Mailbox Haul: Seven Zines That Arrived This Month

The mailbox was heavy this month. Here is everything that arrived, laid out on the long table before we read it.

Everything reviewed here arrived in the mail or was traded at a table. We don't do star ratings; we do honest notes about what each zine is trying to do and whether it gets there.

The paper stock matters more than people think. A zine printed on heavier paper feels like it wants to be kept, and a flimsy one feels like a flyer, even if the writing is brilliant.

If you want your zine reviewed, send it to the address on the contact page. We read everything, even the ones stapled in the wrong corner.

If you are reading this at the collective, the good scissors are in the drawer marked "do not take the good scissors". Please do not take the good scissors.

We keep a guest book by the door. Some people write their name, some write a poem, and one person drew the entire floor plan of the shop from memory. It is the best zine we have never printed.

If something here doesn't work for you, write in. Half of our how-tos have been corrected by readers, and the corrections are always better than the original.

Print nights are pay-what-you-can. The jar covers toner and paper most months, and when it doesn't, we hold a swap and sell the duplicates from the lending shelf.