Zines
and other mail projects
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Trabant #3
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Personal stories about tender moments, trust, trapeze, and improvisation from six months of acrobatics
training and rehearsals -- written as metaphors for tides, waves, marine birds, and other aspects of the ocean.
48 pages of text and drawings. Quarter size, handsewn binding, screenprinted cover in first printing.
First printing April 2007.
$2 cash (email for my mailing address),
$3 international
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Trabant #2
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A perzine about the aftermath of training to be a flying trapeze instructor and how a handstands class changed my ideas about my body and my gender.
52 pages of text and drawings. Quarter size, handsewn binding, screenprinted cover accents in 2006 printings.
First printing September 2006.
$2 cash (email for my mailing address),
$3 international
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Revelling in
New York
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Written with my girlfriend Heather (of Glory-of-the-Snow zine), Revelling in New York is a guidebook and a storybook about the cheap or free events, places, food, and more that we love in the city. There are so many versions of New York; this is a zine about our dorky, gleeful, exuberant version. It's:
* a window to parts of New York you never knew about
* a guidebook of quirky, non-touristy things to do in NYC
* the story of two girls in love with a city
32 pages, text-heavy, with hand-drawn illustrations. Half size, handsewn binding. Screenprinted cover in first printing, March 2006.
$2 cash (email for my mailing address),
$3 international
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Trabant #1
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A perzine written during the first month of 2005; vignettes taken from life in New York, love, and learning new things on flying trapeze.
64 pages of text and drawings. Quarter size, handsewn binding.
First printing March 2005.
$2 cash (email for my mailing address),
$3 international
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Full Tilt #2:
dancing away from home
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Memories of my high school years living away from home at a residential high school, Virginia School of the Arts (VSA), training to be a professional ballet dancer. What it was like there, what I loved and hated, why I left, and how I navigate my life now that I'm hardly dancing at all.
39 pages of text and old photos, with soft pink cover. Short half size.
Written during 48 hours as part of a zine challenge.
First printing June 2004.
$2 cash (email for my mailing address),
$3 international
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Clark 8:
a week in the psychiatric treatment unit
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Musings on my first (and only) time in the hospital for depression and suicidal ideation -- what I hated there and what was good. Thoughts on depression and cures and how to help a friend with depression.32 pages of thoughts, journal entries, drawings, and photos. Half size, handsewn binding.
First printing May 2003. Includes a 2006 update.
$2 cash (email for my mailing address),
$3 international
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Full Tilt #1:
fetched up out of darkness
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Out of print.
Written in 24 hours as part of a zine challenge, during the NYC blackout. Musings, a recipe, and quick collages.
First printing August 2003.
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Alter/Copy/Pass
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A mail art project. Visit it at its own web page.
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Sublet
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A tiny origami art book about the things left behind by the owner of the apartment I was subletting.
First printing summer 2002. Approx 1/42 size, origami (folded) binding.
$2 cash (email for my mailing address),
$3 international
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Available at:
Sweet Candy Distro
Barnard College Zine Collection, New York, NY
Papercut Zine Library, Cambridge, MA
Microcosm Publishing
Multnomah County Library, OR
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
As well as the following distros, which are often on hiatus:
Frenzy Distro
Gigglebot Distro
Minor Place Distro
OP Distro
Part of:
"Dark Matter" Zines Show at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2004)
Zine Display at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference at the University of Wisconsin (2004).
Reviews:
Clark 8
"In an excellent excerpt from Clark 8, Megan Gendell gracefully chronicles her descent into suicidal thoughts, describing an 'almost manic' evening during which she cleaned her room and folded her clothes: 'I wanted to leave things in a state of order.'"—Danielle Maestretti, The Utne Reader, reviewing The New Confessionals
"reading 'clark 8' is an intimate experience; you feel as if you are sitting face-to-face listening to her account ... i highly recommend it as a springboard into zines- it is a wonderful example of a well-written, in-depth zine."—pixeldoll.org
"Megan's zine was well-written, clear, talked frankly of the ... medical system from a non-paranoid viewpoint, and this I appreciated, as a well as very straightforward 'reasons to die' and 'reasons to live' list and 'things that help'. Informative, compelling information, but not in a condescending or self-help-book way. Megan comes through very clearly through her account."—Ilya Zaychik, stationaery.com
Revelling in New York
Revelling in New York by Karla at Kitschen Table
Revelling in New York by Ayun Halliday in East Village Inky #32
Revelling in New York by Anastacia at Granny Square Woman
Trabant
Revelling in New York and Trabant #2 by Jenna Freedman and Celia Perez in Best Zine Ever #5
Trabant #1 at metrokitty.com
Full Tilt #2 by AJ Michels, Jenna Freedman, and Joe Biel in Best Zine Ever #4
Full Tilt #2 by AJ Michels in her blog and a mediageek radio show
Full Tilt #2 at pixeldoll.org
Related:
L.A.-based band Clark 8 (so-named because one of its members, Rich, once spent time there).
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