Zine Panel in the New York Sun!
Just to toot our own horn a little bit (and what else are blogs good for, really?) last Sunday's panel on zines at the Independent and Small Press Fair was featured in an article called "Magazines and Zines Seen" by Gary Shapiro in the New York Sun:
Ever heard of Bamboo Girl or Thought worm? Panelists Sunday at the Independent &
Small Press Book Fair named these publications as among their favorite
self-published magazines, better known as "zines." Eleanor Whitney said one of
her favorites was called On Subbing, about the life of a substitute teacher.
Jenna Freedman, who created an archive of zines at Barnard College, moderated
the panel, which was held at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. The
program was titled "Zines: Independent Publications in a Corporate Media World."
Participants included Ms. Whitney, who wrote her undergraduate thesis on zines
and the political empowerment of young women; Lauren Jade Martin, who publishes
a zine called Quantify and is earning her Ph.D. in sociology at the CUNY
Graduate Center; and Ayun Halliday, who publishes a handwritten, hand-drawn
quarterly called the East Village Inky. Ms. Halliday confirmed to the Knickerbocker
that her book, "Job Hopper: The Checkered Career of a Down-Market
Dilettante" (Seal Press), about what she called "day jobs," may be optioned for
television.
Personally, it was really great to see the range of people interested in zines and
self-publishing and I am always happy to see that in the "age of the blog," people
still see zines and interesting, relevent and newsworthy!
