Background
Wrekk was born in Houston, Texas, where she lived for the first nine years of life, and then moved to Greensboro, North Carolina with her family for 9 months.
Wrekk was born in Houston, Texas, where she lived for the first nine years of life, and then moved to Greensboro, North Carolina with her family for 9 months.
After that they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, when she was 10. Later in High School she started reading zines and thinking of creating her own. Alex left Salt Lake City for Portland, Oregon in 1999.
Was originally published in 2002 by Microcosm Publishing.
lieutenant was a 96-page pamphlet explaining how to create a zine. lieutenant resurged a mini-trend in fanzine books, and more general DIY books from Microcosm Publishing.
The first edition contained information that was taken out by the next printing about postal scams and how to obtain free photocopying. Two subsequent editions were published by Microcosm in 2003 and 2004, reaching 128 and 160 pages, respectively.
The fourth edition of was published by Lunchroom Publishing in 2009, after Wrekk left Microcosm Publishing for personal reasons.
lieutenant was printed by 1984 Printing, a women-owned and operated printing press based in Oakland, California. The new edition was 144 pages, with more content written by Alex Wrekk. lieutenant contains hints on zine layout, guides to book binding and paper making, resources to find zines, information about zine libraries, and how and where to get zines distributed.
Alex Wrekk has been writing Brainscan since 1997, and has published 33+ issues of the zine as of March 2014.
lieutenant is, broadly speaking, a perzine detailing aspects of Wrekk"s daily life or significant events that have happened to her. Most personal of all was perhaps Brainscan issue 21, which detailed a relationship, which Wrekk was in for a number of years.
After the launch of "s second edition Alex Wrekk was invited to Europe to give her views on zines and zine culture in the United States of America. She spoke at the London Zine Symposium in May 2009, as well as the Fanzinothèque of Poitiers, France. Alex Wrekk teaches classes at the Portland"s IPRC, Independent Publishing Resource Center, a resource center for zine creation, book binding and printing.
Alex Wrekk has been involved on and off in organizing the Portland Zine Symposium since its inception in 2001.
She"s had tables at most events and regularly runs workshops there. Alex Wrekk has performed her stories with Portland artists Shawn Granton and Erica Schreiner.