An Anti-Capitalist Fun Time: Intro to Zines

New month, new us! This July we’ll be drawing, writing, cutting, pasting, photocopying, folding and talking all things zines and zine-making. To kick off the month, we dove into Justina’s personal zine collection to find the answers to all our burning zine questions. What is a zine? Where do you find them and how do you make them? How do you archive something so varied and ephemeral? And, most importantly, is it pronounced ‘zeen’ or ‘zyne’?


 


MENTIONS


 


???? Our BOTM is ZINES by YOU! We'll all be making our own zines this month – join us and craft along at home!


 


✂️ ZINES: How to Make a Zine by Bec Sheedy (becsheedydraws (https://www.instagram.com/becsheedydraws) ); Fortune Favours the Frog by Gemma Neall (gememberthat (https://www.instagram.com/gememberthat) ); ‘the idea of a rectangle’ by Damien Warman (dmnwrmn (https://www.instagram.com/dmnwrmn/) ); Round Zodiac by Adil Soh Lim (infinitesimal_speck (https://www.instagram.com/infinitesimal_speck/) ); Frogery House by Gemma Neall; A Selection of Some of Our Favourite Guys from Star Wars by Lizzi Morris and Hope Lumsden-Barry (Picolitre Press (https://www.instagram.com/picolitre.press) ); This Was Grandpa’s Paper by Declan Brown (tid.bit (https://www.instagram.com/tid.bit) ); I have too many dice by Theo (exitpursuedbytheo (https://www.instagram.com/exitpursuedbytheo) ); Renaicore: 16th Century inspired outfits for a modern age by Jez Gleeson (jezmezzewz (https://www.instagram.com/jezmezzsewz/) ); Speakeasy zines by the Flinders Speakeasy Team; Freshly Baked Cats by Justina Ashman (javerstina (https://www.instagram.com/javerstina/) ); Bird Watch by Unknown; How to Sound Like a Birdwatcher by Kelly (pidgy_art (https://www.instagram.com/pidgy_art/) ); The 4 stages of vet visits by Katie Gray (katiegrayart (https://www.instagram.com/katiegrayart) ); ‘Nosferatu’: Shadow Puppet Zine by Bria McCarthy (bomburia (https://www.instagram.com/bomburia/) ); Charming Medieval English Names for Girls by Kelly; Instead of Preparing for the Zine Fair I Played 30 Hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 by Justina Ashman; Instead of Preparing for the Zine Fair I Had a Dental Emergency by Justina Ashman; Magic and Mishaps by Jake Holmes (jaketoothandnail (https://www.instagram.com/jaketoothandnail/) ); Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy (https://www.instagram.com/margaretkilljoy/) ; Gay Plants (https://gayplants.noblogs.org/) – Issue One: Monsters; Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Freedom by Kate Doyle Griffiths; The Fast and the Furious and the Gender Abridged by Justina Ashman; 


 


???? VIDEO GAMES: Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023); Mario Kart (1996); Baldur’s Gate (1998)


 


???? FILMS: Nosferatu (1922) 


 


???? THEATRE: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre, 2024)


 


???? OTHER: Amon Carter Museum of American Art (https://www.cartermuseum.org/blog/short-history-zines) ; The Sticky Institute (https://stickyinstitute.com/) ; Festival of the Photocopier (https://fotp.online/) ; Zina Warrior Print Fest (https://www.instagram.com/zinawarriorprintfest/) ; National Young Writers Festival (https://youngwritersfestival.org/zine-fair/) ; Hallozeen (https://hallozeen.rip/) ; Greenlight Comics (https://www.greenlightcomics.com/)


 


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