themizarkshow

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Makin' zines & causin' scenes!
Works In Progress
While things have slowed down for me since the pandemic (without physical zinefests going on), I'm still working on zines and have several in the works. Some of those upcoming zines are about cubing, chess, penguins, accessibility, and autism.
Coming Soon!
Perpetual Poseur
Grab the first two issues of "Perpetual Poseur" as a digital-download! These perzines were made in October 2020 & January 2021 as an aftershock from re-watching SLC Punk! and then re-listening to a bunch of old Rancid, NoFX, and other 90s punk tunes.
$2+
Zine Templates
Learn how to make your own zine's with these handy PDFs! It comes with one page that explains how to do the folding and single cut needed and one that's a blank template of how the pages should lay out (plus, for the mini-zine there is a kid-friendly prompt page to make it a fun family activity).
$0+
Screen Time Vol.1
A mini-zine that investigates how I engage with my phone (and potential changes to take back some intentionality moving forward).
$1+
Poetry Month 2020
A collection of daily tanka written during April 2020’s National Poetry Month (the first 13 days, anyway). Originally posted on @nogoodpoems. Illustrations for each poem done as a single-line drawing without picking up the (Apple) Pencil.
$2+
How 2 Website & Professor
The unabridged guide to becoming the best [insert job title here] that so-called pros don’t want you to read/buy! (warning: this is satire, do not try at home, disclaimer disclaimer etc...)
$2+
Stargazing
A zine collected from Inktober 2019 prompts. The topic I chose for an overarching theme was constellations and wrote a haiku to accompany each.
$2+
My Summer as a Friendly Villager
A zine inspired by my Animal Crossing filled summer of 2006, where everything was awful and life was much simpler inside the Nintendo GameCube.
$2+
Poetry Month 2019
A collection of daily haiku written during April 2019’s National Poetry Month. Originally posted on @nogoodpoems. Illustrations made by @bowllick and look absolutely amazing.
$2+
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Mark E. Davis – @themizarkshow

The family computer introduced me to HTML/CSS in the mid-90’s. My English teacher got me hooked on poetry in high school. College professors got me diving deep into Philosophy. Saving dad’s Canon EF threw me into 35mm photography. A collection of  LucasFilm & Marvel projects at Kohl’s pushed me into stop-motion. Friends dragged me out of the house and to a ZineFest and now I’m obsessed…

The common thread with everything in my life is an undying love of learning & a hunger to solve puzzles and fix problems. UX/UI & Product Design allows me to integrate those two interests into a semi-coherent career that scratches that itch each and every day.

So, if that sounds as fun & exciting to you as it does me, get in touch!

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