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I liked this zine about mold

I got this zine, "i'm scared of mold" by batcities, in this e-SIMs for Gaza bundle months ago, and finally read it today.

It's a great, weird little 16-page meditation on a phobia... made, fascinatingly, with foraged inks, which the artist explains tend to get moldy. So making the comic about mold with moldy inks functioned as a kind of exposure therapy.

I checked it out because I recently fully bit into a moldy naan bread from Trader Joe's, which was a shocking experience. I grabbed it without thinking and took a huge mold bite. Wow, mold tastes bad!!! I should have known better. Bread from TJs is risky after a few days, in my experience... I don't enjoy mold but I'm glad I am not too freaked out by it. As the comic says... mold is everywhere!!

I, too, have in the past tried to explain some of my weirder phobias to people. I am terrified of moths and have been my entire life. I've tried to plumb it for art inspiration in the past but never quite found something I wanted to show to people. Maybe I should try again...

#phobias #zines