It was original and got people's attention... Even if it's not representative, that's half the battle.
There's this zinester Five Seventeen who was positing that if you included some popular keywords in your title, like punk/sick/sex/cat/etc (I don't recall the rest of the list, I heard of it second hand) you had a good chance of getting your zine picked up, so one of his most popular zines was "My Cat's More Punk Than Yours", where "punk" was in the "sick" sense and it was about his cat's last weeks as it was dying of some disease. So huh, lots of people put the zine back down, but some did buy it. :P
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Date: 2022-12-06 03:42 pm (UTC)It was original and got people's attention... Even if it's not representative, that's half the battle.
There's this zinester Five Seventeen who was positing that if you included some popular keywords in your title, like punk/sick/sex/cat/etc (I don't recall the rest of the list, I heard of it second hand) you had a good chance of getting your zine picked up, so one of his most popular zines was "My Cat's More Punk Than Yours", where "punk" was in the "sick" sense and it was about his cat's last weeks as it was dying of some disease. So huh, lots of people put the zine back down, but some did buy it. :P