The Factsheet Five Zine Reader

by R. Seth Friedman

Zines, those hip, alternative, self-published magazines, have broken out from the obscurity of the underground and found themselves in the spotlight. Zealous readers are turning to zines for smart writing on everything from cutting-edge music to radical politics. With all that's been said about zines, one question still remains: Where the heck can you find them? And even if you dig them up, who has time to read through them all to get to the good...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609800019
• ISBN13: 9780609800010
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

secrets of the universe

Zine writers tend to do best uncovering secret histories: hobo graffiti tales by freight-hopping filmmaker Bill Daniel, or writing about the street ear-cleaners of New Delhi, or where to find brand-new karaoke machines in Japan for free (and why this happens). 8-tracks and those insane Jack T. Chick pamphlets are also nicely covered. Some parts are not as interesting, but this reflects the huge range of interests covered in this anthology.

Best of the Bunch

This is the best of the glut of zine anthologies that came out a couple years ago. Worth the price of the book is Sky Ryan's adventures as a gutter punk, roaming the west coast. This is what zines are really supposed to be like.