Collaborative Mail Art Books

John's image below gets me.

More Zine pages arrived yesterday - a Zine feast :-)!  From P W Kaufmann (Switzerland) and Gail (Canada)

Beautiful pages from TICTAC  (Germany) :-) - each hand done AGAIN!

From De Villo Sloan (USA) - more great Concrete Poetry - many thanks! X

From Frieder Speck (Germany) - beautiful original prints - and I get to keep the drawing - YES! Definitely on time Frieder :-) XX

Cover for Town Asemics in a Mail Art World - Zine # 4 :-) X

"Gorgeous, gorgeous! Can anyone tell me why two parcels looking about the same mailed at 'exactly the same time'  DO not arrive together? "

Thank you Angie and Rebecca - BUT  sad to report the other pages are  STILL not here :-( X

wow, some real beauties (have to admit, I esp. hope the DVS and TicTac are in 3 so I get a copy...%_^)! Great cover for 4 Cheryl! ( btw, did you post the cvr for 3 and I just missed it, or...?)

Angie - A5 is 5.907 inches x 8.267 inches. Add .59 inches to one side if you want to leave extra space for binding. These sizes are from photoshop, but I imagine you can just round down a tad to make it easier (5.9 x 8.25)

or simple: 5 x 8!

Claire - you ARE with TICTAC and DVS in Zine 3 :-) - your size was a little large - the binding strip is INCLUDED in the page size - 29.5cm long X 21cm wide - this includes binding. Angie your pages are the right size :-)

Cover for Zine 3 Claire

A: Cool!

B: damn! guess I read the directions incorrectly - sorry 'bout that Cheryl! :(

C: Very Cool II/too!

NO problem :-) - I have left some of the pages larger in Zine 2, but now that its collated and bound, they stick out and don't FIT into any envelopes/plastic bags etc, so I am going to have to fold/trim in future X

Thanks!

My 2 cents: Rather than cut & lose any of the image/art, I would just fold the edges that stick out over - like letters to fit in an envelope. (Hmmm, might be rather apropos in this case actually... %_^)

Is there a deadline for the asemics zine I'm not seeing? Are most pages in already?

I can fold - nothing is cut yet - would you prefer that? No problem. Nancy :-) - hello!  Deadline - October.  IF it is done before the exhibition - fine - if not, it will go on next years exhibition - and besides, I'm now addicted - so just send :-)))! XX

Cool - thanks again Cheryl! (Yes I would btw %_^)

Ok Cheryl, whew, will do, thank you. xxx

Page from Svenja Wahl for Zine 3 - as any thinking person would, Svenja assumes there's a school in the World Town - otherwise how will we pass on Zine information??

From Marcela Peral (Argentina) - Mia Casa in the World :-) XX

ha ha ha!

beautiful!

I am behind with posting photographs - apologies - it seems to be dark all the time!  I have received wonderful  work from Carina Granlund (Finland), NotHiNg (USA),  Theo Nelson (Canadada) and Harry Lock (South Africa). You know the tune - The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there'll be sun.... I shall tally-ho in the nearest future and let you know how far we are with Zine 3 - but, we're getting there.  Zine 2 left yesterday and as I did not want to post in the rain, Zine 1 leaves tomorrow - no, I don't know why its the wrong way round :-) X

That was quick Sue - thanks for letting me know - I hope the others arrive as successfully as yours! Pages from Carina Granlund (Finland)

and Harry Lock (South Africa) and Theo Nelson (Canada)

FAB pages on digital canvas from NotHiNg (USA)

Asemic Pages from Katerina - many thanks - these are great! :-)X

A PRESENT from Guido Vermeulen - inside the envelope a poetry book - I'm doing the Afrikaans/Dutch thing :-) - and Zine pages with a warning - once you have been through the mirror and returned, you have left particles of yourself behind in the process.  This third Zine is becoming interesting in terms of the building of a town and the different elements which constitute its building. Please also see http://cherylpenn.com/wpb/

From Torill Elisabeth Larsen (Norway)  and Ying-Chieh Liu (Taiwan) - We sure are getting to the far reaches of the world town :-) X

I'm sure seeing some nice stuff on these pages lately!

john

Mail Art Makes the World A Time, issue 2 has arrived! Thanks Cheryl.

In issue 2 contributions from:

Roland Halbritter, PC Tictac, Dragan Jukic, Svenja Wahl (Germany)

Yves Maraux (France)

Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

Stephanie Turnbull, Mail Art Martha (UK)

Roberto Scala, Tiziana Baracchi, Mirta Caccaro, Claudio Romeo, Vittore Baroni (Italy)

Katerina Niksoltsou (Greece)

Bifidus Jones, RCBz, David Stone, Angie Cope, Carl T Chew, Arac, Lisa Iversen (USA)

Samuel Montalvetti (Argentina)

Cheryl Penn, Karin Greenwood, Sue Hobbs (South Africa)

O YAY!!!!! That was QUICK - I posted last Wednesday I think - how exciting - I'm SO pleased that after all that work one has landed overseas - thanks for posting Guido :-) XX

Very nice, Cheryl! "..the World a Town" looking fantastic!

If Zine 2 made it to Belgium, it should be in Greece soon, too?

Can't wait! Maybe Zine 1, too?

Katerina - Zine 1 was posted 2 days after Zine 2 - you know how these things are - they have a mind of their own - so hold thumbs :-).

From Domenico Severino  (Italy) - together with a beautiful catalogue of his work.

From Rob Grant (Australia) - his beautiful new/ancient Asemics for Zine 4 - now EVERYONE can T'Own a piece of Inkovian Asemics - wait, if you contribute you'll see what I mean :-) X

Yay! Zine #2 arrived in Greece today! Soooo, will wait patiently for Zine #1!

'Tis a beauty, Cheryl! Lots of hard work and expense to put it all together, but everyone's contribution is FAB! Thank you to all!

Beautiful!

Issues 16 and 17 Mail art zine KAIRAN, received from Gianni Simone

Detail of a colonial painting of the Cuzco School

Zine 1 reached Belgium, the end of a divided world is near boyZ and girlZ, we are all members of Pussy Riot !!!

IN this first issue contributions from:

Roland Halbritter, PC Tictac, Svenja Wahl, Frieder Speck (Germany)

The Stradas, Morlino Marina, Bruno Cassaglia, Claudio Romeo, Tiziana Baracchi, Fulgor Silvi (Italy)

Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

Katerina Nikoltsou (Greece)

RCBz, J M Bennett, Christine Tarantino, De Villo Sloan, Lisa Iversen, Nancy Bell Scott (USA)

David Dellafiora, Rob Grant (Australia)

Roberto Keppler (Brasil)

Cuan Miles, Lesley Magwood Fraser, Cheryl Penn (South Africa)

Marie Wintzer (Japan)

Zine 3 is full.  But more pages have been received for Mail Art Makes the World a Town, so there will be another issue once all folios are received X

Cheryl,

my job leaves monday, entitled “dadatown”, what must make? I send or I do not send, this is the question…

Ciao

Claudio

SEND SEND SEND!!! :-) XXX

27 new pages for that in-between extra-edition Zine ...World/Town.

In the mail today, Cheryl, from the seaside village. 

Wondering how fast they will arrive in Kwazulu Natal?

Looking good Katerina :-) Pages from Yves Maraux - (France)

Pages from Henning Mittendorf (Germany) fo Mail Art Makes the World a Town and from Rob Grant (Australia) - Town Asemics in a Mail Art World.

Every zine seems to be better then the one before...all the contributions are just fantastic! Zine #1 has arrived in Greece, Cheryl! Sooooo nice!

(and the enclosed surprises, too) blogged here:

Cheryl Penn's asemic writing?...NOT asemic writng :-)

Wonderful Cheryl page:

Zine # 3 is ready.

Yea haw! Once again, Thanks so much Cheryl! (Where do you find the time?!

I gave up sleep :-) - and no, I'm not joking! 

I helped Cheryl  put Zine 1 together, all the pages together in order, it took us about 4 hours, (with a coffee and cake break and a bit of gossip) so for Cheryl to do it on her own is at least 8 hours! what a gal, Cheryl I don't know how you find the energy, but am ever grateful for your motivation and flippin ideas and stuff and stuff and stuff! Yay!

That was just great Angie - thanks for sharing! ^_^