Welcome, This is the Yahoo! Message Board for Zine Publishers community....
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revelations64
Feb 25, 2000 10:04 pm
I hope this goes better than the last club I joined that was supposed to be about fanzines. I was in the process of looking for where to put my own club when I...
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johnfaustus
Feb 26, 2000 12:44 am
Howdy, thanks for joining the club:)<br><br>I'm personally pretty new to the whole zine thing, but I've put out one issue of a literary zine. There are ...
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cobwebster
Feb 26, 2000 9:59 pm
Hey, what's up? I'm looking to connect with more zinesters, so I thought I'd join this club because your posts have actually been written intellegently. I'm ...
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johnfaustus
Feb 27, 2000 6:46 am
Heya Aiko,<br><br>We've got a few zinesters here, so hopefully you'll find the club useful. And thanks for saying my posts are written "intelligently," because...
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revelations64
Feb 28, 2000 8:25 pm
I can only remember so much, so I'm going to reply to each post individually, so as not to miss any points I'd like to cover. (No, I don't have a ...
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revelations64
Feb 28, 2000 8:40 pm
Writing intelligently is one of the few things I pride myself on. Not only can't a lot of people spell or type, they don't seem to be able to grasp the concept...
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revelations64
Feb 28, 2000 8:47 pm
It does look like we've got a good group of people here. It's such a change of pace to be able to "talk" with people who not only understand the process of...
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johnfaustus
Feb 28, 2000 10:10 pm
I myself use a Bubblejet printer(gasp!), which given the current technology, is about on par with a dot matrix printer. However, since I am in college, I have...
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johnfaustus
Feb 28, 2000 10:20 pm
The most time consuming aspect of doing my zine has to be doing the layout. I do mine in Word in a way that's probably not the best, and I tend to move things...
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revelations64
Feb 29, 2000 9:05 pm
If I hadn't gotten the laser printer I've got for free, I would have photocopied my stuff, too. Of course, the way the printer's been acting lately, it may as...
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revelations64
Feb 29, 2000 9:39 pm
I don't think I know my way around Word well enough to do any decent layout in it. That does sound like it takes a lot of time. I know what you mean about...
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johnfaustus
Mar 1, 2000 5:40 am
That sucks about your web site. I've been doing web sites for several years now, and I really got tired of messing with free home page providers, with their...
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revelations64
Mar 1, 2000 3:04 pm
I'm still trying to access it today. I've tried telling it to send me my password, but haven't gotten a response, so maybe the leap year killed the server. I'd...
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johnfaustus
Mar 4, 2000 4:42 am
Heya all,<br><br>Sorry I haven't had the chance to do in depth replies to posts lately. I've been bogged down in pre-spring break class junk and my job. I'll...
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revelations64
Mar 7, 2000 1:32 pm
I can understand work and classes being important. I'll get kind of scarce in another week when it comes down to the wire to get my next isue out, too. At ...
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johnfaustus
Mar 8, 2000 7:42 pm
I don't have a special job or anything, I just work at a convenience store in town. That's pretty much how I've been financing my zine efforts so far. ...
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revelations64
Mar 9, 2000 10:23 pm
Hey, we've all gotta start somewhere. I've put in my time at a couple convenience stores, McDonald's, and a local grocery chain. It gets you out in the world...
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johnfaustus
Mar 10, 2000 4:45 am
I definitely appreciate your input. I think the best solution for my immediate feelings over being reiewed somewhat negatively is just time so I can think ...
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jill_roach
Mar 10, 2000 4:16 pm
Hi all! Iam new to this Club. Iam putting togeather a BIG ZINE TRADE. Print zines only. Here is what it will be like. Iam gonna spread the word, if your ...
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revelations64
Mar 15, 2000 3:42 pm
Somehow I'd missed this message, so it took me a while to reply to it. Sorry. I had been printing around the 15th of every month, but the past couple months ...
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revelations64
Mar 18, 2000 10:25 pm
About a week ago I e-mailed you about your trading plan. I was wondering if you'd gotten it because I haven't gotten a response, and sometimes my e-mail loses...
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johnfaustus
Mar 19, 2000 8:09 pm
I got this reply regarding the trade a couple days ago: <br><br>Hey everyone. Here is part two of the Zine trade. Part one was you telling me ya wnated to do...
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revelations64
Mar 21, 2000 12:43 am
Thanks, guess I'll have to e-mail her again and tell her I'm in.<br><br>So does anyone actually SELL their mags, or do we all just trade back and forth? I'm ...
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johnfaustus
Mar 21, 2000 2:57 am
I haven't sold a single issue yet. I'm just getting started, though. Hopefully my issues will improve over time. Some day, there might just be a dollar waiting...
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revelations64
Mar 21, 2000 1:41 pm
That's both reassuring and depressing at the same time. I guess I'm just too old. I remember the days of hand cut-and-pasted pictures and columns, and the ...
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revelations64
Mar 24, 2000 2:02 pm
Issue 10 is finished - about a week later than I wanted it to be! On a bright note, I've increased my page count to 24, and the print quality is pretty good ...
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johnfaustus
Mar 24, 2000 8:20 pm
Congrats,<br><br>I just finished my second issue--my second zine ever! I think it's much better than my first issue, but there's still plenty of room for ...
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revelations64
Mar 25, 2000 2:49 pm
Yeah, I've noticed Kinko's is a bit pricey. Most of the small shops around here aren't much cheaper, but I have noticed that Office Max (if you've got one) is...
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revelations64
Mar 31, 2000 9:19 pm
I'm looking for someone ambitious enough to do some artwork for an original piece of fiction I'm serializing in my mag. It's a fantasy story, featuring an elf ...
