Neighborhood Reads You might associate zines with the late ’90s and early 2000s, when mainstream corporate media was at the height of its power. Under the weight of what, at the time, felt like an oppressive monoculture, artists created handcrafted booklets of essays, fiction, comics, photos, collages and virtually any other form of individual artistic expression that could be printed on paper, documenting their passions and frustrations. Created and often distributed by hand, zines stood in direct contrast to the glossy magazines of the time for their idiosyncratic perspectives. Zines never disappeared, of course — locally, the Short Run Comix Festival , Ballard’s Push/Pull and The Seattle Public Library’s Zine Archive & Publishing Project have kept the flame alive — but for a while, they were supplanted by the internet’s early expressive days of blogs and message boards.…