What is mag scene?
What is mag scene? This website was created to promote AOL zines–a type of e-mail newsletter created mainly using AOL. These zines are mainly made by young people (teens and young adults). They provide people with something to do, something to create, and something to learn.
mag scene promotes zines and the “zine world” by providing resources for ziners. There is a zine directory where people can find zines to subscribe to, where they can rate zines they already receive, and where they can submit a listing of their own zines. There is a downloads section that has files useful to making zines (such as layouts and PSDs), and back issues of some zines. These back issues serve as an archive of zines, and as examples of what AOL zines are. The image gallery provides some celebrity images with which editors can create graphics for layouts, icons, and more. It also contains some freebies, such as icons, banners, buttons, textures, and blends.
It used to be that zines had thousands of members. The zine world is shrinking. There are no sources for new subscribers any longer. I hope that mag scene will help bring new people into the fray, especially now that AOL is free. If you would like to help revive the zine world, please help through making this site as good as it can be. Use the contact form to get in touch to help.
10 November 2006 @ 6:13 pm
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