Zines
Photocopied and self-distributed work, and the distros that carried it.
Part of Underground Comics
23 moments in this segment.
- - Swarte and Veerkamp. Two Dutch cartoonists together, both formed by the small-press and self-published end of the trade.
- - Anti Gravity Room Alternative Press Expo Episode February 1997. A Canadian pop culture programme devotes an episode to the Alternative Press Expo, moving between small-press tables and the self-publishers working them.
- - Mykel in ZINED documentary 1997. Mykel Board appears in excerpts from ZINED!, a documentary on the self-publishing networks of mail-order distros and photocopied issues that ran through the 1990s.
- - Mark Richardson at Quimby's Bookstore. Pitchfork managing editor Mark Richardson speaks at Quimby's in Chicago about his 33 1/3 volume on the Flaming Lips album Zaireeka, followed by an attempt to start the record's four separate CDs at once so they play simultaneously in the room.
- - Bristol Zine Scene: All About Making Zines. Bristol Comic and Zine Fair organiser Simon Moreton and Nocturnal Mag founder Emma Blake Morsi explain how to assemble a zine from scratch, from layout to printing to enlisting friends, all of it shot on phones.
- - Nimio takes the prize. The Valencian fanzine Nimio receives the 2016 award for best fanzine at the Barcelona comics fair.
- - A graphzine collection. Privately held graphzines from Japan, France, Spain, Norway and the United States, the picture-led end of zine publishing.
- - Zines at MoRUS. Visitors read through the local zine holdings displayed at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in New York.
- - Horrocks at Wellington Zinefest. The New Zealand author of Hicksville holds a copy of his comic Darkest Dungeon at the 2018 festival.
- - Power Talk with Athena Distinguished Fellow Liza Donnelly. Liza Donnelly, cartoonist for The New Yorker and resident cartoonist at CBS News, speaks at Barnard College about visual journalism, freedom of expression and drawing on women's rights, work she has carried out as a US State Department cultural envoy.
- - ✷ STUDIO VLOG ✷ PREP FOR & TABLIN' AT THE ZINE FAIR!. An illustrator documents making zines, stickers and prints and then tabling with them at the Other Worlds Zine Fair in Sydney. Preparation at the desk takes up the first half, the stall and the crowd the second.
- - Creativity, History, and Zines: A Conversation with Archivists. Archivists from across North Carolina discuss how zines enter library collections, what cataloguing them requires, and the record they preserve of people writing outside commercial publishing.
- - Zine Fair! Making zines & preparing for the festival. An artist folds, prints and assembles zines at her desk in preparation for a zine festival in Melbourne where she was tabling. The whole making process is shown from first sketches to finished copies.
- - Rich Dana Talks About Cheap Copies at Zine Club Chicago Online. Rich Dana demonstrates the duplication methods behind his book Cheap Copies, covering hectography, mimeography and spirit duplication, the technologies zine makers used before photocopiers and computers.
- - South London Comic and Zine Fair/Avery Hill Publishing present: Publishing vs Self-publishing!. A panel at the South London Comic and Zine Fair sets publisher-backed work against self-publishing, with cartoonists Isabel Greenberg, Shazleen Khan, Lord Hurk and Zhenyi Zheng describing how each route affected their books.
- - Zine Club Chicago Online: The Business of DIY with Vichcraft (Jenna Blazevich). Jenna Blazevich of Vichcraft discusses turning a chainstitching and printing practice into a business, recorded at a Zine Club Chicago meeting held at Quimby's.
- - Mastering The Art Of Zine Making: My Journey, 6 Zines, And 7 Insider Tips For Selling At a Zine Fair. A Melbourne illustrator assembles her first six zines, cutting and pasting collage pages for the photocopier and hand folding and binding them, then scanning sketchbooks and cleaning the files for a print service. She then tables at a local zine fair and sets out seven practical tips for making and selling.
- - All About Zines. A workshop introducing zines as cheap self-published booklets of writing, collage, drawing and photography, sketching their history and then folding a single-sheet zine on camera. Ideas for zine swaps and classroom zine libraries follow.
- - Hot Off the Press. An outdoor book and zine fair run by Fantagraphics on the pavements around its Georgetown store.
- - Oceanside Zine Fair. A walkthrough of the Oceanside Zine Fair from a tabler's point of view, moving between stalls and showing the printed matter each vendor brought. Table setup and the other sellers on the floor make up most of what is on screen.
- - Zine rack in Ithaca. Zines and small publications shelved in a second-hand bookshop, the retail channel that keeps micro-editions circulating.
- - Riot Grrrl documentary. A student made documentary on Riot Grrrl, covering the punk scene it grew out of, the self-published zines that carried it, criticism of the movement's whiteness, and interviews about how it is carried on now.
- - A Brief History of Zines. Shay Mirk walks through the American history of self-publishing that produced zines, then sets the audience to folding one from a template.