Zines zines, everyone loves zines. Don't be too harsh on that i, pronounce it zeeeeeen. So what is a zine. I'll use The Book of Zines for my point of reference.
Radical site.
So zines are like tiny magazines, homemade, usually using two or three pieces of paper, heavily xeroxed, cut pasted stapled colored in and handed out, mailed to friends, or something silly like just handed out. They're totally, totally awesome.
Zines popped up as part of the DIY sentiment, usually dealing in music or politics. Got something to say? Take a day, pop out twenty or thirty zines, put them together and get them out on the streets.
This site is great too. It has a directory with tons of zines, some mailing lists and the like, a bunch of how to's and FAQ's (which we all love). Distribution, legal mumbo jumbo, articles, everything you'll ever need for a zine and then so much more you may get physically ill reading about zines and actually never get one or make one becausethethoughtofzinesJUSTMAKESYOUWANTTODIE augh!
Today, I am giving Octopus Project a go. They're wild.
Picturing a crane,
Joseph C.
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