Along with zines, I especially miss #FactsheetFive, the OG print Yahoo! of zines that was always a great read itself. I was over the moon when my dumb little zine got a lukewarm review in one of its last issues. Ironically, it wound up being my penultimate issue before I discovered Geocities and poetry slams... 🥃

I was enjoying this nascent attempt to explore the history of F5 last year, but it appears to be on an unannounced hiatus.

#zines

https://f5archive.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABd-2-PzMcI&ab_channel=CartoonistKayfabe

#cartoonistkayfabe
#tmnt

I have never heard of "doujinshi". But basically it sounds like just what I would call "small press comics". That's what we called them in the 90s. If you made a comic and photocopied it and mailed it you were making small press comics.

I understand, though, that doujinshi specifically refers to the Japanese small press comics trend. Very interesting!

This is the kind of shit that would be in #factsheetfive back in the day.