I wonder if anybody was looking forward to something like this. I made a zine from the pictures I took from Swift Campout 2025.

Blue Lugazine, something I used to make after work 8 years ago is now back with much better quality.

If you’re an OG Blue Lug customer, you may have a copy or two. Back then, I would print out some photos taken with my iPhone with the printer at the shop and staple them together, all by myself.

What’s even more surprising is that we would “sell” the zines for ¥0 on our online store.

The original zines would continue til’ issue 6 until they quietly faded out. They featured a lot of behind the scenes stuff and some Tokyo bicycle culture from my perspective. Not to pat myself in the back, but I think they were pretty interesting to flip through.

I somehow was reminded about those zines when I was getting ready for the Swift Campout event for this year and I thought I’d try making a “legit” zine with some photos I take in the trip.

I didn’t have that much of special things to write, but I chose the paper from the local printers and made the zines full color. They turned out five times better than the original 6 issues.

The new Blue Lugazines feature :

– A messy map and a slightly nicer map of the trip
– special artwork from @___ghooost___
– Japanese and English texts
– Postscripts
– Free logo stickers

I hope some of you who’s reading this would get a kick out of the zines.

They are now available in stores and online.

Happy Summer.