Riot Grrrl Zine vs Risograph
ライオット・ガール・ジン / リソグラフ
Riot Grrrl Zine comes from Publishing and Editing and Risograph from Stencil Printing. One is style and the other technique. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Riot Grrrl Zine
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Cuts and pastes handwritten and typed words, then copies them as they are, keeping the photocopier's crushed blacks and the crooked page.
Risograph
Keeps the per-color plates and their happy misregistration, giving each copy its own body heat.
| Riot Grrrl Zine | Risograph | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1990s | 1980s– / contemporary revival |
| Family | Publishing and Editing | Stencil Printing |
| Kind | Style | Technique |
| Cues | Handwriting mixed with typewriting / Shadows along the pasted edges / Crushed blacks and coarse grain / Pages copied while still crooked | Misregistration / Spot-color inks / Halftone dots / Paper show-through |
| Best used for | Writers inside a punk scene setting down what happened to them in the first person and handing it out themselves · Claims no commercial magazine will carry, put into manifestos and calls to action and passed out at shows | Handmade heat for zines and event notices · Memorable print with very few colors |
| Type | Write the declarations in large capitals by hand and paste the rest in as typed pages | Bold letters or homely serifs, separated by color plate |
| Composition | Treat the spread as one sheet and favor filling it over leaving margin | Large planes where overlap and slippage stay visible |
| Material | Coarse photocopy tone, staple binding, the shadows of cut edges left in | Two or three spot colors, coarse halftones, uncoated paper |
| Caution | Copying the coarse photocopy look alone gets nowhere without the writing itself, in which the maker gives a name and speaks in the first person. | Don't fake it with a noise filter. Design how the colors overlap first. |