Difference between revisions of "Amusing Yourself To Death"
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"AYTD is a bimonthly publication that reviews and promotes the independent press, primarily zines and other self-published works. AYTD offers useful resources for self-publishers: news, articles, advice, commentary, contacts, letters and much more. Our staff is dedicated to being a positive part of the small-press community and we look forward to working with those who share similar ideas and goals." | "AYTD is a bimonthly publication that reviews and promotes the independent press, primarily zines and other self-published works. AYTD offers useful resources for self-publishers: news, articles, advice, commentary, contacts, letters and much more. Our staff is dedicated to being a positive part of the small-press community and we look forward to working with those who share similar ideas and goals." | ||
| − | The writing of a number of zinesters was featured in the zine, including [[Marc Parker]], [[Mike Tolento]] and [[Josh Saitz]]. | + | The writing of a number of zinesters was featured in the zine, including [[Marc Parker]] of [[Lazybones]], [[Mike Tolento]] and [[Josh Saitz]] of [[Negative Capacity]]. |
In the late '90s Amusing Yourself To Death was a fantastic zine resource. It was published frequently enough to feature current zine news and reviews of zines sometimes less than a month after they were published. But its ambitious publishing schedule proved too much for its publisher and it folded in 1999. | In the late '90s Amusing Yourself To Death was a fantastic zine resource. It was published frequently enough to feature current zine news and reviews of zines sometimes less than a month after they were published. But its ambitious publishing schedule proved too much for its publisher and it folded in 1999. | ||
Revision as of 06:54, 10 October 2007
Amusing Yourself To Death was a review zine that debuted in early 1997 out of Santa Barbara, CA and was published by Ruel Gaviola.
"AYTD is a bimonthly publication that reviews and promotes the independent press, primarily zines and other self-published works. AYTD offers useful resources for self-publishers: news, articles, advice, commentary, contacts, letters and much more. Our staff is dedicated to being a positive part of the small-press community and we look forward to working with those who share similar ideas and goals."
The writing of a number of zinesters was featured in the zine, including Marc Parker of Lazybones, Mike Tolento and Josh Saitz of Negative Capacity.
In the late '90s Amusing Yourself To Death was a fantastic zine resource. It was published frequently enough to feature current zine news and reviews of zines sometimes less than a month after they were published. But its ambitious publishing schedule proved too much for its publisher and it folded in 1999.
