about

Welcome to Crabby Media!  We are a collaborative that produces comp zines and runs an online infoshop for D.I.Y. publishers.

the collaborative

The idea for the Crabby Media collaborative started simply because we’re a bunch of friends who enjoy collaborating. We like working together and supporting each other on projects. What we want to do with Crabby Media first of all is make comp zines together.

What we also want to do is sort of collaborate with other zine-makers and D.I.Y. publishers. So we’ve started an online forum and infoshop. Stop by the forum to share ideas with other zinemakers, or poke around in the info section of the website to get ideas and answers.

And, no, we’re not a publisher and we’re not a zine distro. Please don’t send us your manuscripts (we really will not publish them), and please don’t send us your zines (we really won’t distribute them). But if you’d like advice on publishing your own zine or finding a good distro for your project, please hang out for awhile with the lovely and brilliant people in our forum.

being “crabby”

Have you ever noticed that when you really, really care about something people tend to mistake that passion for crabbiness?  Well in addition to being passionate about media in general (zines in particular), we’re also passionate and outight crabby about social justice issues.