / Echo Zines webshop on Bandcamp?

You can now buy a set of 13 postcards (all postcards I’ve made so far) and a bundle of 5 Same Heartbeats zines (issues #13-17) in my Bandcamp shop.

I know I’ve written before about why I hesitated about opening a webshop for my zines but this way I have both options available: it’s possible to buy any zines and postcards by contacting me via email or facebook message OR you can buy postcard and zine bundles on Bandcamp. The choice is yours!

Because Bandcamp is mostly targeted at bands and musicians, I’ll use it for Lost Luna music and merch too. More news of Lost Luna soooooon… For now, take a look at the webshop! ❤

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Music and merch on Bandcamp

I’m very excited to announce that I’ve put some merch up for sale on Bandcamp. I’m selling a set of ten postcards there and might add zines to the shop in the future. First, I’d like to see how it goes to run an online shop.

On the same Bandcamp page, there’s also an instrumental demo recording of a song called “Off the Road” for you to listen to. I will add more music soon, mostly old recordings of my solo project Lost Luna.

 

New: mini-zine sets

I love mini-zines: a folded sheet of A4 paper into an 8-page A7 zine. Everyone can make them, they are quick to create and cheap to copy.

I’ve already made a bunch of mini-zines – see at the bottom of my catalogue. But when I’m tableing at zine fests, the table gets full of zines very quickly… So I decided to make some mini-zine sets! I have 4 of such sets available at this moment. They are for sale in person as well as via online mail-order:

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“Self-care” mini-zine set:

Self-care tips by me and by Chainsaw Bunny.

“Activism” mini-zine set:

Advice, resources, and inspiration for activist projects and spaces.

“Zines” mini-zine set:

For the zinester within you, perhaps still waiting to come out or seeking fresh inspiration. Zinespiration is my newest mini-zine.

“Guitar” mini-zine set:

Mini-zines for learning to play guitar or bass. These Guitarrr mini-zines are even used by a guitar teacher (and musician friend) to give to her students. She’s also planning on translating them to French for me!

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Each set costs 2 euro + postage

Mail to flapper_grrrl@yahoo.co.uk to place an order. I accept payment via PayPal (different email address!) or bank transfer (euros only). Trades welcome too.

New mini-zines: Chainsaw Bunny hates everyone + Guitarrr

I made two new mini-zines at the same time! 😮

  • Guitarrr: a mini-manual about learning to play guitar (and a bit of bass)
  • Chainsaw Bunny Hates Everyone: a Chainsaw Bunny-themed self-care mini-zine

(You can see some work in progress images here)

Both are full-colour double-sided one-page folded mini-zines.
Each mini-zine = 0,50 euro (trades very welcome!)
Mail to flapper_grrrl@yahoo.co.uk

All my mini-zines are for sale as a set too now:

Set of 6 mini-zines = 3 euros (0,50 euros each)

Check this list of all my zines

Coming soon / future plans for mini-zines:

  • Zinespiration
  • Do it yourself care #2
  • Sew it yourself

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