When blogging got its own dictionary entry and everyone with a keyboard started posting their life's minutiae online, Claire Heslop admits that she, too, boarded the web-train. Yet all the while she was uploading vegan recipes and travel essays, an inner voice kept nagging. In going digital, she had abandoned a cherished outlet of personal self-expression: making zines."(Blogging) didn't really work for me, I didn't get any enjoyment out of it, it didn't feel satisfying," the 29-year-old Vancouver woman said earlier this month, at an indoor zine fair devoted to self-published mini-magazines, poetry chapbooks and comics called Canzine West. "It's not the same as having a real, small, colourful and crazy interactive piece of something that somebody made by hand for you."
A few years in, Heslop quit the blogosphere and returned to the thrill she first found at age 16. Sporting spiky platinum hair, the UBC medical student was hawking her zine, "the sun shines on it twice," for $2 at the fair.
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