The Revolution Will Be Photocopied

A trip to the Underground Publishing Conference reveals that America’s alternative press is livelier than ever

September/October 2001

By Chris Dodge, Utne Reader

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I wonder what Detroit airport security workers thought when they went through my bag as I headed home from this year’s Underground Publishing Conference. After all, I was hauling an interesting load of printed matter.

QUIZMatch the zine with the publisher’s day jobZines:•Big Questions
•Ten Page News
•King-Cat Comics
•Ker-bloom!
•Drinking Sweat in the Ash Age
•Assassin and the WhinerDay Jobs:• librarian
• caretaker/dog nanny
• cook
• substitute teacher
• health food store worker
• math teacher
(So you can't cheat, the answers can be found in a sidebar on the next page!)

Their search un-earthed part of a cache of magazines, tabloid papers, and tiny photocopied tracts with titles such as Popular Power, Black Sun, Boy-Girl, Jane Doe at the Justice Front, La Lucha, Chain Reaction, World Domination Through Dumpster Diving, When Punk Turns Thirty, Plea for Peace Magazine, Wonka Vision, The Urban Pantheist, Angst and Daisies, Rocket Queen, Fun with Zombies, Flotation Device, Exit Babylon, Nothing to Do, Drinking Sweat in the Ash Age, and Tricks of the Tradeless. Good thing the security crew was just snooping for a pocket knife I’d stashed in a bag and then forgotten. If they’d been interested in finding subversive literature, I might still be in Detroit.ORGANIZED BY Clamor magazine co-editors Jen Angel and Jason Kucsma, the third annual Underground Publishing Conference (UPC), held in Bowling Green, Ohio, in late June brought together hundreds of editors, writers, artists, activists, teachers, librarians, and people interested in alternative media. Besides dozens of tables where publishers sold, swapped, and gave away their publications, the event featured workshops on topics ranging from polyamory to do-it-yourself book touring, zine distribution to homemade radio production.

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