Screenshot of "Zen and the Art of Mimeo Maintenance" article in issue one of the Whole Fanzine Catalog by Brian Earl Jones.
The first issue of Whole Fanzine Catalog (1978) ends with an article to help aspiring zine makers understand the labor & cost involved. He breaks it down step by step & concludes, "You can count on a 24 page fanzine of 200 copies to take about 50 hours to produce." fanac.org/fanzines/Who...
I am intrigued! What should I keep an eye out for?
Starting some research at the Schwules Museum (www.schwulesmuseum.de) while I’m in Berlin, and it’s fitting to see them storing old magazines in boxes from Esselte, the stationery company that had acquired Letraset.
Long-time atheist here, but I gotta say the Jesuit-high-schooler side of me is really itching to see some high-profile excommunication drama go down. The mess! 😍
This is like when they tell you the little bottle is for cleaning your VCR equipment
dyslexia-friendly/‘hyperlegible’ fonts are a marketing gimmick, not a meaningful solution for accessibility
kids should be able to read cursive because it enables them to read old documents among other things. When done consistently it’s also a more economical form of writing. I don’t know why people are so mad about this.
The show I won't name because I don't want to feed the SEO results cannot be watched ethically.
The author actively uses her resources to harm trans people, pushing for legislation that makes their lives far, far more difficult.
Human decency is worth more than a tv show.
#TransIsBeautiful
SAME.
A golden era
Really feeling my age, since I remembering being at a talk about this when it started up.
A lot of issues have touched on the topic, of course, but this was the big one: www.pinkmince.com/2019/11/pink...
I was really excited to discover that publishing more of Pink Mince can count toward the PhD I’m about to start at the University of Reading. My research started with my zine, and it should remain a great way to reach other people with interest in and history with my topic.
Put your usual rates in your author bio.
But if they paid you they couldn’t claim zine-y street cred!
Love this kind of science. Also “The squeal of peeling tape, explained” feels like the title of a banger poem
Let's Normalise 👀
✔️ Women charging what they're worth
✔️ Women saying no without explaining why
✔️ Women leading creative industries loudly
✔️ Women taking up exactly as much space as they deserve
#InternationalWomensDay2026
Ooo I love documentaries
🚨 INCREDIBLY HELPFUL TIP ALERT 🚨
Gets dad out of the house for a while so mum can relax as she sees fit
Honestly, the process must be even more intensely scrutinized by lawyers than font naming
She did that with Princeton itself?
Incredible, but I'm also concerned about the sanitary situation of that keyboard to his right
Poster for Crime 101, with its title design compared to how it would look in a different typeface.
I know that I’m biased but I honestly think Ringold Clarendon would have been a stronger choice here. bijoutype.com/typefaces/ri...
Oh, if we’re doing culty movies:
• Hairspray (original)
• Paris Is Burning
• Wet Hot American Summer
• The Living End
• Airplane!
I saw Nile Rogers a couple of years ago, and his set was simply a non-stop roster of mind-blowing hits. It was actually insulting that he was an opening act playing to a half-empty arena waiting for Duran Duran.
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Airplane
(I’m 👴)
The Welliver set-up at Hand &
Eye was my first exposure to this incredible hack. It blew my mind to think the keyboard and rolls of paper tape would turn out to be the obsolete parts of the Monotype system.
I’m genuinely more patriotic about American bacon than I am about America itself. (That’s a low bar, granted.)
