From The MailboX: Rant Feedback
One rant, two different takes. My rant [ http://xrayer.blogspot.com/2014/08/feedback-feedback.html ] about formatting my zine any way I wanted produced some interesting reactions. Robert Jennings, Editor of Fadeaway zine (29 Whiting Rd.,Oxford, MA 01540-2035) (FabFicBks[at]aol[dot]com), emailed: I would suggest that criticisms about the appearance of your zine by readers are not malicious, but are probably intended to be constructive in nature. Yes, its your publication to do anything you want with it, any way you want, but producing an end product that is comfortable to read and is visually agreeable makes a better impression and helps get whatever message you are writing about across more easily. I know several people who produce fanzines, and I’m sure you do as well, who may have interesting or worthwhile material to offer, but whose format is so jumbled or cramped that most people won’t even give it a fair chance. I don’t think your mag falls into that classification, b