The most important zine you will ever make is your first zine. It is likely to be awful and that is okay, even encouraged. Zines are always works in progress, just like people.
—Davida Breier (editor de Xerography Debt), A Brief History of Zines and Why You Should Make One, 17 de Junho de 2021
I came back to zine making in 2017. I’d been blogging for a couple of years, and it was going well, but there was something missing. I found I couldn’t fully express myself on the digital page.
—Craig Atkinson, Feral Publication, 14 de Março de 2021
Then out of the blue I had the idea to make a zine.
—Craig Atkinson, Feral Publication, 14 de Março de 2021
Reproducing/reprinting all or any part of this zine without prior consent will be considered utterly disrespectful and generally uncool.
—Aqsa Zine #4, Ancestors + Descendents, Setembro de 2011 (via Barnard College)
Zines are not a new idea. They have been around under different names (ChapBooks, Pamphlets, Flyers). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since there were printing presses.
—Mark Todd
The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a ‘zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.
—Davy Rothbart
If all else fails, there’s always print or web zines.
—Rudy Rucker
The early ’90s was a very D.I.Y. era, and there was more of an interest in zines and self-published comics, so people would mail their zines to someone who was working for Fantagraphics or Drawn & Quarterly.
—Adrian Tomine, The Believer, 1 de Outubro de 2002
What unites all zine publishers is their passion for communication. Zine makers are driven to publish their ideas purely for the sake of communicating, generally with complete disregard for money, let alone profit. Anyone can publish a zine — all it takes is the desire to write and publish ideas…
—R. Seth Friedman, The Factsheet Five Zine Reader, Three Rivers Press, 1997
I was really inspired by seeing self published zines and mini-comics: seeing someone else make work that was either really personal, or was just done entirely themselves. It really showed me what was possible for my own art, and I hope that my books will inspire readers in the same way.
—Liz Prince, Comics Alliance, 11 de Dezembro de 2014
