Local Zine Culture
• Print, despite what you may have read online recently, is not dead. In particular, and in Orlando, the DIY zine is becoming a standard-bearer for print’s continued vigor. Zines are self-published magazines that reflect the individual views or obsessions of their creators. Because there’s no publisher to answer to, zines can represent and disseminate voices that might otherwise go unheard in the mainstream. American zine culture might begin with Benjamin Franklin’s pamphlets, printed on his own press, but the humble handmade form reached its peak in the ’90s, when music fans circumvented the mainstream press to document their scene on their own terms. Then the internet happened, and with it was supposed to come the death of the printed word. …
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