Free Zine Friday #8: Cute Hobby Collabs

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.

Milk and Honey
collab (ed. by AllyRat)

So this is actually a SERIES of (currently) four collab zines, celebrating, highlighting, and created by members of the Lolita fashion community in Aotearoa (New Zealand)! The zines are stunningly colorful and fun, it feels like flipping through an old Japanese fashion magazine, which is of course perfect for what they're doing. I love reading the interviews, but I also go back just to look at all the pretty outfits. It's also got recipes, advice, fashion brand highlights, diaries from group outings, and more! My favorite is the section with photos of contributors' bedrooms in issue one. And the best part--the zines are totally size, race, and gender inclusive!

36-48 pages, color

Nekozine Issue 1
collab

A super cute collab zine about the love of indie web development made by our neighbors on nekoweb! My website (the one you're on now) was hand-coded on the indie web, so naturally I love how this zine does an amazing job expressing the joy, creative freedom, and empowerment that can come from making your own sites for fun and the love of the web's possibilities. Full of art, web&tech history, and fun web tutorials, all with a cute anime catgirl theme.

54 pages, color