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'''Alexis Stewart''' is a jack of all trades (but mostly a filmmaker and zinester) from Huntington, WV.  Stewart works as a freelance cameraman for local public and cable access television.   
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'''Alexis Stewart''' was a zinester from West Virginia.  Stewart met her untimely demise in 2018 during an incident involving jumping a shark on jetskis.  Out of her ashes, [[Elliott Stewart]] emerged, a much happier, handsomer, and well adjusted Stewart, to carry on the zinemaking tradition as well as collect a hearty paycheck from Alexis' life insurance policy (as acts of shark were not considered acts of God).
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Stewart was introduced to [[zine]] culture by an email list for the author Francesca Lia Block.  She created her first zine [[Small Town Loser]] in high school to promote her town's [[punk]] scene.  Today her writing has a heavier emphasis toward the literary and political spectrum, which she demonstrates as the editor of [[The Rhododendron Reader]]. She continues to create one-shot zines as well and has also contributed to [[Beejeezus]].
 
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In early 2007, Stewart began contributing to [[Fall of Autumn]] as a regular columnist.
 
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Stewart's main goal as a zinester and filmmaker is to promote the culture of [[Appalachia]].  She uses her zines as a means to defy the mainstream stereotypes of Appalachians and West Virginians.
 
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==Bibliography==
 
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===Zines===
 
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* [[Small Town Loser]] (2000 - 2002)
 
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* [[File 13]] (2002 - 2003)
 
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* [[The Rhododendron Reader]] (2006 - present)
 
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===One-Shot Zines===
 
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* [[Sunday School Stories]] (2003)
 
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* [[First Love Inebriation]] (2003)
 
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* [[Love or Smallpox]] (2006)
 
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===Contributions to Other Zines===
 
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* [[Beejeezus]]
 
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==External Links==
 
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* [http://www.myspace.com/pickitupnow Alexis Stewart's myspace profile]
 
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* [http://groups.myspace.com/appyzinescene Appalachian Zine Scene group]
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 18:11, 6 May 2021

Alexis Stewart

Alexis Stewart was a zinester from West Virginia. Stewart met her untimely demise in 2018 during an incident involving jumping a shark on jetskis. Out of her ashes, Elliott Stewart emerged, a much happier, handsomer, and well adjusted Stewart, to carry on the zinemaking tradition as well as collect a hearty paycheck from Alexis' life insurance policy (as acts of shark were not considered acts of God).

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