Episode 012 - Zines

Our “genre” this month (Zines!) is one that is close to our hearts. We discuss our extensive and not so extensive backgrounds in zine reading and creation, what distinguishes zines from other self-publishing efforts, how Matthew is a big cheater, whether the motivations behind writing zines is different from reading zines, when Amanda and Meghan used to be twins, the best time of day to make a zine, perzines, artzines, wordless zines, and Kirk/Spock fan fiction.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Zines Read (in order of appearance):

• Never Finish Grad School
• Skillshot
• Taking the Lane #1, #2, #9 by Elly Blue
• Culinary Cyclist (zine?!)
• Fix your clothes by Raleigh Briggs
• Fashion (We couldn’t find it in the catalogue!)
• Great Chicken Escape by Nikki McClure
• Eggheads by Rick Quemado
• Puddles of Cute by Leda Zawacki
• Samurai Dreams #6
• Velo Vixen #1, #2 by Rachel Krause
• Long Distance #1 by Sassy Fran Circus
• Dropping out for Students by Cavegirl
• He/Her/Him Free/Frer/Frim by Adrian Prawns Sinclair, Sylvie LS, Jewels Generic
• The Jaded Review
• Astronaut and Alien by Jen Deberux
• Fluffah by Kelsey Smith
• A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation #1, #3, #6 by Joshua Chapman (aka Zachary)
• Peach Melba

Links:

• “Fa[n]zines by Teal Triggs and why you should not buy the book”
• The Copy Scams (music about making zines)
• Best Game Over (a card game about zines!)
• Meghan’s youtube video about making a zine
• Xtra Tuff (zine about fishing in Alaska)
• Zine Librarian Facebook Group
• Digitizing zines debate
• Kirk/Spock
• Interview with the creator of A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Software tools

• Scribus
• Gimp

Places and Events

• The Anchor Archive Zine Library
• The Independent Publishing Resource Center
• Vancouver Public Library's Zine Collection
• Vancouver Comics Arts Festival
• Olympia Zine Fest
• The Zine Pavilion at ALA

Matthew’s zine things

• 365 Zines a Year
• Article about the VPL Zine collection
• Poster about creating zine collections in libraries
• Episode of the SS Librarianship podcast about zin...