Zines and comics by qu**rs, feminists, anarchists, witches, and weirdos.
Some things I've been doing since I retired from the distro... š
Itās been a full two years since I retired from Fight Boredom Distro, and I still donāt regret it. But Iāve kept paying for this domain (a very, very small amount of money tbh) inā¦
I am very slowly and very quietly working on my first new zine since a couple of years ago... in the meantime, my cheerleader-weirdo post-punk band just put out an EP if you'd like to have a listen!
5 track album
The rumours are true, Maranda's latest novel is published and ready to be held in your very hands. I've written about this one a few times now, it's freaky and perfect and maybe made me cry. You can buy it on Amazon if that's yr thing, but I think a lil more money goes directly to them if you buy it from Etsy. Featuring illustrations by Cee Lavery, artist and musician extraordinaire. š®ššāØš¦
"In this work of experimental fiction and magic realism, Maranda Elizabeth writes a vulnerable tale of perpetually misunderstood and powerless teenagers in a small town. We Are the Weirdos explores trauma, gender, poverty, invalidation, and memory, as well as themes of trust, abandonment, confinement, and revenge. The characters encounter one another, as well as authority figures and ghosts, at home and through institutions: school, court cells, a detention centre, and a group home. Each of them dream of magic and escape."
{ā„ ā„ ā„ Please be mindful and read the full listing descriptions and Shop Announcement before placing an order or sending a message. Thank you! ā„ ā„ ā„} In this work of experimental fiction and magic realism, Maranda Elizabeth writes a vulnerable tale of perpetually misunderstood and
For residents and visitors of Montreal, and photobooth lovers alike, here it is! Your official-unofficial guide to analog photobooths in the city.
In 2016, I took myself on an adventure into every metro station and many shopping centres on a search for photobooths. The analogs were quickly disappearing, and this update confirms the inevitable. The only currently active analog photobooth in the metro system is at Place-des-Arts, but you can click on the link to find a few more.
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Updated as of October 27th, 2017. Iāve done some more exploring and Iāve made a few phone calls and Iāve got all the current info on analog photobooths, which sadly, will likely bā¦
80% funded and four days left to go!!! Pre-order Maranda Elizabeth's latest novel (q***r representation matters!) and prepare yourself for something very very special... featuring illustrations by Cee Lavery. š
We Are the Weirdos, a beyond-genre real-magic novel by Maranda Elizabeth. Illustrated by Cee Lavery. | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!
"Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating. Shakar Mujukian, publisher of The Hye-Phen ā a zine by and about q***r and trans Armenians who, as he puts it, often 'feel as ignored and invisible as their motherland' ā told me via email that just because technology can fully replace something doesnāt mean it should. He described zines as the precursor to personal blogs, but personal blogs have been on the decline over the last decade. And zines canāt get replies or hateful remarks in a comments section. Publishing ideas outside the mainstream can make an author incredibly vulnerable; the web is polluted with a culture of toxicity that invites attacks. Zines, in Mujukianās vision, 'are essentially about reclamation. You get to make your own media and define your own narrative in the way you want to and can.'"
"And it perhaps reflects why zines can feel so much more intimate than a Facebook post. The deliberation and care that goes into making them is important. The internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts and memes."
Why the Internet Didnāt Kill ZinesSHAREShare on FacebookPost on TwitterEmailLog in to SaveRead Laterhttps://nyti.ms/2m1Q0sWShare on LinkedInShare on WhatsappShare on Google PlusShare on RedditShareCancelIllustration by Adam FerrissFebruary 28, 2017On TechnologyBy JENNA WORTHAMAs a lonely teenager gr...
Good morning! If you haven't yet heard, my sibling Maranda Elizabeth is publishing their second novel and it's gonna be a great one! Click the link to read about their fundraiser and practices, and pre-order the book! Featuring artwork by Cee Lavery. š
āIn this work of experimental fiction and magic realism, Maranda Elizabeth writes a vulnerable tale of perpetually misunderstood and powerless teenagers in a small town. We Are the Weirdos is an exploration of trauma, gender, poverty, invalidation, and memory, as well as themes of trust, abandonment, confinement, and revenge. The characters encounter one another, as well as authority figures and ghosts, at home and through institutions: school, court cells, a detention centre, and a group home, dreaming of magic and escape.ā
We Are the Weirdos, a beyond-genre real-magic novel by Maranda Elizabeth. Illustrated by Cee Lavery. | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!
Wrote a tiny lil blog post about quitting my distro and working on new projects, plus links to my fave distros. I'll be deleting this page soon enough, so if you wanna keep up with me, you can subscribe to fight-boredom.com (honestly I update it like twice a year), click like on Total Betty, or find me on Instagram. Merci! š
Thank you to everyone who supported my distro since 2009 ā by ordering zines, visiting my table at countless zinefests, sharing links, submitting your own zines, etc etc. Iāve been makiā¦
A good chunk of the zines that were available through Fight Boredom Distro are now for sale at the Concordia Co-op Bookstore! Thank you so much to everyone who supported my distro over the past eight years; I had fun but my life started to feel like a series of re-runs, so it's time to work on new projects. ššš
The Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore is pleased to offer a viable alternative to the corporate structure, putting studentsā best interests above and beyond our own bottom line. As a not-for-profit alternative to corporate bookstores, we are conveniently located right on Concordiaās dow...
Fight Boredom Distro has gone from the size of a closet to the size of a shoebox - here's an example of what zines are left. Place yr order before the end of the month 'coz they'll be gone! šššāØāØāØ
Just a reminder that I'm closing(-ish) my distro as of July 1st, so get the last of these zines while you can!
Abstract Door #1 / $2.00 / 20g Twenty-five years old and in the midst of an existential crisis ā this is a great time to make a zine! Vicky Lim writes first about the anxiety and stress of joā¦
Here are some of the zines I recently stocked - now's the time to grab some reading material to hunker down with for the last leg of winter! www.fight-boredom.com/how-to-order
I wasn't lying, I've been getting a lot of work done! I combined all of the zine listings to one page, and added several new titles, including Herb Support For Top Surgery, Cultural Appropriation In Spirituality, On (trans) Masculinity, Abstract Door #6 and more. This'll be my last major catalogue update for a while, so get 'em while you can!
Abstract Door #1 / $2.00 / 20g Twenty-five years old and in the midst of an existential crisis ā this is a great time to make a zine! Vicky Lim writes first about the anxiety and stress of joā¦
I swear I'll update the zine catalogue soon, but hey guess what - I've also been singing in a band! We finally put one of our songs online, have a listen if you wanna! It's about friendship and conspiring against evil landlords.
Make-Believe by Total Betty, released 22 February 2017
This coming Saturday! I'll be tabling at Casa del Popolo all day long, with some truly lovely artists. A certain someone told me they'll have non-alcoholic beer available! And I'll have some great zines that I haven't yet listed online, including Unkissed, On Trans Masculinity, Cultural Appropriation in Spirituality, Home Body, Herb Support For Top Surgery, Abstract Door #6, and more.
This coming Saturday, Iāll be tabling from 11am-5pm at Casa del Popolo (4848 St-Laurent) with my distro. Iāll have the usuals with me, plus a bunch of zines that I havenāt yet hadā¦
A couple of days have passed, and I just wanna say thank you to the organizers of the Halifax Zine Explosion for their hard work and for the travel stipend, without which I wouldn't have been able to afford to be here. The Central Library was a real nice venue (windows! coffee!) and I saw so many friendly faces. Wandering around this city is one of my favourite things to do, but I'm looking forward to going home and working on new projects. Ć la prochaine!
Surprise! I'm in Halifax! Come and catch me at the Halifax Zine Explosion all day Saturday at the Central Library. š
Montreal! Q***r bookfair! Today! 1700 rue Amherst / mƩtro Beaudry / 11-6pm.
Two weeks to go! Come and grab some zines from me before I take a lil break from my distro.
Montrealās 9th annual q***r bookfair is only two weeks away and Iāll be tabling yet again! You may have noticed that I havenāt been particularly active with my distro this year & #ā¦
It's official - tabling at Q***r Between The Covers yet again! Montreal, August 13th. ā¤ļø
I'm at the Ottawa Zine Fair at the Bronson Centre today 'til 5pm! Come say hello and grab some zines! And comics! And my very last Copy Scams tape! š
Wow!!! Thank you so much to the organizers of the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair for making it happen, to everyone who came to my table to pick up some zines, and to my pals who helped me with snacks and coffee and carrying my whole damn distro when I overbooked myself.
I've come very close to selling out of a lotta my stock. I'll be at the Ottawa Zine Fair this coming weekend, and then I'll likely go on hiatus so I can take a break and give the distro a makeover. Catch me while you can!
I won't be at the Chicago Zine Fest this weekend, but my zines will be! You can get both issues of Critical Breakfast from Stranger Danger Distro. Have fun!
Straight outta Canada & into the catalog: new zines from siblings Amber & Maranda! The Critical Breakfast + Telegram #38 split zine, along with Critical Breakfast #2!
The deadline for table registration is on June 1st and the bookfair is on August 13th. Come to Montreal this summer!!!
Table Reservations Q***r Between the Covers 2016Name of Publisher, Bookstore, or Distro Have you tabled at Q***r Between the Covers before? YesNoHow does your content fit in with our mission and mandate? (see "About" section of our website) Description of Publisher, Bookstore, or Distro Contact Naā¦
Been passing it out among friends, but just finally updated my website so you can order Critical Breakfast #2 if yr into it. $1.00 plus postage.
Every year, I do a Fun-A-Day project to pass the time and have something to look forward to during the winter. For 2016, I decided to track as many photobooths in Montreal as I could ā which turned into a bigger project of visiting every metro station in the city, and poking around malls in the early mornings before there's much of a crowd. In the end, I tracked the remaining analog booths (which are rapidly disappearing ā at least three gone in the months before I began the project), and the various digital booths that exist. This is a tiny little zine about my love of photobooths, and about winter survival in general, and contains a fold-out map of the Montreal metro system that shows every photobooth I found, a list of books I read while riding the metro, and a few fun resources. Recommended if you live in Montreal, or are planning on visiting.
www.fight-boredom.com
If you ordered zines from me last week, they went out on Tuesday. If you ordered zines from me this week, they'll go out on Monday. If you keep ordering zines from me, I'll be able to stock a bunch of rad new stuff! Thanks, everyone!
Hope the winter is being good to everyone! I've been very, very quiet on the distro front, but working on other projects and reading non-stop. I just did a little website update to delete everything that's permanently sold out, and I'll be ordering a bunch of new stock at the end of the month. If you wanna help me get some rad new zines in the distro, you can simply place an order and know that that's where your money is going! I also love getting recommendations from people.
MontrƩal, QuƩbec / Since 2009.
Please stop asking me for free stuff. :)
News! New zines in stock! More to come!
Back in October, my twin and I made a split zine together! Telegram #38 by Maranda Elizabeth is about their Return of Saturn and turning thirty, learning how to interpret their birth chart, astrolo...
Good morning! Zine Nation just posted an interview with me. It's about running a distro, some of my favourite zine fairs, and what I've been reading lately. And a little bit about money, and keeping zines financially accessible.
Fight Boredom Distro was founded in 2009? Can you tell us a bit about why you decided to invest a huge chunk of your time to running and maintaining a zine disto? What/Who served as inspiration? I ...
Maranda is having a sale in their Etsy shop - enter coupon code 'wintersurvival15' to save 15%, and do it asap because they're putting back issues of Telegram out of print by the end of the year.
ā„ I write about mental health & illness, self-care, support & $upport, genderq***rosity, friendship, language, writing & creativity, recovery,
Thank you to everyone who stopped by my table today, and to organizers at the Plant. It was such a sweet and cozy time! I probably won't be tabling again until the springtime, but I'll be adding new titles to the catalogue over the course of the winter.
If yr in the neighbourhood, I'll be tabling at the holiday art market at 185 Van Horne (2nd floor, up a flight of stairs) from 12-6pm today. Last chance to come and get some zines!
Just wanna write a little thank-you to everyone who stopped by my table at Expozine this past weekend. I appreciated the conversations and company. It means a lot to me that people care about my distro and remember to come find me in my little corner every year (now for eight years and counting). I was lucky to be surrounded by the sweetest zinester pals, too. 'Til next time (and hopefully in a more accessible space)!
Montreal!
It's that time of the year! I'll be at Expozine all weekend long. You can find me in the basement of Ćglise St-Enfant-JĆ©sus at 5035 rue St-Dominique from 12-6pm on Saturday and Sunday. Facebook eve...
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