Chaffey college. Wignall museum of contemporary art. Home edition. Workshop, Zines 101. History of Zines and their rising popularity in academia. September 16, 2020 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Modified presentation, original developed by annette young, librarian with contributions from rebecca trawick, wignall museum curator and Dr. neil watkins, professor of english. Rebecca Trawick.
Trawick.
She makes the slideshow full screen.
Slide. What is a zine? Covers of homemade magazines with photographs, hand drawings, and photocopies with titles like La Raza, showing a photo of a woman holding a baby with her arm in the air. One punk's guide to rap music, showing rappers and a cassette tape. Nancy, a man in a bright pink mask. Damage, a woman with spiky hair.
She indicates one that looks like a black and white notebook titled teaching with Zines
She points to a hand-sized Zine
A black and white illustration of a large wooden frame and metal press with handle. Text, Gutenberg Press, Johannes Gutenberg. Movable type printing press. 1440 ish.
Text, key technology in self publishing history. 1829, typewriter. William austin burt patents typewriter. 1950, xerox, photocopy machines become commercially available. 1970, kinkos. the first kinkos opens in santa barbara california. 1981 ish, personal computers. IBMand apple personal computers.
Historical Zines. 1847, the north star, frederick douglass. A browned cover of an antique document with no pictures. Text, 1930's, the comet, science correspondence club. A yellowed cover of the comet showing an illustration of a spacecraft. Text, 1934, international ladies garment workers union. Cover of a yellowed Zine with dark illustration of a group of people looking at a poster in a rising sun.
More historical Zines. 1960's, the black panther party for self defense. Black and white Zine cover showing a drawing of a leaping panther. 1967, east LA student walkouts. Cover of la raza Zine a black and white photo of man pointing gun. 1990's, riot grrrl, black and white cover of a zone showing a woman in spandex with her arms in the air.
Text, Zines can be about anything and can be made by anyone. Informational, activism or protest, personal interest, perzines, fanzines, all topics, all people or perspectives. Covers of Zines crap hound and 1001 black men.
Text, how to make your own zine. A diagram from over here Zine fest showing a page being folded into an 8 page booklet. youtu dot B E slash I X Q R 9 E 3 W C X L.
Text, Zines 101 supplies and tools, paper scissors markers or pens.
She Clicks the youtube link to open a video titled how to make a zine from one piece of printer paper. The oregonian live.
A persons hands rest on a piece of paper. Nearby are scissors and pens.
They fold the paper the longest way and open it.
They fold the paper again in the shorter way.
They open the paper.
They fold in a shorter sides to meet the line in the center of the paper.
They fold the paper in half the shorter way again.
They cut the paper in the center along the folded edge, perpendicular to the folded edge
They fold the paper the longer way. They hold the paper with the slit on top and push the sides together so that flaps open along the slit then flatten into pages.
They fold the 8 resulting pages into a book shape.
They number each page, starting on the top row from left to right, page 4 3 2 1, row 2 page 5 6 back cover front cover. Video pauses. Trawick.
She holds up a sheet of white paper.
She folds the paper the long way and presses it flat.
She opens the paper.
She folds the paper the short way and opens it again.
She folds both shorter sides in to meet the center line.
She opens up the paper and shows the 8 rectangles folded into it.
She folds the paper the short way.
She cuts the folded side to the center fold line, the cut perpendicular to the folded side.
She opens the sheet, it now has a slit in the center.
She folds the paper the long way again.
She holds the two ends and pushes the paper together. The slit causes the paper to open and then fold into two flaps.
She presses the pages into a book shape.
She opens the booklet pages.
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Text, Zines in academia, question marks. Why do you think? How might they be helpful?
Zines in academia. Barnard college Zine collection.
Possible research topics, feminism, transgender, women of color, activism, anarchism, body image, sexual assault, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl and more.
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As long as your professor says it's OK.
Chaffey College Zine collection and libguide. H t T P colon slash slash lib guides dot Chaffey dot E D U slash Zines
She clicks the link.
Chaffey college library page opens. She scrolls to a librarian profile.
Email S E L E N E dot P I N E D A at Chaffey dot E D U.
3 posters for Chaffey college Zine fest for 2018, 19, and 20.
Text, want to learn more?
Thank you. Questions? Contacts. R E B E C C A dot T R A W I C K at Chaffey dot E D U. N E I L dot W A T K I N S at Chaffey dot E D U.
Lib guides dot Chaffey dot E D U slash Zines
Survey. Tiny U R L dot com slash W I G N A L L fall 20. To sign up for future workshops, www. Chaffey dot E D U slash W I G N A L L.
Works cited. Freedman, Jenna. Zines. Barnard Zine library, 2019. Zines dot Barnard dot E D U. Richins, Zac. Printing on a gutenberg press. Youtube, 2012. Rios alvarado, Eva and Annie Knight. The power of Zines in your class. Council of chief librarians, 2019. Todd, Mark and Esther Watson. Whatcha Mean, what's a Zine? The art of making Zines and mini comics. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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Roman Stollenwerk.
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