ZINES – Destiny Modeste

It’s interesting, while living on this earth for 17 years I never thought about where these objects we use for informative entertainment evolved from. They’ve just been handed or advertised to me, giving me no real interest to question it. The reading explained the different characteristics of zines and what we need to know in order to make one. Prior to the assigned reading I had already heard about zines but never payed much attention to them. Zines come from magazines, which explains the many similarities they have. Zines remind me of online blogs, being that they can “be about whatever subject its creator decides upon, or it may contain a variety of subjects and writing styles within the same issue”, according to “Zine 101-A Quick Guide to Zines.” Zines do not seem to be that relevant in these times because there are online blogs and sites in which there is free publication accessible to anyone who needs it, as previously discussed in Blog Post 2. These hard copies are quickly dying, being replaced by blogs, and authors of zines should probably find and online web space available to make their own.