Threepart Magazine was a short-lived but well accepted ‘zine that meant to showcase the work of friends and family. Any submission was taken and, for it’s brevity and shortcomings, became stronger with each publication. Now available on the net for posterity.
I know the common thought: it’s just another ‘zine, and it was. But what separates Threepart and all of its short comings from the rest of the personal press is its goal: to become an actual publication, with a subscriber based circulation. Threepart meant to utilize an on-demand internet model and press only as many copies as needed, using a third party print application called Cafe Press. It had magazine gloss covers and mass-paperback paper-stock. And the icing on the cake was our ability to register with the Library of Congress, having no standardized publication schedule and one working print of the first copy, for an International Standard Book Number (ISBN). And if you were to visit said LoC you’d find an actual copy of Threepart Issue One somewhere in the catacombs of enterprise magazines. Pretty neat.
