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unusual facts about Zine


ZNE

Zine, a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images


Clockwork Girl

The character's name was inspired by inventor Nikola Tesla, and Kevin Hanna’s earlier zine " Clockwork Girls hate Electronic Boys".

Donna Dresch

Dresch has been actively involved in the queercore scene since the 1980s, as the creator of the fanzine Chainsaw and contributor to several other seminal zines such as Outpunk and J.D.s, as well as contributing and being featured on the front cover of issue five of Deke Nihilson and Tom Jennings' zine Homocore.

Halcyon Days EP

After a positive EP review in an issue of TNS Zine, the Manchester zine started a record label TNSrecords and offered the band a one-off split record deal with two of their roster bands.

Jeffrey Zeldman

In 1998, he began the e-zine A List Apart, which focuses on best practices and innovations in web design and front-end development.

Jen Smith

That summer, Olympia, Washington, students Wolfe and Molly Neuman, editors of Girl Germs zine, to which Smith had contributed, moved to Washington, D.C. Having already formed their band Bratmobile, they asked Smith and Christina Billotte (of Autoclave and Slant 6) to join, and the band released one cassette tape, called Bratmobile DC, with this line-up.

Julian Fantechi

On each occasion, Fantechi was shot by longtime Playgirl photographer Greg Weiner, who also shot him for the erotic web-zine Paragon Men.

Ken Freedman

In February 1986, Freedman launched a program guide/zine called LCD (Lowest Common Denominator), featuring work by many internationally known writers and artists, including Nick Tosches, Jim Woodring, Drew Friedman, Gary Panter, Harvey Pekar, Dan Clowes, Tony Millionaire, and Chris Ware.

Matt Briggs

Briggs served as The Writer in Residence at Richard Hugo House from 2003-2005 where he has taught writing classes for the chronically ill at Gilda’s Club and the Polyclinic, a zine class to teenagers in Redmond, Washington, produced literary events, and offered open hours to the community.

Mevio

Other shows include The Dawn and Drew Show (from October 2005 to October 2008), Madge Weinstein's Yeast Radio (from July 2005 til April 2008), CC Chapman's Accident Hash, Podshow Radio, Reaching for Lucidity, The Frank Truth, Pop17, The Scene Zine, Naive London Girl Podcast, Unleashed, tech vidcast GeekBrief.TV (from December 2005 to June 2010), and Madpod.

Necropolitan Press

Throughout its run, this fiction anthology zine received newsstand distribution in addition to catalog sales, the internet — at the time — not being a viable distribution alternative.

Ninety Pound Wuss

Along with continued touring in 1998, Ninety Pound Wuss contributed the non-album track "In Silence" to Home Alive Benefit Series: Vol. 3, a split EP with The Captives that included an informative zine outlining the Home Alive anti-violence organization.

Ninjalicious

Jeff Chapman (September 19, 1973 – August 23, 2005), better known by the pseudonym Ninjalicious, was a Toronto-based urban explorer, fountaineer, writer and founder of the urban exploration zine Infiltration: the zine about going places you're not supposed to go.

Sadok Chaabane

He told many of his academic friends who were political scientists and economists that Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali has now become the man of the moment, and that he would in due course become the head of state, which happened one year later.

Sântoaderi

The Romanian historian Mircea Eliade noted a similarity between the Sântoaderi and the zine, or fairies, who were also believed to travel through the night in a procession of dancers.

Self Title

This disk featured CD-ROM contents, called "screen zine" in the track listing, profiling some of the band's friends and colleagues in the Canadian indie rock scene of the era (including Change of Heart, Hayden, The Inbreds, Thrush Hermit and By Divine Right.

Sentimentalist Magazine

Voted as PLUG Awards nominee in the Media (obsessive) category "Zine of the Year" in 2007 and again in 2008, subjects range from undiscovered bands and talent to the brightest and best.

Shig Murao

After his separation from City Lights, he held court in the Caffe Trieste and published a photocopied zine called Shig's Review.

Smorgasbord Records

After a few issues of Skate Confusion zine, Chris changed the name to Smorgasbord Zine and then he took the magazine to the next level in 1988 with the release of the "X marks the spot" 7" compilation.

The Binary Cafe

The full name of the establishment was actually The Binary Café and Hexadecimal Emporium, a name which reflected the two main components of the space—serving food and drinks, and selling cyberpunk-related books, magazines, and zines.

The Horror Zine

The Horror Zine has published established, professional writers, including Graham Masterton, Joe R. Lansdale, Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Elizabeth Massie, Simon Clark, Tom Piccirilli, Melanie Tem, and Bentley Little.

The Popguns

Their first release, Where Do You Go?, came in the form of a split flexi disc (with How Many Beans Make Five?) given away free with an issue of a local zine in 1988.

The Taqwacores

Knight originally self-published The Taqwacores in DIY zine format, giving copies away for free until finding distribution with Alternative Tentacles, the punk record label founded by Jello Biafra.

Tom Hendricks

Tom Hendricks is an American eccentric Dallas-based musician, painter, writer, and creator of a zine called Musea.

Tunisian collaborative painting

The Jasmine Revolution ended a month later on January 10, 2011 when Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the ruler of Tunisia for 23 years, fled the country.

White Buffalo Gazette

It was originally inspired by Bruce Chrislip's zine of the same name as well as Clay Geerdes' Comix World newsletter.

William Norman Grigg

It also launched the Pro Libertate e-zine, where Grigg brought in writers such as James Bovard and fellow LewRockwell.com columnist Scott Horton.

World War 3 Illustrated

This period is also marked by an explosive expansion in distribution, as Ruth Schwartz of Mordam Records took on the magazine’s circulation fulfillment ensuring that it would be present in any and all outlets that already carried the notable music punk ‘zine Maximum RocknRoll. This distribution agreement took World War 3 Illustrated’s issues international, as they were carried by Tower Records in all territories.

ZineWiki

The first of these articles was entitled "Unofficial Histories: Zine and Ephemeral Print Archivists" by Anne Elizabeth Moore.


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