{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Mythical Type", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2024/34/1651052.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://mythicaltype.com/", "feed_url": "https://mythicaltype.com/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://mythicaltype.micro.blog/2026/03/22/tinned-fish-newbie.html", "title": "Tinned Fish Newbie", "content_html": "

“Tinned Fish Newbie” is a tiny zine about the tinned fish I’ve been trying the past few months.

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Nine pages held together with a fish paperclip (it’s cute!), inside a decorated Altoids tin. Each tin is decorated a little differently, and the stamped fish page varies. But the zine is the same.

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This is a limited edition. I made 6 (and I’m keeping 1 🤭), so 5 copies will be available exclusively at Lancaster Zine Fest — April 18 in Southern Market (Lancaster, PA).

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What to write in your journal is a zine filled with journaling prompts. Use it to spark ideas next time you don’t know what to write about.

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Details:

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Copies are available in my Etsy shop (U.S. only) and via trading.

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New zine! ✨

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“How to find your whimsy” is a zine that includes a variety of ideas and photos for adding everyday joy to your life. ms.writteninthestars and I made this together!

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Printed copies are available in my Etsy shop (U.S. only) and via trading (anywhere mail can go).

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Details:

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I contributed a page to Pocket Thoughts Annual #8, which collects work from a bunch of creators around the world.

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Copies of this zine are available from Pocket Thoughts on Etsy.

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Here’s the collage I made for it:

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Here’s a rundown of my process for making this page:

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    Searched for images on Unsplash. (See image credits at the end of this post.)

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    Uploaded the muse image to Canva to convert to black and white and edit the background. Downloaded as png.

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    Opened the edited version in Affinity to add the texture image. Downloaded as png.

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    Went to Pixlr and opened the edited image. Added the glitch filter and adjusted settings. Downloaded as png.

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    Uploaded the edited version to Canva. Added text. Downloaded as png.

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There are definitely other ways of making a digital collage like this. Probably with less jumping between apps. But for this collage, I went to the apps that I knew could do the work I wanted. Streamlining the process wasn’t my priority.

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Images credits:

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Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry 1798 Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832) France, late 18th-early 19th century oil on canvas Overall: 275 x 177 cm (108 1/4 x 69 11/16 in.) Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2003.6.4 (public domain)

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Photo by The Cleveland Museum of Art on Unsplash

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Blue, red, and yellow abstract painting (free to use under the Unsplash License)

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Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

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New zine!✨

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Planetesimal is a zine series where each issue includes flash fiction. Some stories are interconnected while others stand alone.

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Issue 2 includes three pieces of bite-sized fiction: “The Flame,” “Rain Check,” and “Downtempo.”

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Printed copies are available in my Etsy shop (U.S. only). I’m also open to trading (anywhere mail can go).

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Zine details:

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Zines I made

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I made 5 zines in 2025. Surprisingly, only one of these is a mini zine.

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Zine contributions

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Just one this year: Pocket Thoughts Annual #7

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Events

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My December newsletter is out.

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📬 IN THIS ISSUE

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Subscribe (for free!) to get future newsletters via email.

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New zine! 💫 “Your Home on the Web” is a 16-page zine about low tech, low cost ways to make a simple website or blog. Notes for each platform include a description, key features, and pricing.

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The zine encourages you to have your own space on the internet, away from mainstream social media platforms.

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Details:

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How to read this zine:

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Here’s a quick video that shows how I use a pencil mug to flatten my zines. Very simple, low-tech. But I’ve gotten a few questions about it, so I thought it was worth showing.

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I drew some background pages for a new zine I’m working on.

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Pretty simple process.

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    Draw a lot of random dots on a piece of paper.

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    Draw straight lines to connect dots. I change direction when going to a new dot. It’s okay to cross over an existing line, but I do not go through an exisiting dot.

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New zine and new zine series! ✨

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Planetesimal is a zine series where each issue includes flash fiction. Some stories are interconnected while others stand alone.

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Issue 1 includes one story, “The Accident.”

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Emily recently discovered she has special abilities related to weather and nature. A truck accident forces her to choose between keeping her abilities a secret or revealing them to her friend, Mark. (This story originally appeared in a podcast episode for VLASINDA’s Desolate Library.)

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Printed copies are available in my Etsy shop (U.S. only). I’m also open to trading (anywhere mail can go).

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Zine details:

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Physical copies of “How I Keep A Journal” are now available on Etsy (U.S. only). I’m also open to trading zines, wherever mail can go.

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More about this zine

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With no particular timing in mind, I’m going to move the non-zine-related posts on this site to my personal site, kalikambo.com. Keeping this site for zines only and then everything else on kalikambo.com is easier for me.

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As is, when I have art to post, I have to decide where it fits more – here or kalikambo. And sometimes it’s hard to be consistent about what goes on which site.

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Just a head’s up, if you notice some posts are no longer here.

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Someone on Etsy asked if I planned on making more copies of “Timers for travelers.”

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I’m not planning on printing more copies any time soon, but I thought it was a good opportunity to make a digital version. The PDF version of “Timers for travelers” is now available on Ko-fi (free/pay what you want).

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One hundred copies of my PDF tutorial, “How to design a mini zine in Canva,” have been downloaded on Ko-fi. 😃 I’m glad people continue to find it, and hopefully they’re making lots of zines!

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I got a few zines from Veronique and Sierra DeCarmen that use the French fold format, and I was inspired to try it myself.

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How I Keep a Journal is a zine about my journaling habit. It includes a short background on my journaling style, how I set up my notebook, and how journaling helps me. I wrote everything by hand, which is not my norm for zines with a lot of text. 😅 But it fits the journaling theme.

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The zine is printed in color, double-sided, on white 8.5x11-inch paper.

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Images of each page are below. You can download a printable PDF version in my Ko-fi shop (for free/pay what you want). Physical copies are available on Etsy (U.S. only).

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I really like the French fold, and I have ideas for more zines in this format. 🙂

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I participated in FedizineFest, which is a zine sharing and distribution project for the fediverse.

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Think of it like an online zine fest. Some people buy zines. Some people make zines. And some people do both.

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I submitted my Text Message Moods zine, so everyone who got physical zines, got a copy of that.

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Below are the zines I got from the other people who submitted physical zines. You can learn more about each one on the FediZineFest 2025 page.

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This is fountain pen inks on watercolor paper with a lot of water. I’m probably going to use it as a background for a zine I’m making.

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July is International Zine Month, celebrating zines and independent publishing around the world.

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I’ve seen prompt lists from Stolen Sharpie Revolution and Blanca Carla, so if you want to participate but don’t know how, start there. 🙂

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I’m not sure what zines I’ll be working on this month, but I am always open to trading zines! I’ll send zines anywhere mail can go. Check out my trading page for details. 📬 🌎

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I made my first cyanotype today at a local print festival. This is a printing process that uses photo-sensitive paper and chemicals to produce a blue-colored print.

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The first step is arranging items on the paper. Then you put a pane of glass on top to keep everything in place. This setup has to sit for about 5 minutes, like exposure time for the paper.

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Then the paper gets washed in water. For this specific paper, you can put a few drops of hydrogen peroxide on the page and wipe it over the surface to make the blue more saturated.

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After drying (easy in a heatwave) and flattening the paper, it looks like this.

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The new issue of Carrier Pigeon Quarterly is available! This is a guide to new zine and comics releases, organized by Joe Hohman.

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I have a zine listed in this issue, and I’m excited to see what other work was included!

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Copies are available on Ko-fi for $1 (+$1 postage).

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Friendly reminder to write down your ideas, even if you don’t know yet what you’ll do with them.

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My newest zine, “My Favorite DVD Designs,” was an idea I came up with two years ago. I didn’t even start working on it until a few months ago.

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Here’s the initial sketch.

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Fast forward two years, and this is the page I made based on that sketch.

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Write down your ideas and also review them over time.

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Sometimes you think of something to create, but you don’t feel like making it right away. So keep your notes. 🙂

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“My Favorite DVD Designs” is a 16-page zine that collects photos of DVDs with interesting graphics.

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This zine celebrates physical media. Pages feature photos of discs with text about how the graphics connect to the TV show or movie.

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I have 1 copy available on Etsy (U.S. only).

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I also released a PDF version on Ko-fi.

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Zine fest is about a month away, so I’ve gotta start folding. 😅

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I used photo collections in Micro.blog to create a page with my featured zines. Then after the photos, I added links to each zine.

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