independent publishing

Zine Scene: Starlite Motel on the necessity of independent publishing

What is it really like to be a zine writer in today’s world of megacorp publishers and big media? Amber…

Zine Scene: Sticky Institute

Melbourne, Australia’s Sticky Institute knows zines. “I try to read literally every zine that comes through our doors,” manager Luke…

Zine Scene: Tom Moniz’s Radical Parenting

Parenting and the alternative life with Tom Moniz, author of Rad Dad.

Zine Scene: Retail Relations with Matt Metzler

For the author of comics about the mundane repetitiveness of workaday life, Portland artist Matt Metzler has a curiously “carpe…

Zine Scene: Wordplay with Katie Haegele

Katie Haegele’s language-centric zines grew, quite appropriately, out of having something to say, but nowhere to say it.

Zine Scene: The Sociology of Aaron Lake Smith

A Q&A with Aaron Lake Smith, writer of Big Hands and Unemployment.

Zine Scene: Independence and Creativity in Publishing

Zine Scene is a new weekly column where you can learn about new and established zinesters, as well as other…