Crabby Media is going to the Portland Zine Symposium next week!  Chris will be tabling our wares and is really looking forward to it.  Stop by and visit us in the tabling room!

Unfortunately, this means we’ll be taking the shop offline for 2-3 weeks (items will still be visible, but there won’t be any buy buttons).  Chris is the only distro person and so won’t be able to fill orders until she’s back from Portland.  Also, the shop needs a few technical upgrades which will take us a couple of days to implement.  We hope to have everything up and running again on Labor Day weekend — i.e., the 1st weekend in september.

However!  Behind-the-scenes we’ve been slowly stocking up the distro with more exciting zines, so when the shop comes back online it will be a little bigger than it is now.  A preview of what we’re adding:

• “White Blackbirds”, edited by Katie Haegele
• “Let’s DIY” #s 1 & 2 and “Zine Capsule” from Grrrl Zines A Go-Go
• some Crabby Media merchandise

And maybe we’ll make some awesome finds at the Symposium, too!

We also expect to be announcing a call for submissions for our next comp zine closer to PZS.

So, in short, don’t touch that dial.

“Entry Level: Approaches to getting used to the idea of talking about class,” edited by Chris Wrdnrd, was born out of Crabby Media’s desire to engage with issues of social justice and Chris’s hope to provoke more Wiscon discussions of class.

This comp zine is composed of 11 pieces that investigate aspects of class ideas from various angles.  Contents include a brief overview of Marxist theory, a bibliography of class-related reading, and a bingo card of typical dismissals of class discussion, all punctuated by deeply personal essays of individual class situations.  We are also delighted that John Scalzi allowed us to reprint his oft-cited “Being Poor” post from the Whatever.  The zine is rounded out by an abridged version of Karl Marx’s “Wage, Labor, and Capital.”

“Entry Level” is also available as a free PDF download.

• half-legal:  7″ x 8.5″
• 42 pages, saddle-stapled
• $2.57