Talk:Zine

Pronunciation

How do you pronounce it, "zayn" or "zeen"?

"zayn"

-- What precedent is there for the pronunciation "zayn"...? (Clarification: being a British English speaker I read "zayn" to be equivalent to "zane", but I guess the intention was for "zine" to rhyme with "mine". FTR I see no reason for it not to be the same as (maga)zine, i.e. "zeen").

One reason would be that line, mine, sine, nine etc. all rhyme with each other. Through logic one could infer that zine would also rhyme with these words. However, English is often not a logical language... - Quirk 19:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's zine as in 'magazine' Zine rhymes with seen. Laggard

"ZINE, ZINES are good for your heart. The more you READ the more you're smart the more you're smart the better you feel so read your ZINES after every meal" quote Bradley Adita (in the Daily Iowan) sometime a long time ago Xsxex 05:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Zeen" as in ma-guh-zeen64.130.204.173 (talk) 17:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Fanzine"

Zine is not a contraction of "fanzine," it is an abbreviation of magazine. Even though "fanzine" appears in some zine titles, "fanzine" itself is a contraction of "fan magazine." R 07:10, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding of the evolution of the word what that it was contrived by the science-fiction fan community in the 1930s. They began publishing sci-fi fan magazines. This group of forward thinking scientists, mathematicians, lay-people, and artists were quite prone to neologisms. Their published materials became known as fanzines (combining fanatic with magazine). This trend died out some as the more promintent comic books (comic magazines) came into the spotlight in the 1950s. The underground counter-culture publications of the 1960s harkened back to both these movements but added a blatant shout for more consciousness of politcal issues. By the 70s, things were getting played out and the civil rights movement had had its impact and fall out. The mid 70s saw the rise of punk rock which was spurned in large part by the inginuity of its own impresarios such as the personalities behind Punk (magazine) which was one of the first punk zines and gave the punk movement its name. This new york zine was quickly exported to London, England along with the Ramones who catalyzed the British punk rock scene. The punk zine would mutate again in the personality of Aaron Cometbus who became the defacto iconic zinester. A single person who not only published zines, but was in bands, toured the country, made posters, art and performed the job of his own public relations firm. His zine Cometbus became known around the world and his bands Crimpshrine, Pinhead Gunpowder, (and many others) also were weaved into his writing. Cometbus broke new ground as a personal zine, combining diary-like writing with music critique, political rants, art, photography, scene reports, and beyond. The personal zine was most popular in the early and middle 90s during which many youngster picked up pen and paper to create their own publications, (many of which were directly/indirectly inspired by Cometbus) . Maximumrocknroll which began as a radio show in 1978 and in print in 1982 provided a number of people with a monthly platform to spew their wrath about a wide range of topics. One of the most outspoken of these columnist was Ben Weasel who, besides publishing his own zines (Panic Button), was the singer and lead of Screeching Weasel. In many ways the column style format, freedom of expression, and frequent publication predicated many of the attributes of what would become the latest movement in independent publication, the web log or blog. The blog has become another facet in the ever growing toolkit of independent publication which now includes webcams and podcasts. Tying this history together is the need for an individual or a group of individuals to express themselves to each other and to the society at large. So to repeat from the top fanzine is a combination of fan (fanatic) and magazine. Sweet ups! Xsxex 05:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What's the source for the assertion that punk zines were "created almost entirely by people who had never heard of fandom"? Even imagining that some early punk zinesters independently invented the concept and the term, at least by 1982 anybody who sent their stuff in to Factsheet Five would certainly have known there were lots of kinds of zines. (And of course there was plenty of rock&roll, politics, sex and drugs in pre-punk fanzines, too, entirely different in style from the punk ones but not necessarily in substance.) Pzriddle 22:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

John Brunner?

Factsheet Five (the name came from a short story by John Brunner)...

Which short story by John Brunner? The Factsheet Five page doesn't mention this at all. I've read elsewhere that Gunderloy originally published several "factsheets" on various subjects, so I've always assumed that F5 was named for that reason. Brunner was very prolific, and it would be nice to be able to follow this up without reading everything he ever wrote. Rbean 18:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zine Hall of Fame

My zine Musea, 1992 -, started a Zine Hall of Fame about 10 years ago.This honors some of the best zines from the desktop publishing explosion of the late 80's and 90's, to today. It salutes zines from all over the world, though mostly US zines. It has about 50 inductees nominated over many years. See http://musea.us/fame0.html. The nominating process is open to all. Criteria includes 1. highest quality, and 2. The zine or zinester must have a substantial amount of work published. Tom Hendricks Musea 04:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Self-promotion revert

I am about to revert the page to remove the self-promotion through Brett69's addtion of the "Queer Zine" section. SiennaLizard 14:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zine Distro List

wikipedia needs a list of zine distros! should it be on this page? or should there be a seperate page? there are so many distros out there and they definately merit a list. 199.243.154.211 15:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

well, at the moment zine distro links to this page, but i can see it also deserving its own page. a list sounds good if you feel like making one, bearing in mind it should not be a list of external links and some people might object (if interested, check out the debate we had about a list of free party sound systems). the distribution section here should be reorganised a bit, i would say libraries are not distributors and deserve their own section. to answer your question, do what you feel, maybe start the list here and if it becomes massive (or if it already is massive) then give it its own page. i can help if needed. cheers Mujinga 17:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for your response. yeah, there are quite a few distros. i'll have to start compiling a list. 199.243.154.211 14:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I got everyone started with the distros I'm aware of and are still operational. Feel free to add to the list. Alanlastufka 16:29, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No mention of Fantagraphics in Seattle? www.fantagraphics.com

Removed vandalism?

When I googled zines, I got a link to this wikipedia page, but this is what the description said:

Zine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaZines are fucking gay only fucking fags do zines. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine". Views. Article · Discussion · Edit this page · History ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

Is this vanadlism that was removed? How long before it stops showing up on google? Rocketqueen 15:57, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hey thats weird, i dont know how that can be fixed .... i will try to check it out ... Mujinga 16:18, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i left a comment on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents hopefully someone can help us get rid of the homophobic rubbish. Mujinga 16:33, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the vandalism has gone again Mujinga 03:51, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks! Rocketqueen 17:52, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The vandal is a kid in my glass. He's fat and homophobic a rabid yankee's fan and generally an idiot. The IP from my school got banned, and while it means I can't edit wikipedia at school anymore, it's pretty worth it.
The motive is his strange obsession with a flagrantly homosexual teacher we had last year who assigned us to create our own zines. --scwizard 23:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Links

The links removed by User:JzG were not links to webzines, as they state, they were links to sites that distribute, or otherwise offer resources for zines and zinesters. I think there is a difference and while I don't think the list should have been as long as it was, I think including some of the notable distros should be allowed. And yes, I had a link there for my distro and realize I probably wouldn't be bringing it up otherwise, you don't need to point that out. =) Alanlastufka 16:10, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Dark

Apparently, A blogger with a sense of humour called Tom Dark placed what seems to be like a stand-up comedy monologue in the description of Zine, along with a link to his Blog. Someone should clean that up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.106.214.39 (talk) 20:24, 25 November 2007 (UTC) --Davilvi (talk) 20:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's happened again. TL;DR, chopped. He seems to be pushing the idea that he came up with the word "'zine", but he's going about it the wrong way. -Ashley Pomeroy 16:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]