Zine Mall • 08.11.26

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A Book on Zines: New Aesthetics in Zine Design

A Book on Zines celebrates independent creators redefining publishing. Through interviews with artists, designers, publishers, and curators, it highlights the voices shaping this movement and the grass-roots networks sustaining it—an essential guide for anyone passionate about print and authentic storytelling.

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Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine?

by Mark Todd, et. al.

Technically a how-to book, "Whatcha Mean..." generally eschews simple step-by-step instruction in favor of interviews, lists of helpful suggestions, awesome-rad educational comics, and other outrageously neat means of conveying everything you wanted to know about zine-making, but were afraid to ask.

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Stolen Sharpie Revolution

by Alex Wrekk

Since 2002, Stolen Sharpie Revolution: a DIY Resource for Zines and Zine Culture has been the go-to guide for all things zine related. This little red book is stuffed with information about zines. Things you may know, stuff you don’t know and even stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know! Stolen Sharpie Revolution contains a cornucopia of information about zines and zine culture for everyone from the zine newbie to the experienced zinester to the academic researcher.

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