\u201cIt\u2019s been awesome making a paper, I feel like I\u2019ve gotten to know a lot of people through submissions or just distributing the paper around randomly\u201d says Jules. \u201cIt feels like something that makes me optimistic in these times. It\u2019s nice to make something that\u2019s sustaining itself, and that\u2019s not reliant on an internet platform, a gallery space, or grant funding.\u201d With sustainability as a main focus, Jules distributes the newspapers for free and in person \u2013 with their icky feelings about the publishing industry in mind, Jules subverts this by getting right to the heart of alternative magazine fans.<\/p>\n
Another quirk of The Pit is the advertisements inside, a concept borrowed by Jules\u2019 friend Jacob Berendes, creator of Mothers News. Through the ads, Jules can support local businesses in their signature whimsical style. \u201cA recent favorite is an ad for Rename Victory Day, an ad I made for Lois Harada, who has been running a political and print campaign to rename a holiday in Rhode Island currently called Victory Day,\u201d says Jules.<\/p>\n
As well as creating The Pit, Jules has also learned how to code from their friend who owns the server \u2018cancelled.work\u2019, a network which hosts a haven of alternative websites. On The Pit\u2019s site, people can access all of the PDF files of all four issues as well as links on how to submit and advertise \u2013 Jules intends to work on it some more and \u201cmake it even sillier\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes it feels like I\u2019m doing a book report, which I really love,\u201d says Jules, who is interested in education outside of university contexts. It\u2019s kind of like light, fun investigative journalism \u2013 everything about The Pit is a breath of fresh air, from its dense, imaginative pages full of information to the lightness of the topics and cute characters. This zine-esque, cartoon filled newspaper of sorts is anything but traditional, but that\u2019s what makes it worthwhile. \u201cI\u2019m a cartoonist, so most of my publishing and design experience comes from self-publishing comics and zines!\u201d says Jules. \u201cI feel like it just makes sense in my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s been awesome making a paper, I feel like I\u2019ve gotten to know a lot of people through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-229027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}