RELI1610V001: Religion and Popular Culture

Zines are...

Share a word or phrase that you associate with zines. It's okay to repeat what someone else said!

• DIY
• a booklet
• lawless
• artwork
• expression of opinion
• personal
• multi-media

Nijsten, Nina. Scissors & Chainsaws No. 2 : Diary Comic Zine Made in July 2020 During International Zine Month. Gent, Belgium: Nina Nijsten, 2020.

Radical and fandom based self-publishing

• Pamphlets and Broadsides
  • The Scandalous Zines of Renaissance England (1600s)
• Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776)
• Harlem Renaissance
  • Fire!!: A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (1926) a publication started by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John P. Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, Lewis Grandison Alexander, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes

Most zine histories begin in the 1930s:

• Science fiction fandom
  • The Comet (1930) by the Science Correspondence Club's Chicago chapter
• Samizdat
• Literary chapbooks
• Alternative/underground press
• Punk fandom
• Riot grrrl
• Is social media self-publishing?

The Secret History of Zines