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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 6d

came across this gif I handmade 10 years ago 😊 #DIYzines

Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 7d

Save the date! I'm going to be celebrating Pen Fight's 10th birthday on Nov 15th at Manchester Met Uni, and you're all invited. More details to come soon 🎂🎉🥂

A pixel drawing thatvreads : save the date, nov 15th, pen fight 10th birthday party @ mmu. Theres a drawing of a birthday cake with a pencil-shaped candle

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 9d

You know what is more tiring than doing a zine fair? doing 3 in the space of a month 🥱

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 13d

I do on my Etsy, but it needs a bit of work before I re-open it again

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 13d

if you'd like to buy one, they're listed now: penfightdistro.com/product-cate...

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 13d

New things like... 👀 MAKE ZINES CHEAP AGAIN!

penfightdistro.com/shop/make-zi...

a badge that reads: make zines cheap again on a teal and yellow starburst

a badge that reads: make zines cheap again on a pink and yellow starburst

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 13d

I'm retiring some badge designs to make room for 💖 new 💖 things, so grab them while you can from my brand-new LAST CHANCE section, where I've also added zines I have the last copies of that will not be re-stocked.

penfightdistro.com/product-cate...

badges that read: straight white men aren't punk, swap zines with me, maggie she may be a woman but she ain't no sister, the sun tells wapping lies, I'm in public space I'm not public property, don't touch me, leave me alone, up for trades. there's also a picture of 2 girls with a kangaroo, and a man reading a newspaper being surprised by an ostrich

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Doctor M. Popular @docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Folding a big batch of mini-comics today. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to make small zines like this, check out this tutorial https://docpop.org/2018/01/how-to-make-mini-comics-my-guide-to-cutting-and-folding-an-8-page-zine/

A stack of small comics that have been folded by hand. The comics are “How to Make Mini-Comics by Doc Pop”. Behind them is a clipboard filled with unfolded comics.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 14d

Resistance! Kes’s quick guide to anti-trans oppression and resistance in the UK is a new zine up on the store for sliding scale down to £0.

penfightdistro.com/shop/resista... #DIYzines

the copy of Resistance! Kes’s quick guide to anti-trans oppression and resistance in the UK. There is a drawing of a person protesting and many protest banners in the background

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 18d

Having a lovely time at Grrrl Zine Fair (taken before the crowds turned up)

2 giant safety pins in the entrance, in view is a stand of zines with "grrrl zine fair"

A table laid oit with zines and a big banner saying pen fight over it

A giant image of some scissors in front of various putdoor marquees

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 21d

If essays on queercore, queer gig reviews, timelines of trans rights and history, trans piss art, zine making guides, band recommendations, a guide to queer britain, and all things DIY queer punk interest you, this'll be a zine for you.

A TIMELINE OF TRANS RIGHTS A "MODERN PROBLEM": AND HISTORY
in these trying times for our community, we often hear the rhetoric that the transgender 'issue' is a "modern problem", and that the concept of being trans is relatively recent. We at GREEBO put together a short but concise history of the integration of trans medicine into Western society to once again loudly proclaim, "We were always here!"

YOUR LOCAL MUSIC SCENE NEEDS YOU TO
ATTEND SMALL SHOWS, START A
BAND, TAG STICKERS ON LAMP POSTS, GRAFFITI IN BATHROOM STALLS, MAKE A ZINE, UPCYCLE YOUR
CLOTHES, BUY MERCH FROM LOCAL BANDS, FIND YOUR PEOPLE, AND
UPLIFT EACH OTHER.
DIY FOREVER.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 21d

New in stock! 4 issues of GREEBO an alternative queer zine celebrating music, art, literature and culture.

🩻 penfightdistro.com/product-tag/...

#diyzines

4 issues of the zine "greebo", the issue at the front which is most visible is pink on a black background with an image of a skeleton in a kinda laid back position. it reads: Greebo, art - music - poetry

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 21d

you'd probably also like this one too then

3 badges in blue, pink and yellow tha say "steal photocopies"

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Emily Reed @emilyingreen.bsky.social · 27d

So impressed with the zine section at the Multnomah County Public Library. Human creative expression at its best 📕💪🏽💥

Large library shelf filled with individual zines

Closeup of shelf with colorful zines on display

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 22d

This weekend! I'll be at The Old Waterworks in Southend along with a bunch of amazing zine makers for @grrrlzinefair.

RSVP to the fest for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grrrl-zine...

a graphic advertising Pen Fight Distro tabling at Grrrl Zine Fair 2025. There's a picture of a zine called a whisper or a shout about street harassment. The rest of the graphic reads: sat 20th and sun 21st september, at the Old Waterworks, North road, SS0 7AB

a poster for Grrrl Zine Fair 2025. Reads: Free Entry
RSVP & full line up grrrizinefair.com
@grrrizinefair grrrlzinefair.com
20th & 21 September Saturday 2-9pm Sunday 12-6pm
ART & PUBLISHING STALLS LIVE MUSIC -
DJS
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CREATIVE WORKSHOPS
COMEDY TAROT
READING YOGA SCREEN PRINTING
PORTRAITS PHOTO BOOTH
ZINE EXHIBITION
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ZINE LIBRARY STOKED (VEGAN FOOD)
SABABA (COCKTAILS) LAZY SLOTH COFFEE LEIGH ON SEA BREWERY
ZINES: HATE ZINE - SWEET-THANG THIIIRD KIA CREATES PAGEMASTERS LOOK DEEPER - SEEDLINGS
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AYSHE-MIRA YASHIN PEN FIGHT DISTRO - KATIE IN COLOUR BUHAINS CAROLINE WINTERS HAYLEY WELLS BEX BOP - PAPER MOON ZINES - THE EX- EDITOR RAGE ZINE - SHAZLEEN KHAN - WEED ZINE - IZZY ARGENT FUNA YE + THE PIDGIN LIBRARY SLOWSLOWZO ZINES & MORE!
CATERPILLAR PRESS

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 22d

finally made some riso-printed badges #diyzines

a large badge that reads "boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I make zines on company time" with a yellow star shape and pink outline in the background.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 22d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life (zine edition):

* taking a photo of your haul after the zine fest
* someone trading zines with you
* getting a spark of a new zine idea and excitedly starting to make notes for it
* ~fancy binding~
* finding some excellent collaging material

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 22d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

* the weight of a winter duvet
* the first sip of a flat white
* the first hoodie of fall
* vanilla bean ice cream
* a letter that's not a bill in the mail

Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 22d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

* nestling into crisp, clean sheets
* a walk down a path through the forest 🌲
* spotting fireflies on an evening in late summer
* the first bite into a honeycrisp apple 🍎
* singing in harmony 🎶

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 28d

I made these 💫 reward stickers 💫 for giving out to people when they trade zines with me at fairs! I don't experience zine trades anywhere near as much as I used to so I'll be doing some things to encourage it a bit more #DIYzines

a round yellow sticker that says " I traded zines today"

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 29d

back in stock - the updated version of Council: a zine about council housing. It costs a quid! penfightdistro.com/shop/council...

a hand holding a small zine titled: council a zine about council housing. there's a picture of a tower block

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Bijou Type @bijoutype.com · Sep 8

It’s my birthday! Buy some Pink Mince and help support independent queer publishing (and a middle-aged homo’s rigorous moisturizing regimen) #zines #queerzine #gayzine pinkmince.com

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Moheeb Zara @virgilvox.bsky.social · 29d

Since I didn’t add any analytics tracking on purpose for privacy reasons to zeenster.com I have no actual idea how many people are visiting it / using it. But based on the ingress logs I can tell probably around 500-1000 daily visits since I published which is pretty cool.

Please share your zines!

Zine Maker

Create printable zines in your browser. Free, open-source, and privacy‑respecting.

zeenster.com

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Sep 2

Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours!

Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...

The cover of my zine 'Iconic' about LiveJournal icons, a bunch of colorful 100x100 pixel images all set out in a grid

"A zine about design, aesthetic and LiveJournal icons from the early 2000s"

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 1

#OtD 1 Sept 1949 trans revolutionary Leslie Feinberg was born. Ze worked in factories before writing powerfully about LGBT+ issues and publishing hir first novel, Stone Butch Blues, in 1993. Hir last words: "Remember me as a revolutionary communist" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8159...

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · Sep 1

WEIRD CANTEEN: a zine about the strange side of food. With writing, comics and illustration.

We've got two new issues in stock. Issue two is about DIGESTION 💩, issue 3 is on EGGS 🥚. Plus issue 1 is back in stock! 🍕https://penfightdistro.com/product-tag/weird-canteen/ #DIYzines

fron cover of a zine, titled Weird canteen, the digestion issue. there's a picture of a china plate with a turd on it

front cover of a zine, titled Weird Canteen, eggs. There's a picture of an oil style painting of a fried egg

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Great Worm Express Distro - Zines and books @greatworm.ca · Aug 31

#DIYzines

The image shows a black and white image of a paper guillotine. Above the bladed handle it reads: "If this is the only guillotine you have - use it." Below the handle it reads: "MAKE ZINES"

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