001 → Things Bound 4 Reading & such
Btw all the PDFs on this page are compressed so they’re not SO huge... Excuse the slight blurriness
Bluekeys Magazine
Bluekeys Magazine was a zine I started in July 2020 and worked on till January 2025. We published in print five 52-98-page zines and ten 8-page cut-and-fold poster zines and put out a whole bunch of stickers, buttons, shirts, and totes. We also put on 25 events, like shows with bands and local vendors, a film festival, a zine workshop, a yard sale, a movie night and even an epic kickball tournament, corralling anywhere from 12 (haha) to over 500 freaks and wizards (wow!). Also, just to toot our own horn here, we were a finalist for best print publication in the Austin Chronicle’s Best Of 2023!
Bluekeys wasn’t just myself, but instead a team of probably about 50 people over the years, with our people mostly from Austin, Texas (our founding city) and New York City, but also dotted around in California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Spain and more. 10000% couldn’t have done it without them and I made some of my closest friends through the zine.
Anywayyyy... Read our zines with the PDFs below
Issue 05 “Lost & Found Box”
Issue 04 “Quixotic”
Issue 03 “Anomalous”
Issue 02 “Reinvention” (also here is the Sam Johnson spread cuz it glitched out of that PDF)
Issue 01 Lollllllll (this is proof that you can do anything) (also sorry didn’t re-format this into spreads)
Mini Zines Volume 1
That big ole file includes all the zines below:
#1 "Music Scene Cheat Sheet: ATX '23"
#2 “Grab a Pen”
#3 “Yayoi Kusama”
#4“What They"re Not Telling You About The Giant People Inside The Earth"
#5 “Stuff The Team Likes (And Thinks You Might Like Too)”
#6 “Pepsi-Cola Mudpies”
#7 “Real Odd Interviews”
#8 “The absolutely awesome bluekeys almanac of poorly drawn animals and crazy facts about them”
#9 “Pretty Potties”
#10 “The Frankenzine!”
Btw, for the mini zines, each issue is two PDF pages. When printed out onto tabloid paper and folded and cut in magical ways, the first page forms a zine, and the second forms a poster :)
The 100 Yarn #1 (May ‘25)
The 100 Yarn is a 52-page zine full of TRUE stories I’ve collected from friends, family, professors, and friends’ stepdads via interviews, google docs, handwritten notes, and iMessage voice memos.
The stories are about knots, punks, rattlesnakes, the Virgin Mary, love, Denver, whistling, fire alarms, Paul McCartney (or the lack thereof), the cremasteric reflex, car crashes, running away, and the color red ...and more.
Such stories are told by Eloise Crittenden, Brian Tompkins, Arnaud Turner, Ellie Livingston, Eamon O'Connor, Darlene Marsh, Benjamin Sun, Joe Minde-Berman, Sevin Vasiloudes, Maymaggie Clark, Shannon McMahon, James McCarthy Walker, Kate Koblegarde, Presley Walker, Grace Conrad, Kai Slater, Shirley Ellisor, Cole Hunt, Em Higgins, Ben Jammes, Abby Noble, and Mark Johnson.
I’m working on the second issue right now, email me with anything you want to share: milesellisor@gmail.com (make sure to attach to the email any related visual paraphenalia such as photos and drawings)
Read the first issue with this unassuming but soon life changing link
Bigfoot Is Real ...This Was My Evidence (Dec ‘24)
This is the second creative writing zine I’ve crafted up. It’s 22 pages and includes 5 poems, 4 songs and an accompanying “poetry stew” and “song stew” (unfinished ideas and fragments). All handwritten, also hand-bound with yarn and the cover is a nice weirdly-printed-on cardstock.
Apologies 4 the terrible photo documentation up there^
Sorry for the scary formatting but here’s the link link link
Not For You (Oct ‘23)
This is a 60-page photo & design book with 35mm photos of bands like Hello Mary, Die Spitz, julie, Sub*t, Pretty Sick, etc. This one I did not print and bind myself, I had my good accomplice Mixam do this one for me.
Technically this zine has 3 chapters, so the chapters are linked separetly. The actual zine had all three though.
Chapter #1
Chapter #2
Chapter #3
Static Magazine
Assistant creative director at yr service! Static Magazine is WNYU’s historic print zine. Some of my buddies revived it the year before I landed in New York and once I got there, I got to help them create the first print issue in 40 years!!
Since then, I started the Static Monthly with the help of my friend/boss Shannon McMahon. A solid group of us works on it every month, then prints and distributes it for freeeee for all 2 read. You can also print them out for yourself at yr local printer by downloading the PDFs on Static’s site
Roadkill (April ‘24)
This was the first creative writing zine I made, 18 pages and hand-bound with soooft yarn. It includes 4 songs, 4 poems, and 1 story, all handwritten except the story because that was too damn long. Also the cover is a deep fried iPhone picture of a cyanotype quilt I made.
I had to search the voids within my computer for this, and it’s formatted a little funny, but nonetheless
“Everywhere kinda looks the same” (July ‘24)
Linocut comic!!!! Featured in the upcoming Phase Zero issue xP