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Dec 1, 2022Liked by Becky Tuch, RW Spryszak

If you live in or near Seattle, mark your calendars for the annual November event: Short Run Comix & Arts Festival. It's mostly visual art but zine culture has a strong showing too! http://shortrun.org/

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Thanks for this great post. I had a zine of my own back in those days, and I still remember how much fun it was. You could write about anything. It freed me up. I stayed away from political zines (too much like the mainstream) and focused on reading the personal zines, or "perzines" as they were called. My favorite was Cometbus, handwritten by a punk musician from Berkeley. Eventually it was published as an anthology of issues. Try googling Cometbus if you're interested.

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by Becky Tuch, RW Spryszak

Jonathan Lethem, in his great essay "Postmodernism as Liberty Valance," on the decline of experimentation, play, jouissance—I guess we could just write: postmodernism—in mainstream literature, wrote: "... in the history of twentieth-century popular music there's a name for the school of jazz that glanced at the innovations of bebop and all the implications and possibilities of what lay beyond, but declined to respond. The name for that school is Dixieland." Seems we're living in our own age of literary Dixieland. Praise to the alt-zines. (Nice article, RW.)

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Dec 4, 2022Liked by Becky Tuch, RW Spryszak

Loved this. I teach a zines-centered English 101 course and have been asked to organize a statewide workshop for faculty in teaching students to make climate-justice related zines as a way of building community around climate issues and addressing climate issues in their own communities...anyway, I'm about to subscribe to The Match. How great that something like that still exists and that I'm not too old (and Fred Woodworth isn't either) to partake.

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Dec 1, 2022Liked by Becky Tuch, RW Spryszak

https://donotsubmit.net/submission/

For the inner dada ❤️

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Dec 1, 2022Liked by Becky Tuch, RW Spryszak

Something many of us need to hear. Thanks!

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Dec 1, 2022Liked by Becky Tuch, RW Spryszak

Love this!

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Dec 1, 2022Liked by Becky Tuch, RW Spryszak

Great post!

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Yes, there are thousands of ezines and they are a boon to the beginning writer but the question is whether that's the tiny readership you want.

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