It fills me with dread thinking about sitting behind that table by myself. I have lots of social anxiety and I’m not a very good salesman so I was never that big in to selling at shows, but I knew it was necessary. I never completely stopped but I would have long stretches of no activity. My partner needed more of my focus so the art was coming out slower as I focused on life. I had difficulty with my home life for a while.
ZL – Did you regularly attend events before you Covid came along? How does it feel not getting to have those shows to go to anymore?ĭF – I actually hadn’t been to a show in maybe 5 years before covid. How much do you feel that interaction fostered you and kept you making, or is it a more complicated picture of zine shows, letter swaps and forum friendships? I wonder if there are any groups where people network about zines in the same way? I was nowhere near the internet at that time, so you’re part of a generation that had this much more interactive involvement with other zinemakers from around the world. I used to take them with me to the second hand book stall I worked at and no-one ever paid them the slightest attention!īy the time I found out about other zines that I could advertise in or contribute to I’d lost my confidence and given up on the idea.
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I know I certainly had that experience, I made two and never sold a single copy and had no idea how to get them out to readers. I think the experience of making a zine and then having nowhere to sell it may well have been a very common experience back then, without social media to help. ZL – I can’t believe that you lost nearly all of the copies of your first ever zine! and FLUKE and I discovered the mini-comix co-op. After printing the zines I searched for places to get more exposure through zine shows like S.P.A.C.E. I printed 3 zines before moving to Joplin and I released an additional 3 zines very quickly from there.
I joined the web forums Whitechapel and Gingerbox after high school and those were basically my schools I used to improve as a cartoonist and was shown about printing my own mini-comix. Lost all the books in a move shortly after moving. My friend and I put together a convention in Port Saint Lucie and I did a fan comic, or doujin of a manga called Genshiken back in 06. My first comic I printed was right after finishing high school.
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