Browse the American based Smithsonian Libraries’ Artist Book archive to identify books that you find interesting or questions the notion of the book in some way. https://library.si.edu/collection/artists-books Explore fanzines in more depth by reading Teal Trigg’s chapter Definitions and early days (pages 6–43) from her book Fanzines: A do-it-yourself revolution (2010). This chapter is available as a course resource on the student site. Document visual examples of work you find interesting with annotations in your learning log. You’ll be using some of this research in your first assignment.
Here are few google searches I did while reading the chapter of the book mentioned above.
I was curious to see some of the zines she have mentioned and also my imagination and curiosity took me away to explore Israeli zines (as I am Israeli and never really came across them in my home town), and go further into interesting videos on The Westport Library's website about their activism through art and zines.
I really liked the description here of Kathleen Hannah on the differences between zines and blogging.
Rockgrl zine (1995-2005)
Israeli Zine
Mojo Navigator
I think this is my favourite zine so far. I love the typography and the psychedelic estethics, while many other zines are more grunge/ punk looking and having a messy look, this one gives a rebel look but still maintaining an organised and neat look.
some interesting links I came across
Mojo-Navigator Rock & Roll News on zinewiki (which sent me to explore ZineWiki, I loved the fact wikipedia has a whole section about zines)
Some screenshots from Teal Trigg’s chapter Definitions and early days from her book Fanzines: A do-it-yourself revolution (2010)
