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Thesis anyone?..an interview:Freedom Pad Zine

1. What is your definition of zines?

An independent, do-it-yourself publication with little or no budget at all. Could be about anything the writer/s want to write (whut). IMO, may be considered an ancestor of blogging. Might have started during the punk movement in the UK during the early 80’s but I could be totally wrong about this. I think it would be best if you try to google for a definition or look it up at Wikipedia or something. Sorry, tamad eh.

2. When did you release your first zine?

End of third year high school. Report card distribution day.

3. Who/ What influenced you to make a zine?

Started out as an underground spoof paper in high school. Our official school paper sucked and was mostly made up of goody-goody suck-ups who have little or no literary talent whatsoever (Uy, may galit). It was probably decent enough for a school paper but one day we found a copy of the Collegian’s annual spoof newspaper. Loved it and thought it would be fun to do something like that. To write jokes about the teachers we hate, complain about the nuns who run the school and rant about draining our parents’ money with their fundraising projects. Of course, we also make fun of the classmates we hate. In writing.
I don’t remember how we met the staff of the Rock ‘n Rhythm magazine (am not sure if you’re familiar with this, it’s basically a songhits with album & concert reviews plus some really interesting columns) but we did, through Wendi (w.r.i.n.g.), I think. Or it could’ve been through Marge who did the Dear Mug column. Anyway, she brought us to the RnR office and we met some of the other staff. We learned the entire concept of a fanzine from them and found out that each of them made their own zines. We went to some of their band’s gigs and visited their office about a couple of times. They were really nice, fascinating people and we always went home with free copies of their zines. Most of them are really good writers and the zines were fun to read. They thought it was pretty interesting that we started out young and went out of their way to encourage us to continue writing.

4. How many issues have you released?

About 6.

5. How often do you publish your zine?

Once a year. There were times when we released two issues simultaneously if we’ve written a lot..

6. How do you determine the form and content of your zine?

We don’t really do that. As long as we have articles/pictures to post, we compile them and arrange the layout etc accordingly. We never decided to stick to a particular theme in every issue. If there was a case when the articles we printed had geared toward some form of theme, that would’ve been purely coincidental.

7. In making zines, how important is the layout design?

It is important that we also show our creativity through the way we present our articles and the graphics we decide to include in every issue.

8. How do you maintain balance and objectivity in the topics presented in your zine?

Let’s just say that there are almost no attempts to do that. Our zine is personal and it is up to the writers to do that for themselves if they deem it necessary. Apart from the ones we made up, we never feature news items.

9. Do you also conduct research before writing your articles?

Not really. As I’ve said earlier, it all depends on the writer.

10. How important is the professional background in publishing zines?

It isn’t. Anyone who can write (even if they don’t write well) may do so.

11. How do you verify the information that you get?

We don’t.

12. Do you set certain standards in relation to zine production?

Only one basic standard: if we want to print something, then we will.

13. How do you advertise your zine?

Usually through word of mouth, and sometimes other people are kind enough to lend us some space on their zines.

14. Where do you usually distribute your zine?

School, initially. We tried to sell our last issues at Just Say Rock shop (I don’t think this still exists) in Cartimar once but we never came back to collect on our sales if there ever were any for no reason at all. We also sent copies of our zines via mail to those who saw our ads in other zines.

15. How do you determine the price of your zine>

Uhmm, production costs and standard price of other zines..

16. Do you consider zines as a good communication tool?

Yes.

17. Do you consider zines as good and reliable sources of information?

No. This isn’t exactly journalism.

18. Do you have a specific target audience?

None.

19. Do you consider zines as part of the press?

Yes, although they belong to the informal part.

20. What is/are the impact/impacts of zines to the Philippine press?

I’m not sure if I can answer that. It’s just another means for other people who are not part of THE Philippine press to print their writing by themselves without going through the formal/proper channels. It’s also another means for people to read about things that are not normally found in the mainstream. I guess the only impact I can think of is the existence of actually having something else to read.

21. How do zines promote freedom of _expression?

The non-existence of any regulatory body to interfere with the content. The option of anonymity for its writers/creators. Writing without the need to consider the consequences of what was written. Writing with your/no rules.

22. How do you address the copyright issues?

We don’t. We don’t copyright our work but we are ethical enough to acknowledge our sources if we do have them

23. What is/are the difference/differences of zines from other mainstream publications?

It’s not mainstream. It’s like an alternative press. Anything goes.

That’s it.

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