I thought about the whole purpose of zines when I first began writing them. It was at that time when the internet was really taking off, and blogs were born. It seemed that everyone doing zines would leave their printed materials behind and convert to cyber zinesters. That did happen somewhat, but zines still survived, [...]

On February 21st, we hosted our first Diatribe Media/Loop Distro reading at the world’s best bookstore - Quimby’s in Chicago. A ton of people came out and watched some fantastic zinesters read - and even got to witness a marriage proposal! Andrew Mall, author of Living Proof zine, proposed right in the middle of his [...]