Zine is short for Magazine. They are self-made, self-published gems of insight that range from the worst kind of trash to some of the best personal writing out there. No matter what though I always loved trading zines to see what was going on in other peoples lives, what their interests were, what they cared so much about that they would spend their time cutting and pasting, their money on photocopying, and more of their time on folding and stapling.

Don't even get me started on distribution.

So here is some information on a few of my zines. And if you want to check out the scans of a few old zines, for whatever reason, feel free to check out the Zine Archive page which should load them as a gallery.

I did not get to include Not TV, a zine I did with my sister that lasted only 3 issues (though the scans are available in the download), and Anti-Media, a zine I did alone that got tons of rave reviews for the writing which lasted 5 issues.

softkill_mag

Softkill went through big format and name changes until I found a style with which I was comfortable. Previously named PAROLE KACZYNSKI, LEGALIZE CRACK and SITTING DUCKS FOR A MADMAN it became SOFTKILL with issue #5.
I produced and distributed Softkill alone, which is, i still believe, the best way to make a zine. It was distributed through Tower Records internationally as well as locally through several independant record and book stores. And I actually made quite a bit of money from it.
It wasn't until issue #8 that it got famous for an article I wrote about witness' for the unabomber trial. In the end I decided that I didn't want to be known as a threat to national security.

tedandlollipop

1994. This is the zine that resulted from the meeting to organize the youth of Attleboro, MA. It also inspired several other zines from the area.
Great people like Nick Fitt, Jay Boulay, Andy Buckley, Adam, Christine Nabhani, Jessie, Lisa Furtado, Sean and everyone from the TADPOLE Anarchist Drinking brigade all helped.
Our youth group was even in the process of talking to the historical commision about using a building downtown for our headquarters. We met with the mayor and our senate representatives to discuss our views and initiate changes.

revolution

1989. My first zine, before I knew there were other people out there doing the same thing. Matt and I wrote mostly about personal experiences we had together. My sister Autumn threw in a fictional story she had written and I added instructions on making molatov cocktails and nuclear weapons and how to cheat at golf. Years later someone would fax the nuclear bomb plans to the white house practically using my name. Thank God I never heard back from the government about that one.
Matt and I took the newly printed zine to work and forced people to buy it so that I could cover my printing expenses. We only ever published 100 copies of the first issue.