the zine edition

i love a lot of zines. they are my newest crack.
along with cake, gossip girl, books, and ranting.
so here is a list of a few of my favorites.

 Culture Slut

Brilliant brilliant brilliant. Want a glimpse into a retro glasses wearing, tattoo loving, feminist loner's mind? Read Culture Slut. It literally is her version of a diary, put out there for other zinesters to love and adore. She has definitely inspired me for issue 2 of Barefoot.

The La-La Theory

My favorite (so far!) word loving zinester. Not just because there is a Welsh word included in this edition! But because the way Katie writes makes me want to write. This is a good thing to find in a zine.

 The Lucky Ones

I'll admit it. I bought this zine because I loved the name. Then, when I got it in my hungry little hands, I loved this zine because of what the name represents. 54 pages taken from Mark's sketch book, 54 random observations of the wrorld around him, 54 lucky little sketches making it into this inspiring little zine. It made me want to ride on the New York subway, and carry my sketch book everywhere. His follow up, Dead Letters and Rare Words is on my wish list also.

Finally (for today) my understanding of the boundary between zine and MAGAzine is vague, at best. Simply, I understand it as coming down to advertising. Zines are grassroots, they are indie, they are  anti-commercialism, self published from the darkened bedroom of a person wanting to get their thoughts, their issues, their causes out there. So in my mind, when a zine includes advertisments, (unless it is advertising oneself) then it moves over into the MAGAzine realm. 
However, Subtext classes itself as a magazine, but rather has the feel of a zine. There are no adverts, just a group of people writing about things that matter to them, that effect them and us and you. It's a British feminist magazine, that is a breath of fresh air amongst heat, and look, and glamour, etc.  

My first zine list ;)

Comments

[Hello Amber!]

Thanks for the review, lady! I'll be keeping up with your blog. (The La-La Theory rules too, Katie is a wonderful person).