There are stitch-bound zines, perfect-bound zines, accordion zines, tiny zines that come in matchboxes, large poster-sized zines that unfurl, and digital, online-only zines.
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It listed zines, just a quirky catalog that reviewed fringe zines.
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Zines are made in isolation and most people who write zines are incredibly shy and awkward.
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Zines' fun, creative look attracts companies who want zines' cool factor to rub off on their own products.
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Now, I feel like zines are more like what magazines used to be because zines seem like a more accessible platform.
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There are two types of zines that I'd recommend as a place to start: eight-page folding mini zines and standard booklets made from folded printer paper.
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At first, it was punk fanzines, but later I picked up zines on topics from feminism, to personal zines, to comics, to anything under the sun really.
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We spoke to a selection of exhibitors about their work, the role of print zines in the digital age, and how zines fit into the current intersectional feminist movement.
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The multi-media project, first started as a series of zines, includes a narrative around the cultural project itself (how it began, media images of zines, trajectory of hashtags).
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The independently run archival library has the largest collection of women's liberation literature and zines in the UK, which includes around 5,000 pamphlets, books, and zines dating back to 1990.
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Del Toro's work in recognizing early zines by Latinx creators — and, over at Barnard, Freedman's work with Feminist Zinefest in elevating zines by writers and artists of color — broadens the scope.
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Marissa Del Toro The power of zines to be records of frequently ignored and underrepresented narratives was something that drew Marissa Del Toro to begin researching the art of zines and zine culture.
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As private and public institutions make room for zines and the people who create and enjoy them — from libraries to zine fests, colleges to art museums — that space extends beyond the zines themselves.
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This book collects all of Jay Howell's zines and booklings.
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Juan: The inexpensive nature of producing zines definitely doesn't hurt.
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I bought these incredible bondage zines from the late 60s.
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Zines are the most immediate way of publishing printed works.
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They were short zines mostly focused on feminism and activism.
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Zines you should read: Cat In Press, Diaspora Drama, 1991.
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Oh, and those zines will be available exclusively at Target.
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CD: What role do zines play in today's feminist movement?
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That was also what led to my introduction to zines.
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Throughout the decade, zines carved out the earliest queercore network.
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What fascinates you most about the world of Simpsons zines?
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Lots of people had zines in the '2000s and '80s.
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Thank you to everyone who gave me their zines and objects.
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Most of the zines due to geography would feature local bands.
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What we're really almost talking about is zines now, or magazines.
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When I first started making zines it felt special and secretive.
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With all this and Catholic paraphernalia, I made collages and zines.
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Did you start writing zines right away when you got here?
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VICE: How big is your collection of Simpsons zines so far?
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C.F., collaborated as Paper Radio, producing zines, comics, and web graphics.
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Through fliers and zines, punk reinforced itself as a political tool.
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After these two zines, there's no record of any slash being published in Star Wars fandom between 1982 and 1992 — the year two different multi-fandom zines, Dyad and Homosapien, each published separate Star Wars slash fics.
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Zines are just like people, we all want what we cannot have.
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In addition, unbag Collective distributes smaller zines by their members and friends.
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The people that are making the zines, probably have their own blogs.
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People that are making zines today are as obsessed with zinemaking itself.
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Orlick offers her photographs in print, zines, and books she self-publishes.
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Zines are a great way to do whatever the hell you want.
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A number of zines will be on display and available for reading.
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At this point, it's safe to say, zines are having their moment.
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And zines can't get replies or hateful remarks in a comments section.
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Bacon-Smith was into transformative Star Trek fandom: zines, fan art, fanfic.
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Bailon got started by printing his own artist book and found that the process was "easy and cheap," so he bought a Xerox printer and began to publish both his own zines and the zines of other artists.
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While the PUNK show was truly an homage to the famous magazine, the Boo-Hooray's Punk and Hardcore Fliers, Zines and Ephemera show at Printed Matter looks at various punk-related Xerox prints and zines from the time.
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Zines can take all kinds of forms, some easier than others to make.
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This particular event is all photocopy in terms of the zines and prints.
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There are too many zine fairs and not enough good zines right now.
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Earl was this crazy kid who made his own really funny skate 'zines .
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Pre-internet, zines and independent publishing served an altogether different purpose than entertainment.
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The funny thing about zines is that they can be anything you want.
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By the time the legal concerns were resolved, the zines no longer fit.
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What exactly is happening to our local and regional papers and alternative zines?
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But it was that little sharing tool that made it like trading zines.
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Zines were always great at aggregating, and trading images that way was free.
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I've done food-themed zines with friends before, but this is the first book.
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I feel like young people in Japan love zines, especially fashion-conscious young people.
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There's a real DIY approach in this community, from the 90s zines to today.Absolutely.
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Zines with more than 60 pages may be too thick to staple or sew.
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This is Jo Rosenthal, who made all the zines she's displaying in this photo.
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Unlike small-run print zines, these sites had the potential to reach the world.
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A lot of those zines mentioned Lester Bangs, Iggy Pop, the whole Detroit scene.
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Left Bank Books sells everything from socialist theory to local zines to activist ethnobiology.
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He makes a lot of photo zines, and this is definitely one of them.
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The Primal Plunge on Brighton Avenue, where I used to get all my zines?
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Now I make all of my zines twice—one in Indonesian, one in English.
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Her practice has grown eclectic — drawing, publishing zines, sculpture — since she put down roots.
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And there is a thoughtful collection of books and zines for sale as well.
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Both zines, Imperial Entanglements and Organia, were released in 1982 and were immediately controversial.
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I had what was called a zine — wait, are you too young for zines?
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Some amateur publishers worry that this sort of thing may spoil what makes zines special.
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Before tweeting, blogging, and fan fiction, young women made DIY zines and bedroom wall collages.
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We've started creating "crip cultural spaces" in Australia, with zines and radical self-love cards.
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She explained that zines could be seen as a historical record of the current moment.
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That was the dynamic that fueled the hacker zines, in which the owners got owned.
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This is very much in the tradition of early photocopied punk zines and political pamphlets.
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I'm more of the generation that's at the tail end of zines emerging into blogs.
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We also discussed the way personal zines still have currency despite their lack of superheros.
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Fan Fiction (26)Fandom was once reserved for real-life meetups and zines printed in garages.
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Then for years I promoted my own projects: rock bands, homemade books and zines, performance art.
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If you need some inspiration, look up whether there's a bookstore near you that sells zines.
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The library often runs zine-making workshops, and librarians take zines with them during outreach visits.
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There's his Punks Git Cut zines, which are little visual gags like David Shrigley might make.
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Many zines ran 'scene reports' where you could read about a particular city or country scene.
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This is my weekly comic column in which I discuss comics, art, zines and, oh... everything.
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His zines and old videos he made with Sonic Youth and Mike Kelley are there, too.
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So I don't know if there's a chance zines can have a purpose or survive nowadays.
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Zines obviously create alternative visual viewpoints to mainstream representation and put marginalized bodies front and center.
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Related: Our 11 Favorite Zines from This Year's NY Art Book Fair It's a ZINE TORNADO!
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They both share the rituals of lo-fi productions, self-made labels, collectives, and fan zines.
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I had been collecting zines for years but never thought about making any myself until then.
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In theory, the maturation of the internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely.
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And it perhaps reflects why zines can feel so much more intimate than a Facebook post.
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N.Y. ART BOOK FAIR One of the largest fairs for artist books, monographs and zines. Sept.
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N.Y. ART BOOK FAIR One of the largest fairs for artist books, monographs and zines. Sept.
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All the zines provoke thinking about the complex facets of political policy, action, and collective resistance.
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The Raymond Pettibon zines are one of the first purchases my brother and I made together.
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Her booth also features a fantastic box set of mini-zines by Bananafish (I felt compelled to buy one of the two copies on hand) and the Concrete Flux zine with lenticular covers, not to mention other zines that were outfitted with custom-designed mini tote bags.
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For a special edition of Ink Spots, VICE's irregular look into the world of zines and independent publishers, we chatted with a few of these global talents, as well as Tim Bell, who's been collecting as many Simpsons-inspired zines as he can get his hands on.
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Visitors were met by walls plastered with seductive photographs and tables heaped with provocative books and zines.
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Popular fashion and art magazines write about zines, and even give suggestions about how to make them.
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And she doesn't stop at paintings—her designs emerge through zines, wood etchings, ceramics, and enamel pins.
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At the time, we weren't even really aware of the rich history behind zines and punk culture.
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"I didn't really find my love for zines until Celia gave me one of hers," Freedman said.
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At their roots, zines are a way of disseminating information and narratives that mainstream channels have rejected.
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If you weren't sending out those demos to labels and zines, do you think Pavement would've existed?
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What went wrong in the 70s and 80s with zines, is there was too much of it.
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The fondness the subjects have for Ahlbom become apparent in the selection of images in both zines.
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I still work on zines, or at least I've been procrastinating on working on a new zine.
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"When you make zines, you have the autonomy to reject the norms associated with publishing." says Salinas.
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Zines can cover an array of topics, exploring the personal and political through image, poetry and prose.
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Print magazines, and underground zines in particular offered entry into subversive music scenes the mainstream media shunned.
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People are writing books, zines and TV shows, forming creative agencies, throwing club nights and opening restaurants.
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These include Riverside's Zines Rasquache, which explores the "Xicanista" experience; This Goth Bitch, which offers a queer POC perspective on gloom and glam; and pioneering veterans Third Woman Press, who have been publishing books by feminists of color since the late '70s, but only recently branched out into zines.
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The enormous library of royalty-free, scalable vector images will no doubt come in handy to anyone in the business of making websites, e-books, slide shows, business cards, 'zines (do people still make 'zines?), or literally anything that could be improved by the inclusion of an image.
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My friends in Tokyo all make zines and show them at zine fairs they organize, big and small.
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The collective, which now includes 22 members, regularly releases zines and organizes events to highlight their members' work.
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Zines have a long history of being a way for marginalized communities to record their stories and organize.
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People who were making radical zines like Toronto's GenderTrash, their work was being debated in the forum scene.
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But yeah, if I didn't send those demo's to all these labels and zines, maybe nothing would've happened.
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I do keep an eye out for zines from that era online – they go for big dollars now.
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That said, Devin Troy Strother was there displaying his art and zines, and I bought all his shit.
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Ooga Booga is from LA, and as you can see, they are displaying a shit-ton of zines.
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You've self-published over six books and zines, do you often self-make and self-publish your work?
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Another idea was for Superchief to reprint all eight issues of the Boiled Angel zines into one book.
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Comparable to Facebook groups or early-era Tumblr, the pages of Riot Grrrl zines essentially operated as blogs.
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Troll Hole, initially envisioned as a queer, feminist vendor of high-quality lubes and erotic zines, was born.
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Using paint, pencils, and solar-powered laptops and printers, they produced zines reflecting what they saw and heard.
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They'd asked an attorney about the zines only because state funds were paying to print them, Roberts said.
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I also think zines have been a really wonderful way for teenage girls to develop their own feminisms.
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Zines are a medium where the person or community you want to know about is usually communicating directly.
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Contributors to their zines include those immigrant communities, friends, and "random people [who] hit us up," said Jeon.
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Ilegal at 8 Ball Zines consists of a series of images relating to anti-criminal organizations in Brazil.
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Oof specializes in artist-made and locally published books and zines, as well as older catalogs and monographs.
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He registered the increased presence of bike messengers—a new punk-athlete precariat—and began reading their zines.
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You were good at magazines, even when you were a little girl, making zines up in your bedroom.
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Posters promoting new albums, tours and shows are mixed in with album art, zines, buttons and other miscellany.
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But as far as history records, just two zines managed to successfully publish slash fiction in the 215s.
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Whether it's putting out zines or running a fashion line, the 101 Boys aren't your typical music collective.
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Organizer and educator Mariame Kaba periodically posts free zines of art, poetry, and prose on her blog Prison Culture.
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It is currently home to almost 1,603 zines, housed in the vibrant and bustling downtown Long Beach Main library.
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I am qualified to do this as I myself have written at least two zines' worth of bad poetry.
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If you're not into the footwear, you can cop one of two zines, from Season 1 and 2, respectively.
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And the people reading those blogs are probably reviewing that blog and writing about them in their own zines.
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Even as it being a "known" zine, very few people have read it since very few people read zines.
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Coldwind said zines like PoC||GTFO or Phrack were also inspirations, as well as legendary computing magazines like Hugi.
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We got to know Junebug through art, making zines, art shows, doing a bunch of drugs on the weekend.
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The original fair invited all our membership and community to participate by contributing and selling their zines and books.
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There aren't separate sections for zines or rare books; instead, risograph prints, buttons, and patches neighbor $500 artist books.
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One of the ways I discover zines to add to my collection is by trawling various hashtags on Instagram.
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"We recommend you print and assemble the zines for the most authentic and enjoyable Expanuks experience," the game says.
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Punk and Hardcore Fliers, Zines and Ephemera continues at Printed Matter (143 11th Ave, Chelsea, Manhattan) through February 13.
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Click here to download Old Shirt, and here to see more of Debangshu Moulik's work Related: 9 Zines by Black and PoC Artists That You Need to Read Right Now Ari Marcopoulos on Death, Zines, and Decades Documenting New York City SkateboardingThis Musician's Zine is a Chronicle of a Life in the Crowd
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It was more: I wanna make skate videos, zines, records, throw parties, make books, collaborate with my favorite artists, etc.
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Ceesepe sold his zines there, as well as American comics that he laboriously translated into Spanish and reprinted by hand.
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This is my weekly column in which I review comics, zines, art books, and anything that I think merits discussion.
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You had to look at 'zines or the back of Starlog and stuff like that to start finding a community.
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As well as her illustration work, Kaye makes ceramics, homewares, a line of jewelry, and publishes small books and zines.
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But the biggest question is how publishers and advertisers will react to having multiple places to show their animated 'zines.
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Sweaty music venues, photocopiers, riot grrrls — these are the images that likely come to mind when you think of zines.
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Artists popularize their work through digital media, protest materials, and printed zines — usually distributed by hand or for free download.
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This year's edition of Cultural Traffic boasts over 30 exhibitors including Ain't Bad, Dashwood Zines, Ex-It Publishing, and more.
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You'll find books, zines, prints, vinyls, and tapes for sale and for trade, and in both current and obsolete formats.
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It's an obsession, and zines are a direct manifestation of that obsession in a much more democratic way than photobooks.
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Zines felt like the only way that I could connect or disrupt the heavily dude based punk scene around Chicago.
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You could buy one of the 500 zines printed for $30 or buy the original pieces for much, much more.
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Remember, today's zines are wonders of dogged research into every nook and cranny of a band's music and their histories.
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The organizers curated a phantasmagoria of printed objects — from clothbound publications to saddle-stitched zines and merch of every description.
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"She really helped me ferry the work from what had been mostly zines into something more polished," Mr. Pico said.
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How effective are zines when it comes to promoting ideas like feminism compared to mass media that have wider reach?
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But many comb through Mr. Fowler's passion, and the store's specialty: zines and small-press booklets or books championing illustrations.
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Consciousness raising groups and zines are back; Rookie magazine's series of books are designed to look like well-worn yearbooks.
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"I think that all artists should make publications, whether they are very cheap zines or more elaborate books," she said.
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To their creators, zines can feel like necessary means of defiance, even resistance to cultural norms that rarely acknowledge them.
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Women all over the US started creating zines and sci-fi clubs as a way to share Star Trek fanfiction.
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This one has some real winners: BIG IF, GET BUSY, WE'RE IN LUCK, BLAST ZONES and ZINES are all delightful.
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This one has some real winners: BIG IF, GET BUSY, WE'RE IN LUCK, BLAST ZONES and ZINES are all delightful.
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The speed with which the Hong Kong demonstrators' informative zines have been distributed, collected, and even exhibited internationally is remarkable.
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I recently spoke with the source of many of these zines, ZineCoop, a collective on the ground in Hong Kong.
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While Kirkhuff's more serious subject matter is often life-sized, she's also fond of making smaller ink drawings and zines.
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Faculty Our illustration faculty's research includes children's books, graphic novels, zines, editorial illustration, drawing theory, and writings on visual culture.
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Others, like Oakland and Brooklyn-based collective Irrelevant Press, sold zines that would also easily fit at other zine fairs.
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These works consist of paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, zines, and books from a melting pot of artists young and old.
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In terms of queer zines, however, I would go as far as to say there's no such category as of yet.
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Follow Ugly People here, buy their zines, prints, and totes here, and visit Creators' Instagram to find your next favorite artist.
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The grouping placed bound poetry collections and letterpress broadsides in conversation with stapled zines, brightly colored risograph posters, and glossy magazines.
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The past few weeks we've been poring over the hundreds of reader-submitted zines bearing the hashtag #TCPOffensive via the Zean.
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I am sure you and Nate have similar experiences with getting zines and what turned you on to other bands too.
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Like the recent revival of zines, the encroach of digital has resulted in a renewed appreciation for the physical – and beautiful.
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" He says, "Zines are easy to make and their content helps sustain many small and large communities where the publications reach.
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He had enough screencaps to furnish two zines, the second of which (Women with Elephants Found on Tinder) was just published.
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Examples of their work here range from still lifes to graphic montages reminiscent of contemporaneous punk rock album covers and zines.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Artist books and zines are the vinyl records of the book publishing world.
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Growing up amid incendiary late-70s L.A. punk, Swezey was galvanized by the self-starting ethos of underground zines and labels.
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PMS's zines are designed to be shared widely, remade by anyone with a printer, and contributed to by anyone who wants.
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He described zines as the precursor to personal blogs, but personal blogs have been on the decline over the last decade.
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A lot of Simpsons zines remind me of the show's early years, when the art was a bit crude and raw.
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Art for sale at the space ranges from zines to illustration to poetry from Warsan Shire (who was featured throughout Beyonce's Lemonade).
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Cassettes and records rule the roost (no CDs!), augmented by a tastefully tasteless selection of punk staples like shirts, buttons, and zines.
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People were making natural-wine zines, hosting festivals and fairs, selling in-joke wine T-shirts, and tagging their Instagram posts #nattywine.
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As a new shop, it can be hard to compete with the existing bookstores by simply offering rare artists' books and zines.
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The zines add bite ("The Board of Oppressors … Oops I Mean Trustees") to the barrage of institutional information at new-student orientation.
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Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.
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Burke gestures to a nearby Xerox machine, explaining that anyone can scan copies of the texts to keep, disseminate, or make zines.
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I've amassed a collection of over 100 Simpsons zines, and despite their fixed subject matter, the variety of creative output is remarkable.
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They produce zines for many of their shows (doing designs, printing and binding in-house) and are known for their flexibility in scheduling.
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The really small presses and zines are in the two outdoor tents, while the more established publications and galleries are inside the building.
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This series, Ink Spots, is a helpful guide to which zines, pamphlets, and publications you should be reading when you're not reading ours.
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This is my weekly column in which I review and discuss comics, zines, art books, and anything that is notably great or awful.
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Subtitled "The Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption," it reviewed products as other zines reviewed records, and established Lukas's writing and unique point of view.
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Sampha's not the first musician to recently enter into the world of zines, which makes sense as they've always been linked to music.
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Andy Folk forewent paying for a table in the zine tent and instead sold punk zines and political-protest posters in a corner.
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The recent Pettibon book, a French Gary Panter book, six bondage zines, The Industrial Handbook, some Heather Benjamin stuff, some stickers and buttons.
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I am aiming for the zines to be read as a set that fit together seamlessly, although they were published at different times.
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So we will get cushions, blankets, fairy lights, materials to make art with, zines if people want to read them, things like that.
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Now, many zines are operating on the same level as larger, fully-funded independent titles, but with none of the investment or profit.
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In a short video by artist Claire Christerson, we see what true freedom looks like: being immersed in a swirling maelstrom of zines.
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Sri Taarna is co-founder of Unrest Collective, a group that seeks to amplify local and marginalized voices by distributing and making zines.
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The Press Press table is off in its own room, right across from the Dome, where some of the other zines are located.
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Luckily, we did the dirty work for you: Here's our roundup of the best zines available at the 217 NY Art Book Fair.
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This series, Ink Spots, is a helpful guide to which zines, pamphlets, and publications you should be reading when you're not reading ours.
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Fuck Zines is still primarily digital and borderless, though the books on display at the fair focused on a range of Mexican artists.
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Recently many seminal punk zines have been anthologized, such as Destroy All Monsters, Punk, and Touch and Go. Two other California punk zines, No Mag and Damage have also been digitally catalogued, though Slash differentiates itself because it both honestly documented the Los Angeles punk scene in the late '70s and created a singular aesthetic that was both raw and artful.
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The 1800s featured radical pamphlets, the 1960s saw independent and literary magazines emerge, while the 1990s spiked with DIY zines photocopied around the world.
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Join us for free Old Blue Last beer, a panel discussion featuring the filmmakers hosted by Broadly UK editor Zing Tsjeng, posters and zines.
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Other public conferences that likely attracted fans had names like the Beatles, Jazz, MIDI, Radio, Songwriters, Zines/Fanzine Scene, Music, Audio-videophilia, and CDs.
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Alison Mosshart grew up in Vero Beach, Florida, hanging around skaters, reading zines, listening to Fugazi, and singing in a punk band called Discount.
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Individual zines usually cost $2 for a PDF and $5 for a physical copy if you're ordering online, so today's bundle is a steal.
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Big Break A lifelong book lover, Mr. Pico published his first title, a comic, when he was 5, eventually graduating to zines and books.
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The type of people that make zines now are very diverse, which is part of what makes being part of this community so fun.
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The unfiltered nature of it all was also immensely appealing to someone who grew up obsessed with self-produced punk and self-published zines.
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This week, Google's new HQ designs, Georgia O'Keeffe's modern life, building Trump's crazy border wall, the enduring life of zines, Rauschenberg's goat, and more.
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It also relied on the design skills of undergraduates like artist Logan Larsen, who designed the zines, buttons, and posters that canvassed the campus.
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And over the past decade or so, the popularity of zines has exploded, perhaps a tangible, analog response to the increasing digitization of our lives.
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He created the Search & Destroy zines and RE/Search Publications, which were like a light in the darkness for oddballs in the pre-internet days.
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Related: Enter the Tiny World of Grandmodo Miniatures This Artist is Distributing Mini Libraries of Zines and Collages Stack, Stack, Light: Illuminate Your Lego Creations
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This series, Ink Spots, is a helpful guide to which of those zines, pamphlets, and publications you should be reading when you're not reading ours.
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"A lot like the zines I made when I was a kid, perfectly mixed with the art books I look at now," Mr. Antonoff said.
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There will also be a rare book show with original zines for sale; but no word yet on the exact schedule of performances and events.
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This is my column in which I discuss comics, zines, art books, and anything aesthetically beautiful or terrible I think other people should know about.
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Zines have allowed me to be in control of my own narrative and its dissemination, and that's crucial for me as a woman of color.
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If you do end up at the NY Art Book Fair this weekend, I highly recommend checking out the following tables and their incredible zines.
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He's a young queer artist from Baltimore, and the zines he creates reflect that experience and create a historical narrative that otherwise would be ignored.
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ZineCoop not only organizes zine-making workshops but also makes exhibitions of the zines coming out of Hong Kong to further spread the word internationally.
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Her drawings have also leapt to life on book covers, in a comic anthology about weird sex, and two personal zines published by Valley Cruise Press.
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Crevasse, an independent publisher of photography books and zines based in Ibaraki, Japan, exhibited a curated collection of Japanese artists using playful formats and surrealist imagery.
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The fair spotlights an eclectic range of artists' books, catalogues, monographs, periodicals, zines, ephemera, and multiples, presented by over 100 publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, and galleries.
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From that point forward, the intimate style she developed has carried on in all her work, expressed in zines, books, and larger format illustrations and paintings.
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Readers see zines as an antidote to the internet, reckons the director of the Bristol Comic & Zine Fair, who goes by the name of Esme Betamax.
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Most of the bands and other tape traders found you from classified ads in bigger magazines like Metal Forces or other zines and fanzine review sections.
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The popularity of zines seems to reflect how musicians can now communicate with their audiences in several ways—lots of which are visual, via social media.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The University of Kansas (KU) Libraries recently acquired over 1,000 zines from the former Solidarity radical organization in Lawrence, Kansas.
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The Unity Press and Unity Zines founder started Unity Skateboards earlier this year to carve out a niche in visual culture for the LGBTQ skating community.
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The nerds had their subreddits and Metafilter threads, the artists had their zines and Tumblrs, the 9/11 truthers had their email lists and subway pamphlets.
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Rookie began that trend formally, though that publication draws upon both internet youth culture and an older history of independent media ('zines, queer publishing, Sassy magazine).
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At least it's a brand-new subject for her zines, pastiches with handwritten, drawn and collage elements that Pérez, a seasoned zine artist, plants between chapters.
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Photographers, designers and models gathered on a rainy night to celebrate Idea Books' launch of /12, a series of 12 zines by the photographer Willy Vanderperre.
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"Firsthand materials like zines, posters, flyers are so powerful during this time, and can be seen everywhere from online to offline," the member of ZineCoop said.
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Two other such zines, produced by the US-based 6am Projects and Rebecca Zhang, compile images and text via collage in solidarity with Hong Kong protestors.
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Almost all of the zines are self-published and sold out, so your best bet is to follow the creators and jump on any new reprints.
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"Zines give people the opportunity to share in ways that they might not have be able to through mainstream media outlets," Kszystyniak, a former journalist, explains.
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Launched in 2016 by Colpa Press, Minnesota Street Project, and Park Life, SFABF spotlights an eclectic selection of artists' books, catalogues, monographs, periodicals, zines, ephemera, and multiples.
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The emerging and established artists who have released comics, art books, and zines through the press include fine artist Aidan Koch and award-winning cartoonist Michael DeForge.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It seems that zines, periodicals, and small presses have become more visible and popular despite, or even because of, the internet.
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While nine-to-five drones use them for collating TPS reports or whatever, countless outspoken punks have assembled zines on them by scamming their way through Kinkos.
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I kept a daily, diaristic blog and made little zines—that writing is preserved and presented in this petite memoir, Night Moves, from which these excerpts come.
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It provided listings of other bands, labels, venues, radio stations, distributors, record and book stores, zines, and other miscellaneous tools—per state, per province, and per country.
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And as more libraries integrate zines into their collections, spreading awareness of zine culture as a whole, the pool of stories will grow larger and more diverse.
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They formed a new vein of content that, after breeding DIY music and zines, begat blogging, and, ultimately, created an endless expanse of user generated content (UGC).
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Boo-Hooray, Toilet Paper, and Printed Matter were there and they're all integral but for the most part the zines on display showed no spark or urgency.
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A new free online magazine for hackers, programmers, and tinkerers promises to rekindle the bygone era of useful technology zines—with a focus on creativity and brevity.
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New York curator Brittany Natale organized Teen Dream, an exhibit featuring photography, art, and zines by female-identified artists who range in aim from 15 to 21.
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And though the store stocks Spanish-language zines and art, it's still a business run by English speakers in a neighborhood where Spanish is the primary tongue.
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NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR Where you can wander the halls of a huge former school, loading up on monographs, zines and, of course, tote bags. Sept.
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And a common question emerges through these efforts (and QTPOC-centered conferences, nonprofits, film festivals, web series, zines and more): Should QTPOC stop dating white folks altogether?
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It was just all of these things that we thought would help people in our community and help to engage people in our community outside of zines.
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A Crimethinc poster Crimethinc: Unlike IGD, this anarchist news and opinion site also publishes and sells books, stickers, zines, and posters on various topics related to leftist activism.
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This is my weekly column for VICE in which I discuss comics, zines, art, art books, illustration, animation, toys, and anything related to art, beauty, or nerdish shit.
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THE NY ART BOOK FAIR 10TH ANNUAL EDITION A long weekend mega-gathering of artists' books, exhibition catalogs, scholarly monographs, periodicals and zines organized by Printed Matter. Sept.
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The event will feature a number of artists selling their own work, gallery booths, zines, food vendors, a day-long program of musical artists and comedians, and more.
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Hello You, My name is Nick Gazin, and this is my column in which I discuss and review comics, zines, art books, and all things great and terrible.
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Next Thing: While Ms. Nirui is planning more hoodies (she declined to name the designers she is collaborating with), she is branching into zines and other creative forms.
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It's easy to put everything on a blog or social media these days, which can be a powerful way to communicate, but I think people still appreciate zines.
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They are a group of activists (Kimberly Enjoli, Essye Klempner, Thompson Harris, and Babbie Dunnington) who came together to make protest art and print that art in zines.
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By finding gaps in the technological skill of famous hackers, the creators of these zines justified the release of the private information the hackers had failed to protect.
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Fox has done a formidable job combing through three decades of County's art to assemble this show, and produced a pair of zines featuring interviews with the artist.
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Most of the zines are bootleg comics or illustrative, but I also have Simpsons publications with a focus on analytical review, mental health, graffiti, photography, tattoos, and poetry.
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I was most drawn to the books of Conjuntivitis, aka Fuck Zines co-founder Paulina Morales, that contain precise, vinyl-ink silkscreens of dripping eyeballs and witchy nails.
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I am Nick Gazin and this is my comics column on the VICE site in which I discuss comics, zines, art books, toys, and anything of aesthetic merit.
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We've just been working together loosely and self-publishing collaborative zines, but we recently decided to change our name to Plum Press and start focusing more seriously on publishing.
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If you're making a large run of zines or printing a very colorful zine, you may consider getting it done professionally by a local press or an online printer.
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"As long as people want to get their voices heard in a way they can entirely control, zines will continue to exist in one form or another," she says.
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That these zines are often handmade with a relatively small self-publication circulation means they provide a great accessible space for anyone to create work on their own terms.
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Zines can give space to stories that aren't often told, because their creators aren't held back by financial constraint, or blocked by a publishing industry that remains exceedingly white.
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Name: Reckless RecordsLocation: Chicago, USYear opened: 1989Why it's cool: As a group of three record stores in Chicago, Reckless is known for its independent zines and frequent ticket giveaways.
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Going strong in its 12th year, the fair will once again pack MoMA PS20173 with established indie presses, artists selling stapled zines, galleries hawking limited editions, and much more.
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His parents' activism was a huge influence on Di Giacomo, who soon turned into a young punk-rocker and became immersed in the subculture of zines and alternative blogs.
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With individual artists and small presses selling everything from self-published zines to original art, it should be a financially dangerous but immensely fulfilling way to spend the day.
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" In terms of booking a benefit show that's not just a benefit show, London's Jill Mikkelson echoed Skolnik's sentiment—"Include raffles, bake sales, zines, etc to maximize donation dollars!
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Related: Ari Marcopoulos On Process, Zines, and Decades Documenting New York City Skateboarding Still Pushing Buttons: Sean Cliver 18-Year-Old Photographer Gives a New Lens into Youth Culture
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There are going to be a lot of written pieces, but I just like the idea of having that DIY aesthetic that a lot of zines have with collage.
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From its primal, cosmic cover to the variety of fonts and page layouts, it is less a book than a heap of zines and secret dispatches hurriedly patched together.
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She was a sulky teen in the idyllic town of Redding, Connecticut, who listened to Riot Grrrl, wrote in her journal, and browsed feminist zines at the local bookstore.
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Hello VICE readers, this is a column in which I, Nicholas Gazin, discuss and review comics, zines, art books, toys, or anything I think is aesthetically worth talking about.
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Here Tan alternates older footage of her hometown, of the zines and the artifacts of her teenagehood, with present-day interviews, including with now grown up Sophie and Jasmine.
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But zinesters, especially people of color, queer and trans people, and other marginalized folks have always, always, always made zines, even when no one was paying attention to them.
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The variety of products sold on the site—from prints, zines, and cards to patches, totes, and enamel pins—is a metaphorical middle finger directed at art world snobbery.
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Inspired by Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago, which has sold everything from books on Russian prison tattoos to zines depicting destroyed foodstuffs, Mr. Fowler, 43, opened Desert Island in 2008.
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Organized by the curators Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari, it will present roughly 700 drawings across three floors, as well as dozens of zines and hours of video.
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There are shirts and zines from the outlaw-focused publisher Paper Work, and collaborations with the artist Peter Sutherland and the young curators Katja Horvat and Paige Silveria ($60).
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With its collection of zines placed in the book (no, really), family photos, sketches, hard-to-find posters, and other riveting features, this book is easy to get lost in.
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Some campaigns are run by do-gooders, like marathon runners and youth organizations looking to support local victims charities, or artists working on zines and stage productions devoted to survivors.
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Punk as we know it came from Marquee Moon and Bad Brains and Lou Reed and zines and dudes making speeches between songs that were longer than the songs themselves.
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Fans who were able to stop by one of Ocean's pop-up shops were able to pick up a physical copy of the album as well as an accompanying zines.
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A second small exhibition will give the smut fair's attendees a glimpse of rare and hard-to-find queer zines from the collection of Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons.
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According to press materials, "a collection of over 300 zines, books, and silkscreen posters from 1975-2005," paired with counterparts from the Fort Thunder comix that later became transantlantic collaborations.
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At the fair, Lee and Sutherland will unleash the loose pages into a portable tornado, where visitors can snatch the ones they want in order to make their own zines.
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Part of their contribution, titled "Resilience of Comfort," the zines were distributed in pouches hanging from seat headrests that held travel amenities to provide comfort and entertainment on the road.
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Zines are accessible and relatively easy to make, and they combine aesthetic and discursive processes that I think are really fruitful for young women — I know they were for me!
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Right next to the Mujeristas Collective table is a table for The Oxnard Plain Press, a small press of zines and artist books founded by Jaime Bailon five years ago.
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Mr. Jorden couldn't have predicted that on the night of that hookup, or soon after, when he merely thought of the punk zines he had seen around the East Village.
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We'll feature interviews with legendary zine-makers, oral histories of DIY zine-making traditions, and featurettes on the zines we love, all in anticipation of the announcement of our winner.
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I've been making zines for a long time, and every time I ended up going to a fair, it was always limited by a specific type of zine or publication.
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The Mammal GalleryHere we have the DIY punk kid you grew up huffing glue with who figured out how to make a living off making zines—but, like, in venue form.
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So, in March 2013, I organized a small pop-up show, "Theorizing the Web," where I displayed books, zines, postcards, and newsprints by those who were working in a similar way.
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Where before you could have gone to five, ten, or 20 different zines like Sniffin' Glue, Ripped & Torn and what have you, all of a sudden you had hundreds of them.
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The selection, though small, can be a bit daunting at first, but the friendly all-volunteer staff members are there to guide you through the books and zines they have available.
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Several individual artists and designers will also have their analog zines on display, providing a link between the intimacy and communal spirit of zine culture, and the potential democratization of tech.
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Related: Ari Marcopoulos on Death, Zines, and Decades Documenting New York City Skateboarding This Animated Short Is Like Living in a Skate Zine You Can Thrash This Pop Art Skate Park
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"As I published my zines, I knew for a fact I had the right under the United States constitution to create what I wanted—it was never a doubt," says Diana.
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Related: NSFW: Marilyn Minter and Betty Tompkins on Censorship, Art, and Obscenity 'From Here to Eternity' Drawings Kiss Censorship Goodbye Our 11 Favorite Zines from This Year's NY Art Book Fair
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Disclosure: Author Zack Kotzer participated in a Nuit Blanche event coordinated by Madeleine Co. in 2012, where he made zines out of old magazines and annoyed Steve Manale for an evening.
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"One thing we've been hearing a lot is that it seems a bit strange to combine tech and zines," artist and researcher Mimi Onuoha, one of the fair's organizers, told Hyperallergic.
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Tongue Tide also includes a pile of poetry books and literary zines, encouraging visitors to take a risk and leaf through the pages of an author whose name you don't recognize.
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Bound with nail polish-painted wooden scraps and staples, the zines contain tattoo designs inspired by Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, a collaboration between Trapos Press and Libros Caballo.
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Cobayashi is the most casual, using an iPhone, SLR, laptop cameras — whatever is at hand — to make images of his immediate surroundings and friends that often end up in his zines.
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The work on display, mostly collages, prints, paintings, and zines, span the range from personified phalluses doing random stuff to art brut-inspired portraits of Lana Del Rey and everything in between.
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On July 15 and 16, visit Point Green Studio for a wide selection of pornographic books and zines, a screening of erotic short films, a new performance by M. Lamar, and more.
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I feel it inside DIY spaces, within handmade zines and cassette tapes, at stores like Commend in New York and smaller-scale live experiences like FORM Arcosanti, in conversations outside the internet.
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Alongside the marketplace, the free, all-ages event will also have talks on queer and Latinx publishing, workshops on "first-language zines," among other topics, live music, and food from local vendors.
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That indie-punk-screamo-hardcore scene was very intermingled at the time, and there were a lot of kids that were all pretty active putting on their own shows and making zines.
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Because despite all the way that zines allow us to resist, they can also just be an excuse to collaborate, or to put something that's entirely your own out into the world.
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The group, which Emma said is largely leaderless and operates horizontally, has been handing out zines and fliers at GDC this week with information on the topic, hoping to further the conversation.
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The New York City-based photographer is currently studying at Oberlin College, has had her work featured in Zug Magazine and Lenny Letter, and currently has zines on sale at Dashwood Books.
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Tiny Tech Zines is a new zine fair that examines the weaknesses of the industry, while exploring ways that digital innovation can be harnessed by those communities that have been heretofore underserved.
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Hello Again, I am Nicholas Gazin and you are reading my weekly column in which I review and discuss comics, zines, art books, toys and anything that gets mailed to my house.
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Related: 'NO TREND' Explores a Group of Skaters Who Also Make Art Ari Marcopoulos on Death, Zines, and Decades Documenting New York City Skateboarding You Can Thrash This Pop Art Skate Park
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The International Society of Copier Artists, which had 5863 members at one point, produced work that ranged from still lifes to graphic montages reminiscent of contemporaneous punk rock album covers and zines.
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High Heel And Corset Revue: A Unique Collection of Bizarre Photos (Vasta Editions) by Vasta Eros In the past, colleges would buy large archives of zines and small press relating to punk.
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He posted his zine on Etsy with the presumption that Armenians didn't know what zines were, and that Armenia was so minor and invisible that every non-Armenian would be inherently apathetic.
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Before he died in 1989 at age 30, the punk performer and photographer worked zealously toward achieving celebrity, intermingling his intimate pleasures and pains into his Polaroids, films, zines, and drag shows.
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And must not be remodeled, because, as the sort of person who spent years making her own zines before she began working as a copywriter, Lee wanted to design her own space.
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Hey everybody, I'm Nick Gazin and this is my weekly comics column in which I discuss and review comics, toys, art books, illustration, zines, and anything related to paper, art, or nerdery.
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Soft-covered books are preferred to hardbacks (which are more difficult to get into prisons), and when it comes to anything small-press or handmade — comic books, zines — staples are a no-go.
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Titled Rock Paper Scissors and a Three-Armed Shovel and curated by artists Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and Devin N. Morris, the fair's offerings thoroughly embodied the intimacy that makes zines so special.
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Such omissions are big themes in an exhibition packed — sometimes overwhelmingly — with objects, from fine art to private photo albums, posters, flyers, buttons, stickers, costumes, board games, newspaper clippings, zines, interviews, and films.
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Ray Mock is the founder of Carnage NYC and has been documenting graffiti in New York and around the world for ten years, publishing more than two dozen limited edition zines and books.
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Related: Anonymous Paintings Turn Copyrighted Paintings From Google Art Project Into Abstract 3D Compositions Google's Art Project Reveals Unseen Details In 17 Masterpieces This Artist is Distributing Mini Libraries of Zines and Collages
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Post–high school, I did my best to find other ways to be creative outside the studio by mastering Photoshop and making zines, but, now, my studies demand all my energy and attention.
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I asked you to write the preface to the publication I just released via 8 Ball Zines, and we've had a bunch of conversations about the project—where it's going, where it's been.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Opening tomorrow, Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair is an annual sprawl of the printed word, from scrappy zines to rare editions of avant-garde art books.
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Hello, I'm Nicholas Gazin and this is my weekly column in which I review comics, zines, art books, and anything people want to send me for free that I think has aesthetic merit.
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Along with pop-up tastings and international fairs, there are also a handful of zines that aim to make natural wine as fun to read and talk about as it is to drink.
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Taking its name from Etsy's spell-ban, Witchsy is their curated e-commerce platform for artists, hawking a wide range of products, from clothes, home goods, and zines, to weirder, less categorizable items.
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In addition to a zine library for reading and table spaces for buying, selling, and trading zines and other DIY material, the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha hosted a series of workshops.
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But in libraries, colleges, and museums around the world there is a movement to archive and record this vital work, which could change the way we understand and interact with zines as a whole.
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An outfit called Shy Bairns publishes work by northern English artists in zines with names like The Only Pizza Shop Where I Live Burnt Down and Where's Your Coat You're Going to be Cold.
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Related: 9 Zines by Black and PoC Artists That You Need to Read Right Now The Fearless Feminist Artist Taking Down South Africa's 'Bro Code' How David Bowie's Contemporary African Art Collection Challenged Conventions
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Subscribe. Related: Jessica & Ashlee Simpson's Dad Puts Sincerity in Pop Photography Our 11 Favorite Zines from This Year's NY Art Book Fair Provocative Photos of a Female Artist Laying Down on Frat House Lawns
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Snow is popularly known as the downtown "renegade" who defined the pre-Instagram, Polaroid-snapshot aesthetic that fills innumerable art school zines made by everyone — mostly young white males hailing from middle-class suburbs.
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The Berlin-based artist is a prolific producer of zines, comics, and one-off illustrations twisting everyday life into absurd directions, including fictionalized biographies of of celebrities and a series simply called Human News.
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" If, like with those damn lyric zines, Brand New makes good on this promise the members will, "stay 18 forever," as Lacey dreamed on their debut album's cry for eternal youth, "Soco Amaretto Lime.
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I write this column to let all of you know about what's happening in the world of comics, illustration, art, zines, and anything that is beautiful or that I think you should know about.
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Where NerdCon: Stories is floundering, Green says, is in what should have been its greatest strength: The convention brings together all kinds of mixed media, from traditional panels to zines, puppetry, podcasts and gaming.
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Here's our roundup of some of the best zines available at the Brown Paper Zine Fair: KH is a fashion zine that chronicles the ever-changing street style of black and brown New Yorkers.
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But the filmmakers also show a hopeful infusion of new blood and an opening up to new collecting areas (hip-hop ephemera, zines, comics), new ways of selling and a (somewhat) more diverse demographic.
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As with previous editions, the exhibitors run the gamut from antiquarian booksellers, to limited edition art book presses, gallery-produced publications, artist collectives, and as always, a massive section of zines and DIY publishers.
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Here's the deal: there's a website out there called Rave Archive that, yep, archives a tonne of old rave material, including a huge collection of zines from the heyday of the second summer of love.
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The archive also features a number of creative works, including poetry and art published in zines such as Vanguard, which was put together by LGBTQ youth in San Francisco and features some neat psychedelic covers.
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Oppressed minorities, if they're able to air their true views at all, tend to do so in marginal publications or grassroots pamphlets (think, for example, of the role zines have played in the LGBTQ community).
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Although the New York Art Book Fair is best known for bringing together talented independent publishers and bountiful quantities of exclusive art zines to MoMA PS217, there is another side to Printed Matter's annual occasion.
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As I drove out to see it, I could not suppress the clichés of regrettable high school art projects, misconstrued collages, silly zines, and ubiquitous hands, faces, and ass cheeks pushed up onto Xerox machines.
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Images from the installation and select zines below: Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair will be open to the public June 11 and 12 at Baxter Street at The Camera Club of New York.
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Hey You Comic Bookies, I am Nick Gazin, and this is my column in which I tell you what to buy in the way of comics, zines, art books, and anything I deem aesthetically notable.
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Yet despite the Audre Lorde chapbooks and Black Boy Feelings zines, the Selena posters and signs informing "las mujeres de color" of their 10 percent discount, Yi found that many local women still weren't interested.
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The zines are simultaneously canaries in the coal mine of a protest movement that may be at the edge of state violence, and offer a glimpse of the protestors' very real conditions, fears, and aspirations.
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That's when he became absorbed by Kent's tight-knit punk rock scene and its DIY methodology and aesthetics, manifested not just through music, but also the accompanying art parties, xeroxed zines, and illustrative show flyers.
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That said, with the rise of social media and websites like Bandcamp, the "music label" of choice for nearly every Fed Up band, queercore's labels and zines have perhaps met their digital and spiritual successors.
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A Chicana art historian who received her master's in art history from the University of Texas at San Antonio, Del Toro was a graduate intern at the Getty Research Institute when she became interested in zines.
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It's funny, because even A Portable Model Of and How Memory Works, I had a made a lot of zines as a kid and that was sort of the sensibility that it was this year's issue.
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In addition to his books, zines, and gig posters for punk bands like Speedy Ortiz, Bully, and Creep Highway, the prolific DeForge has worked as a writer and designer on the beloved TV series Adventure Time.
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"The design idea was based on those old zines I saw in England, ones called "PUNCH!" or "DUNK AND PISS" or "COMETBUS" or "GUNT!" or "ROGER MY WIFE!" or "MILKMEN?" or what have you," he said.
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Related: 9 Zines by Black and PoC Artists That You Need to Read Right Now This Musician's Zine is a Chronicle of a Life in the Crowd Submit Your Work to Our DIY Zine-Making Competition
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When I was an adolescent I rebelled against this and started to work with Satanic and sexually explicit imagery—mixing gore with Catholic images in zines and listening to garage, punk rock, jazz, and classical music.
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A New Mexico Museum of Art curator requested copies of one of the zines to include in the exhibition Social and Sublime: Land, Place, and Art, but ultimately, the zine did not appear in the show.
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There is a table where she makes zines and hats — her latest obsession — that hang on her walls, alongside vintage hats, drawings, watercolors and a puppet she made at a puppetry class in the Czech Republic.
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The two girls who were sitting at the table are both in high school, and they're producing these gorgeous zines with tons of stories from other girls their age about feminism, catcalling, creativity, body image, etc.
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The zine's punk roots will show through at booths like Kill Your Idols, but for something more polished, the cheeky photographic zines repped by Lazy Mom, Silent Sound, or Dead Beat Club will do the trick.
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In addition to over 370 booths with every kind of art publication imaginable — from books to glossy magazines to zines — the fair also has a robust series of exhibits, book talks, performances, and celebratory publication launches.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There's no shortage of fairs for artists' books and zines these days, but there's still a need for occasions to showcase the diversity of creative self-publishers and small presses.
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Related: 9 Zines by Black and PoC Artists That You Need to Read Right Now This Musician's Zine is a Chronicle of a Life in the Crowd Submit Your Work to Our DIY Zine-Making Competition
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Los Angeles Zine and Art Book Bazaar This weekend is the new Los Angeles Zine and Art Book Bazaar, or LAZAAB, at MaRS Gallery, where you'll find art books, zines, and merchandise by independent artists and musicians.
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Today, the collection consists of over 10,000 zines and focuses heavily on material created by marginalized communities, with topics as varied as mothers and daughters documenting holidays together to searing political collections about racism in punk rock.
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NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR The entire museum is filled with so many small publishers of art books, zines and other visually appealing codices that in past years I've gotten faint in less than an hour. Sept.
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The fair, open through the weekend, features publishers from 24 countries, each with their own unique brand of books, magazines, DIY zines, and really all the other ephemera classifiable under the 'art book' moniker, and then some.
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On top of standard merchandise, including mugs, sweaters, and enamel pins, A24 has also produced zines a number of its movies, including Bo Burnham's critically acclaimed Eighth Grade and Jonah Hill's skateboarding coming-of-age film mid90s.
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As Bloodroot celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, new fiction and zines pepper the shelves, and the vegetarian menu is alive and shifting, driven by its owners' love for food and their joyful experimentation in the kitchen.
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Now in its third year, the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) cultivates a diverse and inclusive roster showcasing talent from the Bay Area art publishing community and beyond, exhibiting hand-stapled zines alongside limited edition clothbound tomes.
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Notably nomadic across this center-less cultural mish-mash called Los Angeles, the zines-only fest has always set itself apart from standard art book fairs, and is typically scheduled weeks away from Printed Matter's Los Angeles fairs.
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I, at least, wasn't thinking critically about the radical potential of self-publishing, or the capacity for zines to spread political resources, help start movements, or create subcultural communities across long-distances before the internet made that easy.
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Zines on display in the zine portion of the library at the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard College in New York City; Freedman shows the colorful artwork inside of the Think About the Bubbles zine.
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Well Hello There, I'm Nicholas Gazin, VICE's art editor, and this is my weekly column in which I review and discuss books, comics, zines, toys, and anything that I think merits attention for being aesthetically great or awful.
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Zines tend to connect the artist more directly with its intended audience, as opposed to a trade publication or a bespoke edition where the imprint of the publisher or gallery or other institution bodes heavily in that connection.
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Many early fans tended to despise Nurse Chapel, in particular the female fans who essentially created modern fandom—arguably the dominant cultural mode of our time—in the pages of Spockanalia , The Crewman's Log , and other pioneering zines.
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Related: What to See, Hear, and Read at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair 17 Artists, Presses, and Publishers to Know at the New York Art Book Fair This Artist is Distributing Mini Libraries of Zines and Collages
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There, you can find poetry by Joy Harjo and Luci Tapahonso, Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass (a book on Indigenous plant science), and radical leftist texts like the Mary Nardini Gang's Toward the Queerest Insurrection reprinted as zines.
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Intermittent shows throughout the day offer a free class on how to bind your own pamphlet by Small Editions, poetry and creative lit readings from Wonder publishing authors, and comic-writer Nayland Blake talking self-publishing and queer zines.
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So instead I read Hunter S. Thompson and Still Life With Woodpecker and a lot of everything else and started writing little booklets and then undistributed zines, which I could do from behind my boobs, and in my room.
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When I was out distributing my zines, I would go to these little zine shops, like Atomic Books in Baltimore or See Here in New York City, and they had big sections of their zine racks for kink stuff.
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We're also in a golden age of printed matter, and exploring what can be considered a zine, along with the influence that zines have had on the world of photography to this day, is something I find immensely interesting.
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The Leica Store Miami, 73 Miracle Mile Coral Gables Thursday, December 1 3:00 PM: Book signing for Only Human, a collaboration between Freedman, 8-Ball Zines, and Printed Matter that collects 40 years of the photographer's best images.
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But the Boy's Club books themselves, which feature four best buds as they smoke, drink, puke, and party their way through life, started in the form of small-run zines, and have gone on to achieve immense underground success.
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This year they were invited to take part, and they brought prints, posters, and zines by artists and activists who have created work about black narratives and identities, or that focus on the recent police violence against black people.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Dating back to the photocopied and stapled underground periodicals of the 1960s and '70s, zines have long offered an alternative to the mainstream press, providing an outlet for a diverse spectrum of underrepresented voices.
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Recently, NYPL has focused on zines connected to social justice, with recent additions to their Alternative Press and Zine Collection currently on view in Protests in Print, installed in the DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
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When Jenna Freedman was studying for her master's in library science at the University of South Florida, she had little experience with the wide-ranging scope of the art form, having only experimented with zines a bit in the '90s.
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That is, unless, Tacoma is just continuing Gone Home's tradition of accidentally duping gamers into thinking it's some haunted house genre fiction when it's in fact another self-discovery tale told through space-zines, space-faxes and space-Pizza Hut receipts.
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Inspired by the New York Tech Zine Fair, Tiny Tech Zines is a new zine fair that examines the weaknesses of the industry, while exploring ways that digital innovation can be harnessed by those communities that have been heretofore underserved.
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Immortalized in countless brand campaigns, books, zines, gallery exhibits, and most famously, the Larry Clark film, Kids, written by a young Harmony Korine, the last life of pre-Giuliani New York street culture was originally documented by Mel Stones and High.
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Posters, flyers, paper invitations, postcards, zines, objets d'art, and other ephemera represented a populist impulse: reach the masses and give them a taste of what was to come—something they could keep and collect without having to spend a dime.
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Free and open to the public, Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists' books, art catalogues, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by over 290012 international presses, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over 20 countries.
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When I was around, there were a lot women involved in the scene, but they did zines, and other aspects of what makes the scene, but ultimately when talking about the music scene, the band is the center point, right?
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"Growing up, magazines always seemed so far away to me, it was a different world in which only the most elite were allowed into," says Chloe Sheppard, a photographer who both produces and contributes to zines in the UK and overseas.
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In contrast to the more overtly contentious events of GDC 2018, GDC 2019 felt more united, with a proliferation of pro-unionization materials throughout the event (including some brand-new Game Workers Unite zines) as well as the aforementioned scheduled panels.
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My goal with workshops is by the end of it people have a tangible result—a zine they can take home—[and they] feel happy that they got to contribute something, [and have] the realization that zines are for everyone.
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Beyond the clothing, at every turn, some small detail beckons, whether it's the wall of zines or the vintage Polo ephemera or the occasional piece of art, like the basketball reskinned in Louis Vuitton logo denim ($1,200) by Super Kreep (a.k.a.
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Most of the tropes we associate with modern fan communities, like fanfiction, letter-writing campaigns, zines, conventions, and infighting entered the American consciousness in the '20173s, thanks to the female audience of a different star-based sci-fi franchise: Star Trek.
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In the early aughts, underground online zines like Zero for Owned — ZF0 for short — emerged as sites for hackers to detail how they broke into the systems of prominent security professionals and fellow hackers to shame them for overstating their skills.
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When: September 16–18 Where: MoMA PS1 (22–25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens) Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair is an annual sprawl of the printed word, from scrappy zines to rare editions of avant-garde art books.
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The zines at Printed Matter are under glass, so their covers are displayed as capsules in time, referencing interviews with bands that haven't existed in decades, and political situations that seem to keep repeating no matter how much time goes by.
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Related: Dual Shows Expose AIDS' Continued Impact on American Culture Kia Labeija Tracks The Influence of HIV/AIDS on Contemporary Art 9 Zines by Black and PoC Artists That you Need To Read Right Now Preserving the Legacy of Artists Taken by AIDS
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A lot of those extra listings seemed to have come from bands, distributors, or zines located in originally underrepresented states like Wyoming (see Templeman above) or Rhode Island, as well as countries like Yugoslavia and Argentina (there are a load of Argentina listings).
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Though the women-fronted punk rock movement of the early '19753s is often thought of as the time when zine culture thrived, the reality is that zines have long been a way for marginalized communities to record their stories, spread information, and organize.
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Put together by letter writing and tape trading an issue could take up to a year to complete but in a time before the internet zines like Death Rites acted as a community for like minded metal heads to share music and info.
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"When this album comes out, gossip blogs will scour the lyrics for the men they can attribute to each song, as if the inspiration for music is as simple and basic as a paternity test," she wrote in her Reputation companion zines.
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All but one, that is, which had long tantalized at least one non-casual fan: apart from the ears and the gull-wing eyebrows, the Spock who served under Captain Pike was nothing like the Spock who later launched a thousand zines.
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Among them will be texts by black women authors at the Free Black Women's Library; zines from a trio of African American metalheads, Blkgrlswurld; a photo-booth set up by Kalen Na'il Roach; and work by Hyperallergic contributor and painter Anthony Cudahy.
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Here are five of the dirtiest discoveries we could find: Singapore-based print and publishing studio Knuckles & Notch brought a handful of posters and zines by illustrator Djohan Hanapi, whose recent work includes electrifying pop drawings and erotic Disney princesses in 3D.
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This is extraordinary when you consider fursuits have not always been a part of the fandom, which sprouted out of underground comic and zine circles in the '60s and '70s and coalesced in the '80s, with furries initially circulating zines and letters.
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Members of the Greater Chaco Coalition, a network of Native organizations and public lands advocates fighting fracking near Chaco Canyon, had shared their stories with the students and shown them around the landscape, and the organization was also helping to circulate the zines.
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Q. & A. In 2015, Jessica Hopper published "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic," which gathered reviews, profiles and broader cultural musings that Hopper had written for a wide variety of zines, alternative weeklies and mainstream music publications.
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Many of the exhibitions are drawn from members' own collections, which include incunabula (books from the first half-century after the introduction of movable type in Europe around 1872) and fine bindings, but also science fiction, zines, punk rock ephemera, bookmarks, valentines.
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The duo behind the image, Josie Keefe and Phyllis Ma, both 31, have made photographs, zines and stop-motion videos together since 2014 under the name Lazy Mom — an invocation of the cultural boogeyman of the "bad mother" who neglects her children.
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Raised with an unprecedented expectation of success and the belief that they would be able to "do it all," the women who grew up making mix tapes and mailing zines now must contend with the pursuit of perfection across multiple social networking platforms.
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The large, flat red book feels like a cross between an encyclopedia and a compendium of zines: It has information about feminist health collectives, credit unions, arts organizations, union organizing, woman-made clothing, and legal advocacy groups to help women obtain affordable divorces.
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Related: Inner City Life Meets Fashion in These Video Collages 9 Zines by Black and PoC Artists That You Need to Read Right Now An Artist Puts His Family Back Together with Collaged Photos Intimate Photos Open a Window into Black Domestic Life
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To some degree, the underground press subsisted in the zines and underground comix of the '70s, much as the pulp magazines, destroyed by government censorship in the mid-50s had persisted in the graphic, salacious, and provocative ravings of the '60s underground press.
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When: Saturday, October 1, 12–6:30pm Where: Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Avenue, Bushwick) With the NY Art Book Fair already two weeks behind us, you should be recuperated and ready to dig into zines, comics, and small press publications once again.
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Zurich-based Coldwind told Motherboard he was inspired by the kind of zines he used to read while learning to be a programmer, like Bajtek, a popular Polish magazine in the 80s and 90s that offered computer science tips and tricks to aspiring tinkerers.
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The entrance passes through a quirky bodega (its hours are as erratic as everything else in Sachs World) that offers for sale such souvenirs as the phony Swiss passport, a deck of Sachs-designed playing cards and assorted zines that the studio puts out.
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While the aesthetic of 90s feminist zines is now an iconic set of visual codes all of its own, flicking through their pages—many of which you can see at the Somerset House exhibition—there's a sense that visual appeal wasn't of top priority.
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When: Sunday, March 6, 11am–13pm Where: The Majestic Downtown (650 South Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles) Since at least the 1970s, zines have been the quintessential form of DIY expression, open to anyone with access to a photocopier, stapler, and a bit of imagination.
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There definitely is something to be said for using our hands, glue sticks, and scissors to make something that stands in direct contrast to staring at a computer screen all day, but that's not what pushed me to make zines in the first place.
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Several of the zines aggregate necessary information ranging from basic first aid and tips on how to avoid incapacitation from teargas and pepper spray — like Yan YU's Chinese-language guide Save Hong Kong Ourselves that belies its subject with cheerful pink and green illustrations.
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Founded by artist Devin N. Morris and organized by 30093 Dot Zine, the fair's 2018 edition boasts 23 exhibitors ranging from individual artists to indie publishing outfits like Homie House Press and Endless Editions, Baltimore's Waller Gallery, and zines like La Liga Zine and Townies.
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You can pass zines around and they're easy to duplicate, and re-blogging on Tumblr was like giving someone a zine or an image and they put it in their collection, and two other people see it there and they recontextualize it, reaggregate it.
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They envisioned a place where people from different professional fields and social realms could have access to novel content ranging from theoretical writings by important critics and philosophers to publications and recordings by artist collectives, zines, and mail art from all over the world.
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It would be very easy for the work of people like Swanzy and Wing to be lost if it wasn't for historians like Del Toro and librarians like Freedman, whose love for zines comes from a place of wanting to preserve and center alternative historical narratives.
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" By the time distant computers made their first connections in 1969, fans, especially women, were "remixing television footage to create their own fanvids, writing and editing their own zines, creating elaborate costumes, singing original folk songs, and painting images, all inspired by their favorite television series.
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Mr. Loeb quickly became a sort of diplomat, welcoming others and passing out zines he had created titled "A People's Guide to Occupying the RNC," which included a map of Cleveland along with telephone numbers for the mayor's office and the National Lawyers Guild of Ohio.
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Neely got his start making comic zines, but he didn't burst onto the scene in a huge way until 2003, when he released Wizard People, Dear Reader, a recorded narration meant to be listened to alongside a queued up, muted Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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In France in the 246s, "Graphzines" — sort of the like Fort Thunder-style zines later produced in the United States in the underground comix communities of Providence, Rhode Island, and elsewhere — responded to the contemporary punk-rock movement and earlier underground free press movements of the '60s.
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SM: I think this question is actually a tricky one — I know it seems like zines had their heyday in the '90s with Riot Grrrl and have had a sudden resurgence recently, and it's easy to see this as a direct response to our increasingly digitized world.
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Finally, take in some big news out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at least if you're into collage, zines and other artistic pursuits devoted to repurposed content: The museum has made available 375,000 hi-res images that exist in the public domain, free of charge.
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Both sites have showcased the unique range of Simpsons zines being made out there, and now Bell has got in on the act himself with his website called Homage to Homer, a collection of real-life fancy dress costumes in honor of the big man himself.
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Adult responsibility growing visible on the horizon, my friends and I paced the city nightly on our bikes, worked as little as we could at scammy jobs, and put all our love, ambition and frenzy into our zines, our bad bands, shared ideals, and ill-attended DJ nights.
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She mentions José Guadalupe Posada, who created La Catrina from 1910 to 1913 — a collection of zinc-etched lithographs that critiqued Mexicans who adopted European aristocratic traditions and aspired to a European lifestyle, and that paved the way for the countercultural role of zines that we see today.
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Ms Saunders is invigorated by the new sprouts of energy and resistance after centuries of silence—the Cornish-speaking pub meet-ups; the Cornish-language zines and Wikipedia pages; the young people learning the language by themselves after the government funding for the Cornish language was cut in 2016.
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In his retrospective, Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work, currently on view at the New Museum, the range of work on display is tantalizingly diverse, from monochromatic pulp zines from 70s Los Angeles' underground punk scene to his larger, vibrant paintings of the late 90s and 2000s.
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There is Stacy Horn, founder of ECHO, a bulletin-board system local to New York City (still active, in 2018), and Jaime Levy, who published zines on floppy discs, hosted a series of parties called CyberSlacker, and edited WORD, one of the first magazines on the early web.
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The Asia Art Archive, a transnational nonprofit devoted to collecting materials about the most recent art from Asia, has assembled 13 such zines, all of which have been produced since early June, and the vast majority of which are created by artists and collectives operating in Hong Kong.
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Documentation features heavily in several other zines including the anonymously-produced, Documents of a Protest, which presents opinionated takes on the troubled "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement that has allowed for Hong Kong's unusual independence from China, as well as the collectivism and solidarity networks engendered by protest.
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For its second edition, taking place this Saturday, participants include: the itinerant, Southeast Queens-based library and bookshop J. Expressions; the zines and comix series Homos in Herstory; the artist-centric curatorial and publishing project Endless Editions; and the entertaining yet practical educational pamphlet series Brain Washing From Phone Towers.
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But while protests and riots raged, and the nation's presidency changed hands three times in 10 days, a generation of Argentine computer fanatics, made resourceful by unstable and challenging economic and social circumstances, was busy learning to program, publishing cheeky technical e-zines, and gearing up to become elite hackers.
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"We toured everywhere, which is incredible for a punk band of our size because this was at a time where there was no Internet, and the music scene was very much word-of-mouth and fan zines; you booked tours by sending letters," Mosshart said in a 2016 Lenny Letter interview.
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The scope of many of the works spans far beyond the tiny truck moving through Los Angeles, whether via YERBAMALA COLLECTIVE's zines — which traverse the internet, subway cars, and appear on protest placards — or Dynasty Handbag's tutorial, filmed days after the 2016 election, which has a life of its own online.
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The last five years have seen a new era of female and queer-led publishing being ushered in, with my own publication Polyester just one of the many, many new zines blending high production value with feminist ideologies, with an aim to fill the vapid void women's publishing had become.
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I spoke with Denisse Juliana Jimenez and Yovanna Roa-Reyes, who told me that as a group, they feel strongly about feminism and inclusivity for women of color, and through their zines, they hope to feature the voices of women of color, particularly Latinx women, who are their main consumers.
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"For a lot of us, monetary support is what's most immediately important, buying books and zines by queer and trans authors to help educate yourself and contribute to the well-being of writers who need their work to sell so that they can keep making a living," Dark told Vox.
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He has intrigued and befuddled a growing audience since the late nineteen-seventies, when he emerged, in Hermosa Beach, California, as a bookish surfer who made flyers and album covers for the punk band Black Flag (his older brother Greg Ginn was the founder and guitarist) and a flurry of zines.
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Beyond Poland, Radziszewski looked at the different queer scenes in Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, mainly during the 1980s, and traced and compared cruising areas, gay nude beaches, zines portraying the lives of gay men, and the first reactions to the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic.
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You'll also have the chance to peruse plenty of printed projects, including queer zines from the vast collection of Shelley Fox Aarons and Phil Aarons, the president of Printed Matter's board, and multiple issues of MATTE Magazine, which Leifheit began in 2010 as a way to highlight individual artists and queer life.
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Since the early 2010s, DIY feminist zines like Polyester have presented a more radical and inclusive vision of beauty; a plural vision that says boo to the ghosts of fat-shaming, femme-shaming, transphobia, racism, and a squeamishness about bodily functions like periods and skin-deep issues like acne and stretch marks.
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He'd spent a lot of that year touring and documenting friends' bands, and when he got back home to the East Village, he had the idea to curate a series of zines by artists he liked, pair them with bands he liked, and throw a release party and performance at a neighborhood bar.
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" In an equally so L.A. confession, Ashley says that the zines, tinctures and teas that they feature in the store are all from Homestead Apothecary in Oakland, adding, "We love that they are from California and everything in their shop pays homage to the plants and supporting local herbalists, farmers and artists.
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Faculty Washington University's faculty specialize in children's books, editorial illustration, cultural theory, graphic novels, zines, typography, and social practice: John Hendrix (chair), Chrissi Cowhey, D.B. Dowd, Jonathan Hanahan, Audra Hubbell, Heidi Kolk, Rebecca Leffell Koren, Shreyas R Krishnan, Skye Lacerte, Penina Acayo Laker, Rebecca Leffell Koren, Frank Oros, Jeff Pike, and Dan Zettwoch.
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Currently I have the new Penguin Classics collection of Richard Matheson short stories, some zines of very funny essays by the comedian April Richardson that I got in the mail, and the newly reissued crime novel "Breakout," featuring the great, emotionless thief, Parker, which is also what I'm reading on my phone.
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When, in college, a spirited English teaching assistant (who once canceled class for the week to attend a riot-grrrl punk reunion show in Washington) introduced me to zines and the early feminist publishing movement of the 1990s, I felt as if I had been given a lifeline to the outside world.
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Among the photocopied zines, limited-edition monographs, and antiquarian offerings, some of the highlights weren't books at all, but objects that expanded upon the idea of what books can provide: an affordable means to experience and collect art, democratizing it in the same way that the printing press democratized information almost 600 years ago.
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Aside from these zines, other campaigns include the FreedomHKG newspaper advertisements, the #eye4HK hashtag which flooded social media feeds with people covering one eye in solidarity with a young protestor who was shot in her eye (see Ai Weiwei's Instagram feed), and an explainer of ways to support Hong Kong from near and far.
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While books and zines regularly line the space's walls and shelves, BGSQD is also currently hosting Coney Island Babies: Visual Artists from the Brooklyn Drag Scene, an exhibition featuring work from artists who are also involved in Brooklyn's avant-garde drag scene — some are performers, some are designers, musicians, all of the above, and more.
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The year 1985 saw the first issue of Bruce LaBruce and G. B. Jones's influential queer zine J. D.s, which inspired the creation of further zines, festivals, and collectives in punk enclaves from London to New York to San Francisco, the latter of which would go on to become the scene's mecca in the 90s.
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BABZ isn't alone in emphasizing small presses and independent publishers and makers, but many other book fairs section off their exhibitors; Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, for example, has grown in size so much that it places the zines in an outdoor tent, the small presses in another room, and the vanity presses in yet another.
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There was also the lyric video, a Good Morning America music video teaser, a UPS partnership, snake-themed merchandise, an MTV VMA premiere of the music video, two Target zines, and a Ticketmaster collaboration that encourages fans to buy merchandise and preorder the album in an effort to get tickets to a not-yet-announced tour.
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Over the past two decades, historians and librarians have been archiving zines in the desire to expand our understanding of the medium, in spaces like the Main Zine Collection in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library, San Francisco Public Library's Little Maga/Zine Collection, the Library Workers Zine Collection at the iSchool Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and many more.
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"Zines such as But You Don't Look Sick: A Zine About Invisible Illnesses and Disabilities in the Workplace — a compilation zine from Queer Anxiety Babiez Distro — might not have the medical perspective that a book on the subject would likely provide, but it does provide some moral support or sense of belonging for anyone reading it," said LaBeaf.
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In addition to Token's own designs, a curated selection of the Boalts' favorite things are on offer: art books and zines by Dashwood Books sit alongside leather chokers and pink belts by the Brooklyn label Maximum Henry; and the aroma of cold-brew iced coffee by Luft and sounds of L.A. Club Resource round out the ambience of surfer street cool.
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On opening night, the books for sale ranged from higher priced full-color monographs such as Camille Henrot: Elephant Child and Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson 1954–1994 to DIY zines like Liz Barr's I'm literally obsessed with Kim Kardashian (2015) and more political books like Black Transparency The Right to Know in the Age of Mass Surveillance.
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I think the reason they seem to have a resurgence is that these zinesters have new platforms (like Instagram or Tumblr or Twitter) to talk about zine-making or even promote their zines, which makes it seem a whole lot more visible, and then other kinds of media start picking up the "zine trend" as if it's a brand new thing.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Ben Jones is a rare breed of artist who isn't content to work in one or two mediums; describing his output requires list-making: comics, digital art, zines, drawings, paintings, sculpture, video, prints, animation, design, music, as well as work that combines two or more of these to produce a third genre, such as video paintings.
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That solidarity and representation is something that visitors to Long Beach Public Library can expect to find among its zines, with a vast collection of brilliant and eclectic works like Roots: Asian American Movements in Los Angeles 1968-1980s, the compilation zine based on the Chinese American Museum's exhibition of the same name, or Refugee Art Project, which was created through workshops at Australia's Villawood Detention Centre.
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The space doesn't look like a typical art exhibition or even a studio housing works-in-progress, and when I first arrived, to attend "People Like Us," a conversation between DinéYazhi´ and the multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson, attendees were drinking "Indian Love" tea from mugs that read "RESPECT INDIGENOUS UPRISING," and flipping through some of the books and zines displayed in the infoshop set up by DinéYazhi´.
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Along with Ika Vantiani, one of the first female zine writers in the country, Taarna is also a member of a prominent female empowerment group in Indonesia called Kolektif Betina, Broadly spoke with Taarna about her introduction to zines, her involvement in Indonesia's underground scene, and what she prepared for as one of the speakers of FemFest 2017—an event in Jakarta that discusses gender, sexuality, and feminist issues.
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These include Cristina Victor's "100 Days of Action Resistance Flag" (2017), a direct response to Trump's 100-day plan; posters designed by Paul Chan and Badlands Unlimited that are modeled on the hate speech of the Westboro Baptist Church, repurposed into anti-Trump slogans; and the YERBAMALA COLLECTIVE, an "anonymous online group of antifascist witches" who fuse the speed and reach of the internet with old-school analog publishing in their series of defiant zines that are also available for download as PDFs.
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Opinion Columnist Since at least the middle of the Obama era, all the energy and activity and creativity in the Democratic coalition has been with people pushing the party away from any kind of centrism — with the journals and zines that have resuscitated something they call socialism, with the activists trying to impose the college-campus style of cultural liberalism on the wider country (or at least the wider internet), with the feminists and intersectional types and Bernie Bros who clash and feud and sometimes absolutely hate one another, but still share a common "to the left, march" purpose.
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