Zine Review FAQ

May I send you my zines? How about other mail?

Absolutely! Yes please! I adooooore mail.

Where do I send stuff?

Nyx / Sea Green Zines
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253

You review zines?

That I do! I try to put up zine reviews on Thursdays and Fridays.

PLEASE NOTE: I am very, very behind on reviewing zines. If you need something reviewed by a certain date, I will do my best to accommodate, but you need to message or email me.

My approach to reviewing zines (as of Nov 2016) is this: If I don’t like a zine, as in can’t really find anything I enjoyed about it, I won’t review it. Positive reviews? Yes. ‘Meh’ reviews? Sometimes. But I’m not going to put up a review if it consists of me just plain not liking it. (This has only happened once, though, so…)

HOWEVER I also don’t review a zine if I just don’t have much to say about it. I want to write more than ‘I think it’s pretty good’.

What kinds of zines do you review?

I like to keep an open mind. That said, over the years, I’ve become a little more specific, so here are some general things:

*No e-zines/PDF zines (please read next point below)
*No religious material
*No politics
*Abuse of any kind is a sensitive topic area for me, so be aware I might not be able to read/finish a zine with that topic in it
*Poetry is welcome, but I’m not very articulate reviewing it because it’s not an area I’m well versed in. (Little pun there. You’re welcome.)
*Adult/18+/erotica/etc welcome

Do you review e-zines/PDF zines?

No, I’m sorry. Seriously, I am so, so sorry. Postage sucks, especially when you’re sending to the ends of the earth, and access equipment/money to print can be a huge problem. I have absolutely nothing against the practice of online zines or the people who make them. I mean no disrespect.

The thing is that, as a reviewer, part of the experience I review is the tactile one. Sometimes I’ll really enjoy the kind of paper used or the way it was bound or something else entirely. The fact remains that that is a big part of how I roll with zines.

I have a question that you haven’t answered…

Pop it in the comments. 🙂