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Home » blog » Corndog Publishing Zine Distro

Corndog Publishing Zine Distro

Published December 30, 2010 by lawsie 3 Comments

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CornDog Publishing Zine Distro was a zine distro that I ran for a few years, the distro started by accident after I ended up with boxes and boxes of zines from around the world that I had traded for with copies of my own zine ‘Beat Motel‘.  I think I was the first UK distro to have a full e-commerce site, and at it’s peak CornDog stocked around three hundred titles from all around the world.

But CornDog was a victim of its own success and in the middle of 2010 I made the difficult decision not to take on any more stock.  It was a tough decision but one that had to be made – I ended up spending so much time stocking and promoting other folk’s work (for no money, because zine distros never do make any money) that I had no time left to dedicate to any of my own creative output.

Now then Gadgie

As something of a parting shot I published a book collecting together all the best bits of one of my favourite zines, the book is called ‘Now Then Gadgie’.

Beat Motel #10

The only other thing I had in stock when I closed the CornDog Publishing Zine Distro doors was issue #10 of my own zine ‘Beat Motel’.

Bye bye CornDog…

So it only remains for me to say fight the good fight, keep on developing this fantastic underground publishing network of ours, and above all keep it non-pretentious!

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Last Updated on February 19, 2023

Filed Under: Graveyard Tagged With: distro, zines

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  1. Joe 6-3-0 says

    December 30, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    This distro was the best thing about the zine scene for me. It was an excuse to go to the zine gatherings across Europe, when I have no real interest in zines, and hang out with Andrew for no real reason … not that we ever really need one

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  2. Joe 6-3-0 says

    December 30, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    This distro was the best thing about the zine scene for me. It was an excuse to go to the zine gatherings across Europe, when I have no real interest in zines, and hang out with Andrew for no real reason … not that we ever really need one

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  3. Luke You says

    July 5, 2011 at 8:03 am

    Corn Dog Zine Distro was a truly great zine distro. Andrew/Corn Dog distributed literally hundreds of copies of my zine YOU during the distro's life and I will be eternally grateful for all the hard work Andrew did fighting the good fight in the zine world. Thank you Andrew. Thank you Corn Dog.

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