Kaitlin Kostus

Mind Biome 002: Equinoxxing Building a practice, like compost.

Building a practice, like compost. Time, patience, and layers.

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Mind Biome 001: Beginner's Mind On ripping off the band-aid, again and again.

First post of my free substack. Hopefully after this one it will be easier for me and this more frequent! It’s free if you want to stay in the loop!

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Tomorrow, April 19th! Milwaukee Zine Fest and it’s my birthday, so be nice to this zine grandma! 👵🏻

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I think they must be because in the last few years they did a project with British folk weirdo Richard Dawson.

Detroit Zine Fest is this Saturday and I’ll be bringing zine joy to the Motor City! You’ll get me “fresh” at the start of a chaotic month of Midwest zine fest travel, a birthday, seeing Mount Eerie, and Easter (I guess?)

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It’s Aries season! Spring is coming! Independent publishing thankfully still exists!

Come see me across the greater Great Lakes area throughout April.

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That frog book is stealing my heart 🐸💚

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Artificial Prehistory.

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It’s so funny when cats decide to do something new.

What prompted the change in the walnut brain? Or was this the warmest, sunniest spot in that moment?

I still have a lot of binding thread to get through, so maybe not yet. I struggle because people love that detail but it is truly a pain in the ass.

You could become a granting body if you have that many extras! “The Marc Fischer Long Arm Stapler Grant”—aka make and staple tons of booklets!

I’ve never had one which is why I bind my booklets by hand with thread but the arthritis is arthritising so I may need to consider other options.

Remember summer, full of flowers, sunlight, and fleeting dreams?

“Concrete Textures” from the Summer 2024 issue of Floral Observer by Taxonomy Press.

#comics #riso #summer

Soooo good!

#comics #olivierschrauwen

That painter really went for it.

It also makes me think of “Big Sky” by Kate Bush as well.

YES.

In a line drawing with warm earth tones, a short haired woman kneels to pick a mushroom in a forest. The text reads, “I COME ALIVE IN THE DECAY, CHEEKS WHIPPED BY MIST. THE EARTH GOES DAMP AND FOUL, ACTIVE WITH INVISIBLE ORGANISMS.”

Observing and classifying.

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A DARKENING DESPENING SOMATOSENSORY DESIRE CREEPING COLD AIR CRISP, LUNGS PIERCING GASPING BLOODIED MUCUS - BLACK RELEASING. BONES STIFFENING, SNAP! CRACKING, NO HEALING FATIGUED, BOREAL, DRY KINDLING A FIERY MIND UNCEASING PAIN HOLLOW, DEFEATED, RETREATING THE BODY COPES WITH WINTER'S STRIFE, AND WINTER LAUGHS BACK, SCREAMING.

It’s subzero in Chicago today, perfect for my comic from the Cellar Door comics compilation by Taxonomy Press.

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A focused moment like raindrops on iris petals.