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A zine (an abbreviation of the word fanzine, or magazine; pronounced [ziːn], "zeen") is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. A fanzine (see also Zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre for the pleasure To publish is to make content Publicly known. The term is most frequently applied to the distribution of text or images on paper or to the placing of content More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier on a variety of colored paper stock. Self-publishing is the Publishing of Books and other media by the Authors of those works rather than by established Third-party

A popular definition includes that circulation must be 5,000 or less and the intention of the publication is not primarily to raise a profit.

Zines are written in a variety of formats, from computer-printed text to comics to handwritten text (an example being Cometbus). Cometbus is a punk Zine started in Berkeley California in 1983 by Aaron Elliott. Print remains the most popular zine format, usually photo-copied with a small circulation. Topics covered are broad, including fanfiction, politics, art and design, ephemera, personal journals, social theory, single topic obsession, or sexual content far enough outside of the mainstream to be prohibitive of inclusion in more traditional media. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions Mainstream is generally the common current of Thought of the Majority. "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" The time and materials necessary to create a zine are seldom matched by revenue from sale of zines. Small circulation zines are often not explicitly copyrighted and there is a strong belief among many zine creators that the material within should be freely distributed. Copyright is a legal concept enacted by Governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship Exclusive rights to control its distribution usually for In recent years a number of photocopied zines have risen to prominence or professional status and have found wide bookstore and online distribution. Highly notable among these are Giant Robot, Dazed & Confused, Bust, Fever Zine and Maximum RocknRoll. Giant Robot is a bi-monthly Magazine of Asian and Asian American popular culture founded by Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong in 1994 Dazed & Confused is a British style magazine set up in 1992 and published monthly BUST is an United States -based Feminist Magazine that addresses a variety of young women's interests including Celebrity interviews Fever Zine is a popular quarterly Zine based in London, United Kingdom.

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History

Since the invention of the printing press (if not before), dissidents and marginalized citizens have published their own opinions in leaflet and pamphlet form. A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth thereby transferring an image Thomas Paine published an exceptionally popular pamphlet titled "Common Sense" that led to insurrectionary revolution. Thomas Paine (January 29 1737 &ndash June 8 1809 was an English Pamphleteer, Revolutionary, radical, Inventor, and Intellectual Common Sense was a Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Paine is considered to be a significant early independent publisher and a zinester in his own right, but then, the mass media as we now know it did not exist. A zine (an abbreviation of the word Fanzine, or magazine ziːn "zeen" is most commonly a small circulation non-commercial Publication "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" A countless number of obscure and famous literary figures would self-publish at some time or another, sometimes as children (often writing out copies by hand), sometimes as adults.

The exact origins of the name "zine" and the moment when the word was first used are controversial. In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin also started a literary magazine for psychiatric patients at a Pennsylvania hospital, which was distributed amongst the patients and hospital staff. Benjamin Franklin ( April 17 1790 was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. This could be considered the first zine, since it captures the essence of the philosophy and meaning of zines. The concept of zines clearly had an ancestor in the amateur press movement (a major preoccupation of H. P. Lovecraft), which would in its turn cross-pollinate with the subculture of science fiction fandom in the 1930s. An Amateur Press Association or APA is a group of people who produce individual pages or Magazines that are sent to a Central Mailer for collation and distribution to all Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy For the term in biology see Subculture (biology. For the song by New Order see Sub-culture (song. Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community of people actively interested in Science fiction and Fantasy literature, and in contact with one another The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression.

During and after the depression, editors of "pulp" SF magazines became increasingly frustrated with letters detailing the impossibilities of their science fiction stories. Over time they began to publish these overly-scrutinizing letters, complete with their return addresses. This caused these fans to begin writing to each other, now complete with a mailing list for their own science fiction fanzines.

Fanzines enabled fans to write not only about science fiction but about fandom itself and, in soi dissant perzine (i. Perzines are a genre of Zines; the "per" meaning "personal" e. personal zine), about themselves. As the Damien Broderick novel Transmitters (1984) shows, unlike other, isolated, self-publishers, the more "fannish" (fandom-oriented) fanzine publishers had a shared sensibility and at least as much interest in their relationships between fans as in the literature that inspired it. Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian Science fiction and Popular science writer Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar)

The punk zines that emerged as part of the punk movement in the late 1970s. A punk zine (or punkzine) is a Zine devoted to punk culture most often Punk rock music bands or the DIY punk ethic. The punk subculture is based around Punk rock. It emerged from the larger Rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. These started in the UK and the U. S. A. and by March 1977 had spread to other countries such as Ireland. [1] Cheap photocopying had made it easier than ever for anyone who could make a band flyer to make a zine. A photocopier (or copier is a machine that makes Paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply

During the 1980s and onwards, Factsheet Five (the name came from a short story by John Brunner), originally published by Mike Gunderloy and now defunct, catalogued and reviewed any zine or small press creation sent to it, along with their mailing addresses. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Factsheet Five was a periodical consisting almost exclusively of short reviews of privately produced printed matter along with contact details of the editors and publishers John Kilian Houston Brunner ( September 24, 1934 &ndash August 26, 1995) was a prolific British author of Science fiction In doing so, it formed a networking point for zine creators and readers (usually the same people). The concept of zine as an art form distinct from fanzine and of the "zinesters" as member of their own subculture, had emerged. Zines of this era ranged from perzines of all varieties to those which covered an assortment of different and obscure topics which web sites (such as Wikipedia) might cover today but for which no large audience existed in the pre-internet era. ***************************************************************************************** * *

The early 1990s riot grrrl scene encouraged an explosion of zines of a more raw and explicit, more confrontational and definitely more gender-balanced (until this time, males tended to make up the majority of zinesters) nature. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Riot grrrl was an underground Feminist punk movement that started in the early 1990s and is often associated with Third-wave feminism (it Following this, zines enjoyed a brief period of attention from conventional media and a number of zines were collected and published in book form.

Zines faded from public awareness in the late 1990s. It can be argued that this was the natural course of a declining fad, though it can also be stated with some justification that the sudden growth of the internet, and the ability of private web-pages to fulfill much the same role of personal expression, was a stronger contributor to their pop culture expiration. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — Indeed, many zines were transformed into websites, such as Boingboing. Boing Boing (originally bOING bOING) is a publishing entity first established as a Magazine, later becoming a group blog.

After 1997, now out of the limelight, zines have been adopted by those particularly attached to the print medium; for artistic expressions not replicable on a computer, functional purposes (a zine is innately more portable than a computer), or for subcultural reasons.

Zines continue to be popular. Currently "zines" are important to the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) movement. The DIY ethic ( Do it yourself ethic refers to the ethic of being self-reliant by completing tasks oneself as opposed to having others who are likely more experienced complete Recently galvanizing social issues such as globalization, environmentalism, media conglomeration, American imperialism and consumerism have been addressed within the pages of zines. Globalization (or globalisation) in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomena into global ones Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and Social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. Imperialism has two meanings one describing an action and the other describing an attitude Consumerism is the equation of personal Happiness with the purchase of material possessions and consumption. Not all zines endorse any particular ideology. An ideology is a set of beliefs aims and Ideas especially in politics Current trends are easing back towards obsessive fan culture about a specific topic as the personal zines are starting to dwindle in numbers, replaced primarily by blogging. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of

Distribution and circulation

Zines are sold through many different outlets, from zine symposiums and publishing fairs to record stores, book stores, at concerts, independent media outlets, zine 'distros' and via mail order. They are also sold online either via websites or social networking profiles.

Zines which are distributed for free are either traded directly between zinesters or given away at the outlets mentioned.

Webzines are to be found in many places on the Internet. An online magazine is a Magazine that is delivered in an electronic form

Distributors

Zines are most often obtained through mailorder distributors. There are many cataloged and online based mailorder distros for zines. Some of the longer running and more stable operations include Last Gasp in San Francisco, Parcell Press in Richmond, VA, Microcosm Publishing in Bloomington, IN, Loop Distro in Chicago, Great Worm Express Distribution in Toronto, and in the UK All That Glitters in Nottingham, and CornDog Publishing in Ipswich. Microcosm Publishing is an independent Publisher and Distributor based in Portland Oregon and Bloomington Indiana. Bloomington is a city and the County seat of Monroe County in the south central region of the U Zine distros often have websites which you can place orders on. Because these are small scale DIY projects run by an individual or small group, they often close after only a short time of operation. Those that have been around the longest are often the most dependable.

Bookstores

Several bookstores stock zines. Notable examples include Cafe Royal in the UKSticky in Melbourne; Reading Frenzy in Portland; Needles and Pens in San Francisco; Quimby's in Chicago; Mac's Backs Paperbacks in Cleveland, OH; Arise Books in Minneapolis; Boxcar Books in Bloomington, IN; Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia; Civic Media Center in Gainesville, FL; Bluestockings in NYC; Five in Charleston, SC; Brian MacKenzie Infoshop in Washington, DC; and Book Beat & Co. Boxcar Books is a Non-profit, cooperatively-run Bookstore located in Bloomington Indiana. The Civic Media Center ( CMC) is an alternative Library and reading room in Gainesville, Florida, United States. in Oklahoma City, OK.

Libraries

Many major libraries carry zines and other small press publications, usually ones that are relevant to a local or special interest section. A library is a collection of information sources resources and services and the structure in which it is housed it is organized for use and maintained by a public body an institution Three major US examples are the Salt Lake City Public Library, Multnomah County Library in Portland, and the San Francisco Public Library. Multnomah County Library is a Public library system that serves the entire population of Multnomah County Oregon, United States. There is also a moderate sized collection at the Ypsilanti District Library in Michigan. Furthermore, zine collections may be housed within a university library, usually in the Special Collections Department. A university is an institution of Higher education and Research, which grants Academic degrees in a variety of subjects US university libraries with zine collections include:

In the United states there are about 10 public libraries that have zine collections, but more public libraries are adopting these collections, using the models of the Salt Lake City Public Library, Independent Publishing Resource Center, and Barnard College; all of which are available for library consulting. The New York State Library is part of the New York State Education Department. Albany is the Capital of the State of New York and the County seat of Albany County. Sarah Dyer is a Comic book writer and artist with roots in the zine movement of the late eighties and early nineties

In the UK a special collection is held at the London Met Women's Library.

There also exist libraries devoted entirely to zine production and/or archiving. Examples in the United States are:

In Canada, there are:

In Australia there are:

Zine events

In the United States, there are many high-profile annual events, such as:

In Canada, the largest annual event is Canzine in Toronto and Vancouver, organized by the publishers of Broken Pencil. Expozine is also held annually in Montréal, and the North of Nowhere (NoN) Expo is held in Edmonton.

In the United Kingdom, there are:

In Australia there is:

In Europe there is the Zinefest Mülheim in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Zines in fiction

The main character of a Canadian television show produced by the CBC called Our Hero, Kale Stiglic (Cara Pifko) created her own zine. Our Hero is a critically acclaimed television show on the CBC from 2000 to 2002 Cara Pifko (born March 15, 1976 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress known primarily for her work on television shows produced

Damien Broderick's novel Transmitters follows a small group of Australian science fiction fans through their lives over several decades. Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian Science fiction and Popular science writer Pastiches of fanzine writing (from fictitious fanzines) form some of the text of the novel. The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic Genre.

Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.

In the novel Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger, the main character John begins writing a zine called Bananafish after reading other people's zines he found at Tower Records. One of these zines is written by a girl named Marisol who writes a zine called Escape Velocity. After reading her zine, John decides to meet her and their friendship grows from there.

Lunch Money, a children's book by Andrew Clements, has sixth-grader Greg Kenton creating and selling mini comic books, as a way to make money, which leads to one of his classmates making her own publication.

In the Nickelodeon cartoon show Rocket Power, one of main cast characters, Reggie, publishes her own zine, which she uses to expose embarrassing dirt on her brother, Otto and friend, Twister. Rocket Power is an American Animated television series that aired from August 16 1999 until July 30 2004 on In this way she is able to get back at them for mercilessly teasing her.

Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing is a semi-fictional depiction of the anarcho-punk and riot grrrl scene in early 90s Washington, DC. Anarcho-punk is a faction of the Punk subculture that consists of bands groups and individuals promoting anarchist politics Riot grrrl was an underground Feminist punk movement that started in the early 1990s and is often associated with Third-wave feminism (it Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D

See also

Books and Films about zines

References

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  1. A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
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