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I've been thinking about making a zine for a while, but it always seemed like a big project. In my head I'd have to get all my friends together, receive submissions, edit and assemble and distribute. But today my friend posted a really cool zine they made and it inspired me to just start making one.
My goal recently has been to get back into creating freely, without overthinking, just letting things flow out of me and removing resistance. I like the quote that Tyler the Creator shared, "Create like a child, edit like a scientist." I want to create like a child at the very least, to connect with the ways I created when I was younger. I want to heal my inner creative child and nurture the interests I've had my whole life. And try to get past the resistance I feel to creating in general, since it's so easy to just be on the internet and stay idle instead. I desperately want to make things, somehow. I have to both force it AND let it flow.
So I looked up how to fold a single sheet of paper into a zine. Then I gathered a few materials which were easy to grab, and then I just started drawing. The first topic that came to mind, in the spirit of connecting with my inner creative child, was monsters. I was a monster kid, I had monster themed sheets, and my mom made me an awesome handmade monster costume for halloween (pictured above, probably 2008 or 9?). I used to draw them all the time, but I called my creations "monstars", named after my most commonly drawn character, who was some type of green dinosaur type guy. I don't remember very many of my monstars, but I'm sure they're in a box somewhere in my mom's house.
