Howdy snails! And an extra big "welcome" to all the folks who are new to the snail mail society. If you are new, on/around the 15th of each month, I share what'll be hitting your mailboxes later this month. This is what I've got in store for y'all in March:
⋆｡°✩ This month's chronicle is a chatty, "what's going on in my life" letter. February is always a busy month for me, and that's spilled on over into March. But, as I say at the end of the newsletter, I'm "glad that much of what I'm doing is building up my community and making art with cool people".
⋆｡°✩ For sustainers and stars, this month's playlist is called "Give the Anarchist a Cigarette" after the Chumbawamba song of the same name. I've been on a big Chumba kick lately. As uzhe, if you're in the those tiers and wanna listen now, head to the playlist portal page and tune in!
⋆｡°✩ My catmothcrow revisits movie review series carries on with a review of The Last Unicorn. These mini zines are just for y'all in the star tier. The centerfold of this zine is a very silly poster of a surfing unicorn that you can hang on your wall!
⋆｡°✩ Stars are also getting a shiny foiled greeting card! If you watched the latest chatty vlog, then you already know that I got to play around with a risograph machine, and had plans to laser print ontop my riso'd art in an attempt to add some foiling... and it mostly worked! I probably won't do it again (it was imperfect, messy, used more toner than expected), but it was a fun experiment and the cards look pretty spiffy if I do say so myself:
And that's all for now! I'll be dropping all these snail mail goodies off at the post office tomorrow, so keep an eye on your mailboxes.
⋆｡°✩ I think this month’s issue of the catmothcrow chronicle looks especially lovely, as the collages have a sort of grunge-y fairytale feel to them. The newsletter features my picks for the Oscars, a spotlight on one of my favorite artists — you’ll have to read the zine to know just who it is that I’m spotlighting, but I’ll give you a hint: I think of them as my witchy zinester fairy godmother, as they were self-publishing “tiny magazines” all the way back in 1903! — and my monthly recommendation list of books, zines, bites, shows, and movies that I’m reading/eating/watching.
⋆｡°✩ Snail Stars are also getting the second issue of my catmothcrow revisits movie zine. This zine is an exclusive just for folks in the Snail Star tier! I’ve given myself a mission this year to re-watch one movie a month that I used to love but haven’t watched in at least 10 years (extra points if it’s one that I already have on dvd!) Then, I’m writing a movie review mini zine about the flick… does it hold up? Or did youth give me rose-colored glasses? This month’s feature is (spoiler alert) a bit of the latter!
⋆｡°✩ I’m also sending Snail Stars a copy of my “melt the ICE” protest zine. This zine is FREE, so if you’ve got a print hook-up, please print off as many as you can and distribute widely.
⋆｡°✩ Finally, Snail Stars and Sustainers are getting a playlist that I made to listen to on the full moon. If you’ve been a member of one of those tiers, you already know the password to the playlist portal page and can give it a listen now.
