https://emsenn.net/tags/zines/Recent content in Zines on emsenn.netHugoen-usSun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://emsenn.net/blog/2025-07-27-0927-zinefests-and-cruel-optimism/Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://emsenn.net/blog/2025-07-27-0927-zinefests-and-cruel-optimism/<p>Continuing my griping for the morning, I&rsquo;d like to complain about &ldquo;zinefests&rdquo;. It&rsquo;s just&hellip; wild how commercial zines have become. I can&rsquo;t believe people drive to other cities to sell their zines. Like, it reminds me of political radicals who use international air travel to go on &ldquo;solidarity trips,&rdquo; as though that isn&rsquo;t just leftist tourism. Zines come from an era of photocopiers and fax machines: physical transporting them between regions, not for free mass distribution, is a weird contemporary thing.</p>