The half-sized black and white local music monthly known as “The Zine” has been found in coffee shops and bars downtown since its first issue came out in February.
Now that its originator Charlotte Romero is headed for a new job in Idaho, the responsibilities of editorship will fall to Kath Yarkosky, a UW art major who has helped with “The Zine’s” layout since the beginning.
“Charlotte does most of the work,” Yarkosky said. “So I’m getting ready to start devoting a lot more. It’s crazy.”
Yarkosky’s choppy cut-and-paste layout has given the monthly its distinct style, but now her contribution will have to include all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into producing “The Zine” like planning, marketing and promotion.
Yarkosky has some new ideas for “The Zine” but will have to wait until she takes the reins to try them out.
“I’d like to start doing shows through the Zine,” she said. “It would be really cool to do a ‘Zine’ festival, get together a few of the bands we featured and have them all play.”
Yarkosky said Romero plans on opening a new chapter in Rexburg, Idaho to feature bands in that area and serve as a sister publication to the original in Laramie.
“The website will be the combination of both scenes,” Yarkosky said.
The soon-to-be editor said the submission-based magazine welcomes any new contributors.
“Sometimes we ask people to do an album review or do a feature on a band,” she said. “But a lot of it is just submissions and poetry.”
She said even movie reviews and comics could have a place in “The Zine.”
“Anybody’s welcome to submit,” Yarkosky said. “We just don’t want to support negativity. We’re not going to publish somebody bashing somebody else. Other than that, it’s open game whatever you want to do.”
