By Marc Fischer / Public Collectors
Public Collectors, Chicago, IL, 2025
Pages: 12 plus one postcard and one business card
Dimensions: 9 in x 6 in
Cover: Paper
Binding: three folded half-letter sheets inserted into 9 in x 6 in unsealed Kraft envelope
Process: RISO
Color: one-color RISO (three ink colors used)
Edition size: 140
ISBN: none
This package is a little sick day/snow day project that introduces one new text titled Why Aren't People Buying Yours Books and Zines at the Fair? alongside a new single-sheet version of Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? and a previously printed text: Towards a Self Sustaining Publishing Model. They are accompanied by a copy of the Losers Attack our Libraries postcard I made earlier this year and the latest Public Collectors 'business' card. All are packaged in an unsealed Kraft envelope that I've rubber stamped, date stamped and hand initialed.
This project was made using materials that were lingering around in a basement storage closet - old leftover paper stock, a couple boxes of envelopes that I'm pretty sure came from a thrift store years ago, and the big oversized number '3' stamp was last used to make table numbers for my wedding a little over 15 years ago. Glad I hung onto it!
All three of these texts are things that I have, or plan to give away at fairs or as bonuses in mail orders. Buying them together as this little set will help pay for all of the free copies that I circulate.
- Marc Fischer / Public Collectors