WHAT IS A ZINE?

 

• Vocabulary: Zine is short for fanzine, a mashup of fan and magazine
• Costs little to produce
• Specific target audience
• Alternative to the mainstream
• Often photocopied and assembled by hand

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  A zine is a self-published collection of text and/or images, usually distributed on a small scale and aimed at a relatively specific community. Punk zines, poetry zines, political manifestos and fan fiction zines are all associated with specific factions of contemporary subculture.

  • Zine Culture grew out of the Punk scene in the 1970s and hit its stride in the 1990s, when zines like the feminist Bust and the underground graffiti zine 12 Ounce Prophet gained mainstream popularity.

  quote from site 
  http://www.mahalo.com/zine-culture
  
  

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  • gRRRl zine network: History of Zines Elke Zobl (April 2004)