YES, YOU BEAUTIFUL MAN

Apologies to anyone who wants the ePub version, but for some reason I can't figure out, the export fails every single time.

Zine day already? let me put on my reading glasses...

inb4 200 posts and 12 image replies

I'm curious, do you just pick up your cover art from Wikipedia commons or something?

One thing I forgot to mention:

Table of Contents is hyperlinked

>>853810
Actually, yes.

Either Wikipedia Commons or Flickr Commons, typically, are the sources of all of our imagery. We need to be absolutely sure we're only using creative commons licensed pictures, and they're also some of the few sources of CC or Public Domain material in a high enough resolution to be worthy of publishing.

downloadan

Oh look, you guys remembered to justify the text this time.

+1

>>853782
>dat breast

Best issue EVER.

I like how the "Illustrations by Bantha_Fodder and..." goes right over the signature of the guy who painted the cover image.

Also, you should get Chris chan to do the next issue cover. God know he has the time and the crayons to get the job done.

>>853877
Er... fuck.

Didn't actually notice that. I always turn image quality down in InDesign so it's faster to work with.

>>853877
We actually discussed having him and Ulillillia to make some articles/whatnot for us, but they're hard to find.

Is THE PENIS WAS there

>>853877
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sadko.jpg

copyright has expired

>>853782
I vote this for best cover EVER.

>>853895
Page 68.
you won’t be disappointed

>>853916
Well, so far it's the only cover that was so far an actual piece of art and not some sort of horrifying hack of Photoshop.

>>853895
Yes it is.

>>853896
I read that as "Sadako" at first

>No awesome russian-themed shorts by Darrin

WHY?

>>853945
We miss him, too

>>853961
BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT ;_;

>pig disgusting american letter format
>not glorious master race international r4

Shit dudes.

>>853982
We OBVIOUSLY represent the free market, you nazi

>>853987
But the first issues were in glorious A4.

>>853982

>>853999
Actually, it's because we changed our book template slightly by going to InDesign compared to what we did before.

We can probably change it back, but I found it easier to get certain things to line up in InDesign this way. So far, you're the first person who's even noticed it.

>>854004
I'm a printfag and stuff.

Well, maybe I can arrange to print it all on an a5 booklet... Somewhere... Somehow.

Why don't these people just try to not suck and to get published in real literary magazines?

>>854018

Who's Mason? His poetry is shit.

>>854025
We encourage you to click the links to the feedback forum and please explain your undying hatred.

No, seriously - feedback is good.

Or, better yet, come up with a lengthy review piece explaining your point of view and send it to us, and we'll see about including it in a future issue.

>>854037
are we allowed to review review pieces?

>>854041
Yep.

>>854041
A review of a review is just like an >implyfight

>>854054
>Implying I give a fuck

Yay, I can't wait to go read it. There may be a fuckton of haters, but I love the zine.

>>854079
Good thing the haters kinda gave up on fucking up with the zine. It's all good work done by the editors and I'm really enjoying this issue. Reading it on a plane and it's way better than those shitty dime-a-dozen mags they sell at the airports.

Aww, yeah! Innocents in the Fog is on the cover!

*Feels special until haters hate*

>>854041
Absolutely. We used to have a Review section, but it got used twice and then people stopped sending them.

We'd love to bring it back.

>>854089
Oh, cool

Author of 'Jade Green' here. Any opinions or feedback is much appreciated.
I'm off to sleep now but I'll check back in the morning.

>>854089
Are you viewing it on a laptop or eReader or what?

For whatever reason, the ePub version of this issue just isn't working - InDesign throws an error every time I try to make one, so I stopped trying. There's an ePub of the previous issue, but none of have an eReader capable of viewing ePubs so we have no idea what it actually looks like.

>>854110
Notebook, flipped to the side, just like I read my comics.

Did you just gather all the genres into one 'Fiction' category or are you guys not accepting scifi/fantasy anymore? I haven't read through the stories yet but I was just curious.

>>854143
We found that people would just ignore whole sections entirely on whim.

Removed section dividers due to popular demand

>>854161
Makes sense.

>>854143
The only thing we do is separate poetry and prose. In testing, our focus group determined it was a bit jarring to go from something like "One" to "Witness to the Dawn." One poor tester had his head explode.

Awesome, can't wait to give this a read.

You guys are doing a good thing for this board.

>>854025

I like 'Front Door'

>>854107
Liking it so far, maybe a few too many adjectives. I'm not normally interested in what the characters look like, but what the hell--if it floats your boat, do it.

Author of "Innocents in the Fog" here. It's a very short story. Care to make a comment, anyone?

>>854240
Reading it right now

>>854235
Finished it. Overall, your story relies too much on narration. One thing that teachers will tell you when writing is to 'show, not tell' and that means just to illustrate what your characters do with dialogue, to get more inside your story instead of just narrating an overview of what they're doing. If you go over this again and flesh it out, you could try publishing it elsewhere. However, I don't know what rights ZWG keeps, so that might work or it might not. It's hard to publish something more than once.

Somebody make a tier list? It's the only way I'll make it through the whole thing.

>>854259
>However, I don't know what rights ZWG keeps, so that might work or it might not.

All of our work is Creative Commons. We are not trying to take hold of this work and keep it forever - it's your work and you guys are free to do what you want with it. All the stories we publish are freely usable within the Creative Commons w/ Attribution license limitations (meaning if someone else wants to use a story, they must attribute it to the original author).

This is more of a collection of stories for people to get a sample of their writing talents and abilities than any real attempt to publish - this is all voluntary anyway.

What did everyone think of the poetry section?

Zion
World
Government

>>854310

>>854280
>>854280
>>854280
Second.

YOU DON'T FOOL ME GOLDENSOX

>more garbage layout and nigger bullshit from a project run by cocksucking faggots
what story did you change without permission this time?

enjoy derailment

On the cover, you've named Karl Mortensen as Mort Mortensen.

Other than that, bloody good.

>>854351

Someone's proud of their DeVry A.A.

>>854354
Didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing it out

>>854346
>Implying Goldensox didn't left the zine by the second issue

Dick up your ass.

>>854361
yeah real incisive remark there college boy. showing off those finely honed critical thinking skills i see.

>>854351

That guy doesn't even look like he's enjoying that BJ. Clearly his partner needed to study more.

Still waiting on a tier list, guize

>>854373
hes a broke ass college guy doing gay4pay

>>854358
>implying americans know enough history to make this chart and it wasnt made by a eurofag

>>854371

So tell me is the trade school facts accurate to you? Isn't the whole thing dependent on what a person goes in for. There's trade schools that charge 25k for a certificate while a community college is worth a pittance to get the same certificate.

Conversely, depending on what trade school, the schedule is highly intensive 8-12 hours a day versus a college of 4-8 (if you're a full time student).

Furthermore, all jobs can be outsourced. period. No matter what education, no matter what field.

>>854375
Will delivar later on tonight

>>854354
Well, shit. Whoops.

>>854379
you cant outsource local skilled labor
no one is going to fly in electricians from india

>>854371
>>854361
>>854351

Please don't derail, guys

>>854379
the facts on the chart are accurate based on both my personal experience and the experiences of the people i have met in trades
sure half of the people in it are dropouts, drunk fuckups, and negros, but the good half, the ones in higher positions, are all college dropouts or smart guys who never even bothered with college

>>854387
>implying it's not one gigantic samefucker
thanks for the bump

>>854386

If you're talking about electricians or plumbers, then not only does your job depend on how strong the union is, but if the union goes on strike scabs can perfectly take up their positions for less pay and more hours.

>>854358
this is a great list of factoids
what books can i get further info from to troll eurofags harder?

>>854404
>implying strikes happen all the time
this aint france motherfucker

>>854410
>amerifag asking what a history book is
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED?

PLEASE can I have my pretty tier list?

>>854434
>please someone feed me their opinions so i wont have to actually read the whole issue

>>854448

Actually, I'm one of the authors. I'd like to see how I rank in comparison to the rest of the issue.

>>854434
Someone is putting one together, it'll be up later.

>>854472

did you check to see that they didnt change anything without your permission?

theyve done it before

>>854417

>>854492

Yeah, it all checks out. I'm pretty pleased.

>>854492
Jesus, that happened once to you, and it wasn't a malicious edit, it was a mistake.

AND YOU HAVE NEVER STOPPED PISSING AND MOANING.

God tier:
Josef K.

Meh tier:
Everthing else

Shit tier:
Poetry

>>854548

Wow. Close analysis

>>854548
should i read part 1 of One first?

>>854583
It would help a lot, anon.

>>854588
I wasn't real keen on the first part. I take it part ii is worth it?

>>854597
No.

Poetry tier list done

>>854635
Fix'd.

>>854661
you have totally misconstrued what I just presented

need fiction tier.

>>854738
+1

>>854738
+1 

STILL WAITING THE TIER LIST BRETHREN

>>854738
>>854744
>>854753

See
>>854548
>>854790

>>854635
Author of Urinals. Thanks for the input

Well done.

>Not a Priority


my face

>>855147
yeah that was pretty cool

>>854492
I'd like to express again my apologies for something that you obviously consider a personal slight against your writing.

Our policy is to only make grammatical or typographical changes when we see something that doesn't make sense. Like any proofreading, we're still human and susceptible to errors, misinterpretations, or misunderstandings. In every case we make a change, we send the revisions back to the author for confirmation. Unless we have reason to think that the change is controversial or might cause a problem with the author in some capacity, we use the revised version in our publication unless otherwise instructed.

We have never intended nor do we intend to change any of the stories, and if that was one of the side effects of our proofreading, then I apologize for the mistake. Although it may be too little too late to do anything about it now, if you spot an error or serious mistake on our part, please let us know about it via email and we'll publish a correction update in our next issue.

If it's in issue 5 or later, we can actually fix the problem and republish the PDF.

>>855147
Agreement, that one had a great ending twist. And political message to boot, too