a silly idea i would like people to tell me if could work anyway

I've heard of people doing this back before the american interweb was up and running. I've never contributed to something along these lines myself, but I'm willing to help out East. Sounds rad.

"back before the american interweb was up and running"

Are you at all familiar with the INFO PANIC project that some Hampshire College kids did back in the 1990s? They developed a template that was a 1/4 sized zine and handed it out to writers, artists, and zinesters. What was submitted back was then printed up and assembled for distro.

I have them all AND the template.

I think if we model this on something like that - limit the size, page count, and co-ordinate the asssemblage, printing and such, more people will be able and willing to participate. I would be happy to fund a larger section of this project, if you can find a few others to kick in too.

depending on the number of participants AND numbers of pages per zine and number of copies made and whether or not there is a free/low cost printer hook up, probably a buncha hundred dollars.

Hey, newcomer around here, but I'm an associate of Kpunk. He told me about this before I read about it, and I sort of misunderstood. I thought it was a "metazine" idea where people would contribute material from around the country to one zine that would get published weekly for 8 weeks. Could that idea work? I'm not sure how that would be funded, unless each week someone else was responsible for printing/mailing.

Just a thought, but I'm up to trying just about anything since I've only done a little zine work locally...