Synopses & Reviews
Davida Gypsy Breier's review zine, Xerography Debt, is a labor of love and obsession. Now on its 30th issue, Xerography Debt (Xerox Debt to fans) is "the review zine with personal tendencies," allowing its hand-picked cast of contributors to essay both the zines they love and where those zines find them in their lives. Issue 30 is 64 pages of zine-love goodness, with contributors like Al Burian, Microcosm founder Joe Biel, Eric Lyden, Fred Argoff, and many more reviewing zines. In an age of blogs and tweets, Xerox Debt is a beautiful, earnest anachronism, a publication that seems to come from a different era, but is firmly entrenched in the now.
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"A dedicated bunch of zinesters who pour their heart and soul into their reviews and it shows. Very interesting." —410 Media
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"An amazing show about the history, mysteries and magic of zines in general—The mechanics of publishing, the philosphy of zine-ism, the search for the first zine, a Where Are They Now of 90s zinsters, a journey into "non Profit" status, and more More MORE! Basically a multiple zinegasm!" —Roctober
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"Like having a cool friend loan you their stack of zines." —Quimblog
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"Continues to produce excellent issues, despite basement floods, babies, moving, job hell, and getting sued over its original name." —Syndicate Product Covert HQ
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"An important resource in this internet age." —Syndicated Zine Reviews
Synopsis
Davida Gypsy Breier's review zine, Xerography Debt, is a labor of love and obsession. Now on its 30th issue, Xerography Debt(Xerox Debtto fans) is "the review zine with personal tendencies," allowing its hand-picked cast of contributors to essay both the zines they love and where those zines find them in their lives. Issue 30 is 64 pages of zine-love goodness, with contributors like Al Burian, Microcosm founder Joe Biel, Eric Lyden, Fred Argoff, and many more reviewing zines. In an age of blogs and tweets, Xerox Debtis a beautiful, earnest anachronism, a publication that seems to come from a different era, but is firmly entrenched in the now.
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Synopsis
Davida Gypsy Breier's review zine, Xerography Debt might be best summarized as an obsession for all involved. Xerography Debt is "the review zine with personal tendencies," allowing its hand-picked cast of contributors to essay both the zines they love and where those zines find them in their lives. Al Burian gets a job in a vegan cafe to stay connected to his punk cultural roots, Joe Biel reports on the "pre-natal death of the e-book," and Jeff Somers ruminates on the idea of a zine community and his ever-changing reasons for continuing to publish zines. And let us not forget the large volume of zine reviews in here. Rather than spending time and ink bashing things or being forced to write about something they don't care about, the reviewers hand-select what they want to write about the result is much more interesting.
About the Author
Davida Breier is the creator of the zombie review/essay zine Rigor Mortis. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.