I fucking love making zines so much, though. It's so satisfying. Writing it, designing it. printing it, binding it, holding it, handing it to friends, strangers, bookstores, and anyone who will take it.
Zines are cool as hell.
Zines get me out of the house. They force me to bring my writing to people. Writing then becomes a social activity through the sharing of it. My online newsletter/website is great, but we're still all separated by pixels.
With zines, I have so much more opportunity to meet with people, new acquaintances and old friends. I'm even becoming more familiar with more people running bookstores, which is cool.
In the grand scheme of things, I'm not even distributing high numbers of these things (although it's steadily increasing), it's just that it's so satisfying.
I just think more writers and artists should really consider making zines. Especially the radical writers and artists. It's such a great way to meet people and not get stuck in your head, navel gazing, and behind the words on the paper or the screen or worried about algorithms. Because if there's one thing that can kill creativity and art, it's a fucking algorithm.
@Jirikiha thank you! This is by far my biggest batch so far. I'm doing vendor booths soon and need stock. Admittedly, wedding invites feel like they have a certain level of quality needs and mine are punkish, messy and bedazzled, so quality control is different. And I use a stapler for binding. It's definitely a large task. But I bet even 100 invites is more work than my 600 zines just due to the quality component.
Plus, despite not having an organization system, I *do* have a fairly defined process, so it's somewhat relieved by this at least.
Edit: plus, I don't need to mail them (yet? I'm considering it, but not sure if I want to do that), so that's an entire thing on its own that you need to deal with when you do invites
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