Marc Mosquito
featured in fun
adventures I
created in
our school zine -
now not comics, but poems
Every time I see a now ancient-looking first gen Renault Espace, I remember the newspaper we had to make as a project in primary school. I remember that being a very new car then, a revolution. I think I had an advertisement of it in my newspaper. And some story about Australia, probably, because I was fascinated by that distant land of kangaroos, antipodes and mostly platypuses.
Later, I was in the editorial team of my senior school magazine, in which I published a comic featuring Marc Mosquito and probably some opinion pieces. After our first issue of a school magazine that had run for several decades already, we were kindly invited by the school management to undo the radical changes we had made. Of course, we complied. But we had our fun and the time being in this editorial board has cemented my love for creating zines.
Of course, these days, my zine is this newsletter, and distribution is not local but global. But still. Paper pulls. So, I decided to go back in time and create a paper zine. Combining this amateur handicraft of days long gone with the most modern tech available. I'm working on a zine that will be made available physically and onchain. I'm making good progress on Issue 0, so stay tuned to learn when it comes available.
The poem above is a highku, a form inspired by traditional haiku and the higher movement on Farcaster. The header image is made during an exhibition in the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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I found this lovely video on how to make zines. Great inspiration to get creative (with kids).
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