IT'S FINALLY BEEN RELEASED (sorta)!!
"Chasing Rainbows" was a fanzine project that began in October 2016. The zine was themed around celebrating the dreams and ambitions of Gravity Falls characters. The name came from the fact every piece of art was coloured in such a way that when arranged in order, the zine would be coloured like a rainbow.
This zine was in the final stages of development, with orders being made and ready to ship, when it was announced that due to the main mod and organizer of the zine, Charles, being hospitalized, the remaining mods were unable to continue it. With that, it was cancelled and all people who bought a copy were refunded. And that was where the project essentially ended.
However, in the last post on the zine's now deleted Tumblr, it was stated that they hoped to release a digital version of the zine for free, as a way to at least complete the project in some form. However, that did not happen and no traces of a digital release ever surfaced. When I began my archival project for GF fanzines, I initially assumed this zine was lost. However, with that sliver of hope per the last Tumblr post, I began looking for a copy. Unlike other fanzines, this one did not have its mod team listed, so I contacted artists who originally worked on it for info. Many of them no longer are on Tumblr, making tracking them down more difficult.
Eventually, through a few artists, I came to the conclusion that no digital zine was ever released. However, one of the artists, @wendinella on Tumblr, still knew the contact of Charles, the zine organizer. I managed to get in touch with them and to my excitement, they still retained the zine and was more than happy to share it to be archived and preserved.
Zine Link on Archive
Google Drive Download
This Zine here is, while not the final product, a near complete example of what it might have looked like. Charles attempted to contact old mods who worked on it for assets like the completed zine cover and merch meant to be sold with it in 2017, however none were able to respond. Therefore, this zine is released with what they had, which were a placeholder cover and thankfully, all the actual art, which is the more important aspect.
I want to give a huge thank you to Charles aka @kaleidoreef for releasing this zine to be archived. Charles really wanted this to finally happen and I'm glad I can now provide it for all of you on their behalf. I also wanna thank wendinella for getting me in touch with Charles and all the other fan artists who worked on Chasing Rainbows who responded back to me. With this, all known Gravity Falls fanzines are now archived and accounted for.
Tagging the remaining artists on Tumblr so that way they can also hopefully get this zine and see that their hard work has finally yielded a near completed zine.
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