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); Fortune Favours the Frog by Gemma Neall (gememberthat); ‘the idea of a rectangle’ by Damien Warman (dmnwrmn); Round Zodiac by Adil Soh Lim (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); This Was Grandpa’s Paper by Declan Brown (tid.bit); I have too many dice by Theo (exitpursuedbytheo); Renaicore: 16th Century inspired outfits for a modern age by Jez Gleeson (jezmezzewz); Speakeasy zines by the Flinders Speakeasy Team; Freshly Baked Cats by Justina Ashman (javerstina); Bird Watch by Unknown; How to Sound Like a Birdwatcher by Kelly (pidgy_art); The 4 stages of vet visits by Katie Gray (katiegrayart); ‘Nosferatu’: Shadow Puppet Zine by Bria McCarthy (bomburia); Charming Medieval English Names for Girls by Kelly (pidgy_art); 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); Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy (Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness); Gay Plants – 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;

???? 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/); Hallozeen (https://hallozeen.rip/); Greenlight Comics (https://www.greenlightcomics.com/)


LINKS


????️ Where to find the zine-makers:

Bec Sheedy (becsheedydraws): https://www.instagram.com/becsheedydraws
Gemma Neall (gememberthat): https://www.instagram.com/gememberthat
Damien Warman (dmnwrmn): https://www.instagram.com/dmnwrmn/
Adil Soh-Lim (infinitesimal_speck): https://www.instagram.com/infinitesimal_speck/
Lizzi Morris: https://www.instagram.com/hellobobbyly/
Hope Lumsden-Barry: https://www.instagram.com/hope.lumsden.barry/
Picolitre Press: https://www.instagram.com/picolitre.press
Declan Brown (tid.bit): https://www.instagram.com/tid.bit
Theo (exitpursuedbytheo): https://www.instagram.com/exitpursuedbytheo
Jez Gleeson (jezmezzewz): https://www.instagram.com/jezmezzsewz/
Justina Ashman (javerstina): https://www.instagram.com/javerstina/
Kelly (pidgy_art): https://www.instagram.com/pidgy_art/
Katie Gray (katiegrayart): https://www.instagram.com/katiegrayart
Bria McCarthy (bomburia): https://www.instagram.com/bomburia/
Jake Holmes (jaketoothandnail): https://www.instagram.com/jaketoothandnail/
Margaret Killjoy: https://www.instagram.com/margaretkilljoy/
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness: https://www.tangledwilderness.org/
Gay Plants: https://gayplants.noblogs.org/


???? Our theme music is by Mass Wisteria. Stream their single SAME OLD here: https://tr.ee/Mn6oTQ2AOW


???? Our Socials:

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/amyandbookclub
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/169K69qXsh/
TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@amyandbookclub


???? Where to find Amy:

Amy Matthews on IG: https://www.instagram.com/amymatthewsauthor/
Amy Barry on IG: https://www.instagram.com/amybarryauthor/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/DrAmyTMatthewsauthor
WEBSITE: https://amymatthewsauthor.com/

Thank you so much for watching!????