SONIC RUIN - ISSUE 1

I'd be interested in giving this a shot! I'll have to use the good ol' fashioned mail, however.

Arttie

Add mailed to you today, Carl! Hope you can use it

People are still making cobbled-together-with-
blu tak-cellotape-scissors-and-angel-dust fanzines?

You're like, sooooooo 1982, Carl. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Give us a shout if you need some desk top
publishing and/or photoshop work done, okay.

D.

Been out of town for a bit, so I am a tad behind on things.

Chris, got the ad and will get it in place on Monday! Thanks!

Kiko, part of the reason I am doing an actual print is because a few years ago when the idea first came to me, I asked around as to what people wanted, print or website. A surprising number of people said they missed the "fanzines". So, I decided to go with that. It was at a recent convention that I got to talking to Martin Arlt, the creator of Mad Scientist fanzine that I started thinking I could really do it. If you were to grab an issue of Mad Scienist you would see a few similarities.

http://www.geocities.com/madscie/madscientist.html

Arttie, the info will be put up pretty soon about how to order and such.

D., I'm actually sooooo 1950 I think. But yeah, the print 'zine is a dying creature. But as soon as I switched that damn My Space page over, I started getting hit by other 'zines! I thought the format was dead, but nope, just even more underground, and more "hobby". But all of the publishers of the creatures seem to really be out to try and help each other, instead of destroying each other.

I will keep you and your company in the front of my mind! You will probably get my first call. Heck...I could already use help. But I want to get the first issue out as is, and then take feedback from people as to what sucks and what works.

Why not save some pennies, Carl, and produce your
fanzine in downloadable PDF format? That way people
can choose whether they want it on paper or not,
and you avoid being branded a 'tree-hater'.

Also, you get to do it full colour. [img]smile.gif[/img]

D.

Well...ummm...for all of my computer knowledge...adobe and .pdf's still confuse me and I have no idea what to do with them or how to create them. Ha. Yeah...it's a tough thing to admit.

So go and learn how to do it, you... tree-hater.

Seriously, between the forums and the freebies,
there's enough at www.adobe.com to get you
started. And remember: when you do start creating
PDFs, they can be multipage as opposed to, say,
one big scroll down the screen. Also, you can
now embed videos into them, links to Skype,
include submenus and all kinds of loveliness.
I'd teach you how to do it, but I'm too lazy to learn
it myself. [img]smile.gif[/img]

D.

Thanks, I'll look into it for sure on issue 2. I know most every printer charges a decent amount for .pdf files, and they charge an arm and a leg for any other file.

But, I really do hate trees.

People can print the PDF version on their own
printers, yeh?

D.

Yeah. I'm thinking about it man.