Long Arm Stapler

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by the organizer of another zine fest happening on July 11th, though this one is much closer to home: the third annual Enjoy Zine Festival. It will take place on July 11th at Medicine for Nightmares in the Mission in San Francisco. Norman, the organizer, and I talk about how to sort th...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This is the first episode of season 9, and I'm joined by the organizers (Angel, Jonas, Red, and Alex) of the Midwest Perzine Fest, happening on July 11th in Chicago at the Chicago Athletic Association! In this episode, we talk about why perzines are important, the fun parts and challenges of organizing a zine...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the final episode of Season 8 of Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Wisconsin-based zinester and artist Tiana Traffas. We talk about how zines foster connections, why they're such an amazing and accessible medium, Tiana's work, and more! I also try to convince her to start sewing! Find more of Tiana's work...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Milo, one of the co-founders of QZAP, the Queer Zine Archive Project. QZAP is a free digital archive of past and present queer zines. We talk about zine archiving, the importance of zines to queer storytelling, the zine community, and more! Find QZAP here: https://qzap.org/ https://...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Bay Area-based zinester Lella of T-Nest Press. We talk about her history with zines and getting back into making them, her small riso press, the similarities between zines and fiber arts, and more. Find more of Lella's work: https://www.instagram.com/t.nest.press/ https://tnest...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Ari, a volunteer with Brown Recluse Zine Distro. BRZD is a zine distro for BIPOC by BIPOC; they are collectively run and community supported. We talk about what a zine distro is, what they do and why they're important, doing things in a more analog style, the zine community, an...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Toni Pecchia, who makes zines under the name Chicken Milkshake. We talk about her solo work, her work with Oakland-based DIY arts nonprofit Rock Paper Scissors Collective, having your own style, and more! We also do a follow-up to last episode's conversation with Brigitte about...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Brigitte Coovert, a lifelong zinester and currently the author of Commonplace, who is based in Florida. We talk about the ethics of digitizing a zine collection, zine reviews, horse trauma, and more. Find more of Brigitte's work here: http://commonplaceszines.etsy.com http://ko...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by NY-based Erin Dorney. We talk about her work, which includes zines about the stresses of being a renter, erasure poetry, and art books, how she got into zines, dachshunds, and more! Find more of Erin's work: https://www.erindorney.com/links http://instagram.com/erindorney Find...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Bay Area-based zinester Milo of Migguzi Zines. We talk about how Milo got into zines (shout out to former guest, Bre Upton!), his creative process, where to find inspiration, and more. We also maybe agreed to both make zines about Degrassi? Find more of Milo's work: Instagram:...

Send us Fan Mail Helloooooooo and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Keidra of Wild Ramp Publishing, a Chicago-based micro press dedicated to zines about fandom, pop culture, disability, and identity. We talk about how Keidra got into zines, Wild Ramp's microgrants, zine community, and more! Find more of Keidra's work: Instagram: @ke...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the first episode of season 8 of Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Sharaya of Pearl Snap Press. We talk about how she got into zines, starting a zine library, her creative process, the wonders of zine trades, and more! You can find more of Sharaya's work here: https://www.instagram.com/pearl.snap.press And trade wit...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! It's the final episode of season 7 and this episode, I'm joined by Christopher Specht of Lone Star Zine Fest & Austin Zine Friends. We talk about how he got started with zines, zine community, starting a nonprofit to run a zine fest, zine fest organizing, and more! Find more on Christopher's proj...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Kyle Kubik and Celeste Roberts of Read Only Magazine, which is a biannual retro gaming publication Kyle started in 2021. ROM focuses on thoughtful, human-centered reflections on why video games and the experiences they create really matter. We talk about how ROM came about, how it&a...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Washington-based Lain from Loveless Press, an "independent nonprofit zinery," whose zines are all freely distributed with the belief that art and information should belong to everyone! We talk about their road to making zines, what inspires them, feeling understood by othe...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Karina Hagelin of Healing is the Best Revenge. We talk about how they got their start making zines in college, creating the resources you want to see in the world, their creative process, and more! Find more of Karina's work: http://karinahagelin.etsy.com IG: @femmesupremacy http://www.k...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by Madeline of Aviatrix Press, who is a LA-based printer and illustrator. We talk about her risograph work, why zine making should be scrappy and experimental and weird, editing reprints, and more! In this episode, we discuss the zine "Replicating Risograph With Your Home Printer&...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode I'm joined by analog collage artist and zinester Kris Kalinowski. They started making zines in 2020 and have made many since then, and we talk about their creative process, poetry, the trials of pagination, COVID consciousness, and more! In this episode, we mention the Zine Arranger by Nash High,...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! On this episode, I welcome back Miquela Davis, an Orange County-based zinester and zine fest organizer who loves dogs and even drew the show's logo. We talk about Zine Camp (her August series of zine prompts to spark your creativity), some updates about OC Zine Fest, and I ask her a few of the questions I got...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! This episode, I'm joined by underground comic artist Ivy Rose. We chat about her journey to zines and comics, the zine scenes of the Bay Area, Chicago and the Southwest, the zine community in general, and more! Find more of Ivy's work here: http://etsy.com/shop/ivyrosezines Instagram:  @ivyrosezines You c...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! In this episode, I'm joined by A'misa and Chloe of the Reed College Zine Library and its corresponding zine fest. We talk about libraries, zine fest organization, getting youth involved in zines, and more. Find more info about the Reed Zine Fest and Zine Library: Instagram:  @reedzinelibrary https://linkt...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! It's the first episode of season 7, if you can believe it! In this episode, I'm joined by Tucson, AZ-based Uguu Bella, who is a multimedia artist and zinester. We talk about her many hobbies, zine making and zine community, getting over self-doubt, and more! You can find more of Bella's work here: ht...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines. It's the final episode of season 6, and I'm joined by longtime zinester Liz Mason! We talk about getting feedback from others, library school, Quimby's, and more. You can find more of Liz's work here: https://lizmasonisawesome.com/ Instagram: @caboosezine You can find more of my work here: http:...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines! I'm very excited about this episode, because I'm joined by Keisa of Treehouse Annex, and we've known each other longer than I've been making zines. We talk about how they got into zines, Treehouse Annex as a creative hub, nurturing creativity, and more! Find more Treehouse Annex here: http://tre...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to Long Arm Stapler, a podcast about zines. This episode, I'm joined by Dayna Moth, who is a zine fest organizer, zine reviewer, longtime zinester, and also happens to be a monthly ko-fi supporter! We talk about Dayna's zine journey, their creative process, KC Zine Con, and more. Find more of Dayna's work here: http://catmothcrow.com Instagram...