I created oo*Ahh in 1991 as a gossip rag to circulate among close friends my sophomore year in high school. I spent hours conducting interviews with friends, writing articles, drawing pictures, and cutting and pasting it all together (literally, with scissors and tape). We didn't have the internet yet, folks.
Here are three different 1991-era covers and an article (a handwritten, transcribed phone interview with my best friend Beth about the existence of the Easter bunny and Santa Claus).
So, if you're looking for back issues, hit me up! If not, just enjoy the "artwork."
Then, ten years ago, as a graduate student of English at SUNY Brockport, I started oo*Ahh again as a zine. The goal was two-fold: to keep my writing practice alive while avoiding the real work of my Master's thesis.
During down time at my day job, I would write short articles, cut and paste pictures (the way I'd done it in high school), and make photocopies of the oo*Ahh zine. When I went to class in the evening, I would bring a stack of oo*ahhs with me and drop them off in the English department. To my surprise, the stack was almost always gone when I went back the next night (though, who knows, someone may have just thrown them all out). We weren't recycling yet, folks.
During down time at my day job, I would write short articles, cut and paste pictures (the way I'd done it in high school), and make photocopies of the oo*Ahh zine. When I went to class in the evening, I would bring a stack of oo*ahhs with me and drop them off in the English department. To my surprise, the stack was almost always gone when I went back the next night (though, who knows, someone may have just thrown them all out). We weren't recycling yet, folks.
So, if you're looking for back issues, hit me up! If not, just enjoy the "artwork."
