Punk vs Zine
パンク / ジン／自主制作冊子
Punk comes from Counterculture and Zine from Publishing and Editing. One is style and the other technique. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Punk
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A DIY objection to the authority of the tidy, made by cutting, pasting and dirtying.
Zine
Circulates personal and communal voices without publishers, through small runs, low budgets and DIY reproduction.
| Punk | Zine | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1970s–1980s | 1930s– / 1970s revival |
| Family | Counterculture | Publishing and Editing |
| Kind | Style | Technique |
| Cues | Cut-and-paste letters / Photocopier noise / Handwriting / Ragged placement | Photocopiers / Handwriting / Cut and paste / Small print runs |
| Best used for | Voicing dissent against the rules · Giving events and communities a raw voice | Booklets for a small readership, made and handed out entirely by the makers. · Subjects no commercial magazine will take, made fast and cheap and passed hand to hand. |
| Type | Mix newsprint letters, handwriting and stamps | Mix handwriting and typing, sizing letters by loudness rather than by grid. |
| Composition | Deliberate misalignment and overlap; disturb even the margins | Treat the spread as one sheet and favor filling it over leaving margin. |
| Material | Copier paper, tears, black plus a warning color | Coarse photocopy tone, staple binding, the shadows of cut edges left in. |
| Caution | Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first. | Copying only the coarse photocopy look misses the point. Who is sharing what with whom comes first, and the roughness is a result of small runs and low budgets, not a goal. |