Please help the zine mobile get back on the road!

Please help the zine mobile get back on the road!

Dear beloved community: After a few months of rest and regrouping, it’s time for the zine mobile to get back in action!  AND WE HUMBLY REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

What we need more than anything is GAS IN THE TANK AND SOME ROUTINE MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE. If you you have $5, $10, $20, or even $50 or $100 to help support the work of this free traveling library and resource/reading room, please CLICK HERE TO DONATE! Donors of all levels will receive our heartfelt gratitude and a copy of Jenna Freedman’s zine chronicling the zine mobile’s inaugural journey!  If a financial contribution isn’t available to you (and even if it is), please consider spreading the word! We also love encouragements and general positive energy our way…

Where are we headed?  We’re hoping to make it to Chicago for an impromptu appearance at Zine Fest this weekend (if there’s parking!), and soon after we’ll be headed to San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico!

More info coming soon. Thank you so much for your support of the work we do!

(Photo by E. Bartholomew)

recently-donated zines

excited and grateful for four new zines recently donated to the zine mobile — now available for checkout! — thanks to the zine-makers who made and sent them!

* a thousand times yes: reflections on yoko ono, by Kate Angell

* Adam Gnade’s Do It Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin Sad

* 5iren5 and Death in a Rifle Garden, poetry zines by John Vincent Greco

free zine tour zine!!

Jenna Freedman, aka lower east side librarian, has graciously offered to send her newly-published zine — a first-person account of Orderly Disorder: Zinester Librarians in Circulation Tour, and the zine mobile’s inaugural journey — to anyone who donates : ) Y-E-S-!-! Thank you, Jenna!

photo shamelessly stolen from jenna's website

help keep the zine mobile moving!

Next week the zine mobile will shove off from the Midwest to Oakland/San Francisco, possibly stopping in Omaha, Denver, and Salt Lake City along the way… From the Bay we’ll head south, with stops in Los Angeles and San Diego… then east through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida… In March, up thru South and North Carolinas, aaanndd… a Spring Break tour is underway — possibly thru Canada!  Exciting!

Could you please help us get from here to there? As a free, traveling, self-contained entity, there are many ways to do so… right now what’s MOST needed is:

♥ MONEY FOR GAS!!!  If you have a few (or many) bucks to spare, pleeeease consider donating money or gas gift certificates to keep the zine mobile literally moving. We’re exploring options for transitioning from petrol to waste-veggie and solar power, but for now, for better or worse, it takes $80 to fill the tank!  Yes, $80!!

** Exciting update!  Anyone who donates will receive a copy of Zine Tour Zine, a first-person account of the Zine Mobile’s inaugural travels, created by Jenna Freedman, incredible zine-maker and librarian! **

♥ CONTACTS/ACCESS/ASSISTANCE in the places we’re headed… If you’re interested in helping organize a self-publishing/zine event, know of an awesome space to park/have open library hours, are interested in housing/feeding the library workers that travel in the zine mobile, please get in touch — zinemobile(at)gmail(dot)com. Cities, small towns, rural areas, intentional communities, land projects, small farms, animal sanctuaries — we’re open to anything, especially excited to participate in events that are free/donation-only, wheelchair accessible, and all-ages.

More ways to help will be posted soon. As ever, spreading the word and sending good vibes is equally important and appreciated!

! ! ! T H A N K  Y O U  ♥  T H A N K  Y O U  ♥  T H A N K  Y O U ! ! !

Call for Zine Donations!

If your zine collection is sitting around collecting dust, think about sending it our way for people to read and use! If you’re a zinester or distro, we’d love to have two copies of your zine(s) — one for the the Fly Away Zine Mobile, and one for our sister project, the Zine Apothecary, a new garage-based zine library near Powderhorn Park in South Minneapolis. Both projects are volunteer-run, not-for-profit. Zines will either loaned out or kept as references/archives; they’ll never be sold.

Help us spread the excitement of self-publishing! And get exposure for your own creations, too!

Please send all zines to:
Fly Away Zine Mobile/Zine Apothecary
3310 15th Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55407

Thank you!  And please spread the word!

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Update!

Over $6,000 has been raised so far!!! I found a van and will post pix soon ( it’s getting some work done in preparation for a life on the road)!

If you believe in the power of self-publishing, please consider supporting in whatever way is accessible to you — donating money for gas/travel, zines for the library, spreading the word, sending good vibes… We’re really hoping to reach $10,000 by the time we hit the road–June 22nd!

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO’S SUPPORTED ALREADY!!!

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$2,800 raised so far!!

We’re overjoyed with the support and excitement for the Zine Mobile project—in under a week, people have donated over $2,800, pledged to send zines, spread the word far and wide, and invited the Zine Mobile to all sorts of incredible places!!!  THANK YOU!!!

Please please keep this momentum going by DONATING MONEY (anything helps — even a few bucks!) OR check our WISH LIST for other equally-important ways of supporting! 

Our goal is $10,000 by June 20!

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED SO FAR!!!!  This is gonna be amazing…

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Go Zine Mobile!

♥ ! S U P P O R T   T H E   F L Y  A W A Y  Z I N E  M O B I L E ! ♥

The Zine Mobile launches in less than two weeks — so exciting!!  Please help give it a good sendoff by doing one (or more!) of the following!?  Thank you thank you!!!

♥ Donate money! Any amount helps and is sooooo appreciated!  Money raised goes only toward fuel, supplies/resources, and food (all participants are volunteers). We have a full schedule that necessitates a lot of driving… the more money we raise, the more places we can go!

♥ Donate zines — ones you’ve already made or make a new one!  Please send zines to our sister project, Zine Apothecary, 3310 15th Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55407.

♥ Donate magazine racks and clip displays!  email zinemobile(at)gmail.com and we can arrange to get them (Twin Cities!).

♥ Help out at the launch/celebration! In particular we’re looking for people to help teach mini/informal zine-making sessions. Get in touch if you’re interested: zinemobile(at)gmail.com.

♥ Spread the word of the Zine Mobile and hold wishes of a successful launch and inaugural tour for us!

♥ ! T H A N K   Y O U  T H A N K   Y O U   T H A N K   Y O U ! ♥

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(artwork: drawings by kariann burleson, on top of a painting by lisa koluvek)