SPARKLEzilla magazine

Summer issue

coming soon!

I am a lover and reader of magazines, zines, greeting cards, comic books, sticker pages, mail, and many other various print materials.  Lately I have been asking myself the question: “If I had my own magazine, what would be in it?”  I want to take that question further.  I want to know how anyone and everyone interprets that question.  Below is a description of a huge collaborative and free project.

I am going to use this blog to start a downloadable free magazine.  Anyone and EVERYONE interested can contribute to this magazine.  Make a list of your top 10 favorite websites to share.  Write a review of your favorite restaurant with a picture.  Write about your favorite childhood toy.  Recommend new movies, music, art shows, or sports events etc.  Send in a comic or zine.  Draw pictures of your dog.  Whatever is on your mind that you want to be heard/seen send it to this email:

sparklezillamagazine@gmail.com

I will organize all the information I receive into a quarterly magazine.  I will then make it available for download from this blog.  You can download it, read it, and delete it, or you can print it, make cheap copies and give it to people to read.  Give it as a present. Leave it in random places to get new people involved.  Print 1 or 2 nice copies and leave them in beauty salons and doctors offices.  Here is your opportunity to share.  Don’t think what you have to say or draw etc isn’t important.  If you want to submit a drawing of your shoes -do it.  If you want to write about what you ate for breakfast – do it.  This is your magazine – what do you want in it?

Use a pen name or a real name.

If you would like to design a cover, or come up with magazine theme ideas please those email to the address above!

Here are some random ideas to get you started (if you need it):

Write about your favorite vacation or dream vacation.

Write about your favorite movies from the 80′s.

Describe in detail random things throughout your day.

Write about something that inspires you.

Write about what gets you inspired.

Write your ideas for a good musical.

Design your own superhero.

Write about your favorite superhero.

Share your favorite recipe.

Share your favorite short story, or one that you wrote.

Write poetry.

Review art, movies, poems, books, music, shoes, fashion, entertainment, restaurants, churches, vacation spots etc

Create and share a new game to play.

Talk about your favorite TV show.

Do fan art from your favorite entertainment.

Write good studying tips.

Write about your favorite places in your town.

Draw a map of your favorite location.

Make lists – best restaurants, thrift stores, toys etc.

Describe your favorite pair of pants.

Write a comic about a funny thing your child/friend/mom etc. did.

Write about yourself and what you are working on to get people interested in you.

Interview someone – anyone.

Design random wanted posters for fictional characters.

Have you perfected a process? Make suggestions:  How to do laundry better, How to get the most out of your space etc.

Like decorating your house/apartment?  Describe it!  Take pictures of it.

Share the best digital picture you have taken.

Choreograph a dance, and try to explain the steps.

Make your own paper dolls.

Give paper folding instructions.

Write your own quizzes or surveys.

Share your monster designs.

Draw your own coloring book pages.

Draw a fictional gallery space and write what you would do with it.

If you have any more random ideas – please email them to the address above and I will add them.

I would like to debut the summer issue of this magazine by the end of June.  So the deadline for this issue’s entries is May 31, 2009.

Lastly,  tell everyone about this blog!!  Print the attached word doc “say something” on packing labels, business cards, or print paper to hand out to anyone and everyone: say-something.

Get your

sparkle on!