over 30 and still at it...

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Comment by Jethrobot Press on September 16, 2008 at 6:40pm

I took a hiatus as well from zines from 1995 when I finished my zine Warfear until 2001 when i completed the first issue of Banzai( I started and scraped a lot of zines in that time span) and even had another brief hiatus (2001-2003) between issues 1 and 2 of Banzai due to having no money, no PC, and living a miserable existence in town I didn't want to be living in. Having made it back to California in 2003, the zines have been coming out on a much more regular basis, with 3 issues of Banzai and 3 issues of Threat n Ink out and a new issue for each of them on the way. My life and my zines are all doing quite well now!

Comment by Jme Hash on September 15, 2008 at 7:05pm

I didn't start ButtRagmag 'til I was 29 and sittin on the toilette reading and shittin'. I almost did a zine w/ a boyfriend like 8years befor that called "Buzzbomb" but then saw that there was a magazine already out in Planet K called that. So that never went through. Doing ButtRagMag makes me feel great!

Comment by jc brand on September 12, 2008 at 2:43pm

i've basicly been on hiatus since 2000 though i've done one zine since then. i was married to someone that bascly made me feel like i couldnt do anything worthwile, so i didnt even try.

Comment by Alex Wrekk on September 12, 2008 at 9:37am

I took about a 4 year Hiatus with my main zine Brainscan. I was just in a really terrible place in my life that I had to work through on my own terms. I wasn't ready to share myself with others because I was spending all my energy keeping up appearances in a broken relationship. That lasted from 2002 to 2006. I'm a much happier and stronger person now.

Comment by superdilettante on September 10, 2008 at 11:28am

I got into zines when I was 19, but I made my first one at 23...I'm going to be 36 this year. I think there was a six-year hiatus in there. How many others took a long break from zines, and why/when did it happen?

Comment by Alex Wrekk on September 9, 2008 at 5:22pm

Oh, it's not a dividing line to me, I like to think of it as a badge of honor or a mile marker.

Comment by Andrew Culture on September 9, 2008 at 1:00pm

My god, I can't believe 30 is now a dividing line! I still feel young, well I'm at least immature!

Comment by Ericka Bailie-Byrne on September 8, 2008 at 9:04pm

Krissy, doesn't Deb beat us all? ;)
I'll be celebrating my 40th in Mexico this November. I started reading zines in the 80s but didn't start writing my own until 1993. I started Pander two years later.
I don't write zines anymore, I make photo zines now, but I do have a one-shot from 95 available in one of my Etsy shops.

Comment by Robin Bougie on September 6, 2008 at 6:50pm

Started self publishing when I was in grade 4 and made a mimiographed Groo the Wanderer comic book spoof called "Bongar the barbarian". I made 10 copies and gave them to friends. I didn't even know what zines or self publishing was, and had never seen them before. Then when I was 17 I started making zines routinely -- using most of my free time to do so. Over 100 publications later, I'm now 35 and still having a blast doing this!

Comment by Alex Wrekk on September 5, 2008 at 10:13am

I don't have any kids but I think that is an awesome idea for a group. I volunteer at the IPRC in Portland, Oregon. and every summer we have a kids zine camp which is really cool to see kids as young as 8 and up to 18 working on zines.

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