a good zine is hard to find

Sep 28, 2009 14:56

Welcome to 1993! I'm trying to read more zines because big giant monolithic publisher type magazines are so aggravating and expensive (don't even get me started on REAL SIMPLE or we'll be here all night and I finally gave up on BUST because I got sick of paying 6 bucks just to get vaguely annoyed ( Read more... )

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murdermystery September 28 2009, 20:39:35 UTC
http://www.blairmag.com/

BLAIR MAGAZINE is a web zine that is pretty perfect.
it's done done done though but there ARE 7 issues online to read.

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this link is more effecient: murdermystery September 28 2009, 20:40:12 UTC
Re: this link is more effecient: phyllisgabor September 28 2009, 21:03:08 UTC
I actually keep meaning to just print out EVERYTHING on the Blair site so I have a hard copy. It's just too good to exist on the internet forever.

At least they quit at the top of their game--their Fantasy issue is the GREATEST OF ALL TIME.

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clef September 29 2009, 00:31:07 UTC
Have you heard of goteblud? They're a store/gallery in San Francisco devoted entirely to zines. It's at the top of the list of places to visit the next time in SF.

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phyllisgabor September 30 2009, 20:03:32 UTC
Oh man, I saw a copy of DEAD JACQUELINE SUSANN QUARTERLY on that wall of zines they have. I've been dying to read that for YEARS.

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saturn_shumba September 30 2009, 14:56:06 UTC
I always loved the Cha Cha Charming site, so I may have to hunt down those zines. Here's hoping that's not an impossible task.

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phyllisgabor September 30 2009, 20:02:59 UTC
I think I bought my copies on the Atomic Books website, but they don't stock it anymore.

I found #3 on Ebay, reasonably priced to boot: http://cgi.ebay.com/Cha-Cha-Charming-Magazine-%233-Chocolat_W0QQitemZ220384598123QQcmdZViewItem

One caveat emptor--volume 3 is almost entirely about modern Japanese pop.

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saturn_shumba September 30 2009, 23:23:48 UTC
Thanks for the link!

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phyllisgabor October 15 2009, 18:53:55 UTC
I've been dying to read both of those titles for years. I wish there were anthologies of zines with LGBT themes. All the zine anthologies I've seen have compiled the more mainstream (and more "LET'S GO TO BURNING MAN!" esque) zines.

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eight_bits October 15 2009, 06:19:58 UTC
I think your generalizations are excellent.

One thing about a lot of zines that's always bugged me is the irreverence-for-irreverence's-sake tone that so many of them have (and had). Like everything is always so HAHA CHEAP LAFFS. It's this sort of pre-Internet "look how smart and pop-culturally-savvy I am!" snark syndrome.

The flipside of that was either dire earnestness so devoid of any laffs at all that it made me long for the snarky ones (you know -- the Adbusters School of Zinedom?), or those pweciously twee zines that I couldn't relate to because of their CUPCAKES AND RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS ALL THE TIME! features.

I saw a copy of Seth Bogart's (aka "HUNX")'s zine, Puberty Strike, a few years ago and I thought it was pretty hilarious and funny. But it's been a while since I've seen it anywhere.

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phyllisgabor October 16 2009, 15:03:04 UTC
There's a really fine line between good irreverence and nasty irreverence that I think is hard to walk, particularly when you are your own editor. The word "snark" makes me CRINGE because it always goes hand in hand with that really snide, not particularly funny brand of internet humor that usually boils down to upper middle class white people making fun of poor people and minorities.

What the hell is up with the cupcake obsession, anyway? I love dessert as much as the next person but the whole cupcake thing is out of control.

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