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Dissecting a Zine Corpus

This research guide accompanies Barnard Zine Library curator Jenna Freedman's lightning talk at zines ASSEMBLE 2022

Corpus

photo of Cowboy, a sleeping gray cat with a furry furry belly and his left front paw covering part of his delectable little face. underneath him is his human's zine, My Brain HurtsDefinition from Folgerpedia

"Pl. Corpora, a collection of written texts, particularly the entire body of work on a subject or by a specific creator; a collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, assembled for the purpose of studying linguistic structures, frequencies, etc."

Dataset

Selected Zines with Online Links (no zines were digitized for this project)

The latest corpus update, catalog