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The Women! Wanted Zine was my first ever zine and probably to this day still the one I'm proudest of. It looks absolutely stunning, the quality of all the items is amazing all around and I learned a ton of stuff in this project.
I met some amazing people that I soon re-met in bunch of different projects and I'm thankful that I had such a great project as introduction to the Zine-World, even if it was hella lot for a first off.

This project was also very organised and I still to this day hold it as reference for a lot of ways I go in projects organisation. The Drive was clean, schedules, dates, guides were all stated clear and the discord was easy to navigate even with it's size and the contributor count.

Everyone worked well and looking back after i've done more projects I am baffled as how little problems we had. We never really had to hunt contributors down, most people kept the deadlines and the mods all did their job quick and well. The teamwork was functioning on high levels and it was an absolute amazing atmosphere to work in.

The quality of all the merch and the zine itself where also very high-quality. The Zine itself had amazing paper and still holds in my small collection spot for the best manufacturing. Pricewise we were also very reasonable, especially considering how many many items we had.

Women! Wanted Zine

Zine Specs:

Fanzine for the Show One Piece

Started: 18th April 2020
Finished: 10th March 2021

Physical Zine A4, 156 pages, perfect bound, Covermaterial: 235 g Chromokarton mit einseitig Soft-Feel folienkaschiert matt*, Material Innenteil: 170 g Bilderdruck matt*

Total 88 Participants consisting of
(note, some people had multiple roles!)
3x Head Moderators, 5x Art Moderators, 5x Writing Moderators, 5x Art Moderators, 1x Finance Moderators, 3x Social Media Moderators, 3x Server Moderators, 1x Audio Moderator
53x PageArtists, 38x Writers, 35x Merch Contributors (Artists and Writers)

Notes* = Production in germany, spec-options and details in german. For questions please refer to DM, Mail or CuriousCat in Contact

Physical Merch:

3x A6 Postcards - 4x A4 Posters - 2x Wooden Charms - 1x A5 Side Zine - 5x Stickersheets - 1x Wooden Pin - 2x Patches - 1x Cardboard Game of pairs consistent of one bag and 2x 16 cards and 1x manual - 2x Buttons - 2x Magnets - 1x Bookmark - 1x A5 Notebook - 1x Sheet Temporary Tattoos consistent of 8 Tattoos - 1x 12-Month Calendar - 1x Tote Bag - 1x DIY Carboard O-kiku mask

Digital Merch:

14x Coloring Pages - 4x Desktop Wallpapers - 3x Phone Wallpapers - 1x Side Zine (PDF) - 1x Game of pairs manual (PDF) - 1x Audiobook consistend of 5x Songs, 4x FanFictions, 1x Cover and 1x PDF with Lyrics and FanFictions - 1x DYI O-Kiku Mask template (PDF)

Roles and Tasks:

-Art Moderator - going through each CheckIn via Google Drive and giving feedback on perspective, lightning/shading, anatomy and composition. Main focus was perspectives of backgrounds.
-Merch Moderator - going though each CheckIn via Google Drive and giving feedback on specs, size, position, anatomy and style fit for responding item
-Server Moderator - Making sure that all particpants in the server stay in line, that the guides in the discord are respected and giving people warnings when rules have been broken
-Stream Moderator - Organising the social media event on our twitch account, scheduling streams of contributors and monitoring the streams
-Audio Moderator - Organising and managing the Audio Book
-Art Contributor - Creating the Page Piece for Rika, 1x Phone wallpaper of Kuina, 1x Desktop Wallpaper of Nami and Vivi, 1x Coloring Page of Rika, Cover for the Audio Book
-Writing Contributor - Creating the Fiction for Raki

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The Fashion Dawn Zine was definetely something different from my first ever experience. It was definetely a wild ride and we had one and the other problem facing us, but it was an interesting challenge getting over those and pushing on with the project.

The organisation surely was a bit more wonky than in the Women!Wanted Zine, especially with 2 of originally 5 mods basically ghosting us and dropping completely in the end, leaving instead of a full mod team a small scrapped trio behind.

However even with the team reduction we managed to pull this project through, taking over roles that originally weren't ours and still doing our very best to fullfil them - mostly with success.

The shipping with COVID at this moment is a bit icky and also intern there were some problems and confusions with it, but it went on and we managed to get back on track.

In total it definetely wasn't as well organised as Women!Wanted, but it for sure had it's own charm and style and worked out great in the end with lots of new experiences to learn from.

Fashion Dawn

Zine Specs:

Fanzine for the Show One Piece with various characters as fashion icons / models

Started: 21st August 2020
Finished: 13th September 2021

Physical Zine A4, 108 pages, perfectbound, 80lb satin paper, 100lb matte lamination cover

Total 55 Participants consisting of
(note, some people had multiple roles!)
1x Head Moderator, 1x Art Moderator, 1x Graphic Moderator, 1x Formatting Moderator, 1x Shipping Moderator, 1x Finances and Production Moderator
10x Writers, 37x PageArtists, 8x Merch Artists

Physical Merch:

2x Buttons - 4x Stickers - 2x Stickersheets - 2x Acrylic Charms - 1x Washitape - 4x Fashion Cards

Roles and Tasks:

-Organisation Moderator - Organising the deadlines and merch, keeping the drive in check and checking of contributors
-Art Moderator - Checking in with the contributors that colorprofile, dimensions and deadlines were meat. Feedback wasn't provided much unless specifically asked for
-Merch Moderator - Checking in with the contributors that colorprofile, dimensions and deadlines were meat. Feedback wasn't provided much unless specifically asked for
-Formatting Intern - Helped the main formatting Moderator via double checking the pages, making some adjustments or suggestions
-Graphics Moderator- Creating Contributor and Mod spotlights, LineUps, Shop-graphics and general post graphics. Also finalized the optic of the shop site.
-Contributor Art - Finished the WIP of a contributor that had dropped with consent to make the planned pagecount possible

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Boss Rush was a small but pleasent experience, it was a nice change to only be on the Contributors end for once.

The project was organized very well, even with just one Moderator on the team. The feedback wasn't very constructive but it was still nice to receive some kind of comment.

As said a small but nice project and I'm glad to have been part of this niche little collection :)

Download link here!

Boss RUsh

Zine Specs:

Fanzine for various Videogame Characters

Started: 20th December 2020
Finished: 28th March 2021

Digital Only, 183 pages

Total 62 Participants consisting of
1x Head Moderator
5x Writers, 56x Artists

Roles and Tasks:

-Contributor Art - Contributed a Single Page piece of 'The Lady' from 'Little nightmares' to the project

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The Left4Dead was a small but niche project! It was short but went all in all well, although I didn't had to participate much to it. We had great contributors who also bought in a lot of ideas and set up a lot of the merch by themselves with just a bit of guidance from the mods.

It seemed a bit disorganized from time to time but altogether it worked really well and ended with a nice zine!

Download link here!

Left 4 Dead Zine

Zine Specs:

Fanzine for the game Left4Dead

Started: 12th October 2020
Finished: 14th March 2021

Digital Only, 57 pages

Total 27 Participants consisting of
(note, some people had multiple roles!)
1x Head Moderator, 2x Graphics Moderator, 1x Art Moderator, 1x Discord Moderator
2x Writers, 22x Artists

Digital Merch:

3x in-Game Sprays - 16x Icons / Discord Emotes - 5x Phone Wallpapers - 1x Desktop Wallpaper

Roles and Tasks:

-Art Moderator - Checking in on the contributors that everyone submits their work. Feedback was not provided unless specifically asked for.
-Discord Moderator - Keep the Discord in check and make sure all guidelines are followed in the server

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Children of the Forest started with a bit of a harsh issue where mods had been accepted into positions and then shortly after replaced due to an acceptance-error. It got settled really peaceful though and even when I personally got bumped down from General/Organisational Moderator and Art Moderator to Art and Organisation intern. It was an understandable choice since the other had more experience to offer so it was a decision in the favor of the zine that no-one held any grudges against.

After that rocky start it went really well though and the mod team handled everything really well, the contributors where all pretty much always on time and it was organized well.

The product looks very nice and even if it also was a very small project, I'm glad I was able to help out, even if only from time to time as an intern.

Children of the Forest

Zine Specs:

Fanzine for the game Animation Studio Cartoon Saloon
Focus on the Three Movies 'Song of the Sea', 'Wolfwalkers' and 'The secret of Kells'

Started: 13th December 2020
Finished: -

Physical Zine A5, 68 pages

Total 41 Participants consisting of
(note, some people had multiple roles!)

Physical Merch:

1x Print - 1x Stickersheets - 3x Acrylic Charms

Roles and Tasks:

-Art Intern - Checking the submissions regarding bleed, the quite area and general layout
-Organisation Intern - Helping out in organisation and communication when needed

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As many others, One Piece SEASONS was a wild ride. The old mod team kicked the project and half the contributors jumped off then too, leaving some new mods including me having to come in anew and casting new people within the shortest time. That was the first time I did something like that and it was amazing and awfully stressful equally, but it also thought reassuring things. There were a lot of incredibly motivated and dedicated people, which made it possible to even get this started again after firstly being abandoned.
In the end this turned into an amazing adventure and project and it was a lot of fun to work on - even if it sometimes cost blood and tears, but which Zine doesn't.
The quality of the finished things are great and it's amazing holding the Zine i formatted in my own hands. Incredible project, works and people.

One Piece Seasons

Zine Specs:

Fanzine for the show One Piece with various characters within the seasons winter and autumn.

Started: 25th April 2021
Finished: 27th October 2021

Physical A5, 106 pages, Digitally printed, perfect bound PUR Binding, Coating (outside): Soft Touch lamination

Total 44 Participants consisting of
(note, some people had multiple roles!)
1x Head Moderator, 1x Graphics Moderator, 1x Finance Mod, 1x Communication Mod, 1x Organisation Mod, 1x Social Media Mod
6x Writers, 26x Artists, 4x Merch Artists

Physical Merch:

2x Polaroid-Prints - 1x Postcard foldable - 1x StickerSheet - 2x Stickers - 1x Acrylic Charm - 2x Rubber Keychains - 2x Enamel Pin - 2x Heart-Shaped Button

Roles and Tasks:

-Graphic Moderator - Creating Graphics for the Socials and the Shop including Spotlights and others
-Formatting Moderator - Formatting and Layouting the finished Zine
-Organisation Moderator - Keep the Drive organized and track of the contributor submissions
-Spot Artist - Create Spot illustrations fitting to Fictions
-Layout Artist - Create Illustrations for the Layout

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Strawberry Lemonade was a really cool and fun project with an amazing team. The Mods behind this were all extremly engaged and hands on, timely and well managed and worked really great as a team and on their own. The contributors were working hard too and worked well with received feedback.
At the start were some minor issues about how to submit the checkins, but that was resolved in the next checkin without any problems, making the whole process easier for the contributors.
The end project is amazing and has great quality and i am still amazed as to how much merch got produced for this digital only project.

Strawberry Lemonade

Zine Specs:

Fanzine for the show Boku no Hero Academia with the characters Bakugou Katsuki x Kirishima Eijiro

Started: 20th January 2021
Finished: 26th October 2021

Digital only, 156 pages

Total 61 Participants consisting of
(note, some people had multiple roles!)
1x Head Mod, 1x Organisation Mod, 1x Art Mod, 1x Writing Mod, 1x Graphic Mod, 1x Formatting Mod, 1x Finance Mod, 1x Social Media Intern, 1x Finance Intern, 1x Art Intern, 1x Writing Intern, 15x Main Artists, 12x Main Writers, 8x Merch Artists, 9x NSFW Artists, 8x NSFW Writers

Digital Merch:

2x Coloring Pages - 4x Animated Emotes - 4x Emotes - 8x Icons - 2x Instagram Posts - 6x Polaroids - 5x Phone Wallpaper - 2x Desktop Wallpaper

Roles and Tasks:

-Art Moderator - Ensure that all artists were on time and followed the schedule, provided feedback on drawings when asked for or deemed necessary