Factsheet 5 Is Making Comeback
Written by Niraj
Published March 24, 2005
Published March 24, 2005
For all those fans of zines, Factsheet 5, the zine of zines, is planning to start publication again. First issue is tentatively set for May 23, 2005.
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- Factsheet 5 Is Making Comeback
- Published: March 24, 2005
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which gives rise to the question, why would they revive a publication about zines when blogs have replaced them? Are there any zines anymore? And if so, why?
Blogs lack tactility zines offer. There's something about those freshly-Xeroxed papers; the smell; the joy of having a finished product in your hands. This is what many zine writers tell me.
In fact, in Boston, this past week, there was a zine conference, with workshops on how to create you own zine.
They may not be as popular as before blogs, but they're still plenty of them out there.
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Zines were blogging before the Internet. Same impulse, smaller reach.
BTW, I still have a large collection of FF's from the Seth days if anyone is interested.