QUEER ZINE TALE

#traduction en français la semaine prochaine, c'est promis!#

Here u've got the zine queer tale that has taken all my neurones from the last weeks.

Queer zine history, as any underground media history, is difficult to explain and find as not many people take care of collecting all the information, as all the information is not easily available. I think that's the way it is because, even if I also think that we should be aware of history, it reflects a non-hierachical network system, where there is no real "first" of "major" one. Maybe the only solution to a non-hierarchical, non-established history that respects this notion of network and personal creation is to collect everything and make everyone has acces to everything. For me the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is a great solution for our lack of history information on queer zines. And everyone making queer zines should be actif in supporting it in a kind of political engagement: we are queers and we do queer zines for all queers in the world. Let's use internet if it can help us. Let's use mail. Let's use festivals, meetings, books, radios, concerts, demonstrations. Let's travel and bring our stuff with us, let's distro and exchange.

This zine queer tale is not a perfect one: many names, people, places are missing. I'm aware of that. All zines, people, places are equally important for the network. This is not a history og big names but a history of big ideas.
I did my best with the information I had, but I'm ready, and hopeful, to change things around, add, draw more and more pages. I want to know more about European, African, Asian, South American queer zines. This shouldn't be a North American centered tale, but for the moment it is. That's easy to change if we (non North American queer zinesters) want to, so let's change it.


Thanx so much for all the groups and individuals supporting this project (Milo and Chris from the Qzap, Nina from Echo Records and Riot Grrrl Europe, Derek, Elena, the Broken Pencil articles, cha, sev, marion, rinka and véro).
Thanx to the Queeruption Vancouver organizers (specially the zine "master" Reece)

and merci to sonia and catmates for the cozy bed!!!

revolution (from #6)

dans ce numéro j'ai introduit des illustrations de ma vie de tous les jours, ou presque, à Montréal. Des lieux et des personnes que j'aime sans forcement faire des blagues ou des questionnement politiques. N'empêche que certains de ces dessins montrent un côté militant de montréal, comme celui-ci. Revolution est un atelier des vélos tenu par des gouines anglophones. On peut aussi aller se faire couper les cheveux ou voir des expos queers.
Et c'est mon illustration préférée du #6.

trip pour new york (from #6)

post-spider (from english version 1-5)

i know post-spider is the favourite charcater of many of you. Even if it makes me jealous, i publish its strips here...because i also feel like there's a little bit of me in this fuckin' spider!!!

enjoy.

LANCEMENT DE TES ZINES PREFERES!!!!

I LOVE RIOT GRRRLZ

OH MY GODE I JUST LOVE IT!
I just love riot queer grrlz having fun and doing politics!!! From my loved zinester friend Nina running this amazing records and zines distro called Echo and making so many smash-sexism events. Riot Grrrl Belgium and their zines, stickers and festivals is one of the things that keep me loving doing zines and drawing riot comix. The zines are so beautifully hand-made one becomes angry in front of the cold computer. Recycled paper, flyer size, black and white simply wonderful drawings and hand-written textes,all mixed-up with such an intelligent cozy angry riot grrrl expression....music, girl labels, rebel-fests, self-defence, sisterhood riot, infos, squats, femstruation, gender expressions, direct actions, diy!!!!

I LOVE YOU GRRRLZ!!!!