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'''Alex Wrekk''' (born June 19, 1977) is a [[zinester]] from [[Portland]], OR.  
 
'''Alex Wrekk''' (born June 19, 1977) is a [[zinester]] from [[Portland]], OR.  
  
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Wrekk was born in Houston, Texas, where she lived for the first nine years of life, and then moved to Greensboro, North Carolina with her family for 9 months. After that they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where she started getting into zines in high school.
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Wrekk was born in Houston, Texas, where she lived for the first nine years of life, and then moved to Greensboro, North Carolina with her family for 9 months. After that they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, when she was 10 and later in High School she started getting into zines in high school.
  
 
Wrekk was first introduced to zines by her high school boyfriend's father who let them borrow from his collection. Alex got more involved with zines after meeting some kids in the midwest on a church youth trip in the mid '90's. Her early influences include comic zines like [[Bad Art]], [[Then She Deflated]] and [[Shelf Life]] . From there she and her sister, [[Webly Bowles]], created their first zine [[Fun in a Bucket]] in 1995 and were part of the small zine community in Salt Lake City, Utah along with such zines as [[Hat]], [[Failed Jedi]], [[Maybrick's Diary]], [[Hemopheliac's Papercut]], and [[Lunchroom]]. In 1997 Alex was the "merch girl" for the band Homesick and ran a small zine on the side to a largely disinterested crowd at shows where she carried local zines as well as out of state zines like [[Cometbus]] and [[A Punk Kid Walks Into A Bar]].
 
Wrekk was first introduced to zines by her high school boyfriend's father who let them borrow from his collection. Alex got more involved with zines after meeting some kids in the midwest on a church youth trip in the mid '90's. Her early influences include comic zines like [[Bad Art]], [[Then She Deflated]] and [[Shelf Life]] . From there she and her sister, [[Webly Bowles]], created their first zine [[Fun in a Bucket]] in 1995 and were part of the small zine community in Salt Lake City, Utah along with such zines as [[Hat]], [[Failed Jedi]], [[Maybrick's Diary]], [[Hemopheliac's Papercut]], and [[Lunchroom]]. In 1997 Alex was the "merch girl" for the band Homesick and ran a small zine on the side to a largely disinterested crowd at shows where she carried local zines as well as out of state zines like [[Cometbus]] and [[A Punk Kid Walks Into A Bar]].

Revision as of 23:34, 27 July 2006

Alex Wrekk

Alex Wrekk (born June 19, 1977) is a zinester from Portland, OR.

Wrekk was born in Houston, Texas, where she lived for the first nine years of life, and then moved to Greensboro, North Carolina with her family for 9 months. After that they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, when she was 10 and later in High School she started getting into zines in high school.

Wrekk was first introduced to zines by her high school boyfriend's father who let them borrow from his collection. Alex got more involved with zines after meeting some kids in the midwest on a church youth trip in the mid '90's. Her early influences include comic zines like Bad Art, Then She Deflated and Shelf Life . From there she and her sister, Webly Bowles, created their first zine Fun in a Bucket in 1995 and were part of the small zine community in Salt Lake City, Utah along with such zines as Hat, Failed Jedi, Maybrick's Diary, Hemopheliac's Papercut, and Lunchroom. In 1997 Alex was the "merch girl" for the band Homesick and ran a small zine on the side to a largely disinterested crowd at shows where she carried local zines as well as out of state zines like Cometbus and A Punk Kid Walks Into A Bar.

For the most part Salt Lake City lacked interest, knowledge and respect of zines, Wrekk looked mainly to pen pals for other zines and inspiration. She later broke away from the silliness of Fun in a Bucket and started her own zine, Brainscan, that was more reflective and thoughful than Fun in a Bucket. Wrekk later moved to Portland, Oregon to be closer to where her sister Webly went to college and also where she already knew some zine penpals like Antonio and Zack Hyde of Three Sheets to the Wind and Beer Powered Bicycle. In Portland Wrekk found and contributed to the zine community working on the anual Portland Zine Symposium, and volunteering at the Independent Publishing Resource Center and the creative reuse store S.C.R.A.P.

Alex Wrekk met Joe Biel as a pen pal in the late '90s. Wrekk convinced Biel to move to Portland since his house burned down. Wrekk started helping Biel with his record and zine distro, Microcosm Publishing, out of their home. A few years later, Microcosm grew and moved into office space below Liberty Hall, in large part thanks to the original zines and books they were publishing, including Wrekk's own successful Stolen Sharpie Revolution a DIY zine resource.

Alex's

Bibliography

Contributions to Other zines

Podcasts/Audio Recordings

  • An audio chapter on the IPRC Audio Zine CD.
  • Selections from "Brainscan #21" for the Zinester Podcasts series.
  • An upcoming podcast with her sister Webly called "Born to Love Volcanoes"

Zines

Split Zines

Zine Tours

External Links

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