A Handmade Tale … Zines
Who says Zines Are Dead? Indeed, many have thought print Zines would disappear under the abundance of social networking and online publishing. But, no! Print Zines are alive and kicking.
Food Zines Zine Trio
If you are still interested in printed words and graphics from other peoples’ small presses and photocopy machines, visit us at the Toronto Reference Library, 4th floor, Periodicals Department and view our unique collection of Zines. All 500 hundred of them, and still growing.
Zine Collection
We mostly collect Toronto published materials, but you can find points of view from Ontario, Canada and United States. We still receive donations from people that believe in the physical beauty and power that only printed material can provide.
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Want to celebrate Zines? Visit the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) today for the 3rd Annual Zine Fair: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 11am-5pm in the OCAD lobby at 100 McCaul Street, Toronto.
And later Broken Pencil: The Magazine of Zine of Culture and the Independent Arts celebrates with its 50th Issue Launch Party and Fundraiser. Thursday, March 3rd, 8pm, at the 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto.
ZINE CREDITS:
Food Zines: Monsters and Condiments by Matt Wiegle ; Garlic Recipes and Corn Recipes by Tara Bursey
Hair Fetish by Valkyria
Zine Trio: Shmog by Greg McCann ; Shameless Magazine by Sheila Sampath, et al. ; I Had a Dream by Steven Gilbert
Zine Collection (clockwise from top): Half Empty, poems by Anna Quon ; Book two by Angela Conlay & Luke Ramsey ; Carousel magazine bookmark ; Rare Sheet Music by Gustave Morin ; A Psychowestern by Gustave Morin ; Entropy by Aaron Costain ; Big questions 12: a Young Crow’s Guide to Hunting by Anders Nilson & Tom Devlin ; Eleven : Eleven by Liz Worth ; Heaven all Day by John Martz ; (centre) Woweezonk: Pobudy’s Nerfect by Patrick Kyle , Ginette Laplame & Chris Kuzma
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7 thoughts on “A Handmade Tale … Zines”
Many thanks for this. I have really come to appreciate and enjoy print zines as I have gotten older (43) for their breadth (poetic, political, graphic stories, etc), quirkiness, accessibility, and sometimes just plain fun. Their transient quality is also part of their charm.
Too bad this post had not gone up earlier, so I could have planned to check out the OCAD Zine Fair today. I’ll have to check out the display at the Reference Library.
Ama-zine. Thanks for this – I wish I had the day off to go explore the OCAD exhibit. I have zines dating back to the late 80s and I treasure them.
Mike – sorry about that. A comedy of computer errors delayed publication.
Perhaps you can stop by the Zine Exhibition in the OCAD Learning Zone, which runs til Mar 11: http://zinesforlunch.blogspot.com/2011/02/we-are-having-zine-related-exhibition.html
And, of course, we hope to see you at our zine zone at TRL.
Cheers!
Dawn
LOL V,
That would have made a great headline!
You made my pun-loving day.
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A worthy read for zine fans is the book Ghost Pine: All Stories True by Jeff Miller. It compiles the best pieces from his 13 years of zine writing. The TPL has a few copies.
Rori – Thank-you for the recommendation. I will have to check it out. Here is a link to Ghost Pine: All Stories True by Jeff Miller, for anyone who;d like to read it: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2635318&R=2635318
While looking up the artists represented in our photos above, I came across an online version of Heaven All Day by John Martz. It gave me hope: http://www.johnmartz.com/comics/heaven-all-day . I hope you enjoy it too. 🙂
please someone tell me where can i find copies or download the
steven gilbert I had a dream series
thanks.
antonioner1@yahoo.com.br
thanks.