Free Zine Friday #7

Sometimes on Friday I highlight a few zines I love that are free to read! For more free zines, check out my big free zines page.

Whisper
ed. by Little NEO

I'm really fascinated by the sorts of things you can do with zines in the digital space. This is one example--Nicole gathered submissions, "whispers", for this zine via a form embedded on their website, and added them as pages to the digital zine as they came in. My favorite part is the formatting, where the submissions were edited to look like they had been printed on the pages of an old, thin-page book by warping them slightly to follow the lines of the page. It looks incredible and lends such beauty and interest to these snippet submissions. The content itself is raw and simple as well in a beautiful way. Nicole is such a generous artist as well who shares zines for free both digitally and physically. You can tell how hard Nicole works to contribute to the artistic community.

19 pages, color

You Know You're a Rural Queen When
by Olivia M

This zine hits hard--every experience really paints a picture of the overall loneliness one experiences when they don't have a local community. What really gets me about it is the author is in Connecticut (according to the map in the zine). It's so easy to classify queer-friendly areas by "red state, blue state", but this goes to show that rural America is everywhere and every queer space is essential!

16 pages, B&W