Everything’s coming up ‘zines, those old school photocopied and stapled relics of the past that I just can’t get out of my heart. Tim Lucas discusses the shifting of attention from print to the internet with the recent demise of Psychotronic magazine.

Gavin Smith offers his own thoughts on the subject of print vs. the internet in his editorial for the new FILM COMMENT, where he theorizes that “blogs are more important to people who want to write than they are to people who like to read.” Blogging has certainly made me more attentive to what other bloggers are doing and the Blog-A-Thons that sometimes occur are a testimonial to the proposal that, to some extent, bloggers are writing for each other — not unlike the days when people would start a fanzine for the sole purpose of trading with another fanzine publishers.

Now that sounds familiar. It’s a really great read, particularly for what appears to be my core audience. In a related incident, the phenomenon of comics blogging has grown to the point that there was a panel on the subject at the San Diego comic convention. The first blog I ran was comic-related, and it usually pains me a little when I relalize I left the field just before it exploded. The following report from my evil American doppelganger, Mike Sterling of Progressive Ruin, helps put things into perspective.

…when the audience was asked “Hey, who out there is also a blogger?” pretty much everyone raised their hands, to no one’s surprise.

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