Whats the advantage of a zine or mini-comic over a blog or website?
It feels a lot more personal if you have it in your hand. It’s something that you can keep re-reading. You don’t have to book mark it and go back later if you want. The funniest thing people tell me about my comics is they have them on their toilets. I think that there’s such an allure to drawing something or writing something, taking the time to make copies of it, putting it together, having a finished product in your hand and putting it in other people’s hands, as oppose to putting it online and kind of knowing who might be looking at it, but not really the full scale of it. Plus, online there is so much you’re competing against. People reading the news, listening to music, all that stuff. It’s such a different experience when people can go somewhere like the Globe and check out what’s up front — fliers, newspapers or something — and then they see something and they’re like, “Wow! This is cool. I’m going to take this back to my seat and read it.” As oppose to them sitting on their
