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Here's a preview of my newest comic zine. Took me awhile to sit myself down and finish it, but I'm glad I finally did. The cover was made with a scan of paper cut-outs in case you were wondering. But even if you weren't wondering, that's just how it was made, okay?

This zine was supposed to be called Dreamy Dream Place, but I decided not to include a title page (referring to it simply as "untitled face zine" when asked). It was made on a super tight deadline for what felt like a good reason at the time, but it almost completely broke my brain in doing so. The cover is a paper cut out face glued to cardstock, and because of this, I did not print many initially. This is a scan of the original untitled version, but I've since reprinted it with the actual title for goodness sake.

"The sky is not blue in my heart" was a remark that I said in jest to my wife outside of my garage in June of 2023. But as soon as I said it, I rushed to my worktable to scribble in down on a scrap of paper, because I knew it would make a good title for some kind of zine. Was I correct? You tell me.

Tiny Toy Dream was first printed in June 2023. Its pages are full of little doodles of toys that I made or had hoped to make. My notebooks are filled with dumb drawings such as these and now you too can look upon them and wonder why they ever happened in the first place.

I've already posted a scan of the original printing of this zine, but this here is the reformatted version from 2023. The contents of the zine are nearly identical, but the zine's shape has changed from a tiny rectangle to a slightly bigger, but still small square, see? The zine itself is comprised of b&w pictures of the first series of Capsule Castaways that were created in 2019. I still like looking at these little cuties.