Comments on: KQED Visits Needles + Pens, Reviews Some Zines, Dismisses Blogs as Less Special

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By: Allan

Allan — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:45:59 +0000

but thanks for reading, and writing in, and thanks for writing about n+p

By: Allan

Allan — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:45:22 +0000

well then evidently you haven’t seen bomomo.com. believe. also, the vast majority of zines are dime-a-dozen boring too. obviously i like the rare good ones, but it’s like anything. most painters suck, most musicians suck, most plumbers suck, but there are rare good ones in every field. i’d refrain from saying *all painters* are more special than *all plumbers* just because painting is “art” and plumbing is not. because that’s bullshit. a really great plumber is more of an artist than a run-of-the-mill painter. also, when a blog is boring, the only thing it wastes is its creator’s time. when a zine is boring, it wastes paper, ink and other non-renewable resources.

By: Suzanne Kleid

Suzanne Kleid — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:33:50 +0000

Thanks. I thought Needles and Pens was cool and deserved some exposure.

Thank you to peeque for getting that I wasn’t trying to make some anti-internet statement.

If it makes you feel any better, I think Mission Mission is pretty special, and the “corporate media entity” that is Northern California Public Broadcasting paid me a grand total of 35 bucks to write that review. the 23 bucks I spent on zines came out of my pocket. So, net profit of 12 bucks, which I have blown at N+P many times over since then.

I wasn’t talking about WHATIMSEEING (or mission mission) when I was talking about no-investment dime-a-dozen blogging.

I still have never seen anything on the internet that has moved me the way the hand-drawn and hand-lettered Dream Whip #14 has. There is something about buying a zine, which is also an art object, and being able to see the fingerprints of its creator on it. Plus, you have to enter a physical building and speak to an actual person in order to buy it. The internet is pretty cool. (I wouldn’t write for it if i didn’t think it was.) But good zines are rarer, and good neighborhood zine stores even rarer still. And therefore, yes, that makes them more special.

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By: peeque

peeque — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:53:14 +0000

i’d have to agree with her … there’s an additional level of commitment and risk to creating something physical. zines are like blogs, with the added creative challenge of making a physical artistic statement in your presentation of the material. which, by the way, doesn’t denigrate whatimseeing or any other good blog … they’re just different media. i wouldn’t be surprised to see a resurgence of physical delivery mechanisms someday.