LeToMaGiC-Zine

The zines, a sticker and some flyers on my carpet. In the middle there is a hand drawn map and one zine has the ‚Hello, my name is‘ sticker layout.

Last year @spiral-tat.bsky.social & @miketyl.bsky.social visited @ozdfest.bsky.social (not the fest, but the person and shop behind it) and bought these wonderful zines for me - thanks a lot!

I hope, I manage to visit that magical place myself one day!

Three different views of 17-year old Marina Ginestà on top of Hotel Colon in Plaça Catalunya on 21 July 1936 staged and taken by German born Juan Guzmán, plus overview over all of Guzmán's photos of her, on the roof of Hotel Colón and in Bujalaruz, Aragón with Durruti and soviet journalist Koltsov.

Born #OnThisDay 29 Jan 1919 Marina Ginestà in Toulouse to politicised working class exiled Catalan parents. Family returned to Barcelona 1928, prewar communist youth and war. 1939 escaped Franco's Spain, exile in LatAm, later France, 1970s won Cat literary award for one of her novels. Died Paris2014

Would have loved to join you! I hope to make it one day.

@altona93fanzines.bsky.social @letomagic.bsky.social Just dropped off a LeToMagic with Ru @ozdfest.bsky.social

Job done @altona93fanzines.bsky.social !

The header of the mentioned interview in Flatline #4.

Christians answer with the mention of ‚Letter Magic‘.

Thanks to the people who compilated the Flatline issue 4 - in memoriam of our friend Christian! Thanks to @trauerundfussball.bsky.social for sending it to me & to @chrizmagic.bsky.social for pointing out the reprint of the interview Christian gave the Papercore #zine (mentioning LeToMaGiC in there).

The mentioned mural showing Nell McCafferty.

The Derry City subbuteo figure in front of the famous Free Derry mural.

The Derry City subbuteo figure in the stadium during the match.

The famous round corner of the away section in the stadium.

I’ve been to Derry for #LeToMaGiC issue eight, too. I admired the murals, my favourite being the one for Nell McCafferty, was happy to receive a bottle cap from a brewing cooperative called Lacada in Portrush and enjoyed the hospitality at @derrycityfc.net.

Shelves inside the Marsh‘s Library.

The Shamrock Rovers subbuteo figure in front of a pub.

The Shamrock Rovers main stand and the tea and burger hut in front of it.

The Shamrock Rovers subbuteo figure in the stadium during the match.

I visited Dublin for #LeToMaGiC issue eight, but it seems like the famous #ForgottenZineArchive is no longer operating. Though the @marshslibrary.bsky.social has an even longer history. Footballwise it was a pleasure to watch the @shamrockrovers.ie women to win at home.

Hab hier rumgestickert. Gruß an @hdrlmpkms.bsky.social @letomagic.bsky.social @hafetschutter.bsky.social und @altona93fanzines.bsky.social

I believe this is the only known use of Juan Guzman's famed Marina Ginestà photo during the Spanish Civil War itself, an image which has come this century to represent more than any other the revolutionary hopes of 1936.
CP magazine Pasionaria, 23 October 1937. Via Gabriela Cladera, FB.

@letomagic.bsky.social
Vielen Dank für die neueste Ausgabe und liebe Grüsse vom Bodensee 💥

@letomagic.bsky.social @altona93fanzines.bsky.social well, it would be a shame to go to one of the pubs in the zine and not put a sticker up there wouldn't it?

The diy sticker from issue 7 with the slogan ‚Iuventa‘s Friend‘.

I just received the first picture of a diy sticker from #LeToMaGiC issue 7. I‘m pretty much looking forward to your versions of this hand drawn sticker!

The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 Auf Discogs können Sie sich ansehen, wer an 2009 CDvon London 0 Hull 4 mitgewirkt hat, Rezensionen und Titellisten lesen und auf dem Marktplatz nach der Veröffentlichung suchen.

That cd is in the box, but loads of other stuff (including an huge Hull subbuteo figure), too! You can scroll through the pictures here:

LeToMaGiC issue 7 on the Housemartins‘ ‚London 0 Hull 4‘ cd box set.

Okay, this #LeToMaGiC issue‘s cover art was inspired by a cd box set by the wonderful #Housemartins, because Hull is covered in the #zine.

The first six LeToMaGiC covers on wood.

That one inspired the first issue (on the left) - all of the covers are inspired by record covers that include Subbuteo figures:

Praha was covered in the last issue.

The seventh issue of LeToMaGiC with all six photos and the one stickers that are glued in this issue.

Handcut & handsewn - the seventh issue of my mini art #zine #LeToMaGiC is available now!

This issue covers Great Yarmouth, Hull, Klaipėda, Kraków & Zürich.

Do you know which record inspired the cover artwork of this issue?

#DIYZines

Handcoloured covers.

All the handcut pages, stickers and photos and some tools on a tray.

The ‚handcut‘ bit for #LeToMaGiC issue 7 is finally done - now the ‚handcolour‘ and ‚handsew‘ bits are next.

#DIYzines

Fanzines and Subbuteo, the perfect match. On the face of it, a bit of a niche fanzine blog this time; Subbuteo and fanzines. However, as we will see, the two have been strongly linked since the start of the golden (goalden? – Ed) era…

It's Thursday so that can mean only one thing, a new blog is up now. This week we look at the links between football fanzines and Subbuteo. Yes, you read that right..
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YouTube video by Stow Stories How a Semi-Pro Club is Leading Football's Fashion Revolution

I just wrote about this shirt for the next @letomagic.bsky.social issue, it might play a role in the next @gidouille.bsky.social project and now I really enjoyed this free short film!

I‘m just curious, if I might be the first zine in the #DIYzines feed. I‘m looking forward to all the others who will join!

Group of artists, all men, producing banners for the anarchist women's organisation Mujeres Libres (Free Women).
Barcelona, 16 July 1937. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas beautifully colourised by Jules Backmaan (instgm)

Let's remember Marina Ginestà. Died #OnThisDay 6 Jan 2014 in Paris. Born in Toulouse to politised working class migrant Catalan parents. Family returned to Barcelona 1928, prewar communist youth. 1939 escaped Franco Spain, exile in LatAm, later France, 1970s won Cat literary awards for novels.

LeToMaGiC subbuteo figure made of very little lamps (which I found in my advent calender).

Happy New Year to all who celebrate!

The famous ‚belly button‘ by Hans Arp on the outside of the house.

Yes, indeed, she was!

All the K-Set locations during the last twenty years on one hand drawn map.

Subbuteo Art at the edge of the Zürich See.

Subbuteo Art in the Letzigrund stadium during the match against Lugano.

The Cabaret Voltaire on the first floor of an building in the old town.

I’ve been to Zürich for #LeToMaGiC issue seven, too.
The brilliant K-Set #ZineLibrary exists more than twenty years now - and the Grasshoppers Club Zürich even longer. I also visited the Cabaret Voltaire, of course.

Thank you - the Cowley club was already on my list. I‘m happy to add the others, too!