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October 10, 2004
End of an Era?
On my way to meet my sister and her boyfriend for dinner on Friday, I went to See Hear to look at zines and saw that they were no longer there and in fact were replaced by some other store. See Hear is a zine store, the only one that was dedicated solely to zines and comics in NYC I believe that had been in the city for as long as I've been into zines. While I resented the fact that when they carried my zine they placed it on the bottom shelf where it sat forlorn and unbought, I still liked the store because they carried zines, and I could count on finding the most recent Cometbus there. I got into zines in the mid 90's, in between college and graduate school, and published one of my own until a few years ago. I enjoyed it but it was hard work, and I'm not a natural writer. And while my readership was very modest, my zine did help me meet a few instrumental people, including my husband. Now, when I go through my many boxes of papers, including my zine material, I think gosh, how different my life was then. I almost forgot that I took a photography class at FIT. I wasn't very good at it but I really enjoyed it. I almost panicked when I thought a box containing a bunch of my photos had been lost.
It's unfortunate that See Hear is no longer around, because while my interest in zines has waned over the years, sometimes it's good to have a small piece of your past.
Posted by Jennifer at October 10, 2004 09:20 PM
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see hear's gone but a ton of new little zine/art stores are opening up it seems. there's one on ave C and 11th street i've heard of but haven't been to, and another new one in williamsburg called cinders. plus clovis booksellers, on bedford ave.
Posted by: meg danger at October 12, 2004 01:38 PM